Change Making Women

On the podcast this week Ziada and Mary Ann look back over 2017 and share some of their own reflections about the year gone by, who and what inspired them, what they have been reading and listening to and their own most important personal learning and challenges.

Revisiting an episode from early on 2017 in which Mary Ann talks to Pamela Brannon, Executive Director of Children of Uganda. They speak about the experiences that inspired her to make a difference, the work of her organisation and their belief looking after ourselves is an important part of how we make a difference.

This week Mary Ann talks to Hannah Thompson about mothering and humanitarian work, the challenges of travelling and risky contexts when you are a mum and how becoming mothers has affected our approach to our work in the international development sector.

This week Ziada and Mary Ann talk with Rachael Maddox a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide about how she supports people to heal from sexual trauma in their lives, the new book she is currently writing and raising funding for and why healing our trauma is such important work in the world right now.

This week we talk to Liz Remande-Guyard about her work as a Shadow Work Facilitator and Coach. Mary Ann, also a Shadow Work Coach shares her experience as well while Ziada asks the questions this week. We find our what Shadow Work is and how it can help us to create change from the inside out.

Revisiting another of our favourite shows in this show Mary Ann talks to Claire Mahon, a human rights lawyer based in Geneva who consults, coaches and mentors others to do human rights work as well as running her own not-for-profit human rights legal work. We talk about how she got in to human rights work, what motivates and inspires her, what she has learnt along the way and how she has learnt to look after herself as well as the crucial work she undertakes.

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In this episode Ziada and Mary Ann discuss '#MeToo', the hashtag that went viral recently as a means of identifying our experience of sexual harassment and assault. They talk about whether 'hastag's matter and what the impact of this one has been and might be in future. They also discuss the phenomenon of things going 'viral'.

Mary Ann asks Ziada about the Kipilipili Expose that will take place on Sat 4th Nov. They talk about how the event has changed from last year, what Ziada and her business partner have learnt in the process and all the exciting things that will be happening during this years event.

#46: Beating Burnout by Change Making Women

Revisiting another of our favourite shows. In this one Mary Ann talks to Aisha Hannibal about their work together establishing the Red Tent Directory and how it has organically grown now lists dozens of Red Tent Circles for women across Europe. They talk about what they have learnt in the process about sustainable growth and leadership, what is important to them about attending Red Tents and other women's circles and the part they think they have to play in making a difference in the world

In this episode, Ziada asks Mary Ann all about her latest work with Jijaze and particular about the concept of a regular Away Day to take time out. They also discuss the recent public event the Replenish: Away Day and how you can get access to the material from that.

Revisiting one of our favorite Shows. In this podcast, we talked to Kimberly Weiss, a Body Neutral Writer, Speaker and Coach about what it means to truly believe in the possibility of health at any size, why she is so angry about the public health obsession with obesity and why we each need to start with defining what health means for us and our own unique body. We so enjoyed this show and we hope that you will too.

In this episode Mary Ann and Ziada talk with Eunice Baguma Ball founder of Africa Technology Business Network about her work creating an event for aspiring and upcoming African tech innovators in London after being in the city for only a few months and about taking the world back to the continent she comes from with Her Future Africa which offers African women entrepreneurs the support and inspiration they need to start and technology-based businesses.

In this show Ziada and Mary Ann celebrate the first year of this podcast, Change Making Women, They discuss some of the interesting and inspiring guests they have had on the show and look forward to the future PLUS Eleanor Brown plays the title track from her new album, Meet You There, live for us.

This week we talk to Doris Mollel about her Foundation which seeks to raise awareness about premature birth in Tanzania and to better equip public hospitals to provide the care which premature babies need. We talk about her own story which was her inspiration, what motivates her and how she has dealt with the challenges she has encountered along the way.

This week Ziada and Mary Ann talk to Emily Waithira Founder of Awali Shea Butter, a business exporting natural organic shea butter harvested in Uganda to Kenya and beyond. She tells us about the challenges of starting up, the importance of having a Team alongside her and why we shouldn’t let fear of failure jeopardise our dreams.

Replaying one of our favourite shows. In this one we talked with the musician Shishani about her project Shishani & The Namibian Tales. We discussed making music and her quest to discover the music of the San people in her homeland of Namibia, and the discussion led us to explore authenticity, going you own way, love and power.

In this show Mary Ann talks to Christina Lynch about why she got interested in exploring sexuality in a new way, how it has helped heal the wounds of her past and why Tantra and ritual need not be mysterious or scary, instead she explains, they can support us in connecting to ourselves and one another more deeply.

This week Ziada asks Mary Ann to tell her all about the work she has been doing around having clear boundaries and how it relates to change making work. We talk about our own experiences of wishing we had more clarity and saying YES when we wanted to say NO and Mary Ann shares more about what the Boundary Challenge, which runs in the Jijaze Community until the end of August.