In this episode we explore the experiences of three women; Bernadette Ojao Team Lead and Founder Pads for Her, Samalie Namuganyi a Poet and Founder Girls of Honor Africa and Jamila Mayanja, Founder and Team Lead Smart Girls Foundation Uganda. These women have pushed barriers and created space for themselves and other women around them to thrive by tackling three problem areas.  Period poverty, self esteem/confidence and embracing careers in male dominated fields. 

In this episode we explore Tools to create, an equipment financing initiative designed for creatives, craftsmen and technicians. This initiative gives entrepreneurs opportunities to access tools at all stages and make smart decisions and products in a competitive business industry. 

In this episode we explore why many startups fail to take off and what The Innovation Village is doing to build and support startups to scale up growth and make a distinct mark on the country’s economy. It explores key learning from Anthony Kagimu, a venture lead at The Innovation Village. 

In this episode, we explore an art collective partnership among three friends Wamala Kyeyune Joseph, Gerald Puto Kikomeko and Tristan Zitoni Tani Kayonga with a desire to adding value to art and artists through elevating art and making it reachable to everyone and anyone. 

In this episode, we explore a partnership between The Innovation Village, Arizona State University and YARID, focusing on expanding education for refugees and refugee host communities through a series of entrepreneurship courses that would set the learners on a pathway towards self-reliance. It Explores key learning from Nicholas Sebato Director, Country Programs, Education for Humanity at Arizona State University, Devine Frances Asalo,  Potfolio Manager at The Innovation Village, and  Robert Hakiza, ED of YARID on what education stakeholders can do to help increase the success rate for learners. 

Bernadette is a self-taught tailor from the ghetto and founder of the organization Pads for Her. Her ghetto experience has made her passionate about impacting on the lives of the unprivileged women. In this episode you will get to hear her journey to setting up her business and her crusade for women and girls especially those in slums and refugee settlements to have access to sanitary pads.

In this episode we will be discussing the impact of COVID 19 on sme’s and how they can build resilience in this COVID 19 virus economy.

Kwizera is one of the big names on the Ugandan art scene best known as a painter and an illustrator. Listen to Kwizera's journey as an experimental versatile artist and how his work has impacted on the creative industry

In this episode, we get to learn about Barbara Nandego Jacometti, a young woman in Jinja, whose love for street food turned into a quest to improvise and put a more personal twist to a much-loved street delicacy in Uganda.

In this episode, we get to hear of a young woman’s bold decision to leave the capital Kampala and return home in Kitgum an area recovering from civil war, and set up businesses after University.