Be About It Podcast

Naomi Simon has had a long history of volunteering to support the Black community. From an early age, she has been supporting a Saturday school run by her dad and has started several side projects since then. We learned about her motivations for creating projects and giving back to her community, most notably raising funds to support Black families financially during the pandemic and her involveme...

Nero Ughwujabo has dedicated much of his career to creating greater racial equity in British society. He spent several years working as the Chief Executive of Croydon BME Forum working closely with community organisations in the area campaigning for change and enacting change on a wide range of issues.  His work led him to become the first Special advisor to the Prime Minister of African heritage....

Sasha is a principal genetic counsellor and PhD candidate who's passion for inclusivity in the field of genetics lead her work across the world.  She has too often been the only Black Genetic counsellor in many of the spaces that she has been in and has taken the initiative to set up Genetics Engage to encourage greater inclusivity in the field.  We discuss her journey into the field, her exp...

Nathaniel is the founder or Wakuda a market place for Black creators. After struggling to find a doll for his daughter that represented her, and his business partner struggling to find a Father's Day card that featured a Black father, they decided to create an online marketplace for Black creators making the products they needed. We discuss how Wakuda began and what they have done to support...

As the host of Black Millennial Money Podcast, Joseph Nwosu recorded 100 episodes outlining the intricacies of making money, keeping money, investing money and spending money on the finer in life for the perspective of a Black Millennial.  In this episode we explore the main reason why Joseph created the podcast: to prepare Black Millennials who have the opportunity to build a global middle class...

Joyann Boyce is the Founder of Inclued AI and Arima & Co. We speak to her about the concept of Inclusive Marketing and find out its probably how marketing should have been be done all along.   She generously shares how her career journey has lead her into specialising in inclusive marketing and then to utilising AI to help companies ensure they're doing it correctly. We were given a full...

Nathaniel is an individual with a wealth of diverse interests and talents. He is an international speaker, a coach, a social entrepreneur, a literal renewable energy provider, a charity board member and the founder of the Safety Box CIC .  Whilst learning more about the Safety Box CIC  we also unpacked how Nathaniel finds his drive to keep impacting the lives of others, how he maintains a sense of...

In this episode Joan Idowu share how her personal journey discovering and learning about Mental Health and Psychology has lead to her creating community for women of colour, supporting them to take care of their mental health and wellbeing. 

This is part of a special series for the Be About It podcast in which we'll be speaking about Black Leadership from the perspective of people who have been involved with the Impact Black Leadership Accelerator programme. We are joined by Sheryl Nwosu an experienced Barrister, communications coach who lead our communication masterclass on the accelerator.  We discuss how she gained her confide...

In this podcast we speak with Jermaine Craig, who has designed what we think might be one of the most revolutionary platforms created to create change in Black communities. Jermaine tells us his truly fascinating and inspiring personal story.  Going for designing clothes from online avatars to creating kwanda.co an online collection pot for Black communities with a live open ledger. Jermaine spoke...

In this episode I sit down with, youth worker, poet, writer, photographer and all round creative Kay Rufai. We discussed how his personal journey led him to create the S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project. The has been working with black boys, helping them to manage their mental health and challenge negative stereotypes. We discuss the importance for artists to contribute to society, Masculinity here and in...

This Episode shares our conversation about African healthcare with the Be About It Podcast's good Adebusuyi Adeyemi. Ade's passion to help people in Africa led him to founding a number of projects including: The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship which helps talented healthcare professionals to transform African Healthcare systems, globalhealthjobs.com a job site for healthcare work with an internat...

In this Episode we are joined by David "Zavid" Egbue a software developer by day but also the founder of #WOKEWeekly. #WOKEWeekly host weekly debates in universities across the UK about the black community. Zavid told us about how his frustration with the lack of spaces to have important conversations about the black community led to his starting this platform in a University common room...

On this episode Busayo Abidakun speaks to his Entrepreneurship expert, Educator and speaker Gosbert Chagula. Gosbert told us how he personally reconciles actively contributing to Africa as a British second generation migrant. He told us about getting the opportunity to support African women in business and discussed how we can diversify access to capital investment. 

In this episode we speak to Sanchia Alasia former Mayor of Barking & Dagenham about her work as a labour party member in a borough that formerly held 12 British Nationalist Party members. We explore Barking & Dagenham's recent history going from being a predominately white borough to become increasingly diverse and Sanchia's journey into the world of politics.

If you're reading this you're probably about to listen to the first Be About It podcast we ever posted online. Welcome! On the Be About Podcast we have conversations with people who have used their time and talents to work towards racial justice or empower black and other ethnic minority communities. In this episode we spoke to Rodney Williams a Project Manager working for the National G...