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  • Episode 1: Coming Soon: Glocal Citizens

    Episode 1: Coming Soon: Glocal Citizens
    2019/11/22
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! Let me introduce myself, I'm your host Florence Amerley Adu. I'm CEO and co-founder of LEAP Transmedia. Our vision is to seeds and sows a fertile ground for improving education and economic outcomes for Ghanaians and Africans across the diaspora. Do you dream about “doing something” abroad? Then consider Glocal Citizens required listening in the due diligence, trusted advisor and inspiration department. In each episode, I visit with dynamic diasporans making local and global impact designing and applying their craft. We explore how their passions have rooted them throughout their lives, while at the same time feeding the branches compelling them to keep reaching “beyond.” We also discuss the personal and professional dimensions of glocal citizenship. Then we round out the discussion with a deep dive into to the business of their business, covering the technical and operational components of the work of “doing something.”
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    2 分
  • Episode 286: Reloading Life in Relocation and Retirement with Serene Lewis Lyles

    Episode 286: Reloading Life in Relocation and Retirement with Serene Lewis Lyles
    2025/08/26
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the predecessor to streaming content), the Internet of Things (now known as “Smart tech”), and high-design vape tech (much to her embarrassment). Fun fact, our paths crossed while we were both based in New York City in the aughts, and we share Colorado and Northern California as places we’ve also called home. After living and working in the States and the UK, she finished her career in San Francisco, as a Senior Director at Meta, leading the content design team behind Facebook and Instagram’s billion-dollar ads business. At Meta, she was also a leader of the employee resource group Black@ Design and founder of the Black@ Content Design Leads group. Since retiring last year, She has now turned her experience of leading people in solving hard problems into a career coaching people through the challenging process of planning for retirement. Her super powers as a coach are being comfortable talking about money, being excited about other people’s dreams, and creating systems that drive action. Where to find Serene? serenelewis.coach (https://serenelewis.coach/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/serenelewis/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/serenelewis/) On the Experts & Expats Podcast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433741/episodes/16857573) What’s Serene reading and listening to? A History of the World in Six Glasses (https://tomstandage.wordpress.com) by Tom Standage Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (https://www.oliverburkeman.com/fourthousandweeks) by Oliver Burkeman Portuguese Lab Podcast (https://www.portugueselab.com/plp) Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend (https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend) Other topics of interest: About Golden Visa Programs (https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa-portugal/) More about international living in Uruguay (https://internationalliving.com/countries/uruguay/) San Francisco’s de Young Art Museum (https://www.famsf.org/visit/de-young) About the Forty Acres and a Mule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule) Blue Man Group (https://www.blueman.com) About Serene’s Mindset Hack @ 56:43 Special Guest: Serene Lewis Lyles.
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    1 時間 8 分
  • Episode 285: Where Palm Wine Meets Music and Digital Transformation with Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor

    Episode 285: Where Palm Wine Meets Music and Digital Transformation with Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor
    2025/08/19
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re flashing back to June 2020 when we first met Emmanual Agbeko Gamor (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/e-a-gamor) while he was based in South Africa attending Wits Business School (https://www.wbs.ac.za). Now glocal in his native Ghana and South Africa he continues to evolve on the personal and professional fronts. Widely known as Palmwine DJ, Emmanuel is a trailblazer in Ghana’s music scene, a digital professional, social entrepreneur, and music curator dedicated to preserving and celebrating African musical heritage. With over a decade of experience working remotely and collaboratively with local, regional, and multinational partners, he’s built a career that bridges the digital and physical worlds, creating impactful experiences through music, networking, and community building. As you’ll hear, this phase of E.A.Gamor is on the cusp of big moves in the coming year. #Listenandlearn more! Where to find Emmanuel? Palmwine DJ (https://eagamor.com) On Glocal Citizens (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/e-a-gamor) What’s Emmanuel playing and listening to? M3NSA (https://www.mensaansah.com) Kwan Pa Band (https://www.kwanpagh.com) Ebo Taylor (https://www.jazzisdead.com/ebotaylor-1) Osibisa (https://www.facebook.com/OsibisaBand/) Kyekyeku (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGpta66GQqZeraJ3NRuEKg) Oher topics of interest: What is Palm Wine? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_wine) On the roots of Palm-wine Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-wine_music) Gome Drum (https://organology.net/instrument/gome/) Jùjú Music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B9j%C3%BA_music) About EDM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music) On FutureCasting (https://www.newmarketsadvisors.com/navigating-uncertainty-with-futurecasting.html) About MTN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music) and MTN Ghana (https://mtn.com.gh/about-home/) My iMali app (https://www.my-imali.com) Special Guest: Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor.
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    53 分
  • Episode 284: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 2

    Episode 284: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 2
    2025/08/12
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through common connects, Adja Maymouna Sakho (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/adja-maymouna-sahko) and Laureen Adams (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/laureen-laury-adams). My guest, fellow educator Kwame Sarfo-Mensah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Temple University. For nine years, he served as a middle school math teacher. Currently, he is the founder of Identity Talk Consulting (https://www.identitytalk4educators.com/), a global educational consulting firm that specializes in developing K-12 teachers into identity-affirming educators. Throughout his 17-year career as a classroom teacher, author, and consultant, Kwame has worked in the United States, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Zambia. Additionally, Kwame has earned numerous accolades for this work, which include being honored as the 2019 National Member of the Year by Black Educators Rock, Inc. and being recognized as a Top Education Influencer by brightbeam, Inc. in 2021 and 2022. His newest book, "Learning to Relearn: Supporting Identity in a Culturally Affirming Classroom", recently won the 2025 IPPY Award for Best Education Commentary Book and the 2024 Foreword INDIES Gold Book Award for Best Education Book. Another dimension of Kwame’s glocal citizenship is the way that he, as a “trailing spouse” has forged forward despite the obvious challenges and has found success and expansion in his craft. I hope your listening will shed additional light on the ways that borderless mindsets are indeed manifesting a new world! Where to find Kwame? On Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07L8MS615?ccs_id=ab1feada-c3e7-4b9d-b7d5-e06317e06e27) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwame-sarfo-mensah/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kwam_the_identity_shaper/) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/kwamesm.idtalk4ed/?_rdc=1&_rdr#) On Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@kwamesarfo-mensah5785) What’s Kwame reading and watching? The Message (https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/the-message/) by Ta-Nehisi Coates Untold Fall of Favre (https://www.netflix.com/gh/title/81748451) Coach Prime (https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Coach-Prime/0J0DQNOK5IDQ0F9CH5SX59YYLC) Other topics of interest: About Mampong, Ghana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mampong) Where is Nsima, Ghana (https://satellites.pro/Nsima_map#google_vignette) About the Akwamu Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwamu_Empire) Lusaka, Zambia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka) A bit about Nyanja and other Zambian languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewa_language) Education past and present in Sierra Leone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Sierra_Leone#:~:text=History,-The%20remains%20of&text=During%20the%20nineteenth%20century%2C%20Sierra,educational%20institute%20in%20the%20region.) Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGZniOuoREU) by Beverly Daniel Tatum Special Guest: Kwame Sarfo-Mensah.
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    28 分
  • Episode 283: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 1

    Episode 283: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 1
    2025/08/05
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through common connects, Adja Maymouna Sakho (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/adja-maymouna-sahko) and Laureen Adams (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/laureen-laury-adams). My guest, fellow educator Kwame Sarfo-Mensah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Temple University. For nine years, he served as a middle school math teacher. Currently, he is the founder of Identity Talk Consulting (https://www.identitytalk4educators.com/), a global educational consulting firm that specializes in developing K-12 teachers into identity-affirming educators. Throughout his 17-year career as a classroom teacher, author, and consultant, Kwame has worked in the United States, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Zambia. Additionally, Kwame has earned numerous accolades for this work, which include being honored as the 2019 National Member of the Year by Black Educators Rock, Inc. and being recognized as a Top Education Influencer by brightbeam, Inc. in 2021 and 2022. His newest book, "Learning to Relearn: Supporting Identity in a Culturally Affirming Classroom", recently won the 2025 IPPY Award for Best Education Commentary Book and the 2024 Foreword INDIES Gold Book Award for Best Education Book. Another dimension of Kwame’s glocal citizenship is the way that he, as a “trailing spouse” has forged forward despite the obvious challenges and has found success and expansion in his craft. I hope your listening will shed additional light on the ways that borderless mindsets are indeed manifesting a new world! Where to find Kwame? On Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07L8MS615?ccs_id=ab1feada-c3e7-4b9d-b7d5-e06317e06e27) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwame-sarfo-mensah/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kwam_the_identity_shaper/) On Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/kwamesm.idtalk4ed/?_rdc=1&_rdr#) On Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@kwamesarfo-mensah5785) What’s Kwame reading and watching? The Message (https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/the-message/) by Ta-Nehisi Coates Untold Fall of Favre (https://www.netflix.com/gh/title/81748451) Coach Prime (https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Coach-Prime/0J0DQNOK5IDQ0F9CH5SX59YYLC) Other topics of interest: About Mampong, Ghana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mampong) Where is Nsima, Ghana (https://satellites.pro/Nsima_map#google_vignette) About the Akwamu Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwamu_Empire) Lusaka, Zambia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka) A bit about Nyanja and other Zambian languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewa_language) Education past and present in Sierra Leone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Sierra_Leone#:~:text=History,-The%20remains%20of&text=During%20the%20nineteenth%20century%2C%20Sierra,educational%20institute%20in%20the%20region.) Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGZniOuoREU) by Beverly Daniel Tatum Special Guest: Kwame Sarfo-Mensah.
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    48 分
  • Episode 282: Leading Beyond Burnout with Hawa Kombian

    Episode 282: Leading Beyond Burnout with Hawa Kombian
    2025/07/29
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! The spirit of summers past visits with us this week; it’s another Glocal Citizens @‌5flashback forward episode. In 2023, my guest this week, Hawa Kombian (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/hawa-kombian) joined us for a two part conversation while she was based in her adopted home country, Canada. Today she's back in Ghana spreading new wings as a leadership strategist, resilience coach, and organizational advisor dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations sustain their impact without sacrificing their people. With 14+ years of experience in social impact leadership, public speaking, and organizational change, she has worked with leaders across North America, Africa, and Europe to prevent burnout, build resilient teams, and create lasting cultural shifts at both the individual and organizational levels. And that’s where we’re picking up this week’s conversation. As a sought-after speaker and facilitator, she integrates mental resilience, emotional intelligence, and strategic leadership to help leaders navigate high-pressure environments without falling into unproductive burnout loops. Where to find Hawa? Hawa Kombian Consulting (https://hawakombianconsulting.com/) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhkombian/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hkombian/) On Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/hawa-kombian) What’s Hawa reading? Dead Money (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746269/dead-money-by-jakob-kerr/) by Jakob Kerr Other topics of interest: Gambaga, Ghana (https://www.modernghana.com/news/909065/gambaga-the-capital-of-east-mamprusi-municipal-be-consider.html) About Najong #1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moba_people) “Yaya hanya” and other beginning Hausa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmBUzoN0F9Q) P4 Pilates, Accra (https://www.instagram.com/p4ghana/?hl=en) Kukun (https://www.kukun.co/) Open Mic in Accra Special Guest: Hawa Kombian.
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    1 時間 1 分
  • Episode 281: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 2

    Episode 281: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 2
    2025/07/22
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei also holds an MA in Communications from Temple University. A still active internationally touring professional Canadian Hip hop artist and Spoken word poet of Trinidad & Tobago extract, his field research employs a multi-modal ethnography of Reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and Hip-hop performance communities and related social justice movements across the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the black Atlantic nexus between Jamaica and Ghana. We recently met while he was in Ghana working on his forthcoming book, Dancehall Diaspora: Rastafari and Rudeness in the African Postcolony, thanks to consumate connector, Muhammida el Muhajir (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/muhammida-el-muhajir). As Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, his writing repertoire spans African diasporic art and philosophy movements such as afrofuturism, afropolitanism and afropessimism. In this conversation, Dr. Osei offers an insightful glimpse into the spaces he has navigated in honing this and his other crafts. Where to find Osei? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/osei-alleyne-456406301/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dreadless_dread/) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@oseialleyne7106) What’s Osei watching? First Peoples Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTMNdJem00) Other topics of interest: About Trinidad and Tobago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago) History about Carnivals in the Black Diaspora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_carnivals_around_the_world) The Book of African Names (https://africaworldpressbooks.com/the-book-of-african-names-as-told-by-chief-osuntoki/#:~:text=Price:,want%20to%20claim%20their%20identity.) On Africana Studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_studies) About Liberia’s Edward Wilmot Blyden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wilmot_Blyden) About The Black Star Line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_Line), Garveyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garveyism), and The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League) About Ethiopianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_movement) Alex Haley’s Roots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(1977_miniseries)) Association of Black Anthropologists (https://aba.americananthro.org) Zora Neale Hurston, Novelist and Anthropologist (https://whyy.org/segments/novelist-zora-neale-hurston-was-a-cultural-anthropologist-first/) About Cheik Anta Diop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop) About what was to be Akon City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon_City) Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Debate 1967 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDup63f9t4) About Cultural Theorist Stuart Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)) About Author and Scholar, Paul Gilroy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gilroy) Martin Bernal and Black Athena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94shpS4_xQc) Reggie Rockston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Rockstone) and HipLife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiplife) About Shatta Wale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale) What is the Theory of Mind (https://www.verywellmind.com/theory-of-mind-4176826) Black Holes and the Macro Universe (https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=108974) Special Guest: Osei Alleyne.
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    46 分
  • Episode 280: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 1

    Episode 280: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 1
    2025/07/15
    Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei also holds an MA in Communications from Temple University. A still active internationally touring professional Canadian Hip hop artist and Spoken word poet of Trinidad & Tobago extract, his field research employs a multi-modal ethnography of Reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and Hip-hop performance communities and related social justice movements across the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the black Atlantic nexus between Jamaica and Ghana. We recently met while he was in Ghana working on his forthcoming book, Dancehall Diaspora: Rastafari and Rudeness in the African Postcolony, thanks to consumate connector, Muhammida el Muhajir (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/muhammida-el-muhajir). As Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, his writing repertoire spans African diasporic art and philosophy movements such as afrofuturism, afropolitanism and afropessimism. In this conversation, Dr. Osei offers an insightful glimpse into the spaces he has navigated in honing this and his other crafts. Where to find Osei? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/osei-alleyne-456406301/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dreadless_dread/) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@oseialleyne7106) What’s Osei watching? First Peoples Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTMNdJem00) Other topics of interest: About Trinidad and Tobago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago) History about Carnivals in the Black Diaspora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_carnivals_around_the_world) The Book of African Names (https://africaworldpressbooks.com/the-book-of-african-names-as-told-by-chief-osuntoki/#:~:text=Price:,want%20to%20claim%20their%20identity.) On Africana Studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_studies) About Liberia’s Edward Wilmot Blyden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wilmot_Blyden) About The Black Star Line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_Line), Garveyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garveyism), and The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League) About Ethiopianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_movement) Alex Haley’s Roots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(1977_miniseries)) Association of Black Anthropologists (https://aba.americananthro.org) Zora Neale Hurston, Novelist and Anthropologist (https://whyy.org/segments/novelist-zora-neale-hurston-was-a-cultural-anthropologist-first/) About Cheik Anta Diop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop) About what was to be Akon City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon_City) Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Debate 1967 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDup63f9t4) About Cultural Theorist Stuart Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)) About Author and Scholar, Paul Gilroy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gilroy) Martin Bernal and Black Athena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94shpS4_xQc) Reggie Rockston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Rockstone) and HipLife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiplife) About Shatta Wale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatta_Wale) What is the Theory of Mind (https://www.verywellmind.com/theory-of-mind-4176826) Black Holes and the Macro Universe (https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=108974) Special Guest: Osei Alleyne.
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    48 分