Black Create Connect Podcast

Sayce Holmes-Lewis is an entrepreneur, sports coach, mentor and activist providing strategic counsel and cultural insight within the public & private sectors, whilst also delivering aspirational keynotes on the importance of community, racial equity, personal growth & resilience.

Sayce is the founder & CEO of Mentivity, an award-winning mentoring organisation, and alternative education provision that provides aspirational support for young people, schools, parents, and carers across London, Brighton, Barbados, Kenya and Uganda. Founded in 2016, Mentivity has touched the lives of thousands of young people with their adaptable, holistic approach and proven record of expertise in coaching, mentoring, and support.

Sayce feels extremely fortunate to be doing work that he truly loves, using his platform and vast network within business, sport, education, and government to advocate for diverse and underserved communities.

In this episode Alicia and Sayce discuss:

• Sayce's experience of being discovered as a talented football player in his neighborhood

Learn more about Sayce and Mentivity here:

https://sayceholmeslewis.com/my-story 

https://www.mentivity.com/

Meet Haydn, a highly experienced Social and Digital Marketing Consultant

focusing on Arts and Non-Profit Organisations. With over 15 years of experience in

social media and digital marketing, Haydn has worked with a range of brands,

including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Campari Group, Kickers, and more. His work on

award-winning experiential, social, and digital marketing campaigns is highly

regarded.

Haydn has worked in the Arts and Culture sector for the last seven years. He was

a part of the team that established the Digital Culture Network as a Tech

Champion for the Arts Council England. His work with Bloomberg Philanthropies

as a tech fellow for the UK arts and culture organisation The Yard helped them

implement new digital platforms and tools.

Haydn has collaborated with over 300+ organisations from England and

internationally. Some of these include The ICA, Horniman Museum and Gardens,

The Southbank Centre, The Brooklyn Museum, and more.

Thanks to his Digital Marketing and Social Media expertise, Haydn has been

invited to speak and create workshops for The Roundhouse, The Dots, The

Barbican, Today at Apple, and Trinity Laban. He has also been a guest lecturer for

the Executive Master's programme at the Royal Academy of Arts.

In addition to his work within the arts, Haydn is also a founding partner of We Are

Stripes. The organisation works to increase opportunities for people from diverse

ethnic backgrounds in the creative industries. Working with Disney, Microsoft, The

National Gallery, The London Stock Exchange, and more, providing opportunities

for diverse work and voices. 

In this episode Alicia and Haydn discuss: 

- Haydn on Tour - creating and playing in a successful band

- Starting a career in advertising late 

- The power of a mentor and Sponsor

- Marketing Consulting & Different approaches to effective digital marketing

- Is the advertising industry for black people?

- Being apart of wearestripes and the impact they've had

- Next step in the USA 2024 

Connect with Haydn here - https://www.haydncorrodus.com/

Andy Ayim MBE is renowned for his deep expertise and experience coaching founders strategically towards achieving product/ market fit. He is a go-to expert on angel investing.

He has become a leading voice across Europe for training the next generation of angel investors and supporting startups with scaling responsibly.

His angel training programmes have empowered over 400+ new angels including the Black Angel Group spun out of Google's Black Network which has invested over $3.5m in over 28 startups.

He consults through organisations such as Psalt and Elixirr to advise organisations on executive coaching and creating high-performing agile teams.

His expertise in designing inclusive early-stage investment vehicles has seen him consult in the creation of startup accelerator programmes for organisations such as Backstage Capital, Black Equity Organisation and Impact X among others.

Andy was recognised in 2021 with a Queen's Honours MBE medal in recognition of his contribution to diversity and technology in the UK.

In this Episode Alicia and Andy Discuss:

- Andy's global adventures in wild life and character building activities 

- The importance of being in new environments 

- The impact of travelling and building international relationships

- Insights and opportunities from working internationally 

- The reason he started Angel Investing School 

- How people can become investors with small amounts of capital 

Learn more about Andy here:

https://andyayim.com/ 

Bejay Mulenga, a multi-award-winning serial social entrepreneur, with over 10 years of business-building experience, having trained over 10,000 entrepreneurs as part of his work.

He is the youngest award winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in the UK. Passionate about teaching entrepreneurs the skills they need to take their business to the next level, Bejay is the founder of Supa Network, the Business Building Club, and more ventures dedicated to this ultimate goal.

Bejay has worked with brands such as Barclays, River Island, BBC, The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, Sony, and more.

In this episode, Alicia and Bejay discuss:

• How Bejay started investing into businesses 

Learn more about Bejay & his work via the following links 

https://www.bejaymulenga.com/ 

https://www.blocks2bags.com/ 

Kelliesha White is an esteemed Marketer who is the Senior Brand and cultural Impact manager at tech platform Depop. She is at the core of youth culture, bringing insights into the wider business and is constantly challenging the business to ask ‘ Why should our communities care?’. Kelliesha has delivered talks at Loreal group, London College of Fashion, Youth Marketing Strategy, BIMA, Samsung, Performance Marketing world Unlocked & more – exploring topics such as Gen Z,  Culture and Community Marketing and creating access to the creative industry. Outside of her work Kelliesha mentors Fashion university students and is on the Advisory board for Youth Violence Charity Power The Fight. 

About Depop

Depop is a peer-to-peer social shopping app1. It is an online marketplace where people can buy and sell clothes2. Depop was founded in 2011 by entrepreneur Simon Beckerman at man on man, an Italian technological incubator and business start-up centre1. Its headquarters moved to London in 2012

To Apply for jobs at Depop visit - https://blackcreateconnect.co.uk/job-board/ 

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This is a Christmas special with Alicia and 1 of her sisters Simone. They discuss:

- The importance of mending broken relationships with loved ones

- How to mend broken relationships 

- How God proves himself time and time again

- The Richardson menu on Christmas Day 

- Christmas games suggestions section 

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Lee Chambers is a British psychologist, entrepreneur, male ally and speaker. He is the founder of PhenomGames and Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. Chambers was inducted as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

He has been interviewed by Vogue, The Guardian and Newsweek, and is known for analyzing the psychological aspects of the workplaces, wellbeing and intersectionality. He is one of the UK’s leading voices on male allyship and gender equity.

He was named as a Marie Claire Future Shaper 2022, alongside Harry Styles and Tom Daley, and was inducted into the Black Cultural Archives in 2022 for services to Business and Health.

He is trusted by publications such as Medical News Today, the BBC and Healthline, and recently featured as an expert in IKEA’s docuseries, “It won’t feel like home, ‘til it feels like you.”

Lee won the Professional Service Startup of the Year at the National Startup Awards, and has also been awarded the Service Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. He was named as an Exceptional Entrepreneur by the Startups 100 Index and a Man for Gender Balance at the Rising Star Awards.

Based in the North West, and working globally, he is passionate about conscious leadership, equality of health opportunity and menopause awareness.

In this episode Alicia and Lee discuss:

• How he founded, built and sold a business before 30 

See more about Lee here - https://leechambers.org/

Bisi Alimi is the founder and the Executive Director of the Bisi Alimi Foundation, an organisation working to accelerate social acceptance of LGBT people in Nigeria.

Alimi has a BA in Theatre Arts (2004) from the University of Lagos Nigeria and MSc in Global Governance and Public Policy (2011) from Birkbeck College University of London.

Alimi is a multitalented storyteller, actor, activist and angelic troublemaker. He has over 15 years experience working on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Africa.

Before starting Bisi Alimi Foundation, he was a lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin teaching “Pre and Post Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Africa”.

In his spare time, he loves to read, watch television and cook. He lives in London with his husband and his two dogs.

In this episode Alicia and Bisi discuss: 

• Battling his sexuality and religion

See more more about Bisi here

https://bisialimi.com/ 

https://www.bisialimifoundation.org/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvuTYFHtO3w/?hl=en 

Ryan Gonsalves, Born in England, started his career as a Professional football (soccer) player at Huddersfield Town, before moving on to play semi-professional around Europe and coaching in the US.  That team ethic and the need for a single, cohesive, passionate strategy has underpinned his work in global giants General Electric and HSBC, in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and now Australia.

Ryan is now the founder of 2ndwind, which inspires high-performing individuals to discover a lifestyle and career they love.

In this Episode Alicia and Ryan discuss:

• His reality as a black Footballer 

Connect here & Listen to his podcast - https://www.2ndwind.io/

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