“I dare myself to speak up and speak out, even if I’m nervous.” - Ebony Price This episode features a young woman who, in many ways epitomizes exactly what the Get InPowered Podcast was created for. Ebony Price is a woman who advocates for herself and families, volunteering her time in her community serving those less fortunate than herself, and daily working to strengthen her own voice as a powerful element of change in her life and those around her. “Push more, because I’m just as fine as the next person, I’m just as talented, I have enough skills, just like the next person.” - Ebony Ebony Price is our guest this week, as we discuss her life and efforts with Bread for the City and WomenStrong, her family and personal struggles and the philosophy that lets her continue helping others even as she could often use a hand herself. "You're not gonna stop me. I'm too determined and my heart is too big!" - Ebony

Christie Gardner is an everyday leader and activist finding ways to ensure those in her community are supported and have access to opportunities. She keeps her hands, head, and heart in her community, helping others, organizing, informing, and encouraging the youth, women, elderly, and those most vulnerable to help them avoid the pitfalls of life in the nation’s capital.

“I choose to make a difference because I know all too well what it's like to struggle. I have been homeless.”

Christie is impassioned about stopping and overturning gentrification. Focusing on three primary aspects of D.C. residents’ lives—employment, housing, and healthy food—Christie is trying to improve the lives of some of the most overlooked residents in Washington at a time when so many are at risk of being displaced due to changes in the housing market.

“This is the nation’s capital, there shouldn’t be a crisis of homelessness.”

Learn more and donate to the organizations' mentioned in this episode by visiting their websites:

• https://breadforthecity.org/
• https://www.womenstrong.org/
• http://marthastable.org/

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"[The mobile revolution] created wealth, it connected people, it brought people on the the grid. It also, to a very large extent, created inclusion. Now, people could talk."

Eric Osiakwan is an entrepreneur and investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. Today, he joins The Get InPowered Podcast to discuss his work across 32 African countries building the Internet infrastructure that is enabling Africa to not only join the global economy, but in many ways, to lead it.

While Eric is working to transform the economic course of Africa through technology, conversations like this can broaden the understanding of Africa’s place in our modern world, and our own place in its further development.

“It only was able to happen because private individuals decided to build private businesses and build this network.”

In this solo episode, Judithe Registre is host and guest as she discusses the first six months of the Get InPowered Podcast and the journey that brought her to launch in the first place.

Lesson 1 - Develop (and love) Your Voice - You can’t improve until you listen!
Lesson 2 - People who make a difference, see not just problems but opportunities in those problems. Inclusivus and Get InPowered are built to highlight those people.
Lesson 3 - When bringing ideas to reality, you need a community. When you’re ready, they often find you.