Up In The Air Podcast Up In The Air

Benard has a special guest and childhood friend, Benie Kofi, to continue the GROWING UP AFRICAN series.
(1:04) Intros. (1:42) Content creation. (5:22) Ups and downs of content creation. (15:17) Roots and upbringing as an immigrants and having duality hardships as kids moving to a new place. Addressing childhood immigrant trauma. (32:28) Did your journey evoke the career choices? (34:49) How was returning to Zambia and the experiences as well as sharing our takeaways. (40:10) Outros."

Benard bring back Caleb Esuke on to continue the Growing Up African series. Caleb touches on what’s it like growing up with Cameroonian and Black roots, Cultures, Education and much more

Benard is back after almost 2 years! Updates on the show as well as the state of the podcast.

Benard continues the “Growing up African in America” series by bring Earwin’s Tapè and Leo Samba. They are two brothers whose parents are from the Ivory Coast. They share their stories growing up, navigating through college, the positive and negative of growing up in those environments, and so much more!

Time stamps:
(0:45) - intro
(2:41) - how we met and high school
(10:00) - college life
stories
(25:20) - how our upbringing in an African household molded us
(33:50) - are there negative effects with the way we grew up?
(44:28) - how are you view when you go home?
(50:50) - how the people in your native home view your life or
(53:45) - the great snow story
(59:15) - outro

Benard is joined today by Georgie Mugī, host of the podcast: ”Chit Chattin”, as he kicks of a new series for season four entitled “growing up African in America.”

Podcast starts (1:06)
(2:24)- how Georgie started her podcast
(6:38) - “stickwidditness”
(11:56) - growing Kenyan and adjusting to living in America
(14:45) - stories being in school.
(21:12)- compare contrast
(36:46) - my name is my name
(55:34) - podcast aspiration
(60:49) - airwaves picks: peace by mannywells ft. Tems and essence by wizkid ft tems and Justin beiber

Check out Georgie‘s socials:
Instagram
https://instagram.com/georgiethepodcaster?utm_medium=copy_link
Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/chitchattin/episodes/

Benard returns to give a brief overview of the status of the show and the direction moving forward.



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