Podcast
EP002: Dania Beckford, Brand Communicator & Body Positive Advocate in Jamaica
In the second episode of Mondopreneur podcast, we are talking to Dania Beckford, an entrepreneur and employee in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. She is a Brand Communicator and Body-positive advocate. She runs her own fashion label BroadTail and they produce and ship worldwide swimsuits and accessories and costumes for the famous Jamaican carnival.
She gets insights from both sides, as an entrepreneur but also as someone working in a government institution.
Some of the topics we covered are, what is the state of entrepreneurship in Jamaica, what have changed with new generations and globalisation, what is the distinction between formal and informal economy, and what industry generates the most money that contributes to national GDP and how are they trying to overcome obstacles.
Danya is also sharing some advice on how to overcome and embrace the challenge and change that is inevitable the main characteristic of our time.
This conversation, as any other, is not just about the future trends or current situation, it is an intimate history of one country in this challenging time.
EP001: Feng Yu, Journalist and Translator in China
In the very first episode of Mondopreneur podcast we are talking to Feng Yu, a journalist and a translator from Shanghai, China.
Some of the topics we talked about with Feng were> how the life looked like at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 in China, what was the role of media in spreading the “panic” and what damage ca it make if we turn to unreliable sources of information, what was the reaction of Chinese government and how did they helped entrepreneurs and company owners in order to recover the economy, how did small-scale business adapted to new situation, what is the role of Big data in stopping or keeping under control the spread of Corona virus, and what is the cost of new normal we can afford.
Is the future of economies around the Globe in equal status of domestic and foreign suppliers of goods and services and how did China managed to recover its economy for extraordinary 90% of pre-Covid time, what is the meaning of the word solidarity and how to cope with not only with Covid-19, but also with anxiety, fear and panic and how to learn to live, love and work, remotely.