No Brown in Town

Peter Komolafe

As featured on Lorraine and Steph's Packed Lunch! Peter is passionate about helping people make informed financial decisions. He is a Qualified Financial Adviser, Qualified Mortgage Adviser and he shares everything he's learned during his 15 years experience in Financial Services on YouTube (Conversation of Money), his podcast (The Conversation of Money Podcast) and National TV. Peter has a new book, The Money Basics: How to become your own financial hero - which you can buy here: https://a...

Jenny Garrett OBE

Most described as inspiring, thought provoking, empowering and practical. Jenny was awarded OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2021 for services to Entrepreneurship and Women in Business. In this episode we discuss the books which Jenny has authored; Rocking Your Role - which is about empowering female breadwinners, and the new book, Equality vs Equity -  tackling issues of Race in the workplace.

Charlie Holt-Staplehurst

The first ever in person recording of the podcast and I got to speak to a Women in Insurance awards nominee! In this episode we discuss Charlie's growing up, allyship, and Kanye West! 

Buki Ishola

Buki is an Executive Coach that works specifically with African Diaspora professionals. In this episode we discuss practical steps African diaspora professionals could take in order to thrive and realise their potential in the workplace. Buki has a supporting free resource available to listeners which you can download here: https://www.citadelcoaching.co.uk/7mistakes

Podcast Update

In this episode I'm giving you an update on the podcast, why I'm doing the podcast, why I disappeared for a year, and what you can look forward to. Season 2 has already started very strongly and the momentum shall certainly carry on!

Dr. Shungu M'gadzah

In this episode we discuss Dr. Shungu's latest book, The Six Stages Framework: Dealing with Everyday Racism. We look at the stages described in the book and how they provide a framework for individuals to use when discussing the topic of tackling racism. 

Joanne Safo

Entrepreneur and CEO of Lukango, Joanne talks about the experiences of fundraising as an underestimated founder. We talk about positive discrimination and some of the real experiences that Joanne went through growing up mixed race in London. 

LIVE: Hayley Connage & Bosa Igbinoba

The first ever live recording of No Brown in Town. In this episode we discuss the "noise" that is faced within the workplace and how Hayley & Bosa have both grown up to learn to ignore the noise. 

Iveren Yongo

In the first episode of the Black History Month edition, Iveren and I speak about microaggressions in the workplace and how they impact people day to day. We also speak about why Black History Month is important. 

Teniola Tijani

Teniola is an underwriter within the insurance industry and the founder of Ladies That Lunch (LTL) Collective. Teniola has been vocal about her experiences at work and speaks about her experiences as a black woman within the insurance industry

Rob Anarfi

Rob is active within the market promoting racial diversity and inclusion. As the senior sponsor of RATL, Rob gives us an insight into his journey through the industry and talks about how other people should think about sponsorship when looking for progression. 

Luke Ogunlaja

What is in a name? We discuss how Luke changed his name for his CV in order to get more responses as well as the action people need to be taking to promote diversity within the industry.

Joe Madafi

Joe is an actuary and he speaks about his experiences within insurance. Joe highlights that the more technical "back office" roles within insurance are already quite diverse. Could this be replicated by other sections of the industry?

Episode 3, Inyang Udosen

Necessity breeds invention. Inyang unpacks the difference in approach to diversity we are seeing after the death of George Floyd. We discuss how certain big corporations could have done something already if diversity and inclusion had been of higher importance to the corporate. 

Episode 2, Sabine VanderLinden

Sabine is well regarded within the Insurtech space, and is the only black woman, and black person on the Insurtech Top 50 influencers list. I discuss with the Queen of Insurtech about diversity and how Insurtech could lead the way in improving diversity within the Insurance industry. 

Sabine VanderLinden

Sabine is well regarded within the Insurtech space, and is the only black woman, and black person on the Insurtech Top 50 influencers list. I discuss with the Queen of Insurtech about diversity and how Insurtech could lead the way in improving diversity within the Insurance industry.

Episode 1, Leon Walker

Leon Walker is a Senior Director at an Insurance Technology company.  In this episode we discuss growing up outside of London, how Leon left the world of Law to coach football (soccer) before venturing into Insurance. 

Leon Walker

Leon Walker is a Senior Director at an Insurance Technology company.  In this episode we discuss growing up outside of London, how Leon left the world of Law to coach football (soccer) before venturing into Insurance. 

Inyang Udosen

Necessity breeds invention. Inyang unpacks the difference in approach to diversity we are seeing after the death of George Floyd. We discuss how certain big corporations could have done something already if diversity and inclusion had been of higher importance to the corporate.

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