Wapu Podcast

Wapu podcast’s guests for episode #079 is @wenshow and @ferginobrownbill🦎 Both are parliament members of Curaçao and Wapu fans 😛 This episode was really dynamic, because the four of us could actually share our opinions about politics promises that “never comes true”, the way the system operates (vriendjes politiek) and about the legalization of marihuana 🦎 We really suggest you to watch this episode, because these two individuals actually share the same mentality that Manuel and Boris have for Curaçao, which is to make Curaçao one of the best countries in the world! 💚

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #078 is Rolando Adreana also known as Rasta Bals 🦎 Manuel saw him at the traffic light of Biesheuvel and immediately thought about having him as a guest. He started selling candies/gum when he was 12 years old. He is the most hard working person that we know. After a lot of years, he diversified his stock of products. Nowadays, he has deals with our friends of @digicelcuracao and @loversglobal 🦎 In this epsiode, he will share his motivation, his way of thinking and how he makes money 👌🏽

Wapu podcast’s guests for episode #077 are the guys from @pelikulastudiosinternational 🦎 @directormdalnoot and @ruv.isenia were the OG’s of this amazing and creative group. They started by making content for small companies on Curaçao. After meeting their mentor in the USA 🇺🇸, they gained enough knowledge and skills to build a better quality service provider company. In the meanwhile they met @peterson_octavius, which is the best drone pilot on Curaçao 🤖 In this episode we will talk about their story, the way they manage to deliver award-winning materials and about how @ruv.isenia designed the @curacao_football new uniform. We manage to get the price list for their services 🤣👀🤫  PD: they are the ones that filmed the commercial of Porsche during pandemic.

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #076 is Riangelo Esclodina from @korswill and @korswill.customs 🦎 Riangelo is a local entrepreneur and artist/designer. He started his passion and love for sneakers in school, where he used to sell some pairs 🦎. He managed to add up other services like for example customizing, trade and repair of sneakers 👌🏽. Furthermore, he customized Manuel and Boris’ sneakers à la Wapu 🦎 In this episode, we will talk about the sneaker culture, the way he managed to become an entrepreneur and many more things! Quick fact about him: he is only 23 years old 🤯

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Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #075 is @levi.silvanie🦎 Levi is an artist: music maker, storyteller, writer and creative entrepreneur. He was recently in the ABC islands to present the results of his most recent work 🦎 Simultaneously, he was creating more awareness on the importance of mental health!  In this episode, we will talk about his music career, how to improve the music industry in the islands and how he sells his music. We will also talk about the importance of mental health 👌🏽 PD: he told us a story about losing Fl 40,000 😰

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #074 is Khalid Kemp 🦎 We consider this guy as a mastermind and you will know why in the episode. Khalid is the owner of Mosa and co-owner of Caña 🍸🍝  In one moment in time, he used to be the (co)owner of four restuarants at the same time 🤯 He started his career as front office supervisor at Mandarin Oriental Hotels after that he became B&F director of Renaissance Curaçao and then General Manager of Madero Ocean club 🤯 In this episode we will talk about how he managed to develop the share dining experience and how does he manage to be owner of so many restaurants. We will talk about his motto which is “delivering top quality experiences” 👌🏽Owh and ofcourse how much money does he make 🤪💰

Goolgle Scholar Mariano Heyden: 

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mariano+heyden&oq=mariano+he 

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #073 is @djoeniemandingo 🦎Dr. Mariano (Pitòsh) is Associate Professor (Yu di Kòrsou) of Strategy & International Business at the Monash Business School in AUSTRALIA 🐨 He also serves as Director of the PhD Program in the Department of Management. He graduated from UoC and Eramus University and has over 15 years of teaching and facilitation experience in both industry and academia 🤯 In this episode we will talk about how to why he chose Australia, how does a day-to-day look like as a PhD Professor look like and how does he really make money 💰

Ennia BVZ plus and Studie Plan link: https://www.ennia.com/verzekeringen/particulier/ Wapu podcast’s guests for episode #072 is Sayonara Tiel and Shairlon Balentina 🦎 These two individuals will give us very important information about insurances… information that we do not get at school 🥵 Both of them work in the sales department of Ennia, this means that they know their stuff 😬 They will give us information that will somewhat relieve the stress of our lives. In addition, we will talk about how to know your customers in order to sell them the right products/services and create a win-win situation 🎉

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #071 is Shurendy Pieter and Andy Loefstok 👨🏾‍🚒 Shurendy is currently a firefighter officer. Becoming a firefighter was not in his plans, because he studied civil engineering and work in this industry too! On a certain point in his life, he saw a vancancy to become a firefighter and applied for it 👊🏽 After some time, he managed to become a firefighter with high rank! He does not work in the field, but he creates the strategies on how to tackle the area on fire 🔥 On the other hand, Andy has almost 40 year of experience. He started as militar and then specialized himself as a firefighter. He was operationally more involved than Shurandy. This year will be his last year as he is going on retirement. In this episode, we talked about being a firefighter on Curaçao, the equipment and methods that they use in the workfield and of course the “monetario compensation” a noobie can get 👀

Wapu podcast’s guest for episode #070 is William Santiago 😎 William has a very wide knowledge about the cryptocurrency 🥵 The first time he heard about Bitcoin was when he was in the dark web 👻 Around that time, he bought 1000$ worth of bitcoin which could have been millions nowadays 😬 In addition, we have a Finance Professor at the University of Curaçao, Mr. Edirel Susanna, which will help us in the discussion of “fiat currency vs cryptocurrency” 💰