Season One Conclusion

Overview
This is a little episode to update you on what’s going to be happening with The East Africa Business Podcast.

The short version is that the podcast is going on hold for a while as I focus on growing my own business in the East Africa region.

I’ll explain the context, which should hopefully make a bit more sense.

In any case, the podcast will likely be back in the not-too-distant future and in the meantime we can all have a bit of a breather.

How the podcast started
As background I found myself starting this podcast as means to meet entrepreneurs in East Africa.

I was interested in learning about the business scene and found that requests to “meet for a coffee to learn about your business” were quite understandably rebuffed with “I’m just too busy running my company”

Therefore I thought about ways in which I could equal the exchange and still have that conversation.

Almost all of the companies I was looking to talk to were looking for exposure and to generally increase their brand awareness and it turned out to be relatively straightforward to create a set up where I could record a conversation about their business and soon have it appear on iTunes.

It turns out that an opportunity to showcase your company to an international audience is a much more attractive proposition than going a coffee with a random guy from Britain.

What now?
Now however my schedule has begun to fill up a bit.

When I started out on my “Try Before You Buy Tour” around the region I essentially gave myself 4 months to understand as much as I could about the business scene in East Africa with a view moving out permanently and starting my own thing.

I started by taking a flight to Rwanda and, using savings from my previous start up job in London, I could devote substantial amounts of time to absorb the business environment.

After undertaking a “Big Think” in Zanzibar I decided Kenya was where I wanted to move full-time and begun making plans to undertake the transition to Nairobi.

Now that I’m here, this, naturally, involves finding a way to live sustainably.

I undertook work at a start up in Nairobi and began consulting with other organisations as a means to pay the rent.

What spare time I do have goes towards validating the shortlist of business ideas I’m considering, and then putting effort into getting them off the ground.

As such, with the podcast not bringing in direct revenue, it’s something to be put on the shelf for the time being.

It’s something I’ve thoroughly enjoyed to date and so will be certain to pick it up again as soon as conditions permit.

Look in the archive
Anyway, I’m sure that’s more than enough about me

For you, the listener, there are many excellent episodes within the archive for you to go back and enjoy if you’re interested in learning more about business in East Africa.

If you’ve not subscribed already, just search for The East Africa Business Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or any of the other podcast apps and scroll through the forty plus episodes that are there.

All have their nuggets of brilliance and so I’d recommend finding a title which piques your interest and giving it a listen.

Nevertheless, I will now highlight some of my favourites for you to try out first:

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