Naomi Simon has had a long history of volunteering to support the Black community. From an early age, she has been supporting a Saturday school run by her dad and has started several side projects since then.We learned about her motivations for

Creating change as an advisor to the Prime Minister - Nero Ughwujabo

Mar 26th, 2024 52m 8s

Nero Ughwujabo has dedicated much of his career to creating greater racial equity in British society. He spent several years working as the Chief Executive of Croydon BME Forum working closely with community organisations in the area campaignin

The only Black Genetic Counsellor in the room, Sasha Henriques

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 7m

Sasha is a principal genetic counsellor and PhD candidate who's passion for inclusivity in the field of genetics lead her work across the world. She has too often been the only Black Genetic counsellor in many of the spaces that she has been in

A marketplace for Black owned products with Nathaniel Wade

Mar 12th, 2024 50m 56s

Nathaniel is the founder or Wakuda a market place for Black creators. After struggling to find a doll for his daughter that represented her, and his business partner struggling to find a Father's Day card that featured a Black father, they deci

Creating a Global Black Middle class with Joseph Nwosu

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 10m

As the host of Black Millennial Money Podcast, Joseph Nwosu recorded 100 episodes outlining the intricacies of making money, keeping money, investing money and spending money on the finer in life for the perspective of a Black Millennial. In th

Inclusive Marketing is better for you and your business with Joyann Boyce

Aug 12th, 2023 47m 15s

Joyann Boyce is the Founder of Inclued AI and Arima & Co. We speak to her about the concept of Inclusive Marketing and find out its probably how marketing should have been be done all along. She generously shares how her career journey has lea

The relationship between purpose, service, leadership and impact with Nathaniel Peat

Aug 8th, 2023 55m 40s

Nathaniel is an individual with a wealth of diverse interests and talents. He is an international speaker, a coach, a social entrepreneur, a literal renewable energy provider, a charity board member and the founder of the Safety Box CIC. Whilst

Creating Several Seats for women of colour for better mental health with Joan Idowu

Aug 1st, 2023 1h 9m

In this episode Joan Idowu share how her personal journey discovering and learning about Mental Health and Psychology has lead to her creating community for women of colour, supporting them to take care of their mental health and wellbeing.

Lessons in communicating as a Black leader with Sheryl Nwosu

Nov 23rd, 2021 1h 23m

This is part of a special series for the Be About It podcast in which we'll be speaking about Black Leadership from the perspective of people who have been involved with the Impact Black Leadership Accelerator programme. We are joined by Sheryl

How Jermaine Craig created an online collection pot for the global Black community

Oct 21st, 2020 1h 19m

In this podcast we speak with Jermaine Craig, who has designed what we think might be one of the most revolutionary platforms created to create change in Black communities. Jermaine tells us his truly fascinating and inspiring personal story.

Helping Black Boys Smile. Discussing Black Masculinity with Kay Rufai

Sep 1st, 2020 1h 29m

In this episode I sit down with, youth worker, poet, writer, photographer and all round creative Kay Rufai.We discussed how his personal journey led him to create the S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project. The has been working with black boys, helping the

Building a theory for African Healthcare with Adebusuyi Adeyemi

Jun 16th, 2020 1h 22m

This Episode shares our conversation about African healthcare with the Be About It Podcast's good Adebusuyi Adeyemi. Ade's passion to help people in Africa led him to founding a number of projects including: The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship which hel

The importance of having important conversations with David from #WOKEWeekly

Jun 1st, 2020 54m 36s

In this Episode we are joined by David "Zavid" Egbue a software developer by day but also the founder of #WOKEWeekly. #WOKEWeekly host weekly debates in universities across the UK about the black community. Zavid told us about how his frustrati

Are we "African enough" to make a contribution? with Gosbert Chagula

May 7th, 2020 59m 57s

On this episode Busayo Abidakun speaks to his Entrepreneurship expert, Educator and speaker Gosbert Chagula. Gosbert told us how he personally reconciles actively contributing to Africa as a British second generation migrant. He told us about g

Stories from Barking and Dagenham's first Caribbean woman Mayor

Apr 22nd, 2020 51m 57s

In this episode we speak to Sanchia Alasia former Mayor of Barking & Dagenham about her work as a labour party member in a borough that formerly held 12 British Nationalist Party members. We explore Barking & Dagenham's recent history going fro

Fixing the £24 Billion cost of racial inequality in the workplace with Rodney Williams

Apr 3rd, 2020 57m 35s

If you're reading this you're probably about to listen to the first Be About It podcast we ever posted online. Welcome! On the Be About Podcast we have conversations with people who have used their time and talents to work towards racial justic

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