247: Nyasha Gwatidzo | $800 Million Fund Empowers African Women

06/28/19 • 41 min

Nyasha was born in Zimbabwe. With a degree in Chemistry and an MA in Therapeutic Childcare in the UK, Nyasha is a qualified psychotherapist, coach and mentor. Nyasha has been awarded the European Federation Black Women Business Leader, Business Woman of the Year, Best Social Enterprise of the Year and in 2018 from the South African Chamber of commerce UK, Business and Community Awards, Micro Business Award – Southern Africa.
Over Nyasha’s 30-year career, she has launched and built successful multi-million-pound businesses in the United Kingdom, generating a cumulative $130 million turnover. Her goal is to mentor social entrepreneurs through a social impact investment fund, which will help people, especially women, to reach economic independence through enterprise.
Nyasha’s charity, Vana Trust, supports education in Zimbabwe and the UK. Her book Walk with Me – 16 Inspirational Business and Life inspires entrepreneurs around the world.
Nyasha started her social entrepreneurial journey with a £800 redundancy package and abundant passion for children. She was a founder and campaigner for introducing independent children's homes and fostering agencies to work in partnership with the public sector.
As a black African woman, she faced discrimination in her journey but sheer determination and passion saw her develop a successful social enterprise.
Nyasha is a founder and executive director of Banya Family Placement Agency (an independent fostering agency).
Over the past twenty years she has won and been a finalist of many business awards, varying from social enterprise of the year to businesswoman of the year for her work. She has also won charity awards for Vana Trust, a children's charity she founded.
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Tim is best known as a long-time contributor on the Entrepreneurship and Personal Development website Addicted2Success. Tim's content has been shared hundreds of thousands of times and he has written multiple viral posts on social media all around success, personal development, motivation, and entrepreneurship. During the day Tim works with the most iconic tech companies in the world, as an adviser, to assist them in expanding into Australia. By night, Tim coaches his students on the principles of personal development and the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Tim's biggest inspiration is Tony Robbins and his goal in life is to show people that anybody can achieve the impossible!
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248: Brian Keating | Losing the Nobel Prize - Perils of idolization

Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. He has lectured on six of the seven continents, including Antarctica. He is an expert in the study of the universe's oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which he uses to investigate the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a pioneer in the search for the earliest physical evidence of the inflationary epoch, the theorized period of expansion of space in the early universe directly after the Big Bang. Physicists predict that this evidence will reveal itself as a particular pattern in the way CMB light is polarized; this pattern is referred to as a B-mode pattern, and Keating designed the first experiment dedicated to detecting it (BICEP). In 2014, amidst the purported detection of this long-sought signal, Keating was busy co-teaching a course at UC San Diego entitled "Poetry for Physicists", with Pulitzer Prizewinner Rae Armantrout.
A Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018
The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize.
What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they’d glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned in to the announcement broadcast live from Harvard University, immediately igniting rumors of an imminent Nobel Prize. But had these cosmologists truly read the cosmic prologue or, swept up in Nobel dreams, had they been deceived by a galactic mirage?
In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2’s mesmerizing discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an adventure story that spans the globe from Rhode Island to the South Pole, from California to Chile, Keating takes us on a personal journey of revelation and discovery, bringing to vivid life the highly competitive, take-no-prisoners, publish-or-perish world of modern science. Along the way, he provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation. In a thoughtful reappraisal of the wishes of Alfred Nobel, Keating offers practical solutions for reforming the prize, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may, finally, be able to see all the way back to the very beginning.
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