The Brave Entrepreneurs

Welcome to our 14th episode of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! This time our interviewee is a researcher of migration Rohini Mitra 🌍🎤 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 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 #BraveEntrepreneurs #EmpoweredRefugees #migrantentrepreneurs #entrepreneurialjourney #startup

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!🎤 So what makes Aja so special? For starters she is the founder of the project Migrant Voices, 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!

Our Episode #13 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast is out!  And we have the honor of introducing Kelsey Freeman 🤩🎤 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!

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?

Episode #11 of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series is here! And we have the honor of introducing James Maposa! 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 and co-founder of WeAreValora. 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!

It’s time for the #10 episode of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! And who’s better to celebrate with than inspiring and lovely Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca! 🎤 What makes this woman so inspiring and worth listening to? She is an educator who turned into a documentary and fiction screenwriter, tackling and exploring cross-cultural realities and cultural development after a post-migrant experience, through the lens of the personal case. In her work she merges her love for culture and adds a touch of her individual background  (originally Mexican, who lived in Canada and now resides in the Netherlands), making her work truly relatable and touching. 🌍 As she has wisely shared with us in the podcast, one needs to make peace with where they come from, where they are, and where they want to go. And this mentality resonates in her work, such as in the lovely short documentary film Life is a Journey (2019). We kindly invite you to catch this episode on one of the many platforms, especially if you want to experience the joy of life through the positive and inspiring  Viviana’s vision! Eager to follow our activities? Check our website! www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs

Episode #9 and we welcome our first ever Italian guest - Chiara Dalla Libera 🎤 Though she’s Italian she can be linked to plenty of different countries, due to her passion for moving and adapting to new countries and cultures. Some of the countries include Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, The UK, and the Netherlands. While her CV is more corporate, Chiara tries to nourish her passion for culture in her free time by organizing cultural events, volunteering at local festivals, and writing or designing for travel websites. Something recurrent in her path is her longing for moving and living in different countries. Her passion for culture, languages, and new adventures, is a huge part of her inspiring story! Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode! Read more on our website: www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs

Welcome to our Episode #8 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast! We are featuring today an amazing lady, founder, and director of ARTconnects4Solidarity, Award-winning International Artist and Women's Rights Activist Salma Zulfiqar. 🌍🎤 Salma is a visual artist who is helping raise migrant voices and their rights through different art and other projects. Her current creative projects, such as ARTconnects & The Migration Blanket, focus on empowering refugee and migrant women by promoting integration, peace and tolerance to stop hate crimes and extremism. One of the projects - the Migration Blanket - is an art installation created by Salma with refugee and migrant women in Birmingham. This exhibition explores the struggles, hopes, and dreams of refugee and migrant women through art. Salma hopes migrants and refugees will receive solidarity in the future and will continue receiving the support they really need. She relies on the strong Migration policy, based on humanity and solidarity, which will make a difference for the people with refugee and migrant backgrounds. Tune in now to this truly inspiring story! Find more about Salma here: www.salmazulfiqar.com/ #EUStartGees #BraveEntrepreneurs #EmpoweredRefugees #migrantentrepreneurs #entrepreneurialjourney #startup

🎧 Welcome to our Episode #7 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast! We are featuring today an amazing inspiring couple, entrepreneurs, and the change-makers Menna Shanin and Maxim Haartsen! They got an idea of creating a startup when having dinner at the restaurant! Menna, a pharmacist from Egypt, and her husband Max, a professional in biomedicine, majored in life sciences in the Netherlands, realised how much food is actually wasted all over the globe in the whole food industry. Their answer to this sustainable problem was the creation of the mobile app Tekeya, a Digital Market Place that connects Hotels, Restaurants, and Groceries having perfectly fresh surplus food with consumers who want to get a fresh meal at a reduced price and at the same time securing a continued supply of freely donated surplus food to Charity Organizations for those in need. Menna Shahin is also well known for being an Egyptian Social Entrepreneur and Role Model, because of the creation of “She Travels”— an Initiative for Underprivileged Women in Egypt for helping them expand their horizon! Menna says: “When women in our region aren’t usually experiencing different life situations, they miss much about themselves and their capabilities. When they travel, they don’t only learn more about other cultures and people outside of their common circles, but they also learn mostly about themselves”. So that’s what she’s doing from day to day, empower women to change their lives! Read more about the initiatives in Flair magazine here or Inside Arabia here. Eager to follow our activities? Go to www.eustartgees.eu/ and follow us!

Welcome to our Episode #6 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast! Today we are featuring Sawsan Raslan, an inspiring testimonial, a real Role Model of her community! Sawsan is an ambitious young woman from Syria, she believes in the power of change. She is passionate about volunteer work related to women’s empowerment, protecting the environment, and promoting education. That’s why we can see her among the other great people, who created and support the Initiatives of Change in Switzerland! That’s why she became one of the co-founders of the World Wide women, a platform collecting and sharing great stories around relevant changes to women make from day to day. Sawsan has been recently awarded at the JCI national public speaking competition! Tune in and get the chance to listen to this young lady story, her ambitions, and get inspired. Eager to follow our activities? Go to https://www.eustartgees.eu/ and follow us!

🎧 Welcome to our Episode #5 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast! It is one of the most inspiring interviews where we talked about the importance of self-determination and the power of positive thinking. Our interviewee, Tala Al Tawil from Syria, tells us about the journey of her life full of amazing opportunities! Tala has always been passionate about learning and took every single chance to get new knowledge and experience. As a result, she was fortunate to get a scholarship for studying Political Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the American University. Tala also did an internship at several international organisations. Being an intern at the International Rescue Committee, Tala worked closely with UNICEF. Also, she took part in the Women Employability Program (WEP) focused on removing barriers refugee women face after coming to the United States. Tala is sure that every single thing we go through makes us stronger and encourages everyone to never give up and keep pursuing your dreams! Check it now! Eager to follow our activities? Follow us! www.eustartgees.eu/ www.facebook.com/EUStartGeesP... www.linkedin.com/company/eu-s... www.instagram.com/eustartgees/

Our Episode #4 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast is out! Let us introduce you to Ary Marruffo, a proud member of @World.wide.women! A Mexican Activist, Feminist, Designer, an Entrepreneur, and just a brave girl, who’s passionate about life! At the age of 25, she established her own fashion brand @arymarrufomx. She represented Mexico internationally, even took part in Paris fashion week. Her hallmark is all about being environmentally friendly and combining it with artisan craftsmanship. Ary knows every person who works for her, she says “we’re all as one big family”! In 2018, Ary became a founder of @changeiswild , a movement that seeks to preserve culture, support artisans, and create awareness of our potential to create a different future. But here our young entrepreneur doesn’t stop! She has lived through some tough times, full of domestic violence... So now she decided to speak up, help those who are in a hard situation, and focus on the social changes in her community! We wish her strength and lots of luck in achieving her big aims! Find out more about this amazing young lady in our “Brave Entrepreneurs” Podcast! Read more on our website: www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs

Episode #3 from our flagship podcast is out! Meet Suha Nabhan, a brave, inspiring young lady who lives in #Istanbul. She has three years experience of working in Sales, Public Speaking and has demonstrated leadership through these fields. Suha started a voluntary project for females in Syria so that they can find a way to financially sustain themselves especially in the pro-regime areas. She also volunteered in story-telling projects where she tried to support Syrian artists through social media. Find out more about this amazing young lady in our “Brave Entrepreneurs” Podcast! Read more on our website: https://www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs

Meet Salam Kanhoush, a 28 years old originally from a small town in Syria. He became a refugee at 16 and has been living there since then. Salam through determination adapted with the culture, food  and way of life of the sudanese. He then went ahead to focus on his dreams by starting his first ever voluntary work. This was in 2018 and in order to get this done, he had to ditch his football career which blossomed while he was in Syria. Of Course, this was for the greater goodSalam got his inspiration from the ‘Kind’ people of Sudan who embraced him and made him feel safe and at home. In return he shared what he learnt and this is how it all began. Read more on our website: https://www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs

This is an EustartGees Flagship podcast that shares real-life experiences of brilliant, brave guys who through struggles became successful entrepreneurs.  Our Episode #1 of The Brave Entrepreneurs Podcast is out! So excited to present Billo Keita’ story from Senegal! This amazing woman proves that it’s never too late to pursue your dreams! In her 50s, Billo is full of new ideas and plans. In this episode, Billo shares the story of her life and one of her dreams she is determined to make real! Being African, Billo knows how vital it is to feel a sense of belonging to a community.  That's why she decided to create an open space for an African community where they could cook and spend time together with their families. Eager to know how Billo came up with this genuine #business idea and who helped her on the way? Tune in now! Our website https://www.eustartgees.eu/thebravemigrapreneurs