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Uganda's original podcast. Africa's realest conversations. We ask ordinary Ugandans everything — love, money, AI, blockchain, law, business, faith, politics, tech, mental health, and everything the world is debating right now. Their knowledge will shock you. Their honesty will stop you. 150+ episodes. Ugandan voices. Global conversations. No filter. Big Convos Pod. Uganda's first. New episodes weekly.

  1. 150 Years of Rebellion: Why Your DNA Is Your Destiny | Asmahaney Saad

    8 MAR

    150 Years of Rebellion: Why Your DNA Is Your Destiny | Asmahaney Saad

    In this soul-stirring episode of Big Convos, corporate lawyer and author Asmahaney Saad takes us on a 150-year journey through dhow crossings, royal executions, colonial resistance, and divine purpose. This isn't just her story. It's a revelation about what your own bloodline might be calling you to do.From her great-grandfather's perilous voyage from Yemen across the Gulf of Aden, to the execution of a Comorian Sultan, to her grandfather Mzee Saad's legendary stand against colonial exploitation in Budaka ,every chapter of this family saga reveals a pattern: power is inherited, but purpose must be chosen. Asmahaney unpacks the "Identity Tax" of being a perpetual foreigner in your own homeland, the irony of a name meaning "Happiness" in a lineage defined by struggle, and the awakening she calls her "Queen Esther Moment" the realization that your position in any palace is not accidental. It's a divine assignment. This conversation will challenge how you see yourself, your ancestors, and the work you were actually put here to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 – Introduction: The Irony of "Saad" 06:45 – The Yemeni Adventurer: Crossing the Gulf of Aden15:20 – Royal Blood, Rebel Spirit: The Sultan of Comoro28:10 – The Budaka Strike: Economic Liberation vs. Colonial Control42:35 – The Identity Tax: "Where Are You Really From?"55:50 – The Queen Esther Assignment: Why You're In The Room1:08:15 – From Lawyer to Author: Choosing Purpose Over Profession1:20:30 – The Call: What Your DNA Is Asking You To Do ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 GET THE BOOK: "Identity: Lost in History, Found in Purpose" by Asmahaney Saad Your history is not a burden. It is your mission. Your ancestors didn't survive so you could shrink. They fought so you could rise. Get your copy today 👇🏾👇🏾 🔗Website: https://asmahaneysaad.com/book-purchase/🔗Amazon: https://a.co/d/03KkdkOt🔗Momo Marketplace: https://market.momo.africa/Portal/product/193894/1?tenantId=1&lang=en ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT BIG CONVERSATIONS BY ORDINARY PEOPLE A Miratrax Studio production. We go beyond titles to find truth. We believe in Visionary Audio and Human Stories that challenge, heal, and ignite. Host: Mark Keron Wamala Executive Producer: Miratrax StudioLocation: Muyenga Bukasa Kampala Uganda Subscribe for more conversations that matter.\ 📱 CONNECT WITH US:I nstagram: @MiratraxStudioTwitter/X: @MiratraxStudioTikTok: @MiratraxStudioWebsite: miratraxstudio.com 📩 For bookings and collaborations: mark@miratraxstudio.com 💬 DISCUSSION QUESTION: What part of your family's story have you been avoiding—and what would happen if you finally faced it? Drop your thoughts below. This conversation doesn't end here.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #AsmahaneySaad #Identity #BigConvosPod #MiratraxStudio #Uganda #Legacy #Purpose #DivineAssignment #Podcast #AfricanStories #Leadership #History #Ancestry #QueenEsther #Yemen #Heritage #Entrepreneurship #SoulWork Listen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np- Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​

    1hr 28min
4.9
out of 5
20 Ratings

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Uganda's original podcast. Africa's realest conversations. We ask ordinary Ugandans everything — love, money, AI, blockchain, law, business, faith, politics, tech, mental health, and everything the world is debating right now. Their knowledge will shock you. Their honesty will stop you. 150+ episodes. Ugandan voices. Global conversations. No filter. Big Convos Pod. Uganda's first. New episodes weekly.