Shine Out Loud Show

Folakemi Sebiotimo an author, a woman in tech. Who finds that her world is turned around after becoming a mother! She pens a practical guide to juggling the rigors of modern motherhood and balancing a career and life. She is currently a Lead Business Analyst at Deutsche Bank in London, where she has worked for ten years. Prior to that, she worked as a software developer at an IT education company in Sheffield. She is very passionate about empowering mums and young people to live purpose driven lives, follow their passions and stand out regardless of their personal circumstances. She empowers women through her lifestyle blog peacockscanfly.com, the Notjustamum facebook community and various professional workshops and networking events she organises in London.

In the show Folakemi touches on how she navigated feeling guilty about her decisions after her child was born, navaigating Post Natal depression and feeling like she was alone in the process. Why every woman, mother or not needs to plan a gir's trip and how it gave her the clarity to write her book. She covers why having powerful boundaries can set you up for success.

Her #soloudmoment of the week was Jo Maxwell, the host and executive producer of the #jomaxwellshow celebrating her 2nd series coming to fame tv

The books she is currently reading are God's leading lady by TD Jakes and Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar

She also reccomended two other books

Calm Parents, Happy Kids: The Secrets of Stress-free Parenting by Dr Laura Markham

And, Marriage as God Intended by Selwyn Hughes

Elizabeth Oloidi is the founder of Qweens Beauty magazine. Qweens Beauty strives to celebrate and represent dark complexion people of colour in an industry that often forgets to include them in the mainstream media culture. A final year Journalism student who started the magazine as a project, she decided to keep it going after the warm reception it received online. She was tired of the beauty industry seeming to feature only minute slices of the shades that people of colour come in.
Her desire is to see more black women allowed to express their full range of self, and for other people of colour to create platforms that celebrate and acknowledge all people of color are not just one shade.

Her biggest inspiration is her mother. She is the woman that has inspired her to become the woman she is today!

Her #Soloudmoment of the week is herself for the work that she has done to put out Qweens Magazine into the world.

Her #Soloudmoment of the week is herself for the work that she has done to put out Qweens Magazine into the world.

The books she is currently reading are Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) By Tomi Adeyemi and the Bible

The next featured Qween of the week is Ronke Lawal of AriatuPR

Qweens magazine is looking for new writers who are looking to be seen and heard. as a person of colour who has a passion for seeing more diversity in the beauty industry, she asks to reach out to her via twitter or Instagram or the magazine’s website https://qweens-magazine.squarespace.com/.

Nike Folayan is the founder and chair of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers that campaigns for more ethnic diversity in UK engineering. TV antennas lead her to a career in engineering. Nike is a chartered engineer and gained a PhD in electronics engineering at the University of Sheffield. The AFBE-UK hosts an annual summit and this year’s focus was on How Brexit Will Impact Diversity in The UK Engineering Sector.

Nike holds the stance that diversity is not a fad and how it allows for more innovation due to the introduction of different views points.

She shares why the imposter syndrome is never mastered, why BME communities need to start looking at diversifying their skills in the wake of Brexit.

For her #Soloudmoment of the week, Nike celebrated June Sarpong for being a brilliant host at the AFBE-UK's annual summit and for her book Diversify ( Six Degrees of Integration)

On the books that she is currently reading Nike shares with us that she currently has two books on reading list Diversify by June Sarpong and Built by Roma Agrawal.

To find out more about the association go to http://afbe.org.uk/

Tamu Thomas founder of the Three Sixty Brand a lifestyle brand aimed at busy women in their late 30’s and 40’s that want to simplify life and create space for everyday joy.

The everyday joy that comes from accepting ourselves fully in all our shades from light to dark, our entire 360 degrees. Working with ourselves rather than against, creating space to notice the beauty of things we overlook in the midst of busyness and the everyday joy that comes from doing the things that light us up. These things matter, they are the sweet spot of contentment that allows us to live fully.
“I am excited to launch and grow the Three Sixty brand. I have spent many years stuck in a cycle of drowning out my inner voice, forcing myself into what ‘they’ said I ‘should’ be doing.

Nicola Rae-Wickham is founder of A Life More Inspired, a platform which exists to affirm and encourage women’s self-worth and help them to be more of themselves in their lives and businesses. Through a podcast, creative mentoring and merchandise, she helps women take the ideas that are on their hearts and in their minds and bring them to life.

Andrew Wamae studied at The University of Baroda graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (Hon’s) and a Bachelor of Arts Economics (Hon’s). After working with various law firms in India and Kenya he settled in the United Kingdom in 1999. Thereafter Andrew worked as a Producer in BBC World Service Africa/Middle East. In 2001 he joined the Halifax Bank of Scotland working in various roles including as Bank Manager and Business Manager. In 2004 together with Alison Harper he founded the Essential School of Painting. In 2012 he left the bank to concentrate on expanding The Essential School of Painting. A love of art and painting in particular has seen Andrew dedicate himself to TheESOP driving it forward into a new phase with the aim of providing the best possible art education, accessible and affordable with brilliant tutors and plenty of tutor contact time.

Medina King is the only London based Child wellness interior designer that creates personalised, colourful and fun bedrooms and playrooms for children.
What makes Medina different is the wellness aspect of the services that she offers: “A Wellness Expert looks at the design as a whole, making it practical as well as, safe and comfortable, enhancing the health of the children that use the space.

Meet one half of the duo behind the Black British Network Connect4Better
Which pays more than lip service to the diversity agenda in the UK. on the show we have Ayo Akande, who co-created the network to combat the barriers that are faced by those from the BME community to fully actualize their full potential. This was borne from After growing frustrated at the lack of support for Black African and Caribbeans in the workplace and in business across the UK, that they had encountered. According to Ayo “we exist to provide adequate support to increase chances of success and progress for BME individuals across the world of work and in business