web02.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:46:38 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Problem Solver” https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/tags/problem%20solver Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:30:00 -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 286: Reloading Life in Relocation and Retirement with Serene Lewis Lyles https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/286 02cc26f6-bcee-475a-bb9a-5a55642e4c11 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:30:00 -0400 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 1:08:10 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the predecessor to streaming content), the Internet of Things (now known as “Smart tech”), and high-design vape tech (much to her embarrassment). Fun fact, our paths crossed while we were both based in New York City in the aughts, and we share Colorado and Northern California as places we’ve also called home. After living and working in the States and the UK, she finished her career in San Francisco, as a Senior Director at Meta, leading the content design team behind Facebook and Instagram’s billion-dollar ads business. At Meta, she was also a leader of the employee resource group Black@ Design and founder of the Black@ Content Design Leads group. Since retiring last year, She has now turned her experience of leading people in solving hard problems into a career coaching people through the challenging process of planning for retirement. Her super powers as a coach are being comfortable talking about money, being excited about other people’s dreams, and creating systems that drive action. Where to find Serene? serenelewis.coach (https://serenelewis.coach/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/serenelewis/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/serenelewis/) On the Experts & Expats Podcast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433741/episodes/16857573) What’s Serene reading and listening to? A History of the World in Six Glasses (https://tomstandage.wordpress.com) by Tom Standage Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (https://www.oliverburkeman.com/fourthousandweeks) by Oliver Burkeman Portuguese Lab Podcast (https://www.portugueselab.com/plp) Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend (https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend) Other topics of interest: About Golden Visa Programs (https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa-portugal/) More about international living in Uruguay (https://internationalliving.com/countries/uruguay/) San Francisco’s de Young Art Museum (https://www.famsf.org/visit/de-young) About the Forty Acres and a Mule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule) Blue Man Group (https://www.blueman.com) About Serene’s Mindset Hack @ 56:43 Special Guest: Serene Lewis Lyles. serene lewis lyles, retirement coach, portugal, US, problem solver, glocal citizens podast, dynamic diasporans, borderless mindset, pan-african progress, leap transmedia productions, florence adu, florence amerley adu, brooklyn, accra, denver, Africa, business, migration, golden visa, blA History of the World in Six Glasses, ue man group, meta, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, cliff bar Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the predecessor to streaming content), the Internet of Things (now known as “Smart tech”), and high-design vape tech (much to her embarrassment).

Fun fact, our paths crossed while we were both based in New York City in the aughts, and we share Colorado and Northern California as places we’ve also called home. After living and working in the States and the UK, she finished her career in San Francisco, as a Senior Director at Meta, leading the content design team behind Facebook and Instagram’s billion-dollar ads business. At Meta, she was also a leader of the employee resource group Black@ Design and founder of the Black@ Content Design Leads group.

Since retiring last year, She has now turned her experience of leading people in solving hard problems into a career coaching people through the challenging process of planning for retirement. Her super powers as a coach are being comfortable talking about money, being excited about other people’s dreams, and creating systems that drive action.

Where to find Serene?
serenelewis.coach
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On the Experts & Expats Podcast

What’s Serene reading and listening to?
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Portuguese Lab Podcast
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

Other topics of interest:
About Golden Visa Programs
More about international living in Uruguay
San Francisco’s de Young Art Museum
About the Forty Acres and a Mule
Blue Man Group
About Serene’s Mindset Hack @ 56:43

Special Guest: Serene Lewis Lyles.

]]> Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the predecessor to streaming content), the Internet of Things (now known as “Smart tech”), and high-design vape tech (much to her embarrassment).

Fun fact, our paths crossed while we were both based in New York City in the aughts, and we share Colorado and Northern California as places we’ve also called home. After living and working in the States and the UK, she finished her career in San Francisco, as a Senior Director at Meta, leading the content design team behind Facebook and Instagram’s billion-dollar ads business. At Meta, she was also a leader of the employee resource group Black@ Design and founder of the Black@ Content Design Leads group.

Since retiring last year, She has now turned her experience of leading people in solving hard problems into a career coaching people through the challenging process of planning for retirement. Her super powers as a coach are being comfortable talking about money, being excited about other people’s dreams, and creating systems that drive action.

Where to find Serene?
serenelewis.coach
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On the Experts & Expats Podcast

What’s Serene reading and listening to?
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Portuguese Lab Podcast
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

Other topics of interest:
About Golden Visa Programs
More about international living in Uruguay
San Francisco’s de Young Art Museum
About the Forty Acres and a Mule
Blue Man Group
About Serene’s Mindset Hack @ 56:43

Special Guest: Serene Lewis Lyles.

]]> Episode 121: A Revolution of Solutions with Luther Lawoyin https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/121 1d6a26e0-2069-4a08-a7e6-35d1e181ce1f Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0400 Florence Amerley Adu full Florence Amerley Adu 42:33 no Greetings Glocal Citizens! As many struggle with increasing food prices and potential shortages, many Africans, particularly urban dwellers have been at the whim of markets and failed policies. As a tried and true problem solver, my guest for the week, Luther Lawoyin, is keen on simple solutions. Born and raised in Nigeria, he is an entrepreneur with a passion for social impact. He is leveraging technology to build innovative business models and platforms to serve the next one billion people in Africa's burgeoning digital economy. He is the founder and CEO of Pricepally, a sharing economy e-commerce platform enabling people to shop for food and daily essentials together so they can leverage their collective bargaining power buying in bulk. Luther has built four revenue-generating businesses from the ground up including passjamb.com.ng (http://passjamb.com.ng/) an exam prep platform and Lucy.ng (https://lucy.ng/), a trusted platform supplying B2C and B2B branded merchandise, Lucy has sold over a million products with over a million USD in sales. Listen in and find out the mechanics of pushing the art and science of problem solving forward on an everyday basis. Where to find Luther? On Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawwyy/?originalSubdomain=ng) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lawwyy.xyz/?hl=en) On Twitter (https://twitter.com/PricePally) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lawoyinl) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/lutherlawoyin/featured0) What's Luther reading? 12 Rules for Life (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B078C6C7QS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_JKHJ8FSSZNPKM8GMDCZC&tag=glocalcitiz09-20) by Jordan Peterson Animal Farm (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0849MSLRX&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_6WF8EXS7VBFAGGC2JFAD&tag=glocalcitiz09-20) by George Orwell Other topics of Interest: Oyo State (https://old.oyostate.gov.ng/) Maryland in Lagos (https://www.propertypro.ng/guide/areas/maryland-ikeja-lagos/) Naira Marley x Young Jonn - Mafo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhO6b1XD2s) Special Guest: Luther Lawoyin. luther lawoyin, pricepally, serial entrepreneur, problem solver, solutions specialist, Nigeria, glocal citizens podcast, leap transmedia, florence adu, florence amerley adu, global citizen, travel, business, expat, africa, ghana, brooklyn, MIT, oyo state, Naira marley, young john, mafo, animal farm, george orwell, 12 rules for life, jordan peterson, lucy.ng, passjamb, tony elumelo foundation, digital economy, farming, masschallenge switzerland, sosv mox accelerator, Fellow Alibaba efounders fellowship, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Greetings Glocal Citizens!
As many struggle with increasing food prices and potential shortages, many Africans, particularly urban dwellers have been at the whim of markets and failed policies. As a tried and true problem solver, my guest for the week, Luther Lawoyin, is keen on simple solutions. Born and raised in Nigeria, he is an entrepreneur with a passion for social impact. He is leveraging technology to build innovative business models and platforms to serve the next one billion people in Africa's burgeoning digital economy. He is the founder and CEO of Pricepally, a sharing economy e-commerce platform enabling people to shop for food and daily essentials together so they can leverage their collective bargaining power buying in bulk.

Luther has built four revenue-generating businesses from the ground up including passjamb.com.ng (http://passjamb.com.ng/) an exam prep platform and Lucy.ng, a trusted platform supplying B2C and B2B branded merchandise, Lucy has sold over a million products with over a million USD in sales.

Listen in and find out the mechanics of pushing the art and science of problem solving forward on an everyday basis.

Where to find Luther?
On Linkedin
On Instagram
On Twitter
On Facebook
On YouTube

What's Luther reading?
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Other topics of Interest:
Oyo State
Maryland in Lagos
Naira Marley x Young Jonn - Mafo

Special Guest: Luther Lawoyin.

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As many struggle with increasing food prices and potential shortages, many Africans, particularly urban dwellers have been at the whim of markets and failed policies. As a tried and true problem solver, my guest for the week, Luther Lawoyin, is keen on simple solutions. Born and raised in Nigeria, he is an entrepreneur with a passion for social impact. He is leveraging technology to build innovative business models and platforms to serve the next one billion people in Africa's burgeoning digital economy. He is the founder and CEO of Pricepally, a sharing economy e-commerce platform enabling people to shop for food and daily essentials together so they can leverage their collective bargaining power buying in bulk.

Luther has built four revenue-generating businesses from the ground up including passjamb.com.ng (http://passjamb.com.ng/) an exam prep platform and Lucy.ng, a trusted platform supplying B2C and B2B branded merchandise, Lucy has sold over a million products with over a million USD in sales.

Listen in and find out the mechanics of pushing the art and science of problem solving forward on an everyday basis.

Where to find Luther?
On Linkedin
On Instagram
On Twitter
On Facebook
On YouTube

What's Luther reading?
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Other topics of Interest:
Oyo State
Maryland in Lagos
Naira Marley x Young Jonn - Mafo

Special Guest: Luther Lawoyin.

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