52 Conversations

Joined this week by Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon. Nicole founded Banana Pepper HR for visionary luxury hospitality leaders tired of the status quo and who are ready to level up their game. What makes Banana Pepper HR different is the close contact work with marketing to understand businesses brand plus a laser focus on connecting people to culture and uncovering the secret sauce of a company’s employer brand. After all, if your business is red-hot, your people should be too.

Nicole has built her niche expertise over 20 years as an in-house HR Director as well as leading her own freelance consulting business. Known for a creative approach to HR, Nicole works with independent luxury hospitality brands, private properties, and boutique hotels in the Caribbean on the People aspect of brand launches, openings, restructuring, business growth and developing COVID-19 business bounce-back action plans.

Joined this week by Jamie Catto author, filmmaker, musician, facilitator or creative and personal breakthroughs.  A conversation that covers a diverse range of things from coping with the current climate, music projects to how to make the teachings Jamie has to share more accessible to all. Grab a cuppa and join us. 

Jamie Catto is an author, filmmaker and musician running transformational workshops and events to reclaim all the treasure we edited away into the shadows and facilitate everyone daring to be more real, more fallible, more tender, more intimate.

His mission is to create a world full of ‘walking permission slips’ where we all lighten up and enjoy the unpredictable human path together with humour, playfulness and a healthy dose of irreverence. Jamie’s workshops and 1-1s provide a refreshing approach to inner work with the right dose of playfulness and depth.

Today’s guest is Tom Morley former drummer with Scritti Politti in the ’80s a band built around connection and conversation.  To leaving that behind and becoming the ‘Rockstar Activator’. A conversation that touches on having it all, whatever all is. Re-finding yourself by first losing yourself. As the groove returned to him and he returned to the groove how he moved to where he is now. How to lead your own way and activate your inner Rockstar. 

A conversation that covers the pieces of training he delivered in the covid lockdowns around the globe; children at home with the parents have got involved with the training and actually facilitated the childlike curiosity of their parents in a quicker way, 200 hundred all on zoom doing the front crawl 10 minutes into the training! A wonderful story of life and how to walk your path. 

‘The groove is found at the crossroads of discipline and surrender”.

About Brenda Lee Browne: BLB, as her friends call her, is a storyteller. This conversation weaves backwards and forwards across The Atlantic Ocean, as well as through the years.  

British, Caribbean born in the ’60s growing up and through the ’70s in the UK. A conversation that touches on ancestry, rites of passage, growth, acceptance and above all, the spirit of a woman destined to return to the country of her parents and find her roots and just write. This conversation has so much depth I know you will enjoy it.  

"I was born in London to Antiguan parents. I studied journalism and started my career in Black British media before moving to Antigua in the mid-1980s, where I began writing and publishing short stories and poetry. In the mid-1990s, I returned to the UK and gained an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. And returned to Antigua in 2003 and established Just Write – Antigua, teaching creative writing workshops and worked with government agencies, adults, young people and inmates at HMP in Antigua.   

My work has appeared in a number of anthologies in the USA, UK and Canada as well as online. My first novella, ‘London Rocks’ was published by Hansib Publications in the UK in 2018. I am presently a part-time lecturer at the Antigua and Barbuda State College, where I teach Communication Studies and English Literature.  I joined the Hub Dot community five years ago when the Antigua and Barbuda Hub Dot team was established."