FATHOM with Anysie Anysie Ishimwe

In this next episode, I sit down with Georgie Ndirangu, a global moderator and a curator of the brand Georgie Ndirangu. With a stellar career spanning the BBC, CNBC Africa, and Forbes Africa, Georgie has earned accolades such as the Rwandan Journalist of the Year award.

His remarkable journey includes captivating interviews with global business leaders and heads of states. In the agency sector, he has been part of the team driving transformative projects for renowned clients like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Evercare, and TPG, across diverse regions—Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. More recently, he served as the Head (Pan-African Communications), Mastercard Foundation.

In this conversation, we cover Georgie's upbringing and how it shaped who he is today. We discuss his relocation to Rwanda after college, a pivotal chapter in his life. We also cover his insights on building a captivating brand that has opened doors for him.

In Georgie's style, the conversation is marked with banter and profound lessons.

Georgie Ndirangu recently launched a masterclass that covers everything he has learned in his 10 year career in media and communication. You will learn public speaking, event moderation, stage presence- all from someone who has done it the African context and beyond. You can learn more here: www.georgiendirangu.com

In this conversation I sit down with Just Ivy Africa, an award-winning marketer, content creator, digital entrepreneur, and investor. We discuss the experience that have shaped her life and career to date, and the decision she made to fully bet on herself- a decision that is already paying dividends.



Just Ivy is the founder of Movers' Society- a community that enables people to access financial literacy without spending too much money and a platform for people to hold each other accountable to achieve their financial goals. Ivy has recently established investment club and in less than a year, the club has amassed over 400,000 USD in Assets Under Management.



Ivy has over 15 years of experience in digital and experiential brand building; she is an emerging pan-African voice in money matters, an adept conversation moderator, and a skillful experience curator. Her social media platforms are turning into dynamic online learning centers for women and youth across Africa.

In 2022, she was awarded Kenya's most innovative influencer and was previously the Samsung Consumer Electronics Brand Ambassador for East Africa in 2020 - 2023. Join her vibrant community, 'The Movers Society,' and prepare to embark on a journey of financial enlightenment, personal growth and a ton of fun!



Find Ivy's page:

https://www.instagram.com/just_ivy_africa_/?hl=en



The movers' society:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_movers_society_/

In this conversation I sit with the one and only, Charlot Magayi who is the Founder of Mukuru Clean Stoves- a clean cooking company that repurposes locally sourced waste metal to manufacture improved, efficient, and reliable cookstoves. In this episode, we discuss her childhood experiences growing up in one of the largest slum in Kenya, losing both her parents by the age of 10, and her experience of becoming a teen mom at 16.

Despite facing incredible setbacks early on in life, Charlot has gone on to accomplish the unthinkable including winning the Earthshot prize in 2022 an award started by Prince William and David Attenborough and a cash prize of 1 Million Pounds. In this conversation, we discuss the power of asking persistently and being comfortable with rejection. We discuss how to never let success make you complacent as there will always be more work to do and greater heights to reach.



Charlot has been recognized and awarded by Global Citizen, World Bank, and United Nations. She was among the 100 most influential Young Africans in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Her company, Mukuru Clean Stoves, has manufactured and distributed over 400,000 cookstoves, impacting the lives of 2,000,000 Kenyans living in poverty. Charlot is currently building a 300,000 square foot sustainable energy campus in Kenya and developing a malaria fighting fuel.



Charlot is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Africa Business Hero, a Global Good Fund Fellow, a Stanford Global Energy Hero, a Forbes under 30 lister and a Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and she sits on the board of three international funds. 



This is a gem packed episode and I hope you enjoy and learn from it.



Follow the work of Mukuru Clean Stoves below:

Website: https://mukurustoves.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mukurucleanstoves/



Follow Charlot:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charlotmagayi/

Happy New Year, FATHOM friends!



In this conversation, I sit with a sister and friend of mine, Pelumi Nubi, who is a purpose-driven travel content creator and connector who thrives on exploring less commonly visited countries, currently living in Dubai. Calling both the UK and Nigeria home, while having ventured to 80 countries across 6 continents, her engaging content inspires her community to embrace life with fearlessness and embody true freedom. She is committed to showing that travel can be safe, easy, and achievable, particularly for Black women who want to travel solo.



In this conversation, we speak about her goal of traveling to every country in the world and the experiences she has had from those she has been to so far. We discuss how she prioritizes her time and finances to be able to travel to the extent that she does.



She shares her journey of quitting her PhD in cancer research to become a full-time entrepreneur and travel blogger. We discuss her diagnosis with dyslexia and her determination to not be limited by it. We discuss identity, life choices, and living life under your own terms.



Pelumi will be embarking on another big expedition to drive from London to Lagos, Nigeria starting this January, a journey that will take her through 17 countries and take two months. She continues to explore uncharted territories- an inspiring feat for women and men everywhere.

I hope you enjoy this one as I did recording it!



You can find her on:

Instagram: @pelumi.nubi

Twitter (X): @Phd_flygirl

TikTok: @pelumi.nubi

In this episode, I sit with Chef extraordinaire, Dieuveil Malonga, to discuss his mission of elevating Afro fusion cuisine on the global scene. Chef Malonga is one of the senior exponents of Afro-fusion cuisine, a subtle mélange of tradition and modernity, a culinary bridge between African flavors and Western cooking. His gastronomy career started at three different prestigious Michelin starred restaurants in Germany—Schote, Life, and Aqua, and now his ambition is to write a new story of gastronomy which has its roots in Africa. 

His work is increasingly receiving global recognition and he is frequently seen being the leading Chef for celebrities’ events including A$AP Rocky & Rick Owens. He was recently was the leading chef for Kamala Harris’s Vice President birthday dinner in October.

He was the honoree chef during UNESCO's Africa Week 2017 in Paris and was one of the 10 global finalists of the Basque Culinary World Prize 2018 for his "contribution to making positive changes to society through gastronomy with Chefs in Africa.Dieuveil Malonga was on the Forbes 30 under 30 list twice.

He now runs the Meza Malonga Lab, which is more than a restaurant. They are storytellers of the history of the people and lands behind each ingredient. With Maasai, Bantu, Zulu influences and beyond, Dieuveil Malonga’s cuisine reveals the splendor, uniqueness and complementarity of African nations. Their  curated gastronomic experiences are an invitation to a journey without borders throughout Africa.

My personal spin for Dieuveil is that he is someone I have so much respect for, because his level of excellence is out of this world. Yet he is increasingly humble and I really love that he elevates his team and everyone he works with.

In this episode, I sit with coach extraordinaire, Iris Irumva, to discuss her leadership journey that she started at a young age and the packed lessons she carries with her. We discuss the journey of writing her first book titled: Lead Your Way Up, her inspiration, her process, and her hopes for the book. We speak about circumstances that shaped her growing up in her family of origin, being educated in other countries, and how all of that have formed her character and work ethic today.

We delve into the book and she helps us understand why self-leadership is one of the most important forms of leadership and how it is a precursor to any form on real influence on anyone else. We discuss how our listeners how start their path to self leadership by becoming more self aware, and cultivating more self respect among other traits.

Iris is currently the Founder & CEO of ⁠Lead Access Ltd⁠, a consulting firm with a mission to empower leaders at all level through coaching and mentoring. With an MBA from Oklahoma Christian University in the United States, Iris combines her academic knowledge with real-world experience to offer practical and effective solutions as an ICF certified Coach.



I enjoyed this conversation, I hope you do too! Check it out on all platforms!