18. The Importance of a Sponsor
06/30/19 • 54 min
In today’s episode we have an incredible discussion with Dr. Adaeze Enekwechi, former White House Associate Director of Health Programs.
Adaeze was born in New Jersey and went to elementary School in Nigeria.
Adaeze has experienced a highly successful career in a relatively short time. She started her career at the Congressional Budget Office, where she analyzed the federal budget and wrote about setting priorities for our future. A bit over a decade later, she went on to lead health programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, and worked across the entire federal health landscape.
Today she is the President of Impaq International and its subsidiaries. In addition she is a research associate professor at a University in Washington D.C.
In today’s discussion we cover a number of valuable nuggets. Adaeze talks about the importance of a sponsor. She talks about not allowing fear to dictate the direction that you take, and provides interesting insight about not being grateful in the workplace. Adaeze encourages us to figure out what makes us happy and focus on that. She believes that failure is a necessary part of success and speaks about going for it.
Adaeze recommends the following books:
1. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
2. The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
3. Year of Yes - Shonda Rhimes
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In today’s episode we have an incredible discussion with Dr. Adaeze Enekwechi, former White House Associate Director of Health Programs.
Adaeze was born in New Jersey and went to elementary School in Nigeria.
Adaeze has experienced a highly successful career in a relatively short time. She started her career at the Congressional Budget Office, where she analyzed the federal budget and wrote about setting priorities for our future. A bit over a decade later, she went on to lead health programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Obama, and worked across the entire federal health landscape.
Today she is the President of Impaq International and its subsidiaries. In addition she is a research associate professor at a University in Washington D.C.
In today’s discussion we cover a number of valuable nuggets. Adaeze talks about the importance of a sponsor. She talks about not allowing fear to dictate the direction that you take, and provides interesting insight about not being grateful in the workplace. Adaeze encourages us to figure out what makes us happy and focus on that. She believes that failure is a necessary part of success and speaks about going for it.
Adaeze recommends the following books:
1. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
2. The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
3. Year of Yes - Shonda Rhimes
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17. Follow Your Intellectual Curiosity
Today I chat to the incredibly accomplished Linda Nkechinyelu Oramasionwu-Leverette. Linda is the Founder and CEO of Kupanda Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on investing in Pan African companies across all sectors. She's invested in some really cool companies, including Mavin Records, Don Jazzy’s record label. Linda is VERY passionate about development on the continent, and is also very down to earth despite her huge success. Linda grew up in Manitoba Canada, but was firmly grounded in Igbo culture. She joined the Umunna Igbo Association as a child and learned to celebrate the culture, even though she grew up outside Nigeria. As a child of first generation immigrants, Linda learned from her parents a level of entrepreneurship and resilience that served her very well. Linda moved to the U.S a decade ago and fell in love with the "Audacity of the American Dream." Every day is different for Linda and in her words there is “No Dulling” We talk about the importance of following good people and how people matter in business and in life. Listen to this episode to discover what Linda means, when she says to be audacious and to follow your intellectual curiosity.
Linda recommends the following books:
1. Americanah - Chimamanda Adichie
2. Speak no evil - Uzodinma Iweala
3. David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
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19. The Beauty of Language
In this episode I had so much fun chatting to Ifunanya Nwanonyiri.
Raised in the U.S, Ifunanya did not grow up speaking Igbo but had a curiosity to learn about the culture, and was super conscious of where she is from.
Ifunanya is a student studying for her doctorate in Physical Therapy.
In spite of her busy schedule, she recently started a Podcast called “Oji Abiala Igbo Podcast”. In Igbo “Oji Abiala” means The kola nut is here.
The podcast is a play on several things. In her words the kola nut can only be blessed in Igbo so the podcast is a call to action to celebrate and keep the Igbo culture alive. So you can already tell Ifunanya is an inspiring young woman after my own heart, I just knew we would get along.
The podcast documents her journey in learning the language and she invites her listeners to learn along with her.
You can listen to the Igbo Podcast on
2. Spotify
3. Soundcloud
4. Anchor
We discuss the best way to learn the language and the reason we should not use the excuse that there are so many dialects in the Igbo language, as an excuse not to learn.
We also have fun testing out our skills and we exchange pleasantries in Igbo.
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