The Unshackled Podcast

Special guest! We brought two amazing women with over 20 years of experience in the corporate world to talk about NETWORKING. Mrs Lami Hadiza George, COO of Koncept Digital and Mrs. Mildred Nadah Pita, Head Public Affairs Science Sustainability for Bayer. From their experience, they give tips on how we can network better as individuals, business owners or even professionals in the corporate world. We hope you enjoy this one. Share your thoughts too on any of our socials. See you soon !

Season 2 of THE UNSHACKLED PODCAST is here and better! Join us as we share our experiences, insights, and growth stories in business and entrepreneurship landscape in Nigeria. This episode promises to be fun, informative, and a bliss to your ears. Episode 1: Starting a business in Nigeria. We looked into the realities of Nigeria today and here is our bits on how you can navigate it as a growing entrepreneur. Cheers! Don't forget to follow us on all socials: facebook, instagram @unshackledpodcast

 Being a product of an entrepreneurial family, Usman had the opportunity to tap into his father's wealth of experience from a very young age. Having also studied business management at HULT business school in the UK, he found himself with the right set of tools to delve into entrepreneurship without looking back, giving birth to Manus Market and subsidiaries; an ultra-modern one-stop supermarket in Kano state of Nigeria, now employing over 30 people.

This episode explores planning and execution. The planning process, methods and the various techniques involved, time as well as resources to meet the project requirements. 

Today's episode is all about living a life of gratitude.  How gratitude in our everyday lives saves as a powerful strategy for improving our effectiveness as persons and strengthening the relationships we all rely on. In essence, being thankful for even the little things of life. 

On this episode, we reflect on all the lessons we learnt from Amal Hassan's Impactful Mentorship and Networking session. The event was a 2-hour intensive and interactive session focused on impact areas of different start-ups and its representatives in attendance and how they can scale and make their Businesses better through lessons learnt from Amal Hassan's entrepreneurial Journey. Read the blog of how it all went down on www.unshackledpodcast.com/blog

In today's episode, the focus is on public speaking and all the challenges that come along with it. We believe public speaking is a skill that almost anyone can acquire by following the right process. Listen to our different experiences in public speaking and how we learnt to overcome the challenges we faced along the way and also tips on how to be an excellent public speaker.

In this episode, we continued our conversation on ‘Getting Started’. We talked about the importance of company culture and the what we have been doing to set that culture in our businesses. We discussed just how important are higher education institutions post covid and what are the key things employers are currently looking in employees? We discussed the importance of technology in any field and suggested where to ‘skill up’ and become up-to-date and more valuable to your organisation.

 This episode's discussion is rallied around knowing your customer, identifying your niche, and other key elements towards starting your own business. Ahmad, Hassan, and Gbenga deep-dived into the ideation process and steps they took with their current startups.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our businesses forever - for the better or for the worst? In this episode, we discussed specifically how this Global Pandemic affected us on both a personal level and our businesses and how we adapted. We discuss in detail the crazy adventures and the sacrifices we made in our businesses and the new opportunities that came out of it.  This is a must-listen! If you have enjoyed it please leave us a review on apple podcast. Follow us on Twitter (@__UNshackled) and Instagram (@unshackledpodcast).  www.unshackledpodcast.com