Renaissance Foundation Podcast

Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity
We support young carers, hospital patients and at risk pupils in London.
Thank You to Blest for creating our intro music! Absolutely blown away!
I’m really excited to share this very special episode with you all!
I mentioned last episode that we’ve been working with Octavia Calthorpe who has been teaching our young leaders about Breathwork. We’ve absolutely loved learning about this breathing technique. It’s been incredibly helpful at helping us get focused before our workshops and podcasts and definitely opened our eyes to how helpful mindfulness and meditation can be!
We loved it so much we wanted to share a session Octavia kindly done with us so everyone can benefit from this incredibly powerful and simple breathing technique.
Octavia is trained Breathwork Therapist and Life Coach, She runs her own business and has a passion for helping people. We are so incredibly lucky to have these sessions so we want to say a massive thank you!
Thank you for hosting our Breathwork Sessions, Thank you for participating in our podcast and sharing with us your journey and how you got into Meditation, mindfulness and Breathwork.
If you want to find out more add Octavia on Instagram or head over to her website www.OctaviaCalthorpe.com

Thank you to all the young people that took part! It was really exciting to try something new and you all really impressed me!
If you want to find out more about Renaissance Foundation, who we support and how to donate head over to our website or follow us on social! Make sure to like, share and subscribe to any content we make as it really helps our local charity get out there!

www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity.
We recently spoke with Pranav Soneji, Co-founder and director of LiveWire Sport, a digital agency, that creates content for brands and broadcasters to reach new audiences. They have worked with the Premier League, The FA, Wimbledon, World Rugby, Channel 4, ATP Media, FC Inter & Tottenham Hotspur to name a few.
We really enjoyed speaking to Pranav who shared his incredible career journey with us starting from print journalism, to the BBC to founding his own digital media agency. Pranav was full of great advice, wisdom and positivity for the future. He also spoke about a brand new initiative Live Wire launched called The Diversity in Digital Mentoring Program. This initiative looks to address the lack of representation in media, and looks at diversity in multiple ways including, ethnicity, gender, accessibility and geolocation. 
Thanks so much for speaking with our youth charity, sharing your advice and inspiring us about careers in media. We really enjoyed this chat and would love to get you back for another one, you were really easy to talk to and I definitely feel we only scratched the surface of what we could have spoken about.

Every like, share, rating and subscriber makes a big difference to us as we are a local charity making these podcasts because we enjoy it. If you know anyone else that would like our content  do let them know, get in touch to tell us who you would like us to interview and also if you want to support us and make a donation please head over to www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity

We support young carers, hospital patients and at risk pupils in London.

We were extremely lucky to have the opportunity to speak to Wol Kolade,
Wol Kolade is the managing partner of London-based private equity firm Livingbridge, They have just launched their 100 Black interns campaign, which offers internships in finance to people of colour.
Wol spoke to us openly about his journey growing up discussing how it felt moving to the UK after living in multiple countries, going to boarding boarding school and also experiences he has encountered racism/prejudice and the times that he has confronted that and why. 
It was a really open and frank discussion in which Wol took the time to share insights from his life and career journey, And also expertly answered our questions and gave our young people advice about future careers.
Thank you for talking to us Wol, sharing your wisdom and introducing us to the #100blackinterns campaign you’ve recently launched.
Thank you to all of the young people that joined the discussion, even if you didn't want to ask a question, that fact you joined and listened to the podcasts means the world to us.

#100blackinterns #Livingbridge

find out more and how to donate at:
www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity
We support young carers, hospital patients and at risk pupils in London.
We recorded this right before our interview with Ade Adepitan (episode 12), and it’s basically Sophie and Tom from audible giving our young people advice and tips on making podcasts. Thank you so much for helping our young people prepare for the interview with Ade, you both definitely helped calm all of our nerves and the advice you gave us was so good we wanted to share it today!
-We discuss the podcasts we listen to -Get interview tips-We talk about an episode of TL;DR that Tom produced-Format-Hosting-Emotion (referencing our 2nd episode with Rukmini Callimachi)

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Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity

We were lucky enough to talk to Christabel Reed, activist, yoga therapist & teacher, co founder of Advaya and My Eco Resolution, an educational initiative founded with her friend Cara Delavigne.
We spoke openly about Christabel’s personal journey and what lead her to focus her career on education and activism, as well as talking about social anxieties and advice for young people coping in today’s uncertain times.
This talk was really empowering, and we want to say a massive thank you Christabel for making time to talk to us, sharing your thoughts and advice and showing our young people that they can make a difference.

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www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome back to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast,
A Podcast about inspiration, made by the young people at our youth charity

Every year Renaissance Foundation takes a group of young people to Norway for the Nobel Peace prize. We learn about the prize's history, bring young people to attend the ceremony and for the last 2 years we've held an event at the Ambassador's residence in Norway, to share what we've learned with our Norwegian partners. Unfortunately due to the current global circumstances it looks like that's not an option for us this year.
So we are extremely happy we got the chance to catch up with a good friend of RF. The UK Ambassador to Norway Richard Wood. It was really nice to hear from him about how covid has impacted the work he has been doing but also nice of him to share his career journey with us and tell us about what it was like working in South Africa with Nelson Mandela 
He also shared a funny story with us involving the queens breakfast
Thank you so much for speaking with us Richard, we really miss Oslo, and by talking to us it made us feel a bit closer to Norway. 
Thank you to all the staff at the UK embassy for making this call possible. Thanks to the hard working RF staff for planning it and the amazing young people for getting involved.

Welcome to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast, a podcast about inspiration made by young people.

Today we are super excited to share with you one of the most inspirational people I have ever met! He’s a barrister, a magistrate, activist and founder of African Prisons Project, a charity dedicated to improving the lives of prisoners in Uganda & Kenya. We were lucky enough to have an amazing discussion with Alexander McLean!
He spoke completely openly with our group sharing stories of adversities he’s faced as well as going out of his way to give advice and address every question that we asked. We are so thankful that you took the time to talk to us Alexander, you genuinely inspired us so much and we are so happy we get to share this with everyone. 
Thanks you Alexander, Thank you Niusha, Rachel and Sat from RF staff and most importantly thank you to all the young people that joined the call, asked a questions sat back and took in Alexander’s incredible advice and also thank you to everyone that listens to the podcast.
Please do subscribe, follow, rate 5 stars and make sure to share with anyone looking for inspiration.

Welcome to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast, a podcast about inspiration made by young people.

Our special guest this week is the president of the Aldrin Family Foundation, Director of the ISU Centre for Space Entrepreneurship and professor of Engineering Management.

He's dad Buzz Aldrin was one of the first people to set foot on the moon. We were super lucky enough to speak to Dr. Andrew Aldrin. He was joined by his friend and colleague Jim Christensen. 

They blew our minds by talking about all of the technological development and opportunity available to young people in the future of space and planetary exploration. We absolutely loved speaking to you guys, you really inspired us and helped to make a big concept extremely exciting and accessible. We can not wait to contribute to a satellite that gets sent out into space, or design our ideal home on the moon!

Thank you for taking the time to talk to us!

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www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast, a podcast about inspiration made by young people.

Our special guest this week is an award winning athlete, broadcaster and author. He’s represented Great Britain at multiple Paralympic games, won a BAFTA for his broadcast work and has also received an MBE for his contribution to disabled sport. 
We we’re lucky enough to speak to the amazing Ade Adepitan. 

Ade had a big talk with us that covered everything from his journey discovering wheelchair basketball to he’s determination overcoming all the setbacks on the way, and he also talks about how travelling taught him how important it is to be open minded. This episode is full of genuine advice for young people while being full of fun stories, we absolutely loved talking to you Ade, you taught us so much and made us laugh while doing it!

Thanks so much!

to find out more and how to support us,
www.renaissance-foundation.com

Welcome to the Renaissance Foundation Podcast, a podcast about inspiration made by young people.

THANK YOU to EVERYONE that supported our #UnitedThroughCovid19 campaign! WE MADE IT!!!!
https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a051r00001WVpT0AAL

We spoke to Getty Images Royal Photographer Chris Jackson. He talked to us about his career journey, what it's like to photograph the royal family, gave advice for young people and also shared excellent photography tips, as well as keeping us positive! We all felt incredibly inspired after this session!

Thanks so much!

to find out more and how to support us, 
www.renaissance-foundation.com