Enjoy today’s episode of Beyond the black letter law by Prism Chambers where we discuss All Things Gender.

Dr Myriam Blin is (one of the rare) gender economist and is currently the Head of Charles Telfair Centre as well as Head of Faculty of Accounting, Finance and Law at Curtin Mauritius.

She shares wonderful insights on:

• Her journey into Gender Economics
• Experiencing gender across 3 geographies
• Mauritius and patriarchal values
• Positive discrimination
• Genuine willingness to change or Genderwashing
• Demystifying unconscious bias
• How to go about setting a gender strategy
• Gender and legislation

Our guest for today’s episode, Masha’ael Peerbux is a fitness guru, a CrossFit champion and a nutrition coach. She candidly talks to us about her journey from having sub-optimal health to going on a “revenge body” binge to finally achieving happiness by being holistically healthy. She illustrates that taking steps towards optimal health through strength training is attainable for (almost) anyone.

She talks to us about:

• Her fitness journey
• The Crossfit’s model
• Women and lifting
• Lifting and weight loss
• Measuring progress in strength training
• Should I invest in a coach
• Strength training vs body building
• Crossfit and kids
• Recovery and sleep
• Mauritius and fitness awareness
• Crossfit and injury
• Strength training and confidence

Join us today as we chat with Kabir Ruhee, CEO of Rogers Capital

In this portrait, we talk about:

• Kabir’s leadership style
• His favourite story about his “guru”
• The attributes and qualities he looks up to in Sir Winston Churchill
• How he embeds a unified culture in a diversified company
• His thoughts on the Great Emigration
• The next great opportunity for Mauritius
• His Budget wishlist

Don’t miss today’s special episode featuring Angelo Mars, one of the bright recipients of the Mauritius state scholarship in this year’s cuvée as he talks to us about :

• What drives Gen Z
• How does one identify one’s purpose
• Nature v/s nurture
• The General Population conundrum
• The value of giving back
• Should the diaspora come back
• What success means to him.

Thanks

In this last episode of our Tax series, we sit down with Joe Chan from Andersen in Mauritius to talk about:

His journey from the Mauritius Revenue Authority to private practice
His core values in practising his profession
His love of Tax cases
The toilet paper case (!)
His most satisfying tax controversy cases
Joe’s legacy
 
Enjoy!

Today we are in conversation with Daniel Essoo, Chief Executive Officer at the Mauritius Bankers Association Limited to talk about All Things Banking Industry.

We talk about: 

• The objectives of the Mauritius Bankers Association

• Aligning the various interests of all members of the MBA

-                 His personal thoughts on rising interest rates

-                 Taxes and post-pandemic recovery

-                 The future of the banking industry

-                 Effect of the brain drain on the banking industry

Enjoy!

Join us today for our second instalment of All Things Tax featuring Ryan Allas, Managing Director, Rogers Capital as he talks to us about:

• Taking over his new role as Managing Director of the Tax arm of Rogers Capital
• Why he founded the Tax Africa Network
• The challenge of bringing Africa together in the Tax world
• The tricky issue of the solidarity levy
• The Global Minimum Tax
• Mauritius and transfer pricing
• The Supreme Court Innodis judgment

Join us today in conversation with Manish Bundhun, Chief People Executive of the Rogers Group as he talks to us about his latest book, Disruptor: 9 Abilities of Agile Leaders.

Manish candidly talks to us about:

Why he loves writing?
The experience of writing during the pandemic
On being a disruptor
The art of straight talking
How to be uncomfortable with the comfortable
How to turn adversity into opportunity
How to find one’s why (including a free mini-coaching session!)
How to use the toolkit in the book
 
There is so much to unpack in that conversation and we are hugely grateful to Manish for sharing his time and wisdom with us.

Our guest for this week’s episode is Mokshda Pertaub, barrister at law and director of training institution Lex Aquila. She is fiercely passionate about educating, training and advocating in the areas of gender-based violence, violence against children, violence at work, sexual harassment, to name a few.

In this podcast, we delve into:

Empowering women to use the law
The rise in violence against women
Regional training in Africa
Understanding the psychology of violence
Violence against women and the police
Violence and the courts
The effect of the pandemic on marital life
Embracing family well being holistically.