Latest Angelmutoni Podcast Episodes
Ep. 42 - Positive Self Care in the Workplace and Home: Joy Gihana
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - February 27, 2021 00:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDid you know that an estimated 6%-7% of full-time workers in the US experience major depression, costing employers an estimated $44 billion per year in lost production time? Joy Gihana is the Founder and CEO of Family Life and Beyond and holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. You wil...
Ep. 34 - Mozhgan Wafiq Alokozai: Empowering Women in Afghanistan
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - January 02, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAre you courageous? Imagine yourself walking down a street in Afghanistan. You have to be accompanied by a male relative. As you walk along, the potential of a bomb exploding is very real. How do you economically and socially empower oppressed women? Education. By arming women with knowledge, th...
Ep. 40 - Drs. Sharifa Hesarnaee /Susan Chambers: Two Brave Doctors
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - August 22, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDr. Sharifa Hesarnaee of Kabul, Afghanistan, tells about struggling to maintain the OB/GYN department in a Kabul hospital dealing with both COVID-19 and a horrific terrorist attack on the hospital. Dr. Susan Chambers of Oklahoma City, OK, is her mentor who has continued to be a friend to Sharifa...
Ep. 39 - Barbara Crain: Dairy and Beef Farming in Oklahoma
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - August 17, 2020 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBarbara Crain, along with her husband, pioneered grass-fed dairy and beef in the state of Oklahoma. Together they have taken a tired, underproducing wheat farm and turned it into a profitable, environmentally responsible value-added grass-fed dairy farm. They began dairy farming in 1991 and buil...
Ep. 38 - Michel Buthion: Restaurant Creativity!
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - August 12, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMichel Buthion is considered a fine food and wine aficionado not just in Oklahoma, but around the globe. Other ventures have included turning a vintage theatre into a dining and event center, building and managing the first boutique hotel food and beverage concept in the City, taking over a favo...
Ep. 37-Manizha Wafeq: The Real Afghanistan Today
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - August 07, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsManizha Wafeq graduated from the inaugural PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® class in 2007 and is currently teaching her 13th year of the program in Kabul as the In-Country Facilitator for Afghanistan. In this role, she has taught and mentored more than 400 Afghan businesswomen in Kabul and other smaller ...
Ep. 36 - Mohsina Saqeb: Creativity in Clothing Manufacturing
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - August 04, 2020 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMs. Mohseni Saqeb is the Founder and President of Jama Saqeb Design and Production Company in Afghanistan. She is a skilled business woman with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Jama's products in the clothing design sector combine new, classic and local designs such as formal, local...
Ep. 35 - Florence Isaro: Reading in Rwanda
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - July 29, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEp. 35 - Florence Isaro is a passionate linguist who works as a translator with two bachelor’s degrees, one in Political Science and one in English-French translation. As an adult in Rwanda, she has seen firsthand how challenging it is for parents to get their children to and from the public lib...
Ep. 34 - Barbara Umumoza: We Are Feeding the People
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - July 24, 2020 07:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBarbara Umuhoza is a pastor and the owner of Eclat Communications. She’s particularly dedicated to helping her country become a regional conference hub for east Africa. Her company has a wide spread of services, such as translation, content production, and social media usage. She talks about how...
Ep. 33-Sylvia Scott: Building the Girls CEO Connection
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - March 22, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter a long career in the fashion industry, Sylvia Scott was ready for a career pivot. New work led her to coordinating a mother-daughter entrepreneurship summit, and it was the springboard for a desire to help teen girls find a path to entrepreneurship. Her organization, the Girls CEO Connec...
Ep. 32-Cathy Cruzan: Unexpected Joy of Mentorship
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - March 08, 2020 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs president of Funds for Learning, Cathy Cruzan leads her the consultancy in assisting schools and libraries navigate the E-rate program, a critical source of discounts on Internet services. She has a broad portfolio at the company, overseeing their various business efforts. With this experie...
Ep. 31-Alyssa Weathers-Murphy: The Siren Call of Independence
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - March 01, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlyssa Weathers-Murphy knows the dread of an unfulfilling corporate job. One day, it was finally time to put her considerable skills and passion to use on her own business, striking out to launch her own marketing agency. Nearly a year later, Siren Media is growing fast with an all-female team o...
Ep. 30-Ginger Sloan: Learning Due Diligence
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - February 23, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter Ginger Sloan had her first daughter, she was determined to work from home. On a whim, she answered a radio ad to become a medical transcriptionist, quickly finishing coursework and embarking on a new career. She grew a solo operation into Encore Medical Services, with a team of transcrip...
Ep.29-Jan Hill: A Spirit Renewed Through Service
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - February 16, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHair Salon owner Jan Hill spent years building a successful business and helping her employees achieve success. However, after contracting an illness that resulted in the loss of using her hands, she couldn’t do hairdresser work any longer. While she could still run the business, Hill wanted t...
Ep. 28-Sonu Ratra: Two Suitcases and a Dream
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - February 09, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSonu Ratra embodies the immigrant dream of coming to America and seeking success. She arrived from her native India with a pair of suitcases and just the money in her pockets as she and her husband came to chase new opportunities in the 90s in California’s Silicon Valley. Ratra recounts the jo...
Ep.27-Angelika Coghlan: Burn the Bridge of Hope
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - February 02, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBusiness success isn’t built on just hoping for the right outcome. That’s why consultant Angelika Coughlan is always telling her clients to burn that bridge of hope. Entrepreneurs must do the hard work of understanding who their customers are and what they care about. One of her most satisfyin...
Ep. 26-Mary Ruppert-Stroescu: Making Clothing Smarter
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - January 26, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMary Ruppert-Stroescu believes clothing can play a role in improving health outcomes. A longtime fashion designer, she is passionate about the potential for EKG and other types of monitoring systems to be embedded in clothing, delivering better information to patients and doctors. She designed...
Ep. 25-Monica Smiley: Never Stop Being Inspired
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - January 19, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs editor and publisher of Enterprising Women Magazine, Monica Smiley knows the challenges women face in business. Yet what she’s seen here in the U.S. pales to the experiences of female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and Rwanda. Their resilience and ability to succeed, however, leaves her continu...
Ep.24-Karel Ford: The Role of Mentors
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - January 12, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Peace Through Business program provides women from Rwanda and Afghanistan with the essential skills they need to unleash their entrepreneurial potential. Karel Ford directs the mentorship side with the initiative, pairing up U.S.-based business leaders with women who are launching and buildi...
Ep. 23-Karel Ford: My Role in IEEW
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - January 05, 2020 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKarel Ford wants to see women worldwide have the freedom and skills to start their own businesses. This is why she heads the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women, where she and her team mentor women in Rwanda and Afghanistan giving them valuable entrepreneurship skills to help them find s...
Ep. 22-Princesse Umutesiwase: Embrace the Challenges you Faced and Use them as Fuel for your Journey
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 29, 2019 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPrincesses Umuntesiwase always got pushack from her brothers about how much she would be able to accomplish as a girl. Proving them wrong became paramount, and she worked hard through school to earn a scholarship at a university in Nairobi, then landing a job at the central bank of Rwanda. Yet...
Ep 21-Chandelle Mutezintare: As a Woman Believe You Have the Power to Create and Succeed in Whatever You Do
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 24, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor Chandelle Mutezintare, it wasn’t always clear how she would break out of the traditional gender roles and one day own a business. With a young child and husband, she began going to school at night even though it at first caused friction at home. She was also met with unapproving professors w...
Ep. 20-Diane Murekatete: When We Have the Courage to Pursue all our Dreams, They Will Come True
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 21, 2019 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDiane Murkatete discovered the key to her success through trial and error. Her family was always focused on agriculture, and after a career in government service she and her husband decided to give farming a go. They purchased a large plot of land, hopeful to build a future for their four kids a...
Ep. 19-Asterie Hitimana: You are your own Limit. Live Each Day with Passion
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 17, 2019 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLike many families during the Rwandan genocide Asterie “Asty” Hitimana’s fleed to escape the violence, returning later to try and rebuild their lives and country. Growing up, Hitimana hada passion for fashion and design, dressing up dolls and helping her mom as she made clothing for the family...
Ep. 18-Sona Mahmody: Being an Entrepreneur is Seeing Opportunities Where Others Don't
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 14, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBeing a businesswoman in Afghanistan isn’t easy, according to Sona Mahmody. She’s the owner of Rumi Trading LLC, a business that helps Afghan women export dried fruit, saffron, and nuts to eastern markets, with a goal of eventually expanding to the U.S. and Europe. The aim of her business is t...
Ep. 17-Aisha Haguma: Focus on Your Dream
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 10, 2019 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGrowing up, Aisha Haguma had to do a lot of fending for herself. She lost her parents in the Rwanda genocide, and lived with her aunt and extended family. Yet that experience gave her the strength and courage to be independent. She’s grown into an entrepreneur as the owner of a supermarket, Al...
Ep.16-Barbara Umuhoza: Pastor and Successful Communications Business Owner
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 07, 2019 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDeep and meaningful conversation is at the core of what Barbara Umuhoza believes can connect and heal others. This vision drove her as a pastor and has been continued with her as the business owner of Eclat Communications. With her pastoral background, integrity is essential to how she runs th...
Ep.15-Angel Mutoni: Music Can Set You Free
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - December 03, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs a child, Angel Mutoni admired her father’s musical talents. It was one of many sources of connection she clung to in her childhood as she coped with the loss of her mother. Mutoni’s father released an album and did a number of performances during those years, while also giving the family a ri...
Ep. 14-Freshta Sarwaree: Always try to Achieve your Goals
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - November 30, 2019 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFreshta Sarwaree has an immense passion to build economic security and independence for women in Afghanistan. She does this through her business and school, building a support network for the women in her community.. Sarwaree’s company, Green Choice, provides processed food, fruit, and spices ...
Ep. 13-Frida Kansime: Your Dreams Become a Reality with Determination and Hard Work
PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® - November 26, 2019 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrida Kansime was only three years old when her family was forced to flee due to the Rwandan genocide. When her family returned, she learned she had lost her grandmother and other members of her family. With her close family and support system, she was able to build a life through achievement ...
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