A is for Morenike

Thank you all for listening to the first season of the A is for Morenike Podcast. You can follow via Twitter, Instagram and TikTok! See you soon for Season 2!

Our final episode of the season is all about the Power Women. Joined by the Founderland Management Team, the network is led by Stephanie von Behr, Deborah Choi and Alina Bassi. "Boss Women" and "Girl Boss" are just some the words you can hear about leading women in the workplace. In this episode we take the time to discuss what this means for us and the practicalities of being a women in business. How can we disrupt our industries? What lessons can we learn from Founderland? How can women in leadership positions continue pioneering and advocating for each other?

The theme of this season is Home. Chloe Spiby Loh shares what Home means to her. Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co

This episode bring together mothers engaged with public space and technology. Breastfeeding in Public Spaces is part of a project Alisha is working on within her company, Migrant's Bureau. Questioning how we can become more inclusive to new mothers within our public spaces, challenging stigmas and protecting women's safety. Alisha is joined by Angelene Clarke and Natalie Brown to understand the everyday experiences that mothers go through and ways in which innovation can inform how we can design safer, better and more equitable environments that benefit equity.

The theme of this season is Home. Yasmin shares what Home means to her. Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co

We discuss all things Bodies, Health and our In-Between Worlds Part 2. The journey we undertake as individuals is linked in how we carve spaces collectively threading the needle to weave our own stories and our land. I’m excited to introduce Jan-Ming Lee and Araceli Camargo. Jan-Ming Lee is a uk artist of Chinese descent working with dance, movement and sound. Most recently she has been facilitating, devising as well as performing for projects that relate to building collective spaces for us to tell our stories in all our complexities. Araceli Camargo is a cognitive neuroscientist and science communicator. She was the lab director at The Centric Lab (which is in partnership with UCL) to explore how people interact and are impacted by the physical world around them. Araceli's science communication focuses on the Future of Work, Neurodiversity, and Women's Health.

The theme of this season is Home. Amina Chouairi shares what Home means to her. Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co

“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayer-making, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype This episode surrounds we take inspiration from Clarissa Pinkola Estés' book, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Joined by Valentina Antollini and Sereena Abbassi we look into how our womanhood can be challenged, perceived and embodied through our identities and career paths. On this episode, we have Valentina and Sereena. Valentina is an artist, designer, and mentor for women. She graduated in architecture at Central St. Martins, worked as a software engineer and is now working full-time as a mentor and consultant for women leaders, creators, and entrepreneurs. Sereena Abbassi is committed to creating organisational transformation that is grounded in deep seat of belief that all our liberation are tied to each other. Her approach is both creative and strategic and done with lots of heart. Serena is an equity and inclusion practitioner, belonging researcher, holistic life coach, public speaker and writer, and was formerly the worldwide head of culture and inclusion.

The theme of this season is Home. Jan-Ming Lee shares what Home means to her. Each Home edition will feature the voices of women. You can also contribute your own by sending through an entry of what home means to you by filling in the form on www.alishamorenike.co

We discuss all things bodies, health and our in-between Worlds. The journey we undertake as individuals is linked in how we carve spaces collectively threading the needle to weave our own stories and our land. I’m excited to introduce on the episode today, Noelene Nabulivou, the Executive Director of DIVA for Equality, Convenor, Women Defend Commons Network, Pacific Feminist Activist. Noelene is a feminist community organiser, analyst, educator and activist working for socio-economic, ecological and climate justice and universal human rights in urban informal settlements, rural and maritime Fiji, the Pacific and globally for over 35 years. A special thank you to Thousand Currents for support on this episode!