The RM Show

Tamuna Museridze is the founder of Vedzeb “I am searching” - an organisation helping people search for their missing relatives. It has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook. Tamuna helped to uncover a shocking baby trafficking scandal involving thousands of babies stolen at birth that was taking place in Georgia over decades. Tamuna has so far helped more than 700 people reunite in emotional scenes with their lost parents. But she has yet to find her own biological family.

Mariam Chachia is a Georgian documentary filmmaker, whose latest movie Magic Mountain made together with her partner Nik Voight won international recognition but was censored in Georgia. Mariam is both a tuberculosis and cancer survivor. We talk about her experience, and about the challenges of being a female documentary filmmaker in Georgia. 

Maka Chkhaidze is an actress, social psychologist and the founder of an inclusive dance company Inform. Her organisation opens the stage for people with disabilities to perform alongside able bodied dancers. Maka talks about how she combined her inner calling to help others with her passion for theatre, breaking social taboos in her home country of Georgia.

This podcast is about women who have discovered their true calling and I am one of them! I explain who I am and why I decided to launch this podcast.

Marika Kandelaki, is a Georgian born American artist, sculptor & designer, co-founder of Untitled in Motion. This brand offers clothing made out of fabrics with colourful prints and designs created by Marika. There is so much baldness, fun and joy! We dive into Marika's story of leaving her native Georgia at the age of 16 for the USA, learning the nitty-gritty of the fashion design industry in New York, and the importance of being true to herself in the making of her art.

Audrey Bogini has given up her career as an engineer at the European Space Launch to pursue her true passion - horse riding. She set up her company @caucasusexpedition  offering horse riding tours in Tusheti, a remote mountanous region in northeast Georgia. Audrey became a mother for the first time at the age of 44, and is now working to set up a pony club for kids. We talk about Audrey’s incredible journey of living her life’s true calling.

Betsy Haskell is a legendary lady who set up the very first private hotel in the 1990's gangster ridden Tbilisi. Today, the Georgian capital is among the safest European cities with hotels practically in every corner. But when Betsy first came to war-torn Georgia, there were simply no safe places to stay. Betsy remembers meeting the first president of independent Georgia who, as she said, did not really like her. We dive into the scenes straight from the 1990s gansta films.