web01.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:40:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Oyayone Foundation” https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/tags/oyayone%20foundation Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0400 Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale. en episodic Dynamic Diasporans Making Local and Global Impact Florence Amerley Adu Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale. no borderless mindset, pan-africanism, pan-african progress, dynamic diasporans, solutionscape and stretch salon, entreprenuership, argoadu llc, gbekembe, mmofra channel, culture, business, travel, glocal, global citizen, africa, ghana, new york, florence adu, florence amerley adu, leap transmedia productions, glocal citizens podcast, social entrepreneurship, beyond the return, year of return, tourism, expat living, diaspora, mindset hack, glocal speak, returnee, reparative justice Florence Amerley Adu florence@leaptransmedia.com Episode 265: Showing and Telling Herstory with Yaliwe Clarke, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Daisry Obal, Tiambi Simms and Aissata Sidibé N'dia https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/265 1487c5b4-14af-4c48-b6d1-17602d780a28 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0400 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 51:50 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! Every March since launching the podcast, we dedicate the month to women - it’s our Women's Herstory Month series. Closing out this year’s series are excerpts from conversations over the years with Glocal Citizens working to empower, develop, support and uplift women in Africa and beyond. We’ll hear social development scholar, author and facilitator, Yaliwe Clarke discussing her craft and how feminism has always been native to her being. Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo shares how her NGO, African Health Now inspired the innovative fourthphase box solving for the unspoken and overlooked needs of women postpartum. Daisry Obal tells us how her work in policy informed and inspired her to build the Oyayone Foundation dedicated to transforming Namibia one mother at a time. With a passion for building solutions that matter, Tiambi Simms, co-founder of social enterprise, SheFarms shares what her guiding question, “How are we going to feed 9.7 billion people by 2050?” means in practice. And Aissata Sidibé N'dia, president and founding member of Yelenba-Women in Action shares how their concrete actions approach has been impactful in supporting African women and girls to help themselves to improve their daily lives. In case you missed the full episodes, check out the links below. In these monumental times we are traversing, I leave you with these thoughts as you “listenandlearn: "You are the author of your own story. Write it boldly, rewrite it fearlessly, and inspire others with every chapter." Where to find Yaliwe? Episode 214 (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/yaliwe-clarke) Where to find Nana? Episodes 42 and 43 (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/nana-eyeson-akiwowo) Where to find Daisry? Episode 134 (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/daisry-obal) Where to find Tiambi? Episode 142 (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/tiambi-simms) Where to find Aissata? Episode 59 (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/aissata-sidibe-ndia) Special Guests: Aissata Sidibe N’Dia, Daisry Obal, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Tiambi Simms, and Yaliwe Clarke. Maliya Tours and Tranfers, yaliwe clarke, nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Daisry Obal, Tiambi Simms, Aissata Sidibé N'dia, Yelenba-Women in Action, SheFarms, Oyayone Foundation, African Health Now, fourthphase box, women's history month, herstories, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia productions, dynamic diasporans, borderless mindset Greetings Glocal Citizens!

Every March since launching the podcast, we dedicate the month to women - it’s our Women's Herstory Month series. Closing out this year’s series are excerpts from conversations over the years with Glocal Citizens working to empower, develop, support and uplift women in Africa and beyond.

We’ll hear social development scholar, author and facilitator, Yaliwe Clarke discussing her craft and how feminism has always been native to her being. Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo shares how her NGO, African Health Now inspired the innovative fourthphase box solving for the unspoken and overlooked needs of women postpartum. Daisry Obal tells us how her work in policy informed and inspired her to build the Oyayone Foundation dedicated to transforming Namibia one mother at a time. With a passion for building solutions that matter, Tiambi Simms, co-founder of social enterprise, SheFarms shares what her guiding question, “How are we going to feed 9.7 billion people by 2050?” means in practice. And Aissata Sidibé N'dia, president and founding member of Yelenba-Women in Action shares how their concrete actions approach has been impactful in supporting African women and girls to help themselves to improve their daily lives. In case you missed the full episodes, check out the links below.
In these monumental times we are traversing, I leave you with these thoughts as you “listenandlearn:
"You are the author of your own story. Write it boldly, rewrite it fearlessly, and inspire others with every chapter."

Where to find Yaliwe?
Episode 214

Where to find Nana?
Episodes 42 and 43

Where to find Daisry?
Episode 134

Where to find Tiambi?
Episode 142

Where to find Aissata?
Episode 59

Special Guests: Aissata Sidibe N’Dia, Daisry Obal, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Tiambi Simms, and Yaliwe Clarke.

]]> Greetings Glocal Citizens!

Every March since launching the podcast, we dedicate the month to women - it’s our Women's Herstory Month series. Closing out this year’s series are excerpts from conversations over the years with Glocal Citizens working to empower, develop, support and uplift women in Africa and beyond.

We’ll hear social development scholar, author and facilitator, Yaliwe Clarke discussing her craft and how feminism has always been native to her being. Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo shares how her NGO, African Health Now inspired the innovative fourthphase box solving for the unspoken and overlooked needs of women postpartum. Daisry Obal tells us how her work in policy informed and inspired her to build the Oyayone Foundation dedicated to transforming Namibia one mother at a time. With a passion for building solutions that matter, Tiambi Simms, co-founder of social enterprise, SheFarms shares what her guiding question, “How are we going to feed 9.7 billion people by 2050?” means in practice. And Aissata Sidibé N'dia, president and founding member of Yelenba-Women in Action shares how their concrete actions approach has been impactful in supporting African women and girls to help themselves to improve their daily lives. In case you missed the full episodes, check out the links below.
In these monumental times we are traversing, I leave you with these thoughts as you “listenandlearn:
"You are the author of your own story. Write it boldly, rewrite it fearlessly, and inspire others with every chapter."

Where to find Yaliwe?
Episode 214

Where to find Nana?
Episodes 42 and 43

Where to find Daisry?
Episode 134

Where to find Tiambi?
Episode 142

Where to find Aissata?
Episode 59

Special Guests: Aissata Sidibe N’Dia, Daisry Obal, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Tiambi Simms, and Yaliwe Clarke.

]]> Episode 134: Toward Unity of Purpose with Daisry Mathias https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/134 28c50e9d-2496-4d8b-a4af-6f6d94488600 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0400 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 53:44 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast you're in for a real treat. We're journeying to Namibia in Southern Africa by way of Morocco in North Africa where my guest and I recently met. As a Namibian patriot, Daisry Mathias was appointed Advisor to the President of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, in June 2015. In this role, she advises on policy and programme priorities to harness a Demographic Dividend and create an enabling environment for sustainable entrepreneurship in Namibia, under the overarching goals of poverty eradication, economic inclusion and shared prosperity. Daisry's professional experience ranges from public policy formulation, national development planning, programme monitoring and multi-stakeholder coordination. In her preceding role as an under 30 Chief Executive Officer of Team Namibia; she led a business support organisation promoting local industry by advocating the preferential consumption of Namibian goods and services. In 2019 she was selected as an Obama Leader, joining 200 young Africans in a Leadership Development Programme by former U.S. President Barack Obama. Fully committed in her passion for public service, Daisry is also Founder & Director, Oyayone Foundation which works with and for under-resourced single mothers in Namibia to break the cycle of poverty by addressing basic needs and tackling asset poverty toward achieving social mobility. The Foundation is “Building an enduring inheritance for our children’s children” by facilitating the ownership and management of economic assets by more Namibian women. Trust me when I say that this is a conversation that will inform, inspire and activate your spirit to connect with the Pan-African movements that are manifesting a new world! Where to find Daisry? www.daisrymathias.com (https://daisrymathias.com/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisry-mathias-daisrym-78102a1b/) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/daisrym) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSoRDJPLE6A) What's Dairsy reading? Things Fall Apart (https://smile.amazon.com/Things-Fall-Apart-Chinua-Achebe/dp/0385474547/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZNKK51C8JAZ1&keywords=things+fall+apart&qid=1658083960&s=books&sprefix=things+fall+%2Cstripbooks%2C112&sr=1-1) by Chinua Achebe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5OAjnG6rKo) The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (https://smile.amazon.com/Beautyful-Ones-Born-African-Writers/dp/0435905406/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U9DI7TS3NFIP&keywords=the+beautiful+ones+are+not+yet+born&qid=1658084610&s=books&sprefix=the+beautiful+ones+are+not+%2Cstripbooks%2C128&sr=1-1) by Ayi Kwei Armah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayi_Kwei_Armah) Other topics of interest: Namibian Languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovambo_language) AAA School of Advertising (https://www.aaaschool.ac.za) Team Namibia (https://teamnamibia.com) About the African Peer Review Mechanism Symposium (https://www.aprm-au.org/events/3rd-aprm-youth-symposium/) Green Hydrogen Namibia (https://gh2namibia.com) Visit Swakopmund (https://wanderingwheatleys.com/best-things-to-do-in-swakopmund-namibia/) Special Guest: Daisry Obal. Dr. Hage G. Geingob, entrepreneurship, ghana, accra, brooklyn, travel, morocco, #kech22, florence adu, florence amerley adu, african youth, single mothers, Demographic Dividend, daisry mathias, Presidential advisor, the republic of namibia, oyayone foundation, founder, obama leader, team namibia, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia, ghana, africa, leadership, green hydrogen, swakopmund, aaa school of advertising, chinua achebe, ayi kwei armah, things fall apart, Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast you're in for a real treat. We're journeying to Namibia in Southern Africa by way of Morocco in North Africa where my guest and I recently met. As a Namibian patriot, Daisry Mathias was appointed Advisor to the President of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, in June 2015. In this role, she advises on policy and programme priorities to harness a Demographic Dividend and create an enabling environment for sustainable entrepreneurship in Namibia, under the overarching goals of poverty eradication, economic inclusion and shared prosperity. Daisry's professional experience ranges from public policy formulation, national development planning, programme monitoring and multi-stakeholder coordination. In her preceding role as an under 30 Chief Executive Officer of Team Namibia; she led a business support organisation promoting local industry by advocating the preferential consumption of Namibian goods and services. In 2019 she was selected as an Obama Leader, joining 200 young Africans in a Leadership Development Programme by former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Fully committed in her passion for public service, Daisry is also Founder & Director, Oyayone Foundation which works with and for under-resourced single mothers in Namibia to break the cycle of poverty by addressing basic needs and tackling asset poverty toward achieving social mobility. The Foundation is “Building an enduring inheritance for our children’s children” by facilitating the ownership and management of economic assets by more Namibian women.

Trust me when I say that this is a conversation that will inform, inspire and activate your spirit to connect with the Pan-African movements that are manifesting a new world!

Where to find Daisry?
www.daisrymathias.com
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Dairsy reading?
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

Other topics of interest:
Namibian Languages
AAA School of Advertising
Team Namibia
About the African Peer Review Mechanism Symposium
Green Hydrogen Namibia
Visit Swakopmund

Special Guest: Daisry Obal.

]]> Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast you're in for a real treat. We're journeying to Namibia in Southern Africa by way of Morocco in North Africa where my guest and I recently met. As a Namibian patriot, Daisry Mathias was appointed Advisor to the President of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, in June 2015. In this role, she advises on policy and programme priorities to harness a Demographic Dividend and create an enabling environment for sustainable entrepreneurship in Namibia, under the overarching goals of poverty eradication, economic inclusion and shared prosperity. Daisry's professional experience ranges from public policy formulation, national development planning, programme monitoring and multi-stakeholder coordination. In her preceding role as an under 30 Chief Executive Officer of Team Namibia; she led a business support organisation promoting local industry by advocating the preferential consumption of Namibian goods and services. In 2019 she was selected as an Obama Leader, joining 200 young Africans in a Leadership Development Programme by former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Fully committed in her passion for public service, Daisry is also Founder & Director, Oyayone Foundation which works with and for under-resourced single mothers in Namibia to break the cycle of poverty by addressing basic needs and tackling asset poverty toward achieving social mobility. The Foundation is “Building an enduring inheritance for our children’s children” by facilitating the ownership and management of economic assets by more Namibian women.

Trust me when I say that this is a conversation that will inform, inspire and activate your spirit to connect with the Pan-African movements that are manifesting a new world!

Where to find Daisry?
www.daisrymathias.com
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Dairsy reading?
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

Other topics of interest:
Namibian Languages
AAA School of Advertising
Team Namibia
About the African Peer Review Mechanism Symposium
Green Hydrogen Namibia
Visit Swakopmund

Special Guest: Daisry Obal.

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