In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing Podcast, Sean Andrew sits down with podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. Sean Andrew is a content creator. He is also the Grandson to the late former President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki.

00:00 - Intro 

02:05 - Why Don't You Want To Have Kids? 

03:15 - How's Your Relationship With Your Parents? 

06:04 - Who Is Sean Andrew? 

09:04 - Is There A Pivotal Moment You Look At And Say This Shaped My Life? 

11:24 - How Was It Being Former President's Grandson? 

12:13 - When He Was President What Was One Of Your Worst Experiences? 

16:38 - When He Was President What Was One Of Your Best Experiences? 

21:12 - Why Did You Cut Your Dreads? 

24:56 - Do You Want To Get Married? 

30:12 - How Did You Build Your Brand

32:50 - Have You Struggled To Love Yourself? 

36:00 - Mental Health 

41:00 - How To Get Out Of A Dark Place? 

44:17 - Have You Ever Thought Of Quitting? 

45:50 - How's Your Relationship With The Media?

47:08 - Have You Ever Struggled With Imposter Syndrome?

50:46 - What Advice Would You Give Someone Willing To Build A Personal Brand? 

54:00 Appreciating Your Friends 

1:00:30 - Sliding Into DMs

1:02:45 - Accomplishments 

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In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing Podcast, Eugene Asike, a professional football player at IF Karlstad Fotboll, joins podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. In addition, to his current team, Eugene has played for clubs like Sofa Paka, KCB, and Tusker, where he achieved remarkable success by winning the Kenya Premier League title three times while simultaneously pursuing his degree. Notably, Eugene, also represents the Kenyan National Team, making his mark on both domestic and international football scenes.

00:00 - Intro 

00:58 - Do You Like Losing? How Does Losing Make You Feel? 

02:24 - Who's Eugene Asike? 

04:00 - Where Did Your Football Journey Begin? 
06:30 - His Breakthrough 

07:50 - How Were You Balancing School & Football? 

08:33 - What Was That Pivotal Moment When You Decided I Can Do This? 

09:27 - What Do You Think Was The Reason Many Players From The Impala Academy Excelled? 

11:15 - How Did You Manage To Get A Degree And Win A League?

12:39 - What Do You Think Of The Stereotype Around Middle & Upper Class People Pursuing Football In Kenya? 

15:29 - What Were Some Of The Challenges You Faced Locally & How Has That Shaped The Player You Are Today? 

19:00 - How Was It Winning The League As A Captain? 

20:39 - Did You Ever Think You'd Win That Season? 

22:54 - Who's The Toughest Striker You've Played Against Locally? 

24:30 - How Was It Playing For The National Team? 

29:27 - What Happens To Harambee Stars When It Comes To The Big Stage? 

31:33 - Worthy Opponents When Playing For Harambee Stars? 

33:08 - How Did You Get The Attention Of A Swedish Football Club? 

34:38 - How Was Your First Game In Sweden? 

36:41: How Is It Adjusting Playing In Sweden? 

37:58: What's Been Your Greatest Moment In Sweden? 

40:51: What Challenges Have You Faced As A Foreign Player In Sweden? 

42:32: Is There A Point You Ever Felt Like Giving Up? 

44:45: Downs In My Career 

48:50: How Do You Stay Mentally Fit? 

49:55: What Do You Do On Days When You Aren't Mentally Fit & Need To Be On the Field?

54:50: What's Your Philosophy Or Way Of Life?  

57:14: Outro 

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In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing Podcast, Samir Anwar sits down with Keith Tupac Gatiramu. Samir Anwar is a professional boxer with Round 10 Boxing gym in Dubai. He shares the highs and lows of the career and what motivates him to keep going on.

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - How's It Being A Young Husband & Father?

03:14 - Advice To People Struggling With Relationships

03:49 - What Motivated You To Pursue Boxing As A Career?

04:35 - Holland Boxing Gym Experience

05:20 - You Aren't Scared Of Pain?

06:09 - When Was The Moment You Decided This For Me?

06:55 - Relationship With My Father & How's It Shaped Me

08:34 - How Does Your Family Look At Your Career?

09:06 - How Far Have You Reached In Terms Of Education?

09:55 - Conversation With Parents On Pursuing Boxing As A Career

10:43 - Advice For People Pursuing A Career Like Boxing

11:23 - Advice For Parents With Children Who Want To Pursue Careers Like Boxing

13:07 - We Can Improve Our School Education System With More Career Options

13:52 - How's It Living In Dubai?

14:40 - Other Than Fighting, What Else Do You Do?

15:40 - How Was Your First Fight?

17:22 - What's Your Best Fight? Why Was It Your Best Fight?

18:54 - How Does Losing Make You Feel? 19:56 - How Does It Feel To Knockout Someone?

20:37 - What Has Been The Lowest Moment Of Your Life? How Did You Bounce Back?

21:55 - What's Been The Highest Moment Of Your Life? 23:10 - Opinion On Boxing In Kenya

23:50 - Boxing Trials

24:20 - How Do You Stay Mentally Fit?

25:36 - My Wife Is My Biggest Supporter

27:14 - Who's Been Instrumental In Your Career

29:37 - What's The Biggest Life Lesson Boxing Has Taught You?

30:55 - How Do You Get To A Place Where You Believe In Yourself?

33:27 - What Would You Be Telling A Young Samir?

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In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing Podcast, Noah Monday sits down with Keith Tupac Gatiramu. The podcast is a continuation of the initial podcast they had titled Heartbreaks, Relationships, Cheating, Betrayal and Much More. Though this one is more about Healing, Relationships, Forgiveness and Much More.

00:00 - Intro 

01:16 - What Have You Been Up To? 

02:00 - I Fear Failure 

05:00 - Last Time You Were Depressed, How Are You Doing Now? 

07:50 - What Have You Done To Improve Your Wellbeing? 

10:25 - Meditation vs Journaling 

15:58 - Imagine They Are Getting Married 

17:23 - I Had To Forgive Myself & Then Forgive Them

18:30 - Deadlines 

20:18 - Unexpected Relationships, And Understanding Relationships

24:08 - Being Deliberate

29:15 - Friends Vs Acquaintances

31:03 - My Therapy Experience

31:47 - Nairobi Social Life 

34:53 - Why Do You Think You Went Back? 

40:29 - Dealing With Insecurities 

41:57 - Do You Think Men Are Truly Lonely?  

45:39 - Competition Might Be Our Biggest Danger As Men 

47:55 - What's The Greatest Lesson You've Learnt About Yourself? 

50:25 - What Has Been Your Biggest Lesson On Happiness? 

53:00 - How's Your Relationship Your Father Shaped Who You Are? 

58:47 - What's The One Key Take Away You'd Like People To Get From This Conversation? 

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In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing podcast, Cassie Warukira sits down with podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. The podcast is centred around Letting Go Of What No Longer Serves You. Cassie Warukira is CEO / Founder of Visionary Marketing and other organisations. Moreover, she is a health coach.

00:00 - Intro 

01:28 - How’s It Been Growing Between Kenya and the United States

02:50 - What Stage In The Growth Journey Are You In? 

03:50 - What’s Been The Joy And Painful Factor Of Letting Go? 

05:20 - Have You Come To The Realization Of Letting Go Of Things? If So, How Have You Navigated Around That? 

06:43 - Is There The Fear Of Loneliness Of Letting People Go? 

08:26 - Loneliness Vs Solitude

09:58 - What Relationship Do You Think You Have With Yourself?

12:15 - What Is Self-Love? 

14:10 - Why Do You Think This Generation Struggles To Love Themselves?

16:30 - What Do You Do To Stay Mentally Fit And Not Be Influenced By Society Are You? 

19:20 - The Power Of What You Consume

25:45 - How Do You Let Go Of People That No Longer Serve You?

30:40 - How Do You Know When Someone Is No Longer Needed In Your Life?

33:23 - How Do You Let Go Of People You've Know For A Long Time?

36:00 - What Have You Learnt About Change?

37:40 - What Does Being Attached To Your Old Self Mean?

42:40 - How Have Coaches & Mentors Influenced Your Life?

45:09 - What Do You Do To Influence Your Days Positively?

48:50 - What's The One Takeaway You Would Like People To Get From This Conversation?

CASSIE WARUKIRA

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In this episode of the Just To Kick It Is A Blessing podcast, Shaq The Yungin aka El Shaqo aka Nairobi’s Youngest Sponsor sat down with podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. Shaq The Yungin is a business, media personality and a radio presenter at NRG Radio. 

The topics include: 

00:00 - Intro 

01:25 - What's Your Real Name? 

01:50 - Has Your Name Opened Doors For You? 

02:27 - Where Did The Nicknames Come From? 

04:42 - What Motivated You To Join The Media Industry? 

05:44 - Where Did Your Journey Start? 

06:40 - What Motivated You To Start YouTube Content Creation? 

08:15 - How Many Years Have You Been In The Industry & How Has That Journey Been? 

09:54 - What Do You Think Of Cancel Culture? 

13:30 - Do You Think You Struggle From Imposter Syndrome? 

14:40 - Do You Think Fame Is a Drug, How Do You Control It, & Do You Suffer From Withdrawals? 

17:51 - Have You Ever Looked For Bad Publicity Just To Be Out There? 

19:46 - Who’s The Most Interesting Person You’ve Ever Met? Why? 

22:31 - How Was Your Interaction With Diamond? 

23:30 - Do Articles About You Affect You? 

27:14 - How Do You Protect Your Family? 

30:20 - What’s Your Advice For People That Create False Blogs? 

31:58 - How Do You Stay Mentally Fit? 

34:00 - What Do You Do On Days That You Don’t Feel Like You But Have To Be On Radio? 

37:00 - Do You Talk To Yourself? 

38:45 - Do You Think You Are A Friend To Yourself? 

40:28 - What Do You Think Of The Nairobi Social Setting? 

42:19 - Do You Think You Can Find Love In Nairobi? 

43:17 - What’s Been Your Best Achievements? 

46:24 - How Did You Build Your Brand? What Advice Do You Have For Someone Building Their Brand? 

48:10 - What’s Next For Shaq The Yungin? 

50:18 - How’s Your Character Development Journey Been? 

52:19 - Advice To Men Out There 

55:00 - Key Takeaway From This Podcast

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Njoroge and Mutahi Kibugu sit down with podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. Njoroge and Mutahi Kibugu are East Africa’s youngest professional golfers. The conversation is centered around the ups and downs of their journey and dropping out from University to pursue golf.

The topics include: 

00:00 - The Intro 

01:38 - Who’s The Better Golfer? 

02:30 - Who Gets More Girls? 

03:25 - Where Are You From?

03:50 - What Got You Guys Interested In Golf? 

05:00 - What Inspired You Guys To Be Professional Golfers? 

06:18 - The High Of Playing Golf

07:58 - Problems Encountered As Young Golfers & How They Overcame Those Problems  

11:47 - Have You Ever Felt Like Quitting? 

14:00 - Hard Work Vs Talent 

16:57 - Other Than Golf What Else Do You? 

18:46 - Dropping Out Of University After Receiving Scholarships

21:35 - How Did You Address Issues Around Dropping Out Of School With Family & Friends? 

24:05 - What Role Has Your Family Played In Helping You Become The People You Are Today? 

26:08 - How Do You Two Motivate Each Other? 

28:41 - Advice To Parents & Children In Regards To Exploring Talent 

31:19 - Turning Your Talent Into A Business 

33:44 - Difference Between Playing Locally & Internationally 

35:50 - Advice To Different Stakeholders In The Golfing Community 

40:38 - What Are Your Proudest Achievements? 

45:14 - How Does It Feel To Become A Millionaire Overnight? 

49:14 - What’s One Thing You’d Like The Audience To Remember From This Conversation?

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S3E4: What Religion Teaches Us About Mental Health | Aqib Assaria & Keith Tupac Gatiramu

The topics include:

00:00 – Intro

01:48 – Differences between how we were brought up

02:40 – Do you think Muslims are raised more strictly than Christians?

06:21 – Do you think Muslims encounter more responsibilities at a younger age compared to Christians?

07:19 – What effect do you think getting responsibilities earlier has on life?

08:43 – Stigma around divorces in Islam

10:54 – Do you think women are over empowered?

11:26 – Our generation versus our parents’ generation

13:08 – What role do you think community plays when it comes to mental health?

22:00 – Importance of family values

25:30 – What correlation do you think exists between alcohol and wellbeing?

29:15 – Society, sex and mental health (The myth of the white sheet)

36:57 – Have you ever been embarrassed to be Muslim?

41:00 – The importance of perspective

41:40 – What does the Holy Quran and Holy Bible teach us about mental health?

45:10 – Do you think we are the impatient generation?

50:15 – No one is going to have your back the way you have your back

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S3E3: Vulnerability Doesn’t Make You Weak, It Makes You Human | Kagwe Kibugu & Keith Tupac Gatiramu  

The topics include:  

00:00 – Intro  

01:42 – Importance of doing things you enjoy  

02:26 – Definition of a man  

03:26 – Why do you think men are committing more suicide  

04:30 – Societal pressures on men  

04:57 – Importance of creating environments where your friends can talk to you  

06:20 – Changes in life after creating such environments  

07:38 – Crying  

08:24 – Intergenerational differences affecting men these days  

11:19 – What we are fighting for 

13:27 – Opinion on whether getting things such as kids and married later on in life is affecting  

15:29 – Do you think a man is his money? 

17:28 – Do you think women are born with more value than me?  

21:21 – The girl child was raised and the boy child was left to grow. What do you think? 

25:40 – Loneliness vs Solitude  

31:06 – Do you feel any pressure to get married?  

32:56 – Advice to people under societal pressure  

4:19 – Do you feel any pressure from your father and uncle?  

35:43 – Misconception of being a man that he previously had 

37:46 – A book he advises everyone to read  

40:00 – Mentorship  

41:30 – His therapy journey  

45:30 – Important lessons around friendship  

48:15 – Are the sacrifices you’ve made in life so far been worth it?  

49:05 – Things he does to make him happy  

50:10 – The importance of being uncomfortable    

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S3E2: The Importance Of Doing What You Love | Samson Malonza (aka Dj Malonza) & Keith Tupac Gatiramu

Samson Malonza (also known as Dj Malonza or Dj Rubba) sits down with podcast host Keith Tupac Gatiramu. Malonza is an architect graduate, deejay and a pilot in training in the United Kingdom. He shares how he balances deejaying and studying. The importance of time management and self-control in living a balanced life. Dj Malonza started deejaying in 2013 when he would sit in his room alone and imagine there was a crowd listening. 3 years later, just when he felt like quitting he got his first big break and the journey has only gotten better. Last year he deejayed alongside worldwide known deejays namely Dj Maphorisa and Kabza De Small. 

Furthermore, he shares the important lessons his parents taught him concerning failure. He talks about the importance of supportive parents in helping their children chase their dreams. Currently, he is a pilot in training in the United Kingdom. He shares the challenges of moving to another country and the change of lifestyle. 

Moreover, he talks about the relationship between the entertainment industry and mental health. He emphasizes loving yourself and putting yourself first. Finally, he shares his opinions on relationships in Nairobi and shares some advice. 

00:00 – Intro

01:38 – How he balances his life

02:15 – The importance of time management and self-control

04:06 – The architecture journey

05:00 – The deejaying journey

07:38 – What motivated him to move from architecture to aviation

09:45 – How he convinced his parents to allow him to switch

11:59 – The importance of supportive parents in their children’s lives

13:58 – A challenging moment in his life

16:35 – The importance of breaking the bigger goal into smaller achievable goals

17:52 – Changing an important aspect of his life, how it affected him and he resolved it

18:55 – Mental health and the entertainment industry

21:03 – His two personas

22:16 – Experience of deejaying with depleted energy

24:12 – The importance of loving yourself and putting yourself first

25:30 – The self-love journey

27:27 – How he balances his relationships

28:43 – Societal and family pressure on marriages

30:42 – Opinion on relationships in Nairobi and advice

32:532 – Deejays opinions about song requests

34:19 – Worst experience as a deejay

34:55 – Best experience as a deejay

36:10 – How he’s deejay experience has been

37:27 – How do you balance your sleep and does that affect your mental health

40:45 – Self-love and rewarding yourself

43:12 – The NYEUPE series

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