This episode of Who’s Behind the Desk, I chat to Igarashi Harumi, a Taiwanese content creator with nearly 150k followers who splits her year between Taiwan and Cape Town.

Igarashi shares her journey from journalism to content creation, how she built a loyal online community, and the practical realities of monetising content and effective engagement.

We explore cross-cultural living, personal branding, audience trust, and what it takes to turn storytelling into a sustainable career.

Recorded at Cape Town Office.

Follow Igarashi here:
https://www.instagram.com/lgarashii/reels/

https://www.tiktok.com/@lgarashii

https://stan.store/igarashi

https://www.youtube.com/@igarashiharumii

In this episode of Who’s Behind the Desk, I sit down with Jordan Levinson, a digital transformation and change management specialist working at the intersection of tech, data, and healthcare across Africa.

As part of Project Last Mile, Jordan helps design smarter ways to deliver critical healthcare supplies from medication to equipment, serving the continent’s most remote and under served communities with smart research and data application.

We talk about how Project Last Mile leverages Coca-Cola's expansive distribution network and supply chain expertise to enhance public health systems, ensuring life-saving medicines reach even the most isolated areas. A wonderful public/private partnership

Our conversation also covers the impact of recent funding cuts by DOGE to USAID, and Jordan shares her personal journey from the fast pace of New York City to finding purpose in Cape Town.

If you’re into innovation, global impact, or just love a good story about finding your calling, this one’s for you. If you'd like to learn more about the work Jordan does or perhaps chat to her about an upcoming project, reach out to her on LinkedIn.

As always, this episode was lovingly stitched together in the editing process by VoiceNote Productions and recorded in our coworking space, Cape Town Office.

In this episode I sat down with Mark Risk, Storyboard artist and lifelong creative to discuss and unpack this tricky subject.

The conversation is unscripted and explorative with no agenda or specific outcome in mind. Mark and I often have these chats in the office, usually over a morning coffee and sometimes with a fresh doughnut in hand, so we decided to take it to the studio.

The question of AI, the acceleration and enormously easy access does beg the question... What becomes of our creativity when everything is instantly delivered to us visually?

We don't know the answer or indeed the longterm effects that the daily use of AI applications will have, but it is a question worth asking and exploring.

I hope you enjoy this episode and as always, please share this far and wide to help us grow our audience.

Recorded at Cape Town Office: a vibrant and creative coworking community in Cape Town.

Edited and assembled by the team at Voicenote Productions.

Ever wonder what a Storyboard Artist is?

Cape Town Office, Founder Lizelle van Rhyn sits down with Mark Risk, a longtime member and Storyboard Artist.

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, and now based in Cape Town, Mark has become one of the foremost storyboard artists in South Africa, both for commercials and features. His spacial awareness background in architecture translates to a ready appreciation and understanding of camera angle and lensing, and interpretation of action sequences andstunts.

See more on Mark's work, here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3134497/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

This podcast was recorded and produced in our coworking space and lovingly edited by Voicenote.

https://voicenote.co.za/