BsquaredC Podcast: The Black Woman Corporate Career "Brownprint"

🛠️🔍 What's in Your Career Resilience Toolkit? 🌟 Inspired by our guest Rebecca Muriuki, who rose above the challenges in her career to find her path, we've brought back Katekani Mabasa to delve deep into the concept of career resilience and what it takes to cultivate it. 💼 The conversation distinguishes career resilience from its close cousin, staying power. You may need to exercise one or the o...

This month, we are thrilled to introduce you to Rebecca Muriuki, an associate director at a Big Four audit firm, AND a powerhouse and dynamic leadership coach who has seen it all in the corporate world!  When Rebecca entered the corporate world, she felt thrown into the deep end, gasping for air! Despite her academic prowess, she endured multiple setbacks in advancing her career. She found that ac...

How can you harmonize your life across your different priorities? This is the key question in this month’s reflection episode on BsquaredC podcast. Inspired by our phenomenal guest Mo Sosanya- a powerhouse professional, a nurturing mother and partner, and a driven entrepreneur- Nancy and Akosua dive into their priorities and strategies for making time for them in their lives. Tactics discussed inc...

Happy Women’s History Month!  🌟 Join us as we continue to contribute to the record of women’s history of our time, by spotlighting the experiences of Black women! This month, we're thrilled to introduce Mo Sosanya, a thriving professional in the knowledge management industry in Berlin.  But that's not all—Mo is also a mother of three, an entrepreneur, and a dedicated volunteer at Girls Talk Corpo...

🌟 What does embracing vulnerability truly entail?  Join us this month as we delve into this question in our reflection episode! 🤔 Inspired by the incredible journey of our guest, Xolisa Mapatwana, who bravely sought help during a tough phase in her career, Nancy and Akosua open up about their own experiences with vulnerability. From Akosua's adaptation to her master's program in Germany to Nancy...

🎉✨ Happy 2024, and welcome back to an electrifying season 3 of the BsquaredC podcast! We're thrilled to continue sharing captivating narratives of Black women making waves in the corporate landscape. Today, we proudly present Xolisa Mapatwana. 🌟 Xolisa, a force in product management, is  on a journey to redefine her equilibrium after her groundbreaking career move abroad to the Netherlands. Hai...

🎉 Welcome to the grand finale episode of 2024! 🎊 While Season 3 is still unfolding, we're hitting the pause button to take a stroll down memory lane and reflect on the incredible journey of the BsquaredC podcast before we dive into the holiday season. In this episode, Nancy and Akosua share what they have learnt from producing the podcast. This includes growing new skills that are making them be...

Welcome to the last reflection episode of 2023!  As we wrap up the year, a huge SHOUT-OUT to our incredible community for continuing to tune into the podcast! 🎧 We cannot wait to tell more of your stories.   🚀 Are you ready to strategically expand your network and forge meaningful connections? Then this episode is for you!  Inspired by our last guest of the year Salome Chingaira, who navigated h...

This month, we are absolutely thrilled to share the awe-inspiring journey of Salome Chingaira! 🚀 . Starting her path as the lone girl in her entire electrical engineering class at her university, Salome stretched her talent outside of work and found impact in giving back to society through charity work. This extension of her life, opened up a world of opportunities for her, including gaining a pr...

🌟 Are you itching for a change in your career? Does making a career change seem like an uphill battle? 🏔️ Then this episode is for you! 🎙️🚀 Join us this month as we draw inspiration from our incredible guest, Tosin Aniwofose, who made a remarkable shift from geology to tech recruitment! 🚀 In this episode, our hosts Nancy and Akosua open up about their personal career pivots, shedding light on t...

🌍🚀 From Geology to Tech Recruitment: HOW DID SHE DO IT? 🌟 This month, we're thrilled to share the incredible journey of Tosin Aniwofose! 🇳🇬 Born in Nigeria, Tosin is a dynamic tech recruiter and entrepreneur now thriving in Berlin. 🌆 Though she began her career in geology, Tosin fearlessly charted a course to a new country and even transitioned into a completely different industry through self...

🎙️ Are you a job seeker? Are you looking to expand your network online? Then this episode is for you!  LinkedIn can feel like a jungle, but it can be an organized jungle with the strategic tips we are sharing in this episode. 🌟 Inspired by our guest this month, Grace Kibwana, who masterfully harnessed the power of LinkedIn to navigate her career across diverse industries and geographies, Nancy an...

🚀 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐑? 🤔💼 🎙️ This month's guest is the fearless Grace Kibwana, a seasoned risk management professional who has skillfully maneuvered her career across diverse industries and geographies 🌍. In this episode, Grace shares her journey from starting out her career in Nairobi, how she found her advancement opportunities and her eventual move to Berlin. He...

🎙️ Welcome to the first reflection episode of Season 3 of BsquaredC Podcast!  🎉 Every month Nancy and Akosua will be digging deeper into the conversations with our guests, sharing their own experiences and stories on the themes illuminated in each guest episode.  In this episode they reflect on the gems shared by our powerhouse guest this month, Katekani Mabasa. So much of her stories resonated w...

🎙️ Welcome to the sensational first guest episode of Season 3 of BsquaredC Podcast! 🎉 🌍 Get ready to meet Katekani Mabasa, an unstoppable finance guru who's now making waves in her 5th international destination. Originally from South Africa 🇿🇦, Katekani boasts an illustrious career across the finance landscape, fearlessly pursuing her dreams and ambitions. 🚀 Join us for this insightful conversa...

🎉 Season 3 of BSQUAREDC Podcast is  finally here! 🎉 After over a year and a half hiatus, we are thrilled to announce the long-awaited return of BsquaredC! 🎉🎊 We're back on the mic, ready to embark on another incredible journey of sharing the inspiring stories of black women in the corporate world. 💪💼.  Tune in to this episode to catch up on everything that's happened since our last episode i...

Happy end of 2021 BsquaredC squad! 2021 was a year of a lot of personal growth for me in many ways. Besides the honor of telling stories of so many brilliant black women, I myself also learnt a lot through reflecting on these conversations. In this episode I am sharing my  personal top 3 lessons of the year from the podcast whose messages I will be carrying proudly into 2022. They are on the topic...

This month we are reflecting on tone policing and the angry black woman stereotype. Our guest this month, Odelia Djoe used to stand up for herself against racial comments from her classmates when she was younger. Unfortunately this was interpreted as behavioral problems by her teachers, a phenomenon that is common for a lot of black girls even when they are just being “normal”  kids and teenagers....

Up until now, this podcast has leaned heavily expat because that is largely the network we have access to, but I finally landed a native Dutch guest! I am excited to introduce you to our November guest,  Odelia Djoe; Surinamese by birth and grew up in the Netherlands. Odelia has been designing her life on her terms while navigating her black Dutch identity, an often complicated topic in this cultu...

Inspired by the incredible story of my guest for this month, Faith Opiyo who has continued to face a lot of odds, including self doubt , while navigating her career as a black woman in tech, this month on the podcast we are reflecting on impostor syndrome and why we should rethink it through a more systemic lens as opposed to an individual one, particularly in underrepresented groups. Impostor syn...

Our guest this month is the incredible Faith Opiyo who has proven over and over again that she is the master of her own fate! Born and raised in Kenya, Faith’s journey has taken her to Russia where she lived for 10 years, through several career pivots and into where she is now as one of the few black women in cybersecurity. In this conversation amongst other things, we talked about Faith’s experie...

Inspired by the incredible story of my guest for this month, Busi Sizani, who knew her purpose from such  a tender age, in this episode I reflect on my own purpose journey. I only discovered my purpose much recently through a series of experiences and in this episode I share how I got to this realization. I am a multi-hyphenate corporate healthcare professional, entrepreneur and storyteller who is...

Our guest this month is the incredible Busi Sizani, who has been stepping into her power since she was one of the fIrst black kids attending a previously racially segregated school, in post apartheid South Africa. From such an early age, she understood that her presence in the spaces she was privileged to access was an opportunity to educate those around her about her experiences, and has embraced...

My guest this month, Stephanie Goseine moves through the world with incredible confidence, believing everything is hers for the taking. Showing up like this as a woman and a person of color, specifically in predominantly white spaces can be treated with mixed reactions due to bias stemming from sexism and racism. This often leads to more than often, women of color being perceived as arrogant as op...

Our guest this month is the lovely Stephanie Goseine, a woman with so much audacity when it comes to her goals and her place in the corporate world as a woman of color. An island girl from Trinidad and Tobago, Stephanie has navigated her career from engineering to consulting and currently, she is making moves in change management. Amongst the many gems in this conversation included identity politi...