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(So) How's Business? is the podcast for African women entrepreneurs who are figuring it out as they go.
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Ep 29 - Building a Gluten-Free Food Business in Kenya with Anna Wanjiru of Home Chef (opens the original)
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What happens when the foods you grew up with, chapati, mandazi, bread and cake, suddenly aren't an option? Anna Wanjiru, founder of Home Chef, joins Alma to talk about building a gluten-free food business in Kenya after her daughter had to go gluten-free. What started as a mother's search for better food options became three years of experimentation, a bakery, a gluten-free flour business and a much bigger question: how do you build a scalable food company in a category that people are still lea
Ep 28- The Business Behind Kenya’s Luxury Weddings | Naitore Mugambi (opens the original)
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Luxury weddings look beautiful. Running the business behind them is another story. Naitore Mugambi, founder of Luxe & Allure Events, joins Alma to talk about the reality of building one of Kenya's luxury events businesses. She shares the story of losing KES 600,000 of startup capital to theft, raising the money again, navigating the breakup of an early business partnership and eventually building Luxe & Allure with her husband. They also get into the numbers behind the business: investing millio
Ep 27- From Journalist to Founder: Building the Uber for hair braiding with Natachi Onwuamaegbu (opens the original)
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What's the difference between believing in an idea and knowing how to build it? The founder of Braiding Nairobi found out the hard way. A journalist by training, she came to Nairobi for a National Geographic storytelling fellowship, noticed how many skilled braiders struggled to find clients in a city where nearly every woman pays regularly for her hair, and decided to stay and solve it. Then she spent two years learning that most of her first instincts were wrong. In this conversation she's ref
Ep 26- She Quit Government Twice to Bet on Herself: Neema Moraa on Modeling, Content Creation & Building Flora by Florence (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to walk away from a stable government job, twice, for a creative career nobody around you fully believes in? Neema is a model, content creator, and the owner of Flora by Florence, a Nairobi boutique. But before any of that, she was sitting in a government office feeling something in her go quiet. This episode traces the messy, honest path out: a spa that failed on location, a modeling side hustle that grew from 5,000 shillings a gig to a real income in a matter of mont
Ep 25- Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Building LactaMama | Angel Nderitu (opens the original)
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After losing her job while seven months pregnant, Angel Nderitu entered motherhood carrying uncertainty about her finances, her future, and what came next. When her breast milk supply changed unexpectedly after giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic, she began searching for answers through nutrition, traditional foods, herbs, and lactation support. That personal experience eventually became LactaMama, a Kenyan maternal wellness company supporting mothers through breastfeeding nutrition, educa
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