The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #13: Kelsey Freeman

The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast # #15: Rohini Mitra

Welcome to our 14th episode of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! This time our interviewee is a researcher of migration Rohini Mitra [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohinimitra1996/] 🌍🎤 Rohini grew up in a border state in India (West Bengal) and witnessed decades of regional, cross-border, and internal mobility as well as emergent cultural and ethnic conflicts. We can say that from her childhood she got interested in migration and now she is working at agency India Migration Now [https://indiamigrationnow.org/] to help migrants and refugees. “You can't have all the answers, but you can try to ask the right questions” - Rohini highlighted during our interview.  Why is that so and what's the background to this quote? You can find this out by listening to our Brave Entrepreneurs Series with Rohini Mitra! #EUStartGees [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=eustartgees&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449] #BraveEntrepreneurs [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=braveentrepreneurs&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449] #EmpoweredRefugees [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=empoweredrefugees&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449] #migrantentrepreneurs [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=migrantentrepreneurs&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449] #entrepreneurialjourney [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=entrepreneurialjourney&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449] #startup [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=startup&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6681240481050984449]

The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #14: Aja Crites

We hope you are as ready and excited for episode #15 of our Brave Entrepreneurs podcast, as we are! This time Brave Entrepreneurs went overseas to introduce you to the warm hearted and inspiring young American Aja Crites [http://www.ajacrites.com/]!🎤 So what makes Aja so special? For starters she is the founder of the project Migrant Voices [http://ajacrites.com/migrantvoices], currently taking place in Colombia and targeting Venezuelan migrants. What Migrant Voices does is humanizes migrants and migration by showcasing their personal stories through beautiful photographs. Besides storytelling the Migrant Voices project also provides food packages, rent assistance, and medicine to Venezuelan families in Colombia. Additionally, Aja is a teacher turned photographer and storyteller. Her teaching job brought her to the Dominican Republic, where her love and passion for photography and storytelling flourished and fully developed. Her wanderlust led her to Colombia, where she is currently conducting her humanitarian project. If you would like to learn more about the teacher who frequently found herself outside of the classroom and at the same time meet the student in new environments, we kindly invite you to catch this episode on one of the many platforms!

The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #13: Kelsey Freeman

Our Episode #13 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast is out!  And we have the honor of introducing Kelsey Freeman [https://www.kelseyfreemanauthor.com/] 🤩🎤 As a writer and educator, Kelsey is passionate about Indigenous rights, immigration policy, social justice, and public policy. Her passion for migration started in Mexiko with an interesting conversation with a man,  who was deported from California, and he asked a question: “How does it come, that you can come to my country to study my people for two weeks, while I am repeatedly demanded to go to your country to visit my family?  After this occurrence, she wrote a book “No Option but North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border”, which is based on a year of interviewing Central American migrants as they journeyed through Mexico. Working in Central Oregon Community College were also managed to run a college-readiness program for Native American high school students. To hear more stories from Kelsy, listen to a full podcast now!

The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #12: Immaculate Nabisere

Welcome to Episode #12 of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! Let us introduce you to  Immaculate Nabisere 🤩🎤 Immaculate strives to make a difference in the lives of current and future migrants through her organisation Migrant Stories Canada. It is a platform for newcomers to Canada to share their journeys and experiences while celebrating success stories. This platform was created as a strategy of promoting stories while responding to the challenges and opportunities newcomers encounter at both individual and systemic levels in Canada. Most people who are coming to a new country for a better future will encounter some barriers! Those will take some time and resilience to overcome and make their dream a reality. What does it take to solve these sorts of complex challenges? The inspiring guest of today’s episode may provide a clue! When Immaculate is asked about the way she’s helping to reimagine the future for migrants, those three key themes emerge - kindness, curiosity, and inclusivity! How?

The Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #11: James Maposa

Episode #11 of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series is here! And we have the honor of introducing James Maposa [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesfmaposa/]! James' life journey is really inspiring because he followed his dream.  He was born in Zimbabwe and as a young man, he finished the National University of Science and Technology with a first-class honors degree. But that field wasn't his dream or passion, because he always was interested in business.  So now James is living in South Africa and he is the founder of Birguid [http://birguid.co.za/]and co-founder of WeAreValora [https://www.wearevalora.com/]. James has also released two anthologies through his independent publishing company and released a mixtape titled Late but Still Great Volume 1. One of his anthologies you can hear by listening to the podcast. When Listening to the podcast, you can feel James' confidence, his positive vibe for life and business, the inspiration he gives to the world, enjoy!