It’s the eve of the Lunar New Year - the year of the Wood Snake, which in combination represent growth, flexibility, tolerance, wisdom, intuition, mystery, and cunningness with hints of furtiveness. These themes are a fitting context for this two-part conversation with Ghanaian-Brit, Akua Ofosuhene. Akua is an active and vocal plant medicine advocate and a psychedelic guide specializing in Psyliosibin (magic mushrooms) and Ayahuasca. Advising on intentions and integration she helps her clients get the most out of the psychedelic experience by teaching them other supporting healing modalities furthering healing and growth. She has spoken at the UK's largest psychedelic conference, Breaking Convention where she is also on the management board, Oxford University, UCL, Drug Science, Psychedelic Society UK, and at many other events and podcasts. As the founder of African Spiritual Practices Events and Retreats she will be facilitating her first Ayahuasca retreat in Ghana, with plants grown locally in Ghana, February 16-22, 2025. The podcast is no stranger to this sector, listen and learn more from mental health futurist, Sara Reed and stay tuned for an upcoming conversation with writer and professor, Dr. Nicholas Powers about his newest work, Black Psychedelic Revolution.

Where to find Akua and register for the upcoming retreat?
https://www.akuao.com/
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On TikTok
On X
On YouTube

What’s Akue reading?
Addiction Expert, Gabor Maté and his book Hold on to Your Kids
Diane Benscoter and Shoes of A Servant

What’s Akua watching?
The Real Housewives

Other topics of interest:
Who was Okomfa Anokye?
About Mampong
Gyetiase Village
Yaa Asantewaa War
A brief history of Denim Styles in the 1970s
About Camden Lock Market
About Carnaby Street
A Punk Perspective
Kirikou and the Sorceress Animated Film
Social-economic Impacts of Ebola in West Africa
EMDR - Rapid Eye Movement Therapy
EFT Tapping
African Perspectives on Igoba
Creator of eutaptics® FasterEFT™, Robert Gene Smith
Byron Katie and The Work
Ayahuasca Plant Science
The Ayahuasca Manifesto

Special Guest: Akua Ofosuhene.

It’s the eve of the Lunar New Year - the year of the Wood Snake, which in combination represent growth, flexibility, tolerance, wisdom, intuition, mystery, and cunningness with hints of furtiveness. These themes are a fitting context for this two-part conversation with Ghanaian-Brit, Akua Ofosuhene. Akua is an active and vocal plant medicine advocate and a psychedelic guide specializing in Psyliosibin (magic mushrooms) and Ayahuasca. Advising on intentions and integration she helps her clients get the most out of the psychedelic experience by teaching them other supporting healing modalities furthering healing and growth. She has spoken at the UK's largest psychedelic conference, Breaking Convention where she is also on the management board, Oxford University, UCL, Drug Science, Psychedelic Society UK, and at many other events and podcasts. As the founder of African Spiritual Practices Events and Retreats she will be facilitating her first Ayahuasca retreat in Ghana, with plants grown locally in Ghana, February 16-22, 2025. The podcast is no stranger to this sector, listen and learn more from mental health futurist, Sara Reed and stay tuned for an upcoming conversation with writer and professor, Dr. Nicholas Powers about his newest work, Black Psychedelic Revolution.

Where to find Akua and register for the upcoming retreat?
https://www.akuao.com/
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On TikTok
On X
On YouTube

What’s Akue reading?
Addiction Expert, Gabor Maté and his book Hold on to Your Kids
Diane Benscoter and Shoes of A Servant

What’s Akua watching?
The Real Housewives

Other topics of interest:
Who was Okomfa Anokye?
About Mampong
Gyetiase Village
Yaa Asantewaa War
A brief history of Denim Styles in the 1970s
About Camden Lock Market
About Carnaby Street
A Punk Perspective
Kirikou and the Sorceress Animated Film
Social-economic Impacts of Ebola in West Africa
EMDR - Rapid Eye Movement Therapy
EFT Tapping
African Perspectives on Igoba
Creator of eutaptics® FasterEFT™, Robert Gene Smith
Byron Katie and The Work
Ayahuasca Plant Science
The Ayahuasca Manifesto

Special Guest: Akua Ofosuhene.

This week on the podcast, our first guest, Cordie Aziz is back with fresh insights from her work and life changes since our first conversation. Cordie, now a mother of three is Founder and Executive Director of Enviornment360 an NGO turned social enterprise that has successfully executed sustainable waste management projects in urban and coastal communities in Greater Accra and Kumasi. Cordie’s achievements include creating of the first successful community plastic collection program in Accra; developing the first waste picker-run sorting center in West Africa; and successfully partnering with local and national agencies as the recycling coordinator for the city of Accra, to name a few. We recorded this conversation during the ramp up to their 10th anniversary celebration at their new headquarters. In this conversation, we catch up on how Cordie is designing her work-life balance with purpose, allowing her to continue to evolve as an entreprenuer while staying rooted in her new role as a working mother.

Where to find Cordie?
Check out the show notes from her first appearance.

Other topics of interest:
Jackson State University
GhScientific
About Australian Aid
What is Verra?

Special Guest: Cordie Aziz.

It’s Leo season and birthday week for both my guest and me as well as fellow Glocal Citizen and birthday celebrant Muhammida El Muhajir, which is how I was introduced to my guest, Ghanaian-born, Rita Kusi. Rita is a highly respected, passionate, and result-oriented strategic human resource professional with 20 years of experience as a generalist in the field. Currently, she serves as the CEO and Senior Consultant at Keeping 'U' Simply Intact (KUSI) Consulting, a boutique Digital HR and Marketing consulting firm providing HR and Marketing services to clients across Africa and the United States. She is also the Team Lead of Execution and Strategy for the Global Conference on Human Resources in Africa (GCHRA), a gathering of visionary human resource, business, and technology leaders to empower Africa’s workforce. Keep watching this space for collaborations around their upcoming conference happening October 24-25, 2024 in Accra, Ghana.
She has distinguished herself as a mentor, coach, and fervent advocate for professional development. Rita is on a mission to revolutionize the role of HR within organizations.

Her career highlights, including being the first black woman to hold a directorial position in a prominent U.S. condominium firm and recognition as one of the 50 most influential young Ghanaians in 2018, underscore her exceptional leadership. In 2023, she was voted and named “Ghana’s Most Respected CEO in HR Management” at the 6th Ghana Industry CEO Awards by The Business Executive.

Where to find Rita?
Visit http://kusiconsulting.com for more on their services.
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On X
On TikTok
On Youtube

What’s Rita reading?
Unbroken by Trishia Bailey

Other topics of interest:
Where is Bolgatanga “Bolga”, Ghana
Kumasi, Capital of Ghana’s Ashanti Region
Akan Proverbs
Ghana’s Labor Laws in Transition
About the US Diversiy Visa Lottery Program
Impact Hub Accra
iSpace Accra
Who is Gary V?
About Johnny C. Taylor

Special Guest: Rita Kusi.