iamtheCODE Podcast

Nigerian Award-winning filmmaker, Storyteller, TV Anchor and Entrepreneur Biola Alabi joined Marieme Jamme to open our NEW Reinventing Yourself series. Post-COVID 19, we will all need to reinvent ourselves and find new ways to connect, share, design and learn from each other.

In this episode, Biola shared her life under lockdown and called for more kindness and compassion in how we see ourselves as human beings. Biola is a storyteller and believes in the power of oral history.

You can listen to these new iamtheCODE Podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts,  Spotify and the iamtheCODE website, plus all previous episodes.

For this last episode of our Resilient Souls Conversations Season 1, Mariéme Jamme spoke with Indian Entrepreneur, Kanika Dewan. Kanika is a former investment banker and a campaigner against corruption. She has earned a place in the 'Guinness Book of World Records' for her fantastic design and artistry work. Kanika and Mariéme shared their passion for art and design. Against all the odds, she remains humble, engaged, and genuinely kind. She has been challenging social norms, looking after her family, and living her dream in building her "Sustainable Happiness" project.

In an enlightening and spiritual moment, Marieme Jamme converses with 

Buddhist Monk Shoukei Matsumoto. In this episode, they talked about the power of solitude and how we can face our fear during this covid19.

Matsumoto taught us to understand that we come on this earth alone; we live alone and die alone. A great lesson to love and take care of ourselves.

This week Podcast episode features Moroccan-born Danish tech entrepreneur Silicon Valley-based Soulaima Gourani. Through the many challenges she faced in her life, she became a fearless leader and a true connector. And she continues to push her limits.

She recently co-founded the  “Women Reignite Inc,” a company helping women make better decisions in life.

Both Marieme and Soulaima are Young Global Leaders from the World Economic Forum. They spent time and got to know each other at Yale University through the World Economic Forum and attended a 21st-century leadership course. Soulaima is known for her Keynote talks, coaching, and training sales teams.

To celebrate black excellence and support the #Blacklivesmatters movement, Senegalese Tech Entrepreneur Marieme Jamme converse with Nigerian Economist, President of United People Global, Yemi Babington-Ashaye. Former Head of the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum,  Yemi developed and executed a strategy to empower youth by building the Global Shapers Community to over 450 cities in 170+ countries and territories. A brilliant and grateful leader, someone who understands the power of uniting people, making connections, and building communities. He regularly collaborates with corporations, governments, non-profit organisations, and individual leaders. Throughout his career, he has advised the head of states and businesses. He has also been teaching, coaching, and mentoring young people across the world.

In this episode, Senegalese Tech Entrepreneur Marieme Jamme spoke to  Nomzamo Mbatha, South African Award-winning Actress of the Paramount’s forthcoming Coming 2 America. She will co-star alongside Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Wesley Snipes, Leslie Jones, and Tracy Morgan in the sequel to the 1988 comedy classic.  A UNHCR Goodwill ambassador, Nomzamo Mbatha, also represents global brands with a purpose and social mission. They both met at the UN, where they were both invited to speak alongside Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed. 

Nomzamo shares her journey as an actress and as a humanitarian. She has got the desire to stand her truth, help amplify the voice of the refugees, and give them visibility. She is a humble and extraordinary human being.

We spoke from her home in LA, where she is currently in quarantine.

This week Podcast episode features the first-ever conversation between Marieme Jamme and Adrian Monck from the World Economic Forum. They bonded when they both spent a week together on a learning journey in the Kakuma Refugee camp. Kakuma camp & Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement is home to nearly 200,000 refugees and asylum seekers. Adrian explains why he believes in the importance of creating safe spaces for the voiceless. He also provides an update on his personal life and how he finds peace and healing after overcoming many frustrations. He recognizes his privilege and power and loves to use his creativity and leadership to give back. He enjoys working with his brilliant and talented creative team.

Marieme Jamme caught up with Oulimata Sarr from Senegal where they both came from but with a different childhood path.

She's currently leading Women Economic Empowerment issues in West Africa and Central Africa for UN women as their Regional Director.

Oulimata is a change agent in Africa. A well-loved and respected leader. She has shown leadership in gender space through pushing for policy change and calling for the "coalition of the willing". Sarr also talks about her upbringing, the opportunity she has to have a good education. As an African, she learnt to use her influence to share knowledge,  connect agencies and mentor women so they can become economically independent in Africa and beyond.

In this special pride month episode, Marieme Jamme converses with the top, renowned Brazilian journalist, Milly Lacombe. She is well known for her straight-talking and writings. Lacombe thinks we need to cure people with love. She fights for discrimination against the LGBTQ community and all people who feel invisible. Being rejected for exploring her sexuality as a "lesbian" gives her the courage to stand up for others. Lacombe talks about courage, self-love, privilege, humanity, and tolerance. She shares what she believes in being privileged as a white person and how this can be used with responsibility for a good cause.

Young Global Leader and Japanese Buddhist monk, Shoukei Matsumoto from the Komyoji temple in Tokyo, discuss his life as a monk to Marieme Jamme. He also talked about the meaning of life and how to find a purpose in these difficult times. He sees himself as an altruist. His book: "A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind" is published by Penguin Books Ltd. Shoukei recommends adopting Buddhist concepts and practices for a more peaceful and meaningful life during this #Coronavirus period.