In episode 40, I interview LaTonya Whittaker. LaTonya has been a fixture and a leader within the African American community in Japan for 15 years. She along with her husband David are the founders of the prominent Soul Food House restaurant in Tokyo that has long been a central destination for the Black community to gather. In many ways, the inspiration to build Legacy Foundation Japan comes from the relationships and opportunities unlocked at Soul Food House. The restaurant is a unique place that both Tokyo veterans and new arrivals frequent to eat love-filled food, connect with the culture of home, and network as well. A native of Mississippi, LaTonya holds a master’s degree in Divinity and Counseling. Her work and passions have always revolved around bringing people together. LaTonya is the visionary behind the Legacy Foundation Japan.
To keep up with LaTonya's journey follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/SoulfoodHouse/ and check out her website here: https://soulfoodhouse.com/
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In episode 39, I interview Delphine. Delphine is a Pan-African optimist. Strategist. Doer. Advocate for the broad spectrum of the ‘underdog’. Avid world traveler. Lover of dance, art and all things creative. At her core she is passionate about truth, culture and all things Africa.
Born and raised Cameroon and relocated to the United States as a teenager. She is an international humanitarian and development affairs professional currently working in Somalia. With a multi-lingual background in English, French, Spanish, Bamunkah and Pidgen English/Creole, she has worked and travelled in over 2 dozen countries around the world.
She holds a Master of Science degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and a Bachelor of Science degree in African Languages and Literature and certificates in Leadership and Global Health.
To keep up with Delphine's journey follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/verydelphine/?hl=en
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In episode 37 I interviewed Stephanie O'Connor. Stephanie is a photographer and creative consultant, originally from South Dakota, who spent her professional life in Atlanta, New York, Johannesburg, and now Los Angeles. She has worked with brands such as Addidas, Hypnotiq, Sunglass Hut and major artist that include Talib Kweli and several Afrobeat musicians on the continent. A free spirit by nature, after earning her degree in Computer Information Systems she started her career and she soon realized that her creativity was not being fed in this profession. Shortly thereafter, she studied for her MFA in photography at the Academy of Art University. Now residing in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie spends her free time gardening and as a freelance photographer.
To keep up with Stephanie's journey follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/connervarin/ and check out her website here: http://www.connervarin.com/
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In episode 36, I interviewed Rozan Ahmed. Rozan is an ambassador, advocate, activist, champion of the arts a cultural practitioner, and preservationist. Born in West London to Sudanese parents, her formative years were abruptly disrupted, when while living in Kuwait she suddenly became a refugee and her father and uncle were taken hostage when the gulf war broke out.
As the youngest appointed editor in British publishing, Rozan joined RWD magazine and took lead in discovering, cultivating, and pioneering the UK’s biggest urban music & lifestyle publication.
Throughout Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and more, Rozan developed a series of monumental campaigns surrounding arts and peace and has been recognized by the United Nations, the Government of Sudan, and the Government of Southern Sudan for orchestrating the country’s first celebratory concert highlighting the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Through her continued support and cultivation of African culture, music & fashion, Rozan launched ‘Africanism’-- a platform to redefine the continent’s artistic authority – at home and abroad. Continuing with fashion, and merging her humanitarian efforts, Rozan’s most recent endeavor (‘The Magic Drive’) focuses on sustainable luxury/tourism and ‘expansion education’ to ignite the creative potential of orphans and other children in crisis in Kenya, and beyond.
To keep up with Rozan's journey check out her website: https://www.rozanahmed.com/ and follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamrozan/
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In episode 35, I interviewed Lisa Lee. Lisa is a 64-year-old, twice divorced, retired computer nerd with two grown children (David and Dawn). Both of her kids live in Oakland, CA, a city where she lived for over 30 years before joining the Peace Corps in 2017. Originally from Detroit, Lisa was also a professional genealogist for many years and started a successful website, www.GotGenealogy.com, where she taught family historians of all levels how to maximize their searches utilizing online resources. Lisa joined the Peace Corps when she was 60, which was her way of doing an early retirement. Peace Corps taught her how to teach English, and during the process, Lisa discovered just how much she loved teaching. Though she intended to retire in Madagascar, she’s now teaching at an elementary school, and at the University of Mahajanga.
To keep up with Lisa's journey follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/malagasy.lisa
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In episode 34 I interviewed Nadege NDjeBayi. Nadege is a fitness entrepreneur and the first Black woman to own a gym in Downtown LA. Originally, from Paris France, Nadege underwent a drastic transformation when on January 20th 2018 she had a very bad car accident that locked her lower back and caused her to become bedridden. After gaining 40 pounds and losing confidence she decided to make a change. Through intense pain, she competed in fitness competitions in France and won 5th place after just one month of preparing. After working for several years thereafter as a celebrity fitness trainer in Paris, Nadege applied for the “Diversity Immigrant VISA” lottery, granting her the opportunity to move to Los Angeles, where she now resides.
To keep up with Nadege's journey follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nadege_ndjebayi/?hl=en and her gym in DTLA: https://www.instagram.com/themethoddtla/?hl=en
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In episode 33, I interview Channel Andrews. Channel is a Philadelphia native and attorney based in Paris, France, where she teaches law at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Prior to moving to France, she served as Assistant Counsel in the Governor’s Office of General Counsel in Pennsylvania. Her legal expertise includes Administrative Law, Comparative International Law, and Constitutional Law.
Channel’s courses at Panthéon-Assas teach French students the foundational principles of the American government and legal systems. She also assists European students with navigating the admissions process to enroll in LLM programs in American law schools, and assists European attorneys with administrative guidance, and test-taking strategies for American bar exams. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and son.
To keep up with Channel's journey follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nelly.esq/?hl=en
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In episode 32, I interview Christie Clermont. Christie is a folk and abstract artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently living and working in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with her wonderful husband and son. Christie's vibrant use of color and bold lines evoke an electric fascination that resonates within the imaginations of many. As an artist, she mainly works with heavy bodied acrylic paint and gold leaf to give texture to her pieces. She matches her visual intensity with striking subjects of women of color and recurring theme of nature and social commentary.
Christie was formally the art teacher at Quisqueya Christian School in Port-au-Prince for 4.5 years, Before she left to pursue different artistic adventures. Currently, she is still teaching art classes to children and adults in her spare time. While art is her passion, so are people! Christie is always a part of community projects and believes in strengthening community bonds. It is her belief that strong communities produce strong leaders, and strong leaders help foster better environments for the everyday man, She has been involved in numerous projects for the homeless, women's and children's welfare, and fundraisers for cancer awareness.
To follow Christie's journey, keep up with her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/chez_christie/?hl=en or visit her website.
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In episode 31 I interviewed, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a Digital Marketing Strategist and entrepreneur from Washington, DC. Soon after her 40th birthday she decided to leave the United States and move to Lisbon, Portugal for a new life. Cinnamon shares her transition to expat life as well as the experiences of other expats on her Youtube channel. Her goal is to encourage busy professionals to spend more time focusing on their personal goals and aspirations rather than committing to the restrictions and pressure of building someone else’s dreams.
To keep up with Cinnamon's journey, follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/drivenspice/?hl=en and also her YouTube Channel
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In episode 30 of 'Black Broads Abroad', I interview Mallence Bart-Williams is a Sierra Leonean - German multi-facetted social entrepreneur: Publishing, film, fashion, writing and philanthropy are among her professional repertoire. Mallence pursued her studies in economics and finance in Paris, Singapore and Great Britain. Today she lives across the globe, produces a holistic natural body care line in Asia, and is the founder and creative director of the Freetown-based creative collective FOLORUNSHO, a ‘SHARITY’ that she initiated with street kids in Sierra Leone.
Due to her cross-cultural roots she perceives herself as a bridge connecting two vastly different worlds. Her diverse background enables her to see creative solutions to common problems. In her TED x Berlin >> CHANGE YOUR CHANNEL << Mallence shared a truth that not only deeply resonated with people across the globe, but many felt compelled to share. Her TED x was independently translated into more than 5 languages and became a social media phenomena that was shared over 20 million times via various social media platforms, raising global awareness.
To keep up with Mallence Journey, follow her on IG or visit her website.
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Kola Boof is an Egyptian/Sudanese-American, award-winning novelist, poet, television writer, activist, and perhaps most infamously known as being romantically entangled in the life of one of America’s, formerly most wanted Individuals – Osama Bin Laden. Kola is a mother, wife and author of the forthcoming book entitled: Feminist Need Dick Too, pre-ceeded by her similarly controversial work, The sexy Part of the Bible and autobiography entitled “The Lost Girl” among many other works. In this episode we discuss her early life in Sudan and witnessing her parents being murdered and later being adopted by a prominent African American family in Washington DC to becoming a model in her 20's and living in Israel, Morocco, Sweden and Italy. She even spills the tea on the celebrities she's dated and the controversial arguments she's gotten into with high profile celebrities. Once black balled and maligned to now telling her story in her own words, this is an interview not to miss.
To keep up with Kola's journey follow her on twitter and purchase her new book HERE.
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In episode 28, I interview Jewell’s Chambers is the Host of All Things Iceland Podcast, an engineer by training, who has made the pivot as a career digital strategist. Her passion lies in being able to engage, inspire, and infuse innovation into her work by utilizing her analytical mind, organizational skills and innate ability to connect with people. Over the years, she has been fortunate to create, implement, and measure creative digital strategies in various industries. Regardless of the industry, her objective has remained the same - link the right people to the right resources to relieve their pain points.
Her love of Iceland and curiosity about the country, inspired her to create the All Things Iceland podcast. Along with interviewing Icelanders and expats, she shares travel advice, and fascinating information about Icelandic history, culture, nature and language.
To follow Jewel's journey. Click here: https://www.instagram.com/allthingsiceland/?hl=en
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In episode 27 I interview Erin Jackson. Erin was born and raised in the Michiana area of Michigan and ISouth Bend Indiana. She spent most of her early life in the country, living in a house that her dad and brother built from the ground up. At about 12 or 13, when her parents split, she started living in the city of South Bend during the week and weekends with her dad and back in the country with her mother. Setting her sights on the big city for college, Erin moved to Chicago and studied photography at Columbia College. After graduating, she went on to Phoenix and continue pursuing a freelance career as a photographer, while moonlighting as a first-grade teacher. However, in 2012, a greater calling beckoned her and she moved to Korea. Now, eight years later, she has had quite a riveting adventure, from starting a new career on a new continent, and immersing herself in a new culture as an educator, Erin's journey is one that captures motherhood, interracial love and heartbreak, being a single mother to the most incredible third culture child, and the highs and lows of being a black woman with a mixed race child, figuring out a homogeneous society such as Korea.
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Jazzie Más is a multi-faceted digital nomad and expat that currently resides in Da Nang, Vietnam and originally from South Central Los Angeles. She has lived in Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. Jazzie is a stand-up comedian, speaker, owner of Black Digital Nomad which empowers melanated folks to live fully,freely, boldly and bravely outside of the US. She also makes natural skin care products for melanated folks abroad like Glow Up! Body Butta. Jazzie often shares her story of 'Probation to Passports' and believes that our past does not have to dictate our future.
To follow Jazzie's journey. Click here: https://www.instagram.com/jazziemas/
To keep her with her youtube channel, click here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdTjvHmCiVNqvVWsYjJ9cRQ
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In episode 25, I interview Valerie Weyland (formerly Valerie Ogoke). Valerie is an explorer at heart, always open to what life may bring. She is a business owner, meditation facilitator, health + wellness coach, and a reiki healer. She is Nigerian-American and was born and raised in Inglewood, California. Currently residing in Perth, Western Australia, she founded Brown Girl Bloom in 2017. Brown Girl Bloom curates safe spaces for women of color to thrive with a focus on holistic wellbeing. She is also the co-founder of Ayune Hair, an ethical South East Asian human hair extension business that focuses on re-defining the strands of beauty. Her passion lies in being in complete alignment with her truth, living a purpose-full life, developing soul sister connections, and community empowerment. She is an avid lover of all things spiritual. She believes that there is an abundance of beauty all around us, we simply need to open our heart to truly experience it.
To follow Valerie's journey. Click here: https://www.instagram.com/brownbelleabroad/?hl=en
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In episode 24 of Black Broads Abroad I interview Meryanne Loum-Martin. Merryanne lives in Marrakech, Morrocco where she owns and operates a boutique hotel called “Jnane Tamsna” for almost 20 years. The hotel is nestled on 8 acres and has 24 rooms, 5 swimming pools and a clay surface tennis court. As a hotelier, Mrs. Loum-Martin’s clientele has included the likes of movie stars Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, and designers Giorgio Armani and Donna Karen. She is the ONLY black female hotel owner in Morocco. Born in Abidjan, Coite de Voire, to a West Indian mother and Senegalese father, Meryanne spent her childhood, adolescence and professional life in Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, London, Moscow and New York before settling in Paris for law studies. She was admitted to the Paris Bar as a lawyer, winning the “Prix des Secrétaires de la Conférence” award. Meryanne comes from an esteemed family and is a 4th generation lawyer.
She is the author of a new architectural book, entitled "Inside Marrakesh: Enchanting Homes and Gardens. You can order your copy HERE.
For more about Meryanne's hotel visit: http://www.jnanetamsna.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/jnanetamsna/?hl=en
To follow Meryanne on IG: https://www.instagram.com/meryanneinspired/?hl=en
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Season 2 is going to be lit. I've interviewed Black women living and thriving in places from Vietnam to Vicenza, Kuwait and Korea, Iceland and Istanbul, Mogadishu and Madagascar. Get into it!
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In episode 21, of Black Broads Abroad I interview, Tiffany Clark. Tiffany aka Yaa ahgee-mahn Opambour, Ohenee’ Yere’, is a retired disabled war veteran, that materialized her goal of leaving the “United” States in 2019. Born and raised in So Cal, she joined the Army at the age of 18, where she quickly found herself in a Warzone in 2003, at the tender age of 19. Having realized the true motives of the war and what America was all about, as well as suffering injury and disease, she devised a plan to live the rest of her life doing as she pleased and working for no one, ever again.
Tiffany found a way to retire at the age of 31, with a pension and benefits for the rest of her life. During the time she spent decompressing from the stresses of military life: the overt and covert racism, the physical demands and constant stress, she realized that America had taken her youth and the most of her , but she wanted to move to the motherland and give the best of her. She pulled her children out of their successful acting careers, left therapy, moved to Hawaii for 2 years and went to University. However, she could not settle and knew she had to get out. Having visited Ghana in November of 2018, she met her King (literally), built her first home, packed herself and her children up and moved in April of 2019.
Once called a Nigger while in Iraq, fighting for a country that did not want her, risking her life for a lie, passed up for promotions, over worked and under-appreciated, she is now called “Queen,” “Nana Yere,” and “Ohene Yere.”She has a name with meaning (Yaa- mother of the earth, Agyemang- Saver of a Nation, Opambour- mender of broken stones) She lives a life of doing as she pleases, when she pleases, she has help readily available. She is building another home (of her 12-year-old son’s design), building a school, and building a community… amongst other things. Tiffany has a lot of goals that she will reach while she is in Ghana. Her main one was true freedom (Not America’s B.S. illusion of it). She is close to realizing that. Her next are building a bridge between the diaspora and the continent, writing a few books and helping locals get back to self-sufficiency.
To keep up with Tiffany's journey follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.clark.7965
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In episode 21 of Black Broads Abroad I interview Truth Smith. Truth currently works at The International School of Tanganyika (IST) as a Secondary Learning Support Teacher, located in the coastal Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. Originally from Fort Washington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC she previously taught at Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) in Beijing, China, Discovery College in Hong Kong, and various public schools in her home state. Before transitioning into education, Truth worked for many years as an attorney for a non-profit legal services organization. She has a BA in Sociology from Spelman College, a JD from the University of MD School of Law and a MA in Leadership in Teaching (Special Education) from Notre Dame of Maryland University. The daughter of two former teachers and the parent of two young adults that were raised both in the United States and abroad.
To keep up with Truth's journey follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1037144070
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Dana Cody is a reality star, serial entrepreneur, author and now expat, who resides between Ghana and Nigeria. The Miami born beauty who is equal parts brain and hustler was first introduced to the world as a Reality Star. But she is much more than that. Real estate investor, proprietor of Cody Transportation Corporation the owner of Miami-based nail salon TippieToes Beauty Lounge, which was also a featured reality show entitled, Boss Nails on the Oxygen network. Dana’s first introduction to our television screens however, was on The Real Housewives of New York as the much younger step mother to cast member, Aviva Drescher. Now, the mogul in the making has chunked the deuces to the U.S. of A and currently calls Africa her home.
To keep up with Dana's journey follow her on social media: https://www.instagram.com/danacodyexperience/?hl=en
Click here to purchase Dana's debut book "The Crab That Made It Out The Bucket"
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