15 episodes

Listen to inspirational stories of Somali Professionals and business owners. We will have an Awesome guest every week who will share their journey to success , challenges and failures along the way and how they moved forward.

Somali Professionals Podcast Samira Ali

    • Business
    • 4.8 • 5 Ratings

Listen to inspirational stories of Somali Professionals and business owners. We will have an Awesome guest every week who will share their journey to success , challenges and failures along the way and how they moved forward.

    How i became Head of Advanced Application & Analytics with Mohamed Jama

    How i became Head of Advanced Application & Analytics with Mohamed Jama

    Salam Alikum and Ramadan Kareem, we wish you all a blessed Ramadan. I can't believe we are in the last few days of this blessed month.

    This week are excited to chat with Mohamed Jama regarding his journey into a senior leadership position in the Tech industry, and we spoke about how to navigate the workplace as a black Muslim in a non-diverse environment.

    Mohamed Bio
    Mohamed is a technology veteran with a passion for designing large - scale, highly scalable platforms from banking to e-commerce and now heading the biomedical informatics department in a research hospital.
    last but not least, Mohamed loves learning languages and he 4.5 languages.
    If Mohamed story resonates with you please do follow his podcast which is called Boodkast via this link https://anchor.fm/boodkast and connect with him on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/mohamedjama

    Our dear listeners thank you so much for supporting us honestly you guys are the best and we appreciate you. Please don't forget to leave us a review and subscribe : )
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    • 59 min
    How I got my dream Tech Career with Mustafa Farah

    How I got my dream Tech Career with Mustafa Farah

    Salam Alikum and Ramadan Kareem, we are wishing you all a blessed Ramadan.
    In this episode, I was really excited to interview Mustafa Farah who is a Senior VP Product Manager at Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo one of the four most prominent financial institutions in the United States. He works closely with commercial banking customers to streamline and automate payables processes and solutions. Mustafa is an API Build & Enablement Leader, Certified Full-Stack Developer, Fintech Monetization Expert and combines software program creation, design, and enhancements in a challenging cross-functional environment. One that utilizes teamwork effort for researching, learning, and developing new high-tech products for clients in the data and financial payments space.”
    If Mustafa's Story resonates and you are interested in a tech career in product management do connect with him on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/mustafa-farah-abb2a681or connect on Instagram @thereal_M00se

    We LOVE reading your emails /message and thank you so much for supporting us.
    Please for any feedback, questions, requests and collaboration, please email us at SomaliProfessionalspodcast@gmail.com

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    • 1 hr 7 min
    How I became a software engineer with Abdullahi Abdinur

    How I became a software engineer with Abdullahi Abdinur

    Hello everyone, we are back, recharged and feeling fresh after taking a couple of weeks to break to prioritise business deadlines & juggle personal life. I absolutely missed the podcast and reading all your emails/DMs. I promise we will get back to every message soon, and grateful for checking on me. All is well just needed a break : )

    This week I was really excited to interview
    Abdullahi was born in Somalia and raised in Kenya. Abdullahi & his family live in the USA, and He has successfully completed his bachelors in computer science at UWB in 2017 and started working as a software engineer at Visa. Currently, Abduallhi pursuing his masters in Data Science while still working as a software engineer.

    If Abduallhi’s story resonates, you are welcome to connect with him on LinkedIn.
    http://linkedin.com/in/aabdin01

    We love reading your message, and thank you so much for supporting us.

    Please for any feedback, questions, requests and collaboration, please email us at SomaliProfessionalspodcast@gmail.com

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    • 59 min
    How I climbed the corporate ladder with Mariam Farah

    How I climbed the corporate ladder with Mariam Farah

    Dear listeners welcome back to another inspiring podcast.
    This week we have Mariam Farah.
    We had a great conversation with Mariam about all things career working in the city of London.
    Mariam, is an experienced, bilingual (English and Dutch), Assistant Director, who is responsible for scaling and activating EY solutions, campaigns, and products across Europe, Middle East, India and Africa.

    Alongside this role, Mariam is responsible for driving integrated go-to-market initiatives and campaigns to support accounts, sectors and clients respond to megatrends and marco-economic changes.

    Prior to this, Mariam was part of the EY Global Consulting team, where she was responsible for leading campaigns and integrated GTM initiatives across multiple global solutions, sectors and functions.

    Mariam is passionate about connecting, and developing the next generation through mentoring.

    With 8+years of professional services experience, Mariam has a breadth of exposure across the Big Four, and a variety of industries & client groups within matrix structured international organisations.

    We love reading your message and thank you so much for supporting us.

    Please for any feedback, questions, requests and collaboration please email us at SomaliProfessionalspodcast@gmail.com

    See you next week for another episode.

    • 40 min
    From Med school to national TV comedy show with Guled Abdi

    From Med school to national TV comedy show with Guled Abdi

    Salam Alikum and a big warm hello to all our wonderful listeners across the globe.
    We are really delighted this week to speak with Guled Abdi from Toronto Canada, we talked about his journey to following his passion, overcoming challenges & staring in his own comedy National TV show called Tall Boyz with his best friends.

    The second season of the show launches on 16th February on CBC make sure to check it out and show our brother
    support : )

    Bio:
    Guled Abdi is a Toronto based comedian, writer and 1/4 of the multi-award-winning sketch troupe TallBoyz II Men. He's performed at OFF-JFL, Montreal Sketchfest and the Toronto Fringe Festival just to name a few. Guled thanks you for reading his bio and hopes you'll watch TallBoyz on CBC and CBC Gem.
    You can follow Guled on social media:
    Social Media Handles:
    IG: @gul3d
    Twitter: @guuuuuuuulead
    @tallboyzisashow

    We have a big treat for you this week we released two episodes in the same week you asked and we delivered. Make sure you go back and listen to our new episode 10 it’s a great episode which Talks about starting international consultancy business in Africa with Hodan.

    We love reading your message and thank you so much for supporting us.
    Please For any feedback, questions, requests and collaboration please email us at SomaliProfessionalspodcast.com

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    • 1 hr 11 min
    How i started my international development consultancy with Hodan Hassan.

    How i started my international development consultancy with Hodan Hassan.

    Hello dear listeners
    Welcome to another wonderful podcast episode.
    We are delighted to welcome Hodan Hassan to our episode this week.
    Hodan is an Executive Director, who brings 18 years of experience in international development and public advocacy, of which 12 years are in mid and senior-level positions.
    She is known for her proven ability to lead teams, to build consensus amongst stakeholders, and to coordinate the work of complex multicultural and multidisciplinary organizations.
    The firm has a wide range of subject-matter experts within its network.
    Website to Hodan’s business http://kulanconsulting.com
    For any questions and collaboration please email us at Somaliprofessionalspodcast@gmail.com

    • 52 min

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