Heartbeats & Footprints is a podcast about traveling and the journey we make as we travel through life. 
 
The heartbeat of today’s episode is about Ramadan. The footprints of today's show are centered on my memories and reflections of being in Morocco, Egypt and Lamu during Ramadan. 

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Music by Nawal

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Back In November 2011, I spent a month at Kopan Monastary in Nepal. The Heartbeat of this episode explores the experience of being there and examines the footprints that have stayed with me.  

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The Heartbeat of this Footprint is built on what makes something home for Sensei Shun'E Ulrike Greenway. 

The Heartbeat of today's episode is about growing up in the slum of Katwe in Kampala Uganda. The illuminating footprint of Ronald Kabuye's story brings together and moves through different layers of life in Uganda. Our journey takes us from living life in a children's home in the slums to law school at Uganda's most expensive university. 

Episode Notes: 
$1USD = about 3700 Ugandan Schillings 

Gnuts = Peanuts

Uncles & Aunties are a title of respect given to someone that is older than you.

Matooke is a dish made from plantain bananas that are often wrapped in plantain leaves and steamed until tender.

Pocho is maize flour porriage

Today's Heartbeat & Footprints looks at the all important central role that questions play in our lives. The power of questions examines our relationship to the questions that we ask ourselves and the ones that we don't. 

Today’s Heartbeat & Footprint explores what home is. The outline of the footprint is centered around the questions: What is home to you? What do you think of when you think of home? What makes something home for you? How does the feeling of home change as we change over time? And touches on the difference between a physical house and a home?

Everyday Heroes will be a regular footprint on Heartbeats & Footprints. The heartbeat of today's episode is a profile of Jaja a everyday hero volunteer that comes to clean M-LISADA an Organization  for vulnerable children in Kampala Uganda. 

Welcome to our first Heartbeat and first Footprint. This episode is centered around the questions: What is Heartbeats & Footprints? Why the name Heartbeats & Footprints? and Who are you?