The School of Business Makers by Christian Kitumaini

In this episode, we cover different conversations about entrepreneurship, mental health, and self-love with Yvanie Kamikazi.

Topics include:

- Growing up as a child, what was Yvanie dreams

- Her concept of love and what it means in her everyday life.

- Can young people can deal with mental health issues during the pandemic

- How to love yourself more in a changing society lead by social media and fake news.

- Challenges running her business during a pandemic and plan for growth.

In this episode, we cover different conversations about The Entrepreneurship Infrastructure in Angola with Rui Matata.

Topics include:

- The Inception of the Africa Business Focus platform and the goals it envisioning to achieve.

- The booming sectors for investment and business growth in Angola.

- Different gaps and challenges for businesses and how entrepreneurs and the private sector are filling them.

- Rules, regulations, and incentives for entrepreneurs and investors.

- Different advice on how to start and grow a business in the Angolan market which is very connected and open for business.

In this episode, we cover different conversations on How can SMEs adapt to change during and after COVID 19 with Henri Nyakarundi.

Topics include:

- How Henri quits his 9 to 5 job in the USA to build his startup on the African continent.

-  Learnings acquired from adapting to change during the corona pandemic.

-  How to build a business model and pivoting to survive.

-  How shifting online is important in the long run for businesses.

-  Advises to entrepreneurs and business owners who are struggling to be back fully to operation.

In this episode, we cover different conversations on how to be driven by hope during a pandemic.

Topics include:

- The impact of COVID on people's lives and how hope has been a key driver to help people still be on their feet.

- With the economic recoveries, how SMEs are progressively going back with hope to go back to normalcy.

- How hope helped humans survived thousands of years back.

- What is next with the pandemic and for entrepreneurs.

In this episode, we cover different conversations on Being an entrepreneur during a pandemic with Noella Rutayisire.

Topics include:

- Challenges young entrepreneurs are facing during this pandemic

- How to be on top of your supplies and clients demand with limited cargo flights coming in the country.

- Noella entrepreneurship journey on how she ended up being an entrepreneur and her passion for women empowerment.

- Her long term plan to open her factory.

- Different tips and advice to young entrepreneurs who are still afraid to start their ventures.

In this episode, we cover different conversations on How can T&H businesses prepare for re-opening during a pandemic with Carmen Nibigira, Ph.D.

Topics include:

- With the re-opening of local tourism, what it means for the local businesses operating in the T&H industry.

- What are the measures businesses need to put in place to ensure the safety of their clients as well as their own staff?

- With the focus on domestic traveling, what are the products that small businesses can put in place to serve local tourists?

- What are the learnings African tourism can learn from this pandemic to improve the local tourism consumption?

- What are the support and infrastructure that different governments in the region can put in place to ensure affected businesses bounce back?

- What is the future of the T&H Industry post COVID-19?

In this episode, we cover different conversations on How technology is impacting our lives during COVID Pandemic with Emile Kinuma. Topics include:

- Different insights and lessons learned acquired building Mobicash and now leading Ushauri.

-  How technology is playing a bigger role in Healthcare fighting COVID 19 in Rwanda and making people's lives easier.

- The future of the healthcare sector in Rwanda and how Technology is playing a role in that and what are potential digital solutions to be considered to improve.

- How our community can embrace technology as a means of improving daily lives.

- How to make technology affordable to end consumers for small businesses to better serve their customers.

- How online Banking, cashless transaction, and going digital is playing a bigger role now and what companies can improve to put their customers need and want.

In this episode, we cover different conversations on The Future of Africa Digital Economy with Roselyne Wanjiru.

Topics include:

- Different insights on cryptocurrency, blockchain, etc.

- Why it is important for us to educate ourselves about Digital Currency and what is the risk to be aware of for safety measures?

- Is Africa moving at the right pace when it comes to Digitalizing our systems and improves our technologies or not?

- The Digital Economy Initiative for Africa (DE4A) aims to ensure every individual, businesses, and governments in Africa to go digital by 2030 in support of African Union strategy of “Digital Transformation strategy for Africa”  & the World Bank has invested 25$ billion USD till 2030.

- What are the opportunities someone can people can tap into out there for investment purposes of digital technologies?

In this episode, we cover different conversations on What is next!.

Topics include:

- How we look at life differently after this pandemic.

- How to learn to live with the Virus

- What business opportunities to tap into

- How to build your competitive advantage for next opportunities

In this episode, we cover different conversations on how to build your skills during the pandemic crisis with Iris Irumva.

Topics include:

- How she forged her way up into the Business world and in the human resources industry.

-  What skills to build and where to get resources from during this corona crisis.

- The future of work with remote management.

- How to tackle challenges from working from home and tips to increase your productivity.