Podcasts about nest collective

Lead 2025: 8 Week Mens Program (starts March 12th) - https://www.thechrisgeisler.com/lead2025Bursary Application - (announced March 5th) https://forms.gle/nGc7ZKvH8RYqcCYf7For the past 15 years, Sam has been breathing new life into folk arts in the UK—reimagining its sights, sounds, and traditions through his projects and live shows. He serves a significant role in connecting people to the land through his art. He's also a passionate advocate for a greener future, co-founding Music Declares Emergency and serving on the board of the Featured Artist Coalition, both pushing to make the UK music industry Net Zero.As the founder and director of The Nest Collective, he creates beautiful experiences that bring people together through music, nature, and community—think intimate pilgrimages and deep, soulful nature immersions. And last year, he added “author” to his list of creative ventures with The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird, a book full of rich stories and personal reflections, many of which he'll be sharing with us today.Through music, storytelling, and time spent in nature, Sam has formed deep bonds with The Nightingale, The Turtle Dove, and The Salmon—three incredible creatures that continue to shape his relationship with the wild.BUY TICKETS ▶ https://www.singingwithnightingales.c...IG ▶   / samleesong  WEBSITE ▶ https://samleesong.co.uk/FB ▶   / samleefolk   ====== CHRIS GEISLER ======WEBSITE ▶ http://thechrisgeisler.com/MENS Community ▶ https://bit.ly/4gIG6Vw====== PODCAST ======Support The Podcast:   / thechrisgeisler  Telegram: https://t.me/thechrisgeislerpodcast

The nine-time Tony Award nominee Bartlett Sher has this year directed Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut and a London revival of Cole Porter's 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate. Kiss Me, Kate is based upon Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, so how palatable is this controversial musical to a 21st century audience?Also, Wanderings is a new play that delves into the lives of a transgender son and his mother who is living with dementia, and Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County comes to Belvoir St.

The Nest Collective - Laura Ramsay and Chelsea Hamilton outline the work of the Nest Collective, which works alongside social workers to ensure families are supported in their parenting journey. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector and activist, Sam Lee, plays a unique role in the British music scene, breaking boundaries between traditional and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated. Sam's voice has helped challenge what old songs hold for us today. His latest critically acclaimed album Songdreaming comes out today, of which Sam has said:“I wanted to sing a vision of what a conversation between us and the land could be, to restore and inspire a practice of songful immersion in nature that brings with it healing, something we need now more than ever."Sam's debut novel The Nightingale, notes on a songbird richly captivates these highly endangered birds and their place in culture, folklore, music and literature throughout the millennia. Sam is the founder of The Nest Collective, holding vibrant annual gatherings including a diverse range of music events across the UK, featuring outstanding emerging and established folk, world and roots artists from around the globe.  Perhaps most notable are his Singing With Nightingales gatherings in spring, where you can step silently into the night and listen as the finest musicians in the land duet with the sweet song of the ever more endangered nightingale.  Sam's also a regular radio and TV broadcaster, film soundtrack composer and has provided songs for several major feature films. As a change-maker in the music industry, he is a co-founder of Music Declares Emergency, FAC board member and the pioneering artist to work with leading environmental charity Earthpercent to whom a portion of proceeds of the current album will be donated.If you'd like to learn more about our work at Rooted Healing, you can head to rootedhealing.org and join us at our ceremonial nature-led gatherings or online courses in animistic deep ecology.  We have a very special gathering coming up this summer in Eryri, North Wales, called Ancestral, where you can join us and embody ancestral village life, full of songs, ancient stories, craft and ceremonies, all to bring us closer to our early ancestors and our role for the next generations to come, to the land and to our more-than-human kin.  The music in this episode is from Sam Lee and Bonnie Medicine.Support the show

This episode brings you ‘Reconsidering Efficiency as a Priority' – the Provocation by Sunny Dolat, at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023: De-Fashioning Education – A Critical Thinking and Making Conference in Berlin.Sunny Dolat is a cultural producer, creative director, and fashion curator. As the co-founder of the Nest Collective, he actively promotes art and culture in Kenya. He challenges social and political issues and is particularly concerned in his work with Africa's place in global and cultural debates and dialogues. Editors: Franziska Schreiber & Renate Stauss Sound editor: Moritz BaillyMusic by: Johannes von Weizsäcker Graphic by: Studio Regular

#49: With a background in neonatal ICU, guest Dr. Lilly Hubschman Shahar shares practical tips for new breastfeeding mothers. Lilly is passionate about holistic and equitable access to healthcare. Get her tips surrounding a preventive model of lactation care and save yourself the frustration.   Explore the Nest Collective website here.   Connect with Lilly on LinkedIn here.   Follow Patty Post on Instagram here.    Connect with Patty Post on LinkedIn here.   Learn more about Checkable here.   Follow Checkable on Instagram here.

Sunny Dolat ist weltweit tätiger Kulturproduzent, Kreativdirektor und Modekurator. Er ist Mitbegründer des Nest Collective. The Nest begann 2012 als Treffpunkt für junge Kreative in Nairobi, die sich für die Überschneidungen zwischen Poesie, Feminismus und Queer Theory, Design, Film und Technologie interessieren. Seitdem entwickelte sich The Nest zu einem internationalen Akteur im Gestaltungsfeld. Sunny Dolat fördert aktiv Kunst und Kultur in seinem Heimatland Kenia. Er setzt sich mit sozialen, politischen und historischen Themen auseinander und beschäftigt sich in seiner Arbeit insbesondere mit dem Platz Afrikas in globalen und kulturellen Debatten und Dialogen. Dolat hatte in verschiedenen Funktionen in der Kreativ- und Kulturindustrie in Ostafrika inne und ist in zahlreichen Beratungsgremien aktiv. Er leitete den Textil- und Bekleidungssektor in Kenia für das SheTrades in the Commonwealth-Programm. Er ist als Strategiemanager beim HEVA Fund tätig, Afrikas erstem Unternehmensfonds seiner Art für die Krativindustrie. Dolats jüngste Errungenschaft war seine Mitarbeit im Kuratorenteam, das die Ausstellung Africa Fashion im Victoria and Albert Museum in London zusammengestellt hat. Mit dem Nest Collective präsentierte er eine Installation auf der documenta 15. Derzeit lebt er in Nairobi, Kenia.

Amber Butchart is joined by artists Jeremy Hutchison, and Sunny Dolat of the Nest Collective. They discuss one of the major themes of the British Textile Biennial this year: textile waste imperialism. It's a deep dive into how the trade in secondhand clothes from the Global North is mapped directly onto previous colonial routes and relationships, reproducing those same inequalities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Nest Collective - Chelsea Hamilton introduces a charity that works alongside social workers and other community partners to provide free packs of baby and children's essentials for families in need. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

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The More Things Change is a fiction anthology feature film from the Nest Collective 2 years in the making, that was released this month and premiered at the NBO Festival. Made in partnership with Forum Civ, as part of the Wajibu Wetu program, it is a unique narrative of exploring political resistance in Kenya through different eras including a speculative future. Co-directed by Collective members Akati Khasiani and Mars Maasai, the film explores what happens when an ordinary girl takes on a powerful adversary at great personal cost. It stars Nyawara Ndambia (Supa Modo), Melvin Alusa (Mission To Rescue, Crime and Justice, The First Grader, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind), Bryan Ngatia (Too Early For Birds), Emmanuel Mugo (Sense8, Pillow Talk, This Is Life) and young luminary Stycie Waweru (Supa Modo, Just In Time, Lusala). Dr. Akati Khasiani is a storyteller and musician. She DJs under the name Atiani, favouring old-skool and throwback mixes. She is one of the lead artists behind Strictly Silk, a unique dance party whose guests, artists and service providers are diverse women and non-binary people only. She has a strong interest in the presence and participation of queer persons and femmes in and around African cultures, communities and spiritualities. Her work has been published at Jalada Africa, and she has been expanding her storytelling practice into film and other genres.

In our second episode, we are joined by Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nairobi-based collective The Nest. We talk about the politics of object restitution and provenance research as a means of distraction.The conversation also looks critically at the attempts of European museums to distract and legitimize, as well as at how the restitution of African objects can queer our past and present.

Max Reinhardt's Late Lunch, from the heart of Soho, turns out to be what’s been missing from life, filled with an astonishing variety of guests and a playlist for the musically curious.On this episode of Max Reinhardt's Late Lunch, Sam Lee and a few Nightingales introduce tracks from his EP Singing with Nightingales and extracts from his Nest Collective webcasts on Youtube for Earth Day 2021 and the Dawn Chorus May 1.This is the Soho Radio podcast, showcasing some of the best broadcasts form our online radio station, right from the heart Soho London.Across our Music and Culture channels, we have a wide range of shows covering every genre, along with chat shows, discussions and special broadcasts.To catch up on all Soho Radio shows from both our music and culture channels head on over mixcloud.com/sohoradio or tune in live anytime at sohoradiolondon.com.This is a Soho Radio Productions Podcast.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/soho-radio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sunday 16 May: Folk singer and environmentalist Sam Lee's musical affinity for the nightingale; composer Jessica Wells' song cycle The Night Parrot and a new work inspired by MC Hammer and the Nokia ringtone.

English Heritage manages some of our most important historic sites, such as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall. In this Open Country, folk singer and song collector Sam Lee explains how he has paired these sites with relevant or revealing folk songs from the British Isles. We meet Sam at Stonehenge, to hear him perform the song 'John Barleycorn'. From Salisbury we travel to Hadrian's Wall with The Brothers Gillespie and the borders song 'When Fortune Turns the Wheel'. At Whitby Abbey Fay Hield performs the tragic tale of 'The Whitby Lad' and at Ironbridge, the birthplace of industry, Abel Selaocoe sings about the impacts of the industrial revolution in 'The Four Loom Weaver’. The aim of English Heritage and the musicians of the Nest Collective is to connect us to the people who inhabited these historic landscapes through the power of song. The music gives voice to how people felt and how they lived in a way that the monuments and buildings we have left cannot. Their hope is that by hearing these stories from the past we can connect with the landmarks we see today, even when we can’t visit them in person. Produced by Helen Lennard Photo: English Heritage/Andre Pattenden

Spring's here so I'm here to bring you some Spring-cheer. For the fifth episode of Into the Stream I'm joined by Sam Lee, Mercury Award Shortlisted folk-singer, passionate conservationist, renowned song collector, and successful creator of live events. He's been on the BBC more times than I can count, including the likes of Jools Holland, Jeremy Paxman's soon to be released podcast, BBC Radio 4 (and 3 and 6), BBC news, the list goes on forever...Sam is a bundle of joy, enthusiasm, charm, and also happens to be rather deep in the nature connection world (having learnt from the famous survivalist Ray Mears, spent masses of time in the natural landscape, and has become renowned for his commitment to collecting fragments of land-based folk song from those that have passed it down for centuries.Sam is also the founder of The Nest Collective, an organisation that runs an array of enchanting nature-based and community-cheer events that aim to bring people together to experience extraordinary music in unforgettable places, rekindling connections with nature, tradition and community. Their events include Campfire Club, Fire Choirs, Singing with Nightingale Immersions, Bird-inspired Pilgrimages.This episode is a lovely one. We talk about nature connection for those that feel disconnected to it (often myself), Sam's childhood, Judaism, the richness of his events at Nest Collective, take some hits on current ways of teaching kids about nature (Duke of Edinburgh award we're looking at you) and explore his recently released (last week) debut novel: The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird.I hope you enjoy the episode as a way to kickstart the Spring and use it as an impetus to spend some more time with your hands in the mud with friends and folk.Some ResourcesThe song I first heard by Sam sung around a New Years Campfire.Courses in the UK by WildwiseJon Young's, The Art of Mentoring and his Coyote's Guide to Connecting with NatureSam's Book, The Nightingale: Notes on a SongbirdIf you want to stay updated with future episodes (released every fortnight on Mondays), then click subscribe, follow the podcast on Instagram, or sign up to the newsletter.The theme music for Into the Stream is 'Good Morning' by Bonaparte and Acid Pauli, who kindly gave their permission for use.

Join The Embers Collective and be swept away for an hour of stories and songs. Featuring a mix of myths and original tales set to a live soundtrack. With a natter about storytelling, music and everything else.The Embers Collective is a storytelling and music ensemble. Combining dark, twisted and hilarious mythology and folklore with an ever-evolving musical soundscape, The Embers Collective do storytelling as you’ve never seen or heard it before.Drawing from a growing contingent of storytellers, clowns, poets, musicians and dancers, The Embers Collective have been putting on sell-out events for the last five years. Favourites on the festival circuit, they have devised shows for Wilderness, Shambala and Meadows In The Mountain. And have performed at The Southbank Centre, Sutton House, Woodburner, The Nest Collective and many other places in London, the UK and beyond. They were nominated for an After Dark Award at VAULT Festival 2019.This is the Soho Radio podcast, showcasing some of the best broadcasts from our online radio station, right from the heart Soho London.Across our Music and Culture channels, we have a wide range of shows covering every genre, along with chat shows, discussions and special broadcasts.To catch up on all Soho Radio shows from both our music and culture channels head on over mixcloud.com/sohoradio or tune in live anytime at sohoradiolondon.com.This is a Soho Radio Productions Podcast.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/soho-radio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As she is awarded one of British crime writing’s top accolades, the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger, Samira talks to crime novelist Martina Cole. Hailed as the Queen of Crime Drama, Cole has written 25 novels and sold 10 million books since records began but her work is rarely reviewed - so what’s her secret? Under the road map unveiled by Boris Johnson on Monday public museums and galleries in England will be allowed to reopen no earlier than 17 May, along with other indoor venues such as cinemas and soft play areas, whilst commercial galleries, public libraries, community centres and gyms are allowed to open from 12 April. Sharon Heal, director of the Museums Association talks to Samira Ahmed about the impact the continued classification of museums as "indoor entertainment venues" will have on the sector and whether there might be a shift on behalf of the government. Folk musician Sam Lee has collaborated with English Heritage on a project called Songs of England, a series of online films of sites from Stonehenge and Tintagel to Hadrian’s Wall and Whitby Abbey accompanied by traditional folksongs performed by members of Sam’s Nest Collective. He talks about the connection between music and location and sings John Barleycorn especially for Front Row. Sam also tells Samira about his fascination with the nightingale which he has turned into a compendium of ornithology, verse, legends and illustration and his plans for open-air concerts where nightingales will sing with the musicians. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser SM: John Boland

The Nest Collective In Conversation (represented by Jim Chuchu, Sunny Dolat, and Njoki Ngumi), considers the effects of borders on relations between and among Africans on the Continent. They discuss how art, culture, language, identity and colonial proximities have made kinships between the Continent and the black diaspora more challenging to explore. They reflect on the need for kind, honest, patient discourse by and among the kinfolk to unpack these ongoing conflicts and tensions.

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Musicwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386Show Notes:Olivia C. DaviesOlivia C. Davies is a Vancouver-based performer, choreographer, and community-arts facilitator of Ojibwe, Finnish, French Canadian, and Welsh heritage. Her practice has intrinsic ties to feminist politics and social justice and explores the emotional and political relationships between people and places. Davies’ choreography transmits narrative. She has collaborated with Canadian spoken word artists Julie Peters (I Want, 2018) and Melissa Frost (Gidaashi, 2019), and with award-winning author Carmen Aguirre to adapt the short story Open Fire (2015). Davies combined forces with celebrated Coast Salish storyteller Rosemary Georgeson to create Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone (2017) exploring the shifting landscapes of refuge and dispossession experienced by Indigenous women. Directions (2018) was a site-specific activation of a residential property in East Vancouver that subverted the traditional view of audience/performer and was inspired by elements of the architectural design evident and the unseen forces of the natural world.Davies’ works traverse boundaries and challenge social prejudice, conveying concepts and narratives that open different ways to see and experience the world. She is a founding member of the Circadia Indigena Aboriginal Arts Collective, Crow’s Nest Collective, and MataDanze Collective (Toronto). Davies is the founding Artistic Director of O.Dela Arts. Her work has been presented across Canada in Ontario, Quebec, and BC since 2004.https://www.oliviacdavies.ca/ Olivia’s work at Dancing on the Edge Festival 2020: http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/wishing-well/ Links to stuff we talked about: Mile Zero Dancehttp://milezerodance.com/2017/ Rematriate Collectivehttps://newjourneys.ca/en/articles/we-are-the-rematriate-collective Jenen Frei Njootihttps://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/jeneen-frei-njootli/ https://skwachays.com/ http://www.mauragarciadance.org/ Mariaa Randall http://www.dubaikungkamiyalk.com.au/?page_id=25 Bill Colemanhttps://www.bill-coleman.com/abouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTo3GwkOmWU  Pacific Association of First Nations Womenhttps://pafnw.wordpress.com/ About Tara:Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

The NEST Collective holds indoor events freepartys & festivals, providing an ever growing quality soundsystem with our unique NEST decor & vibe!Raw - Honest & Real

This week on the show, Z. Lupetin speaks with renowned British song collector, sonic interpreter, roots music promoter, and deeply intuitive folk singer Sam Lee. Lee came to music almost by accident after a former life as a wilderness survivalist and nature advocate. Since, he has become one of the leading voices in Great Britain, saving the treasured endemic music cultures that rapidly disappear each year. His gorgeously delicate and meticulously researched debut, Ground Of Its Own, shot him from hopeful academic to nationally recognized folk star -- partly by being nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. Lee has relentlessly worked to save and rejuvenate the ancient melodies and songcraft of Irish and Scottish traveller tradition, Romany rhythms and stories, and connect those traditional melodies to a youthful pop culture that is yearning to know where it came from and where it is going next. His Nest Collective, an "acoustic folk club," gathers artists, authors, dancers and theatrical renegades and puts on shows and events across London - making Sam a rare double threat - as both an artist and a promoter of other artists. His newest release, Old Wow, drops January 31, 2020.

Season 1 Episode 3: Mercury music prize nominee Sam Lee is a folk singer, a countryman and an impresario. Through his Nest Collective he promotes scores of different folk gigs and events every year. In this episode of Folk on Foot he invites Matthew to join him in a Sussex wood in the middle of the night as he leads a group of people on a silent walk to hear him sing with a nightingale. The bird appears un-phased by the arrival of the group and seems to respond as Sam starts an improvised duet. The next day Sam and Matthew retrace their steps in daylight, reflecting on the power of this mystical experience.

Why do women earn less than men across the world, and what can be done to narrow this gender pay gap? Two experts from Italy and Kenya give their ideas on how to make the workplace more equal and pay women what they are worth. Paola Diana (@paoladiana_) is the founder of PariMerito or Equal Merit, an organisation through which she lobbied the Italian government to pass new equality laws in the workplace, including one requiring company boards to have at least 30% women. Paola started her own businesses as a single mother of two, and believes real change will only come from all nations having more women at the top of politics, business and industry. She is also the author of 'Saving The World - Women: The Twenty First Century's Factor for Change'. Dr Njoki Ngumi (@njokingumi) is a writer, physician and feminist thinker who has held positions in private and public health care sectors in Kenya. She is now coordinating learning and development for the NEST Collective, a Kenyan multidisciplinary artistic squad. She also works at HEVA Fund, Africa's first creative economy catalyst fund. In her experience, official gender gap statistics fail to reflect the reality of most women's work in Kenya, which tends to be informal, and in low wage manual jobs. Thus she says the biggest change would come from improving pay and conditions for domestic workers. (L) Image and credit: Paola Diana (R) Image and credit: Dr Njoki Ngumi

ナイジェリア発・血液デリヴァリースタートアップの挑戦｜水不足のケープタウンから生まれた「未来の農業」のかたち｜「アフリカ空輸単一市場」という夢｜The Nest Collective最新作は「アフリカらしさ」をいかに壊すか…and more!

On our maiden episode of Omenerds podcast, we talk escapsim and may be the odd cat soup in Nairobi Pubs! Everyone has their own way of escaping from the stress and boredom of daily life; from drugs and alcohol to TV and religion. In this episode of the Omenerdspodcast, we talk about coping with the current madness that is daily life in Kenya. Our special guests; Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi, join us to talk about The Nest Collective and the HEVA FUND and the birth of their creative spaces that brought us the award winning film LGBT film Stories of our Lives and Tuko Macho, the incredible TV/Web series, among other awesome things that they are working on.   HOSTED AND PRODUCED BY: Laureezy, Dot, Jimmy and Thuita   TO WORK WITH US: Email: hello@omenerds.com Website: http://www.omenerds.com   OUR SOCIALS: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/omenerdspodcast  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/omenerdspodcast  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omenerdspodcast    Love and Light!

We are only 11 days away from the 2017 general election, and this week, we are joined by Dr. Njoki Ngumi of The Nest Collective and HEVA Fund to discuss sports, arts and culture, and what it means to be Kenyan. Has the Jubilee Coalition delivered on its promises that were focused on bolstering sports, arts and culture? Why is Kenya so hostile to its artists? What can we learn from the closure of Phoenix Theatre? What challenges does our sports sector face that prevent it from being as vibrant as we'd want it to be? What role does culture play in Kenya? Do we have a national identity? How can we build one? Press play! Resources Episode 3: Olympics Shame Global Corruption Report: Sport Stories of Our Lives

SHOW NOTES Sheryl is currently CEO of REBBL super herb beverages and loving every minute of it. She is also an author of Killing It which was launched in Dec. 2016. She is an advisor to the Harvest Summit, an annual gathering of innovators in Sonoma County. In 2007, Sheryl co-founded Plum, Inc. (formally the Nest Collective) a healthy food company. As CEO from 2007-2011, Sheryl led Plum to become an industry leader and game-changing company with national distribution. After growing to $100MM in revenue in only four years, Plum was successfully sold in May 2013. Prior to Plum, Inc., Sheryl spent 10 years at Clif Bar & Company, 3 of them as CEO. Sheryl spearheaded the launch of Luna Bar, led the growth of Clif Bar and Company from $100MM to $200MM in revenue, with strong profitability, and drove the company toward operationalizing a deep commitment to sustainability. Following Plum, Sheryl was the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford University supporting students to design and scale new ventures that have a positive impact on the world. Sheryl was a faculty member teaching entrepreneurship at Sonoma State University. Sheryl served on numerous several for-profit and non-profit boards of directors/advisors including ThinkThin natural nutritional bars, SugarBowl Bakery, Rip Van Wafels, nutritious snack waffles, Zukes natural pet treats, Think Thin Nutrition Bars, and the American Sustainable Business Council. Zukes and Think Thin both had successful sales.

Jim and George and I about Tuko Macho, The Nest Collective, an African generational voice, identity and internal voices and why extreme order is surreal. For more information on Tuko Macho(IMDB, trailer, website) and TIFF. Synopsis Tuko Macho (Sheng for "we are watching") candidly explores the frequently violent intersections of class, law and justice in Nairobi. Shot mostly in Sheng -- Kenya's unique pidgin of English, Swahili and local languages -- Tuko Macho's storylines are drawn from real-life stories that the people of Nairobi have become uncomfortably familiar with. Presented exclusively on Facebook as a web series, Tuko Macho has traversed between fiction and the real world, allowing audiences to vote for or against the execution of characters, and sparking intense conversations about the place of retributive justice in a city with few heroes. Tuko Macho stars Kenyan stage and screen actor Tim King’oo as Biko/Jonah -- the philosophical and operational heart of the vigilante operation, Nairobi radio queen and reggae performer Njambi Koikai as Mwarabu -- Biko's moral center, and Ibrahim Muchemi as detective Nick Salat -- the hero-cop who believes the city isn't beyond redemption. Biography The Nest Collective are Amal Mohamed, George Gachara, Jim Chuchu, Kendi Kamwambia, Mars, Njeri Gitungo, Njoki Ngumi, Noel Kasyoka, Sunny Dolat and Wakiuru Njuguna. They live and work in Nairobi, creating work together using film, theatre, visual arts, music and fashion that explores troubling modern identities, reimagines pasts and remixes futures. Tuko Macho was created in partnership with Forum Syd beginning in 2015, with principal photography taking place in early 2016, working with additional crew members assembled from among Nairobi's finest production talents in various sets and locations all over the city. Director Jim Chuchu had his first TIFF presentation in 2013 with the short film,Homecoming -- part of the "African Metropolis" anthology. He returned in 2014 with The Nest Collective’s 2014 feature Stories Of Our Lives, an anthology film based on the lives of queer Kenyans. The film was banned in Kenya following its TIFF 2014 World Premiere, but went on to win the Jury Prize at the Berlinale Teddy Awards and continues to screen in festivals worldwide. For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Like this podcast? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nomusa and Adedana discuss mountain tings and #BlackLivesMatter and hear from Jim Chuchu about his fantastic webseries "Tuko Macho" and Nanjira Sambuli of the World Wide Web Foundation to talk through the interwebs and all "m"-Everything. 0:22 Episode Recap 0:47 The Ketchup 15:00 Africa Rising // Africa *still* rising 22:53 Our first(!) boss lady expert, Nanjira Sambuli, talks "Silicon Savannah," online communities, cyber security, and more 1:01:31 The Afracanah proverb of the week (week week) 1:04:00 Vote of Thanks 1:05:05 How to find us! (Hint: @Afracanah) You can find Jim Chuchu and the Nest Collective on Twitter at @JimChuchu and @thisisthenest and Nanjira Sambuli at @NiNanjira. Production: Nomusa June and Adedana Ashebir Editing: Frederica Boswell Branding: Victor Murithi Intro music composed and performed by AVbyte, as heard on "Honest Trailers - The Lion King" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtBjc1dz7w ******And next week we'll talk dating so please send your experiences to AskAfracanahATgmail.com!

Libby Purves meets cartoonist Steven Appleby; folk singer and Mercury Prize nominee Sam Lee; broadcasters Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew and spider expert Jan Beccaloni. Jan Beccaloni is the curator of arachnida and myriapoda at the Natural History Museum in London. The class arachnida includes a diverse group of arthropods: spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen, and their cousins. Jan is the conservation officer for the British Arachnological Society. Folk musician Sam Lee has been nominated for this year's Mercury Prize for his debut album 'Ground of Its Own'. The album is made up of traditional material, largely discovered through Sam's extensive research and exploration of long forgotten songs. He sourced most of his material direct from English gypsy and Irish and Scottish traveller communities. 'Ground of Its Own' is released on The Nest Collective label. Steven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator. His new book 'Guide to Life' is a collection of his strip Loomus which appears in the Guardian newspaper. From dodgy Christmas presents to born-again nudists, his cartoons provide an idiosyncratic guide to everyday family life. 'Guide to Life - the collected Loomus cartoons' is published by Guardian Books. Broadcasters Des Lynam OBE and Christopher Matthew present the series Touchline Tales on BBC Radio 4. In the programmes they visit sporting venues around the country to observe, reminisce and simply trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. A CD 'Best of Touchline Tales' is available and a new series begins in November. Producer: Paula McGinley.