GroundUpTalk Podcast

After a long time GroundUpTalk is back the way it started. I sit down with my favorite sister and we go through a grab bag of topics from the personal to the hilarious. Enjoy!

Rapper and Entrepreneur 'Proph' is this episode's guest. Proph talks about his social enterprise 'RapTherapy', mentoring and how he helps young people find a creative outlet. We each break down our top 5 rappers and discuss the state of lyricism in hip-hop, why people glamorise struggle and throw in a few hilarious anecdotes. It's a great conversation, Enjoy!.

This Episode’s guests are Tristan and our childhood friend, the Guyanese Punk Rock Artist and base player for the band 'Feed the Flames', Gavin Mendonca. Gavin is the Director of the Rupununi Music & Arts Festival in Guyana and has performed across North and South America. We have a great conversation about our childhood memories, how we met, and the strange characters that made up our school life. We also get into what it’s like being an artist, travelling and living your dream. It’s an aspirational, and slightly ridiculous conversation. Hope you Enjoy!

Falguni & Denika are the guests on this episoede, to talk about Neek's Trip to South East Asia, the good the bad and the outrageous. There's tips for aspiring travellers & bagpackers, how to maintain your mental health when travelling alone, hostel tips, how to dodge 'delhi belly' and alot more. Enjoy!

On this episode we have Leanne and special guest, author and entrepreneur, Aalia Lanius, We talk about her biographical fiction novel 'Tough Love', as well as the new novel she's writing, the impact of reality TV on politics and personal perceptions, going to jail at 18, growing up in a conservative family, and unlearning colourism. We also talk about her battles and triumps being a 3 time cancer survivor and living with 2 auto-immune diseases. The impact of american exceptionalism preventing americans from understanding other cultures, converting to islam in her 20's, and our 'disney-fied' ideas of love and gender. It's possibly our best Episode yet, I hope you enjoy.

Part 2 of the conversation with Fabian. We talk about his Romani culture & history, how damn difficult yoga is, How marginalised groups internalise stereotypes & the appeal of psychedelics.

Tev is joined by long time friend and fellow podcaster Fabian. The two get caught up in nostalgia aswell as talking Fabian's brush with death, his MMA venture, the hilarity of Love Island & more.

Tev, Tristan and new guest Kalil delve into escapism, the trio talk nerd life, anime & superheros. As well as a list of the worst superheros of all time featuring "arms fall of boy" & a fictional death batlle of anime characters vs Comic book superheros.

Part 2 of Episode 7, Leanne Ebere and Tev continue the episode & talk school, childhood memories, kim kardashian among many other things and of course, make some bad jokes.

Tev is joined in part 1 of this episode by Leanne as well as long time friend Ebere. We're talking the impact of misogyny in the black community, racialised ideas/views of black people in society, long term impacts of stereotypes on identity and self worth & the parallels between the feminist struggle and the anti racist movement.