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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 59 with Arash Sadi.

Today's guest comes from the Northern Virginia area where he is finishing up his MBA. He has more than half a decade of contribution to the field of management and finance. He is well versed in developing and trading variety of investment strategies using statistical models. 

Arash and I go way back to our undergraduate days at Virginia Tech where we were part of the Society of Individual Investors Club.

Our podcast conversations varied upon the Baháʼí faith, living in the present moment, his experience volunteering overseas, building a community and much more.

The Baháʼí Faith is a relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. It was established in the 19th century and was initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception.

“Investing in yourself is more than just acquiring stocks and bonds. When you make conscious decisions to invest in your financial wellbeing, health, career, and interests, then you are positioning yourself up for a greater chance at achieving success in the future.”

Everything we have is based upon pleasure, immediate joy, we are distracted by so many different pleasures. It has helped us to live a comfortable life. We can pursue more fundamental things in life. 

To find out more about the Baháʼí faith head to the following link:

https://www.bahai.org

Arash is currently in the job market seeking a business analyst role and he is a committed team player who is passionately motivating everyone around him to succeed. To follow his journey head to the following:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashsadi

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Today's guest comes from Cameroon where he has navigated the challenges of having to move into a new town where he had to apply data skills and technical knowledge transfer. He’s consistently finding new ways to approach problems and has been able to grow his digital skills immensely. 

He has 15 years of experience dabbling in the arena of digital marketing, networking, branding, crypto currencies trading, graphic designing, help desk technical services and much more.

Throughout the entire Africa continent there is a need to develop skills in a data age and wake up to the reality that the western world isn’t going to create the content that we need to learn in Africa. We need to develop it ourselves here to uplift to create our own data space.

97% of the stuff you aren’t learning in classes, it’s the skills that our self learned. You don’t need to stress, there are ways to guide and learn the different sectors that work. Data skills are the solution to the African problems and challenges, it can help to build the economies. If we can learn to manage the data, we can help the company make so much money by being an optimal data marketer with strategic search engine tactics. 

You don't need a job. You need financial freedom.

You are literally one click away from making a change in your life.

To connect and follow Tabe Rawling's journey head to the below resources:

https://taberawlings.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8FEA3KVNooHWaUqrAifOvQ

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 57 with Faisal Alvi.

Today's guest comes from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada where he is helping clients achieve their strategic project goals and objectives.

When you have a project charter, scope statement and objectives are some of the things that will help you in writing your statement of work. This document needs to have requirements or some level of scope. 

From a milestones project management perspective it doesn’t need to be complicated. There is the initializing the project where the teams are introduced. The planning stages (pre-requirements). The socializing of the requirements with stakeholders followed by the completing of the business requirement document that will be a good map for developers to be designed as a project service.

We highlighted upon the importance of meeting milestones to produce results. 

Your success will come when the outcome is producing a result oriented decision. Through the development cycle you can show the demos, so the testers or UAT folks can run their scenarios to put it into market.

Agile is used so much in the industry, as it’s a fundamental methodology. 

It was a blast to talk with Faisal and learn about the various project management skills that we can all implement in our lives.

To follow Faisal Alvi's journey head to LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/falvi

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 56 with Matheus Lemes Navarro 🇧🇷✈️

Today’s guest comes from Goiania, Goias, Brazil, where he is a pilot looking for new placement in the market. He has aircraft experience embraer phenom, cessna citation, beechcraft king air, piper seneca II, cessna, piper turbo, and much more.

Aviation was vanished from the world due to the Covid 19 spreader, as the airlines were the ones who transported the virus if you think about it. 

The pilots, ground crew, staff were all laid off. 

Most of the pilots around the world only know how to fly, as that is what they studied solely to become. 

The industry is coming back and things are looking upward with Brazilian & American companies purchasing new aircraft.

We need to be prepared for the future with staying up to date with courses, because once things go back to full capacity, we need to be up to speed with the new processes to align ourselves for when companies ramp up with hiring.

We touched upon the air ambulance services where he had to move Covid patients through transferring from one hospital to another. He provides the fuel, designates the crew members, the logistics, the entire planning from start to finish. 

Matheus must know every single detail such as if the runway will have lighting support, if there is inclement weather how should we handle situations, where is the alternate fuel source nearby.

During transoceanic flights there are regions where you have no communications, it's radio silent, it’s just you and your sidekick beside you, the passengers & the water below you. In these isolated regions such as rainforest, icy areas there are no radars.

“Those that are not seen are not remembered."

Did you know that Qatar Airways' global presence makes it one of the highest-paying airlines in the world for pilots. The Qatar Airways pilot salary is an average of between $173,975 to $187,844 per year. Not the norm for the rest of the industry.

It was a fun episode to get to know more about flying from a pilot's perspective.

To follow Matheus Lemes Navarro's journey head to the below link:

https://br.linkedin.com/in/matheus-navarro-0a9807106

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 55 with Stacy Pavlova 🇧🇬

Today's guest comes from Bulgaria where she is founder and CEO of Shimani Smart Skincare.

Shimani is a beauty entrepreneur & business consultant with over 17 years of experience in the cosmetic & pharma industry on the African, Asian & Middle Eastern markets.

SHIMANI products will help you to have smooth and beautiful skin without wrinkles. The innovative skincare has received 3 awards for innovation, nominated by Forbes for Most Innovative company, was featured in bloomberg for her companies' award winning violet cream that is cruelty free with no parabens.

SHIMANI has a great range of 100% natural skincare products, suitable for dry and sensitive skin or people with allergies, who cannot use anything else.

"Performing activities step by step is more sustainable. When you work for yourself the energy is on a different level. She reached a stage where she didn’t want others to tell her what to do. It’s not easy at all, you need to think about how will you cover your expenses."

We touched upon the importance of the frankincense from Ethiopia with SHIMANI's products.

Bulgaria is a country rich in nature and it helps to relax us with it's mountainous scenery.

Ideas are constantly flowing to Stacy's head when she is walking down the street, as her mind is free.

Hair loss is a post effect of Covid as over 25% of people are getting it. Stacy asked the formulator to make something natural and they were able to create one that contains over 12 oils. One key ingredient that was added was black cumin and after 3 months the hair loss stopped. 

Though you can't see it happening, every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin. So just in the time it took you to read this far, you've probably lost about 40,000 cells. That's almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of cells every year!

Tune into Stacy Pavlova's Youtube channel where she shares cosmetics, beauty business & lifestyle.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCO2QmujqIfhqOKQhX6vNbxg

To find out more about the Shimani products head to shamani.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-pavlova-b68907197

Distributor's enquiries and product samples contact [email protected]

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 54 with Ashraful Islam 🇧🇩

Today's guest is an artificial intelligence practitioner coming from Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh who is looking to immigrate to Canada.

We talked about his experience with IBM Watson chatbot, how it can save your processes a significant amount of time (manpower) with responding to questions. He was exposed to a 4 month long process and was constantly learning new things to teach it how to react to different situations. 

Ashraful has built android & flutter apps for several clients across the globe while using Git, GitHub & Azure services for both personal and remote collaboration. He also embarked upon the IELTS instructor role where he trained several students to achieve satisfactory band scores & led group discussion sessions for mental upbringing.

When he has spare time he is solving the connectivity problem between social organizations and creating a global platform for all seekers at Bondhon. They are constantly working to pursue one dream of creating a linking platform among all social organizations and help seekers. 

Through an app, called Charity they are able to get you help in the shortest possible time. You would post there about your own charitable works, if you are planning for giving charity to some people, but don't know the right place, you want to arrange events for offering charity, want to volunteer & much more.

In every society, there are people who want to give back to the poor and needy. If you are that person then download this app and help us to build a better world: 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.developer_ar.charity

“Information is everyone, what to search for we don’t know, this is the dilemma we are going through. We need to aggregate this information to make it more specific, when the social organizations are connected they can make a bigger impact.”

Ashraful Islam is on the quest of gaining practical & theoretical knowledge to expand his AI base.

To follow Ashraful Islam's journey head to the below links:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bondhon

https://m.facebook.com/AR.Ashraf.1936

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/ashraful-islam-78aa7a1a0

[email protected]

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 53 with the founder of Contapp, Giuseppe Milazzo 🗃️

Today's guest comes from Enfield, England, United Kingdom where he talks about startups, marketing, technology, innovating sustainability, his mobile app, how to streamline business card management and much more.

Our conversations touched upon Giuseppe's journey with building Contapp to organize business cards efficiently whilst helping to tackle the global issue of reducing paper waste.

Contapp was designed to scan, save and share. It is a smart and convenient business tool that helps users achieve maximum productivity whilst becoming more sustainable. This is more than just a business card managing app, it it’s your personal business hub.

This app was designed just the way the community wants and all while being completely bootstrapped; no marketing to over 500 users all over the world with a 96% rating on the appstores.

Business cards are expensive to print and design and cost a substantial amount of money & inefficiencies. Contapp is more than just a business card tool, it’s a community.

“Create a strong network to build relationships with people. Talk to the right people.”

This episode was filled with so many knowledge nuggets and everyone needs to go right now to the Google Play & IOS app stores to download the Contapp since it's an awesome free business card management tool making significant strides in the game.

To follow Giuseppe Milazzo’s journey head to the below links:

https://www.contapp.uk/

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/giuseppemilazzo

https://discord.com/invite/EDsvVNxp2p

https://www.instagram.com/contapp_uk/

https://linktr.ee/contapp

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 52!

Today's guest is coming from Nairobi, Kenya where she just finished her Masters in Mathematical Sciences, Computer Security and Big Data. 

Blockchain is secure. It’s being used worldwide, it’s a technology that we know isn’t going to end any time soon. Her passion is to keep the world safe. There are many injection attacks that occur where the input gets processed with malicious content. What can we do to prevent attacks?

Faith Kimongo has years of experience in troubleshooting server and network security-related issues, designing, implementing, and testing compliant network security systems and solutions, and maintaining security infrastructures. She has specialized in blockchain technology, website security, hyper ledger fabric, back-end creation, and delivering complex back-end and web applications using various programming languages and technologies.

Tune into the show to listen in to some of our discussions where we talked a little bit about deployment code, sanitizing of data, debugging before it goes into production, validating the user input, java programming, IBM award certifications and much more.

To follow Faith Kimongo's journey head to Linkedin where she has a significant interest in exploring the software security wheel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faith-k-3b6991120

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 51 🇯🇵 with Tanya Lulu!

Today's guest comes from Tokyo, Japan where she is a freelance writer and educator.

Tanya Lulu is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of LuluLand Post. Her vision is to create a reliable news source and blog by creative souls, who are dedicated to producing quality content for readers to enjoy.

LuluLand Post is dedicated to covering news, politics, business, culture, social justice & life experiences.

Some of our discussions were regarding the differences in education systems between the USA & Japan, what fueled her passion to learn new languages, how we are all capable of writing everyday, as you are texting or emailing, you are doing some form of writing everyday.

“The best people you can teach compassion and real world issues is children.”

With this generation, we have the internet, the children will see things no matter what, it’s better if adults now have a chance to explain it to them. You might as well control the narrative to show them this is reality, this is going to happen, this is a scary thing, let’s talk about what we can do to help people out in these situations.

Racial injustice talking in the schools it’s very telling, if a 5th grader in Tokyo, Japan can come up with the solution, why can’t we as adults come up with one.

We highlighted some of the challenges for being a freelance writer, how language learners focus too much on language tenses and not speaking in front of others. 

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To follow Tanya's journey head to the following links:

https://www.lululandpost.com/

https://twitter.com/lululandpost

https://www.instagram.com/iamtanyalulu/

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Welcome to the Big Kat Lounge Podcast Episode 50 with Malak Abuthraa 🇵🇸

Today's coming from the Palestinian Authority where she works as a software developer intern at Project Rails. Her passion is solving difficult problems and developing solutions where she learns new technologies, and concepts to put to good use.

Our conversations touched upon the importance of learning a programming language, preparing yourself for a technical interview, mentorship, analyzing big data, visualization, limitations in excel when it comes to data analysis, troubleshooting, grad projects and much more.

Malak provided us with some valuable insights when it comes to the job hunting process, the need to be exposed to real life simulations to mimic the projects you would encounter in the workforce.

The preparation leading up to the technical interviews is crucial to ensure your hard work & efforts are a success. 

Cracking the Technical Interview book is a must have, as it provides you with the technical aspects that you need to succeed.

A lot of the focus for new grads and entry level students is on how you approach situations and it's not in regards to the specific writing of the code itself, but the process behind your method. 

Malak is open for international opportunities, so please connect with her on LinkedIn https://ps.linkedin.com/in/malak-abuthraa if you know of any exciting positions available. 

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