The Word Café Podcast with Amax

Send us Fan Mail The question of purpose is one we all battle with in our mortality and seek answers for. This somewhat defines everything we here on earth. As opined by Dr. Myles Munroe “When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable”, so one can safely say, that our being useful rises and falls on the back of our discovering of purpose, our why and tenaciously following it by investing ourselves...

Send us Fan Mail Hilda Manyo DICKSON is a result oriented Finance professional, with 23 years of postgraduate experience with 17 years’ experience in the Oil & Gas sector and 6 years' in Banking with proven success in Cost and Management Accounting for Senior Management decision making. Her ability to anticipate, analyze and alert stakeholders on cost management related activities has bee...

Send us Fan Mail She is a diabetes hero without a cape. she will be dropping by the Café this weekend. Boma Tonye Oburoh nee Iyagba mostly known as “Tonye” is a registered UK independent prescriber clinical pharmacist with a special interest in diabetes and hypertension management and the founder of Diabetes Consults. Tonye graduated from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and is a memb...

Send us Fan Mail She calls herself the career Doctor, yes that one who is qualified to treat people who are ‘ill’ with regard to their satisfaction on their jobs. Kemi Oye at a very young dreamed of becoming a newsreader, so she would always imagine herself in front of millions of viewers ‘dressed to kill’ speaking with such eloquence that inspired people. However as she progressed in life, by int...

Send us Fan Mail Our existence is governed by the principle of learning and this principle is established on the foundation of continuity by way of questioning the status quo in creating the future, looking at all of  these through the lens of progress and not casting the achievement made on the altar of perfection.   In the last century and up until in the recent past, the acquisition of knowledg...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up one of my favorite subject of discourse was history, ancient history and one such history is the wonders of the world; seven wonders of world as they were presented and are still presented both in classical and contemporary history lines and narratives. Their names are as follows; ·          Great Pyramid of Giza , in El Giza , Egypt , the earliest of the wonders to be...

Send us Fan Mail In answering the purpose question, a lot go through our minds like, why am I here? Who am i? What am I doing here? All of these, we wake up to everyday. Finding answers to these question goes a long in determining how we live and finding meaning to our existence. Imagine if this is known before becoming, yes coming into time and occupying pre-defined space? A pre-termination. Pre-...

Send us Fan Mail   My Heart Is Stirred by a Noble Theme              For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies.” A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A love song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. Psalm 45:1 In this episode of the word Café I take you on a journey to that side of me that connects with the Divine, wher...

Send us Fan Mail “Where Purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable” Dr. Myles Munroe Purpose is the reason that something is created or the reason for which it exists. We all are created for a purpose. It is our duty to find out what that purpose is and how to fulfill it. Purpose gives life meaning and direction. The creator is the only one that truly knows what your purpose is. There ARE clues every...

Send us Fan Mail Entrepreneurship, what is it all about? Who do we call an entrepreneur? The future of work cannot be talked about without looking at this and how it will provide the necessary buffers and landing for workers and those who yearn to make a living.  In this episode of the Word Café podcast, I will be discussing this with Shadrack Kubyane, Co-Founder: Coronet Blockchain I Global Speak...

Send us Fan Mail ‘ The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them ’ Psalm 34:7 The stories of angelic visitations are replete in the scriptures and often times they show up either to deliver a message, to bring about God’s deliverance and to effect God’s will here on earth. The mentioning of the word ‘Angel’ brings that sense of spirituality and the unseen realm, yet...

Send us Fan Mail It is all in your DNA, what? Infinity. An endless combination of possibilities in creating your desired future through the agency of words. One concept that has fascinated me right from my elementary biology class is the subject of genetics. The material that drives biological life in terms of continuity and make up through the time allowing for the preservation of behavioral patt...

Send us Fan Mail My ENDSARS Experience The perpetuity of change is undeniable, even when we when we fain ignorance of it, its effect is ever present and real. 2020 came with a lot of changes and these changes were in seen in every stratum of the society both locally and globally. We saw a lot of protests which started like small fires and grew into gigantic inferno which redefined so many things....

Send us Fan Mail What we know today was told to us via verbal and written formats all by way of storytelling and for sure, the same way the generation unborn will come to know what we are doing here and now, what we call today. The power of storytelling cannot be denied, each culture be it modern or ancient have transmitted their essence stemming from the challenges they have surmounted and how th...

Send us Fan Mail One change which has redefined the landscape of work in the recent past is Blockchain. So many developed economies have embraced it and trading in it. What is Blockchain all about and how does it work?  In this episode of the Word Café podcast, I will be discussing this with Shadrack Kubyane, Co-Founder: Coronet Blockchain I Global Speaker I Supply Chain I Blockchain Leader I AfCF...

Send us Fan Mail Moving from one form of change to another needs some form of management principles and framework in place in adapting to the new change or evolve from the old to the new in a guided framework. This management can be viewed from the Human Resources Management lens.  For the future of work, evolving or changing is inevitable in keeping up or coping with the changes that will be enco...

Send us Fan Mail Moving from one form of change to another needs some form of management principles and framework in place in adapting to the new change or evolving from the old to the new in a guided framework. This management can be viewed from the  leadership lens of management. For the future of work, evolving or changing is inevitable in keeping up or coping with the changes that will be enco...

Send us Fan Mail What is speaking? What is talking? Are they the same the thing? On this episode of the Word Café podcast I sat down with someone who has come to discover herself in this space She is the Queen of Talk, Founder, TALKADEMY – Africa's #1 Training School for MCs Bestselling and the Author of MASTERY and BEFORE YOU SPEAK, READ THIS!  She is big on social engineering and drives con...

Send us Fan Mail ‘It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons’ Johann Friedrich Von Schuller The concept of fatherhood is divine and this can be seen clearly from Scriptures. Our society is defined by this concept. The etymology of the word father gives some insights below,  Father (n.) Old English fæder "he who begets a child, nearest male ancestor;" also &qu...

Send us Fan Mail I pledge to Nigeria my country. To be faithful, loyal and honest. To serve Nigeria with all my strength. To defend her unity, and uphold her honour and glory. So help me God. The above prayer is the Nigerian national pledge. I remember the first time I said these lines, I think it was in my Primary School. I consider it a true prayer from the heart, committing to something great T...

Send us Fan Mail All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing. 9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.… Ecclesiastes 1:9 There is this sense of wo...

Send us Fan Mail ‘one thing about Human Beings that I have come to realize in my seemingly long voyage here on earth, is that we love to run towards the future, not necessarily running away from our past, but rather learning from it by standing in the present; in simple terms, we are creatures of expectations and we are driven by the force of expectations. When our expectations are properly manage...

Send us Fan Mail If Necessity is the mother of invention, then the Creatives are the hands which delivers the inventions. The creative mind is that one who sees beyond the ordinary in the face of any given challenge, they seek out the answer to the question by engaging that creative essence within the human spirit, tapping into endless possibilities that is not time bound, but time specific in a g...

Send us Fan Mail Human existence is characterized by the contacts we make in form of interacting with one another which is expressed via communication by the language system. A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing. The principal method of human communication,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Word Café Podcast is dedicated to Fela DUrotoye, celebrating his 50th birthday on this day, 12th May, 2021 Things don’t just happen, people make them happen. The changes we experience in our lives on daily basis can be traced to the people we encounter. As opined by Sir Isaac Newton in his 1st law of motion, ‘An object will not change its motion unless a force...