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Joining Lady Mariéme Jamme on this final episode for season 5 is Joanna Peña-Bickley, CEO, DesignedByUs.org, Head of Research & Design, Alexa Devices at Amazon to share her story and how she came to learn how to design her own life and now passing this to a new generation of designers through mentoring and mobilisation. She is often called “the mama of design”. She brings designers, artists, editors, creative directors, entrepreneurs and everybody in between to have a conversation about empathy design. 

Lady Mariéme got to know Joanna a few years ago and sits on her foundation's board. Joanna discovered her purpose after conversing with her grandmother, who said to her that her skin colour was a privilege and would benefit her greatly one day. 

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In this week's episode, Lady Mariéme’s shares the lessons she has learnt over the decades and says there are four key elements to discovering your purpose that we should think about as part of our growth. She said we must dare to be visible, but we should have a strategy and a plan before seeking too much and unnecessary visibility. Once we start establishing our credibility and gaining trust from our peers, it is imperative to maintain relationships and be knowledgeable about a topic. A credible person is someone whose actions match their expressed values. The combination of visibility; credibility leads to profitability, meaning people will pay you for your time and services, will refer and recommend you. The last key element is humanity. 

Lady Mariéme shares her view on how we can learn to be kinder, empathetic and more compassionate towards each other especially post covid-19. People will make mistakes and fall short, but being honest by telling them what they have done wrong is better than cancelling or ghosting them. 

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Lady Mariéme welcomed Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, CEO at Apolitical Foundation, Lisa Witter to the podcast.

Lisa has dedicated her life to enabling public servants to learn to serve humanity by creating a space where they learn and gain knowledge. She recently launched the Apolitical Foundation to help young people find information and advice in public service. Lisa and her team look for solutions that will help Government and policymakers to enhance their learnings and give them the best skills to serve us. 

Lady Mariéme recalls Lisa supporting her in a time of need and is very proud to call her a friend.

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Welcome to the first iamtheCODE podcast episode of 2022! Lady Mariéme's twelve Life Hack lessons to start your #2022: 

Lady Mariéme’s twelve Life Hack lessons to start your #2022:

1. Self Love

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In this short episode before Christmas, our host Lady Mariéme Jamme spoke to Leena Nair, the first female, first Asian, youngest ever Chief Human Resources Officer of Unilever. She became Chanel’s New Global Chief Executive Officer and will start in her new role in 2022. She worked for 30 years at Unilever and will take the reins at the 112-year-old fashion house founded by Coco Chanel. Leena shared the challenges she had during Covid19. She lost her mother, who was her greatest strength. Leena spoke to the Kakuma Refugee Girls in Kenya before leaving her role at Unilever. She supported iamtheCODE during her tenure at Unilever, and we are truly grateful. Leena told the girls to support each other as sisterhoods matter. 

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Joining Lady Mariéme on this week’s iamtheCODE Podcast is a woman who pushed boundaries in the finance industry and coached businesses with an eye on the future through leadership, collaboration and impact. Lily Lapenna MBE says even amid the lockdowns, setbacks, living in a new country and restrictions of the past years; she couldn’t think of a world without travel and the possibilities it brings to discover herself and get to look after his beautiful children, set up her new business and support her clients. MyBnk, Founder and CEO, believe that bringing people together to create change is the most important thing she has learnt in her career.

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In this episode, Lady Mariéme spoke to Jon Gosier, Founder of FilmHedge and Southbox Entertainments.

Today, Jon is a Financier in the Film industry; he wants to help the African stories be heard, and the Black Excellence told. Before becoming a film investor, he travelled to Africa, where he co-founded the first innovation hub in Uganda called the Hive Colab. His company was supported by Lady Mariéme and hosted the first events related to climate change in Africa. She travelled in more than 30 countries with Apps4africa. Jon loves Africa and has transformed lots of lives with his ideas and pioneering work. As mentioned by Lady Mariéme "I am really proud of his achievements".

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In this special episode and our first live show, Lady Mariéme sits down with the founder of #ConversationLoves, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Lucy Doughty, to discuss her upbringing, life journey and philanthropic work. In this candid conversation, Lucy shared her own experiences as a child in the Dominic Republic and how it has shaped her to discover her true calling: to help others in need and understand the Human Factor. She explains that being yourself, accepting your struggles, letting go of what is not yours, surrounding yourself with love, kindness, family, and friends can help you have fulfilled life. She loves organising events with friends to have conversations that can uplift, educate and enlighten women. Lucy is a homemaker; she loves flowers, good food and adores her boys. Lady Mariéme fell in love with her authenticity, generosity, grace and kindness. 

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Lady Mariéme Jamme welcomed her fellow young global leader of the world economic forum and friend Dr Yuhyun Park, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DQ Institute, to discuss their friendship and digital journey. 

The conversation explores how Dr Park pioneered The Digital Intelligence Standard. In this episode, Dr Park candidly shared her early years in Korea and her experiences in multiple sectors before creating her Non-for-profit company, the DQ Institute. In the stillness of Covid19, she wrote a book  IQ EQ DQ, “New Intelligence in the AI age”, to help Businesses, Government, and educators have a better standard for Digital Citizenship, Competitiveness and Identity. Don’t forget to subscribe to our Podcast and listen to other episodes. You can now give us a listen wherever you get your Podcast. We are a small dedicated team committed to making the world a better place by creating inspiring content for people who want to do better and be better. 

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