Big Convos Pod - Uganda

In this soul-stirring episode of Big Convos, corporate lawyer and author Asmahaney Saad takes us on a 150-year journey through dhow crossings, royal executions, colonial resistance, and divine purpose. This isn't just her story. It's a revelation about what your own bloodline might be calling you to do.From her great-grandfather's perilous voyage from Yemen across the Gulf of Aden, to the execution of a Comorian Sultan, to her grandfather Mzee Saad's legendary stand against colonial exploitation in Budaka ,every chapter of this family saga reveals a pattern: power is inherited, but purpose must be chosen.Asmahaney unpacks the "Identity Tax" of being a perpetual foreigner in your own homeland, the irony of a name meaning "Happiness" in a lineage defined by struggle, and the awakening she calls her "Queen Esther Moment" the realization that your position in any palace is not accidental. It's a divine assignment.This conversation will challenge how you see yourself, your ancestors, and the work you were actually put here to do.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏰ TIMESTAMPS:00:00 – Introduction: The Irony of "Saad"06:45 – The Yemeni Adventurer: Crossing the Gulf of Aden15:20 – Royal Blood, Rebel Spirit: The Sultan of Comoro28:10 – The Budaka Strike: Economic Liberation vs. Colonial Control42:35 – The Identity Tax: "Where Are You Really From?"55:50 – The Queen Esther Assignment: Why You're In The Room1:08:15 – From Lawyer to Author: Choosing Purpose Over Profession1:20:30 – The Call: What Your DNA Is Asking You To Do━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOK:"Identity: Lost in History, Found in Purpose" by Asmahaney SaadYour history is not a burden. It is your mission. Your ancestors didn't survive so you could shrink. They fought so you could rise.Get your copy today 👇🏾👇🏾🔗Website: https://asmahaneysaad.com/book-purchase/🔗Amazon: https://a.co/d/03KkdkOt🔗Momo Marketplace: https://market.momo.africa/Portal/product/193894/1?tenantId=1&lang=en━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ABOUT BIG CONVERSATIONS BY ORDINARY PEOPLE A Miratrax Studio production. We go beyond titles to find truth. We believe in Visionary Audio and Human Stories that challenge, heal, and ignite.Host: Mark Keron WamalaExecutive Producer: Miratrax StudioLocation: Muyenga Bukasa Kampala Uganda Subscribe for more conversations that matter.\📱 CONNECT WITH US:Instagram: @MiratraxStudioTwitter/X: @MiratraxStudioTikTok: @MiratraxStudioWebsite: miratraxstudio.com📩 For bookings and collaborations: [email protected]💬 DISCUSSION QUESTION:What part of your family's story have you been avoiding—and what would happen if you finally faced it? Drop your thoughts below. This conversation doesn't end here.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#AsmahaneySaad #Identity #BigConvosPod #MiratraxStudio #Uganda #Legacy #Purpose #DivineAssignment #Podcast #AfricanStories #Leadership #History #Ancestry #QueenEsther #Yemen #Heritage #Entrepreneurship #SoulWorkListen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np- Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​

Carol is a Google Certified Digital Marketer and founder @midea_biz ,@thinkinkug and @SkillsphereUG In this episode, I sit down with her as a former player, to discuss the gazelles (the Uganda women's basketball team) progress at the AfroBasket Women Tournament in Kigali, Rwanda. We talk about their chances of winning, the importance of experience, and what needs to be done better in Kampala Uganda to improve the overall performance of the team and the branding of the Gazelles. Listen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe - Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np - Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​

We're excited to announce that Dr. Maya Yoder is joining us as the new co-host of our podcast! Dr. Yoder is a passionate advocate for education and international exchange, and she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. She is the founder and CEO of UGScholar, a Study Abroad company. She lives in California and is passionate about religion and spirituality. We can't wait to hear her insights on our upcoming episodes! Subscribe to Enjoy the Podcast on all streaming platforms. Listen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe - Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np - Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​

In this conversation , we bring you actor Harmony Kyomugisha. We tear into the uncomfortable truth gripping Ugandan cinema: Why are we regurgitating Western tropes while our own history gathers dust? Fresh off filming Uvotam's first short film, That Night in Kampala directed by Kenneth Matovu, we confront the cultural cost of creative amnesia from forgotten kakalabanda sagas to the untapped genius of Ugandan folklore.Listen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np- Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​

Can a rugby club’s bank account win matches? Former Eagles Rugby Club president Adam pulls back the curtain on the business hustle behind Uganda’s rising rugby glory. From secret sponsor deals to life-changing youth programs, we break down:💰 How a single business decision turned a local club into a national powerhouse🌱 The slum-to-stars story of Uganda’s rugby talent boom (feat. stats: 15,000+ kids in youth leagues!)🏆 Adam’s presidency regrets – and the 3 rules he’d give ANY new leader🇺🇬 Uganda’s global ranking surge – and why the world should watch outListen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np- Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​