W.E W.I.N Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Shielibe Abe describes herself as a public servant with a difference. She trained in microbiology, started out in a pioneer customer service role at Multichoice, and in 2004 moved into the federal civil service. She has spent the twenty-two years since at NIMASA, working across maritime labour, marine environment enforcement, training, communications and now human resources. In this conversation, Shielibe explains what being a public servant with a difference means and what i...

Send us Fan Mail Hayley Mulenda was 18 when she reached a breaking point that nobody around her saw coming. From the outside she looked capable and composed. Inside, she was struggling in ways no one could read. She chose to take that chapter onto a stage, and she has been telling it ever since. Hayley grew up in London, the daughter of a single mother, Congolese and raised on a low income. She now advises FTSE 100 companies, the UK Cabinet Office and other global organisations on the people ...

Send us Fan Mail So many capable women feel quietly anxious or behind about money—not because they lack intelligence, but because no one ever sat with them, without judgment, to build a plan for their real life. In this episode, finance coach Audrey Awuor reflects on 15 years managing donor-funded grants across Sub-Saharan Africa and why she pivoted from macro-systems to the individual woman. We unpack the emotional weight underneath financial stress, the power of indigenous tools like SACCOs...

Send us Fan Mail Mary Ng’endo spent a decade in accounting, a career she had worked hard to earn and one that was wearing her down. The way out started with a simple question about what she loved to do as a girl. The answer was speaking. Today she is a public speaking trainer, executive coach and corporate MC, and the founder of NM Consulting in Nairobi. In this conversation, Mary talks about what pulled her back to voice and communication, and what it has been like to build a practice from t...

Send us Fan Mail Augustina Ojochenemi teaches in a classroom every day as a Teach For Nigeria Fellow. She also runs SpeakUp Omaye, a foundation working against sexual abuse and violence toward women and girls in rural Nigeria. Both jobs rest on the same question: what does it take to keep a girl safe, and to make sure she is heard? This conversation follows that question through her work. Augustina talks about her decision to bring her own story into her advocacy, and what she has come to und...