Celebrate Women with Ash

Green Economy!
Climate change is real, and it's impacting millions of lives from the south to the north. The effects of climate change include droughts, extreme weather conditions, and water and power scarcity to mention a few. These devastating effects do not cease from happening unless we actively reverse their drastic change.
Are sustainable futures possible with just a green economy?
To discuss this meet Tiffany Tong a co-founder and CEO of Aloi (www.aloi.global)
 
Aloi is enabling climate financing for grassroots entrepreneurs through increasing loan journey insights. Our digital token technology offers 3 features to automatically track a full loan cycle: monitor loan usage, loan repayments, and payments received.
Tiffany has worked in data and development in Africa and Asia for the last 14 years. She has implemented large-scale projects and statistical surveys for governments, NGOs, and the World Bank.
To learn more about today's topic join me and Tiffany who is an inborn innovator making green technologies accessible for all. :)

Welcome to the Celebrate Women with Ash, your new monthly show which comes your way every last Wednesday of the month. The Celebrate Women with Ash is about women for women and wants to magnify the voices of the role models who are women and celebrate their resilience and achievements from their efforts in their sector to make the world a better place.
Thank you for listening to this announcement of my new show. I am looking forward to sharing my first episode of the third season of my show with you this Wednesday. Stay tuned to find out who will be my first guest of the show. Welcome :)

Breath is what makes humans alive. And yet, we often don't pay much attention to how we breathe. When we are young we automatically breathe from our bellies, deep breaths in and deep breaths out. However, the busyness of life makes us take breathing for granted until the breath becomes thin air. Join me and a Frances as we discuss breathing. A Frances Kormpala is a global citizen who is a performance artist, poet, breathworker, and affiliated with the feministic storytelling initiative based in Bergen. Enjoy the show :)

It's the Christmas season, and people are busy buying presents for one another. What are you gifting yourself this holiday season?

In January this year at my show AshCast at Radio Multe I talked about the importance of caring for yourself. In addition, I spoke about what people can do to be kinder to themselves. I would like to reshare my show the AshCast from radio mute about the topic that is still relevant now. Enjoy :)

Let’s talk about communication: Communication is about sending and receiving information by using different means between a sender and a receiver.

However, there is more to it, and Dr. Jana Wilbricht a founder & and owner of Bergen Communications helps us learn more. Dr. Jana Wilbricht is interested in strategic communications consulting and focuses on concept branding & and organizational storytelling. In addition, she is a founder & and director of 1stNationz International (A forum for sharing Indigenous cultures through music, art, film, and education). Enjoy the show :)

The number of people who die in traffic is the same as in drowning accidents in Norway. So far this year, 53 people have died by drowning in Norway. Last year, 89 people died by drowning. The majority of deaths involve people with minority backgrounds. To prevent this from happening, the Bergen Swimming Club has a swimming course, especially for women of minority backgrounds. I am one of the participants. Today, I am honored to invite a swimming instructor, Juliana Ng, with her daughter, Jadelyn Fong to my podcast. They are both swimming instructors and work side by side.

Dear all :) Welcome to ep18 of the show as I speak with Anine Bråten, a founder of the Female Minority Voices Book Club. As an ethnic minority woman who wants to see more "people like her" represented in general, especially here in Norway. Anine started a book club to raise the voices of ethnic minority women- from all over the world. The club is interested in all adult's voices, perspectives, and stories.

Politics determines people's present and future. Bergen shall elect its political leaders of the county today the 11th of September who will serve in their political positions for the next four years. Statistics show that three groups of people in Norway don't vote. These are people of minority backgrounds, youth, and illiterates. To discuss the politics of our county and youth engagement in politics, I invited Merry Haile who is a bioengineer student and the chair of the African Students Union in Bergen. Enjoy :)

Raising a child is an important and a full-time job. Some say it's like working in an emergency department, that you need to be vigilant at all times. However, economic and societal pressure doesn't allow many women to be full-time mothers at home. Being a stay-at-home mom is a privilege that not so many women get to experience. Today, I am honoured to see my long-time friend Regina Willingham a stay-at-home mom, an art teacher, and a potter. Join her as she shares her experience of being a stay-at-home mom.

Let's talk about a playback theatre. According to feminist storytelling playback theatre is: " an innovative form of improvisational storytelling that revolves around actively listening to the personal narratives of the audience. The stories shared become the heartbeats of an on-the-spot theatrical experience." Yimin Dong who is a founder of feminist storytelling and a host of a happy news show on radio multe joins me to discuss today's topic. Enjoy

People study abroad for different reasons. For me, it was to get a different learning experience since I have been studying and living in Tanzania since birth. I became thirsty for studying abroad to expand my knowledge and expose myself to other cultures. For others, it can be about traveling and living in another country than their own. While others it can be about finding new work opportunities abroad or getting promoted in their own countries after their studies. All in all, it can be a challenging, beautiful, and daring experience to study abroad.

To discuss studying abroad, I am joined by Gloria Ampim who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, mother, and wife from Ghana and graduated with her Ph.D. from the University of Bergen in Norway last year. Join us and learn from her great experience of doing her master's degree and her Phd abroad. Studying abroad is possible for anyone who has a will and motivation. Enjoy :)

Meet Irene Kinunda Afriyie who is a commentator at Bergen Tidende, a master of ceremonies, an artist, and an award winner of the Sjur Holsens minnepris 2023.

She is good at what she does and most importantly she does it with humour. Join us to learn from her journey from being a young refugee to winning awards in Norway. Enjoy :)

The corona pandemic caused mass trauma in the last three years. It also disrupted our way of living which was considered normal and it took the lives of millions of people. Corona gave some positive outcomes as well such as the use and the normalization of Zoom and the change of our lifestyle. People realized that they did not need so many materials to survive but rather the necessities. And the important question was about the immunization that the scientists managed to get hold of its doses in a short time. Many people got immunized against the virus and a lot of them refused because they did not believe in its efficacy since it took a short time to be experimented with before the use of it.

Meet a scientist and vaccine woman Prof. Rebecca Jane Cox, who works at the Influenza Centre at the Department of Clinical Science of the University of Bergen. She is also a world-renowned expert in immunization who has received numerous awards. Enjoy the episode

The youth unemployment rate in Africa is pretty high, and yet their talents and skills go unused. The statistics show the general unemployment rate without regard for age groups when youth aged between 16 and 35 make up more than half of the population. Join me as I speak with Phatsimo Mosimanegape who believes in innovation and entrepreneurship as one of the ways to alleviate the African continent from poverty. Phatsimo is a strategic thinker with an academic background in Economics and Public Administration. She has 10+ years of experience designing and leading impactful initiatives focused on accelerating Africa's Development. Enjoy the episode.

Meet the founder of the Oslo Desk Ka Man Mak who aims at including different voices to have inclusive aspects of people's experiences. Ka Man Mak is a survivor of intimate partner violence and a journalist who wants to give the victims of domestic abuse the voice through her platform the Oslo Desk. Enjoy the episode

Meet Polina Medvedeva who has a residency at the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts as she takes us through visionary fiction. Visionary fiction is a writing practice aimed at imagining new just worlds and derives from the idea that all forms of organization are a way of science fiction.

Polina Medvedeva is an artist working with storytelling and documentary, often focusing on the tactics of civil disobedience and mechanisms of self-sufficiency – improvised, passed through generations as oral histories, smuggled in through migration. Welcome to the RightsCast with Ash and enjoy the episode :)

Gode nyheter, min podkast er på Norsk i dag! I dagens episode er det en samtale mellom mentor og mentee. Møt Vivi Loftaas Osberg som er HR-direktør i Tide Buss og Bane og mentor i Bergen Næringsråd. Vivi er en leder med mange talenter. Jeg er takknemlig for å ha møtt Vivi som har gjenopplivet min selvtillit og hjulpet meg tilbake mine sterke sider. Vivi er den mest visjonære, smarte, tålmodige, omsorgsfulle, forståelsesfulle og støttende mentoren jeg noen gang kunne bedt om. Jeg kunne presentere meg selv litt men ikke ordentlig på norsk til å møte på intervju og få en jobb. Bli med i samtalen vår og hør når hun forklarer hva som motiverer henne til blant annet å drive med veiledning og om hennes arbeid innen HR. Nyt

Meet Fitia Adria, as she speaks about working abroad, its gains, and challenges. Fitia is a professional woman with multicultural background speaking four languages and with her own family of two kids. She has been living in Norway for some years. She is educated in management and has been working on European projects in higher education. Fitia is a mentee at Bergen Opportunity's fourth cohort.

Starting life afresh in a foreign country when you do not know the system, people, and culture can be terrifying. It is worse if you are surrounded by abusive people who will exploit the situation to isolate you even further. 

To discuss this I am joined by wonderful Yana from the USA, a mother, a survivor of intimate partner violence, and a nursing student. Join us as Yana shares the code for building a support network when starting over. Luckily in Norway you are allowed to start over at any time in life. There is a lot of laughter and wisdom here on how to start afresh. Enjoy :)

This is nothing but a master class about the future which is already here. Do you know that you can design the future you want? There is what it takes to imagine the future. Join me as I speak with Siv Hesjedal who is a futuristic expert in future thinking. Enjoy the episode :)

Meet Rhobi Samwel, a phenomenal woman from Tanzania who started an organization "Hope for girls & women in Tanzania" which runs two safe houses in Mugumu and Butiama districts in the Mara region. The safe houses protect girls who run away from the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). Rhobi is a survivor of FGM who nearly died at the age of thirteen from excessive bleeding after being circumcised. She dedicates her life to fighting any form of gender-based violence against girls.

For more information about Rhobi and her organization, please contact her through the website.

https://hopeforgirlsandwomen.org/contact/

Meet Karen Werner a founder of community radio in Bergen, radio multe. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Art Academy in Norway and aims to connect communities through the frequency of radio multe. Join us to learn more about what inspired her to be a radio woman and the interesting story of how we met. Enjoy the show!

Meet Kristin Helle-Valle a founder of the Literature House in Bergen speaking about why and how she started this phenomenal project that marks ten years in February. She also talks about her passion for ideas, literature, and people. Join us to learn why it's important to be open to achieving things in life. Enjoy :)