Comeback Nation

Entrepreneurial duo Niyo Enterprise join me to talk about the highs and lows of building a start-up company.

Aaisha Knights joins us to talk about how being made redundant was a blow to her identity but shares how she bounced back and reshaped her perspectives on career and life.

In honour of Black History Month, I invited five women across different fields onto my podcast for a candid discussion on black women in the workplace. We peel back the layers of real-life experiences to uncover some tangible solutions that organisations can implement to help achieve genuine cultural transformation that fosters inclusion. A special thank you to my guests Ama Afrifa-Tchie FRSA, Frances Mensah Williams CBE FRSA, Nneka Orji, Elizabeth Ajayi and Dr Avril Gabriel, who shared career advice, spoke on personal experiences and gave their own recommendations on how things can be made better. Some of these included the importance of establishing and tracking real metrics to drive measurable outcomes, as well as education, reverse BAME mentoring and cultivating psychological safety.

When we think about bouncing back from setbacks, disappointments and failures it can be easy to assume that it only means getting straight back into the action. However, this tactic often proves ineffective in the long-term if we don't take the necessary time to recover well. Even athletes incorporate recovery into their training plan in order to reap the full benefits of their training sessions. In this episode, I speak about the importance of taking any amount of time to recover after failures or setbacks and key things to consider in order to make it a reality.

Bryan D'Souza, Strategic Alliance Lead at blockchain firm R3, came to speak to me about how he navigated education and career whilst dealing with dyslexia. His inspiring story gives insight into what it's really like to have dyslexia as he shares how he has used it to his advantage, to strengthen him and push himself outside his comfort zone.

Kike Oniwinde, multi-talented Founder & CEO of the BYP Network with over 40,000 members spoke to me about her journey in training to represent GB at the Olympics. She experienced multiple injuries in the process and everything seemed to be going wrong but the experience only turned out to be preparation for something bigger to come. BYP Network is a platform that connects black professionals with each other and corporations. The BYP Network recently raised over £850,000 ($1.1m) in an equity crowdfund through Seedrs, and has featured in major publications such as, Forbes, BBC, Business Insider and Roc Nation.

Michael Tabirade, Executive Coach at Masteri Group, Life Coach and Author of 'The Power of Goals' visited my podcast to talk about a difficult year in his life that forced him to be still and look carefully at his inner life to ask himself some difficult questions. This sets him on a totally new path.

Hira Ali speaks about having to reinvent herself in the UK after working in Dubai and how she built her brand from scratch in the face of cultural differences and obstacles to now become a sought-after writer, speaker and coach.

In the wake of the recent murder of George Floyd and global Black Lives Matter protests, I thought it apt to talk about ways black people can bounce back from the burden of negative stereotypes and how susceptible they are to believing them themselves.

From failed food start-up and failed tech start-up to successful online business. Listen to podcast episode #4, "Back From Square One" with my guests Charlene and Tony Chance, a husband and wife entrepreneurial duo from London. They share their story of the ups and downs they've encountered in business and how they've come back from them using their '3Rs of failure.' Now living in Bali they run their 6-figure business from their laptops, anywhere in the world.

In this episode of Comeback Nation, HR consultant and Coach Michelle Raymond, Founder of The People's Partner http://www.thepeoplespartner.com/ shares a setback she experienced when charging clients for her services, but how she bounced back with some learnings around how to approach the balance between pricing and relationship management.

Can you imagine being rejected by the experts themselves? Learn from Temi Kamson, Founder of social enterprise, GT Scholars (www.gtscholars.org) as she explains how opinion doesn't equal truth or fact and what she did when she faced obstacles in getting funding.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Comeback Nation (CN) Podcast where we believe that how we deal with failure determines our success. In this first episode, I share what CN is all about, why I started it and lessons from my own journey. I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments and questions so feel free to drop an email at info@juntosgroup.com