//podcastplus.net/feed/findinghere~281c6034 FindingHere is a podcast, hosted by Alejandro Garcia-Amaya, where listeners hear from leaders who pursue their passions and achieve their dreams. It covers upbringing, fears, success, inspirations, and lessons learned. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:10:00 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805635/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714820-44100-2-0ebcb667ec4f2.mp3 Iyinoluwa “E” Aboyeji is a Nigerian entrepreneur who has built two of Africa’s fastest-growing tech startups and took early retirement leave by age 28. E co-founded Andela, now a leader connecting Africa’s top software developers with tech companies from the U.S. and around the world, having originally secured $24 million in funding from Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation. After three years, E left Andela to co-found Flutterwave, an online payment solution connecting Africans to the global economy, securing $20 Million, processing 100 million transactions worth $2.6 Billion since inception.These experiences, plus a valuable lesson learned at 14 – which he mentions in his TEDx talk “When will Africa’s Elite Grow Up?” – brought him a new perspective in life and in business. Tune in to learn what he believes is the future and possibilities within Nigeria and Africa and what businesses should aim to deliver in order to become truly successful.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findingher... Tue, 28 May 2019 11:00:22 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805635/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714820-44100-2-0ebcb667ec4f2.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805637/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714822-44100-1-1f9383edf8ec5.mp3 Forsan Hussein is a social entrepreneur who has been on a mission to bring peace and unity between the Jewish and Arab communities ever since he was 10 years old. Today, Forsan is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Kauffman Fellow and the co-founder and managing partner of Zaitoun Ventures; a venture capital fund investing and creating valuable tech companies that place emphasis on having Jewish and Arab entrepreneurs working together.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:00:02 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805637/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714822-44100-1-1f9383edf8ec5.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805638/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714823-44100-1-d697ce06a5d06.mp3 Discovering the underwater world through dronesChristine Spiten is a 29-year-old Norwegian sailing champion, engineer, and Co-founder of Blueye Robotics, an underwater drone startup revolutionizing the way people interact with the ocean. Christine and her team have raised over $6 million to date.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:00:09 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805638/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714823-44100-1-d697ce06a5d06.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850490/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429536-44100-1-bddd96eed42b2.mp3 Kriti Sharma is an Artificial Intelligence specialist and a leading global voice on ethical technology and its impact on society. She built her first robot at the age of 15 in India and has been building innovative AI technologies to solve global issues, from productivity to inequality to domestic abuse, ever since. Founder of AI for Good, an organization creating the next generation technology for a better, fairer world. Kriti also leads AI and Ethics at Sage.In this episode we cover the day-to-day fear most women in Kriti’s hometown experience, her first robot creation, meeting President Obama and leading mobile products for United Kingdom's largest software group company while she was in her mid 20s.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:00:11 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850490/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429536-44100-1-bddd96eed42b2.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805639/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714824-44100-1-de266f6164e92.mp3 Kriti Sharma is an Artificial Intelligence specialist and a leading global voice on ethical technology and its impact on society. She built her first robot at the age of 15 in India and has been building innovative AI technologies to solve global issues, from productivity to inequality to domestic abuse, ever since. Founder of AI for Good, an organization creating the next generation technology for a better, fairer world. Kriti also leads AI and Ethics at Sage.In this episode we cover the day-to-day fear most women in Kriti’s hometown experience, her first robot creation, meeting President Obama and leading mobile products for United Kingdom's largest software group company while she was in her mid 20s.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:00:11 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805639/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714824-44100-1-de266f6164e92.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850493/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429537-44100-1-04c7aa7bd56a.mp3 Anu came from a small town in India and working in a call center in Mumbai, to become the CEO at Rocket Internet Asia and co-founder of EFI Hub (acquired by Acorn Capital). Marked with extreme obstacles and gender discrimination both in her home and at work, Anu continues to break barriers one after another.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:00:40 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850493/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429537-44100-1-04c7aa7bd56a.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805641/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714826-44100-2-5ec2f02d2bc71.mp3 American technology executive, author and judoka. First American to win a gold medal at the World Judo Championships, CEO of 7 Generation games and the Julia Group. Forbes 40 women to watch over 40 and mother of Ronda Rousey, Olympic judo medallist and former MMA champion.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805641/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714826-44100-2-5ec2f02d2bc71.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850492/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429540-44100-2-0ab3fe0f3828.mp3 Richard Nares is a CNN Hero award recipient who is the Co-Founder of the Emilio Nares Foundation; a program dedicated to helping children diagnosed with cancer from low-income underserved families meet basic needs such as door to door transportation so patients can actually make it to their cancer treatments.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850492/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429540-44100-2-0ab3fe0f3828.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805642/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714827-44100-2-95723d2e7dd49.mp3 Richard Nares is a CNN Hero award recipient who is the Co-Founder of the Emilio Nares Foundation; a program dedicated to helping children diagnosed with cancer from low-income underserved families meet basic needs such as door to door transportation so patients can actually make it to their cancer treatments.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findinghere/message Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/4805642/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-8-23%2F24714827-44100-2-95723d2e7dd49.mp3 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850499/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429541-44100-2-06663509830ba.mp3 Nate Martin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Puzzle Break, the first American escape room company. Founded in 2013, Puzzle Break is headquartered in Seattle with locations in New York, Massachusetts and on Royal Caribbean ships. He is a Business Journal 40-Under-40 honoree.Martin is a frequent lecturer on the topics of escape rooms, interactive entertainment, design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He maintains a blog where he discusses those subjects and more. His interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, MarketWatch, and countless other outlets. He was profiled by MSNBC’s Your Business where he was first dubbed the "Founding Father of Escape Rooms."A graduate of the DigiPen Institute of Technology, he was a senior executive at Microsoft and Electronic Arts prior to Puzzle Break. He has shipped software used by billions of users as well as some of the most beloved video games of a generation.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/find... Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000 https://anchor.fm/s/a507c10/podcast/play/2850499/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2019-3-5%2F12429541-44100-2-06663509830ba.mp3