Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah, aka Lady Phyll, is one of the most influential figures in the British LGBTQ+ community. She is widely known as Lady Phyll partly due to her refusal in 2016 to accept an MBE citing her opposition to colonial legacies that have contributed to anti-LGBTQ+ laws in many parts of the world.

Lady Phyll

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Maggie Alphonsi - World Cup winning rugby player

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Tobi Oredein is a journalist, public speaker and the founder and CEO of Black Ballad, a media and lifestyle platform for black women.

Tobi Oredein

Black Ballad

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Joelle Owusu-Sekyere is an awarding winning publisher of bold, engaging fiction and non-fiction books at Penguin Random House and Merky Books which is the book publisher created by Stormzy & Penguin Books.

Joelle Owusu-Sekyere

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Dorothy Koomson - Bestselling novelist

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Sebastian Thiel

Lorna Clarke

Akua Gyamfi

Bell Ribeiro Addy

Dr Daniel Moses

Dean Aston

Ashleigh Ainsley

Cassa Pancho

Thanyia Moore

Dorothy Koomson

Audrey Indome

Hope Powell

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Hope Powell is currently Technical Director of the Women's football team at Birmingham City and the former manager of the women's England football team from 1998 to 2013. In her earlier career she also played for the national team appearing over 60 times and scoring over 30 goals. She has also managed Brighton & Hove Albion Women and coached the Great Britain women's football team at the London 2012 Olympic games. She received an OBE in 2002 a CBE in 2010, and in 2003 she was the second woman to be inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame for her services to football.

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Jordan Jarrett-Bryan - Channel 4 Sports Broadcaster

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Welcome to a special edition of How I Crushed It — #TheElevateSeries — created in proud partnership with the Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards). This partnership celebrates past winners and the powerful impact they continue to make across their industries and communities.

In this episode, we speak with Ken and Mary Okoroafor, BBBAwards 2023 winners in the Entrepreneur Senior Leader category. They are the founders of The Humble Penny, which they grew from a 99p blog into an award-winning personal finance platform reaching over 5 million people.

The BBBAwards celebrate outstanding Black professionals and entrepreneurs across the UK, championing excellence, diversity, and leadership in business.

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Ayesha Ofori - CEO of Propelle

Bayo Adelaja is founder and CEO of Do It Now Now, an organisation which aims to improve social mobility, financial inclusion, and entrepreneurship among Black communities in the UK. She has held positions at many organisations, including work at Google, the London School of Economics and the House of Commons and in 2023 she was awarded an MBE for services to entrepreneurship, social mobility, and financial inclusion.

Bayo Adelaja

Do It Now Now

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Welcome to a special edition of How I Crushed It — #TheElevateSeries — created in proud partnership with the Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards). This partnership celebrates past winners and the powerful impact they continue to make across their industries and communities.

In this episode, we speak with Jamelia Donaldson, a BBBAwards 2019 winner in the Entrepreneur Rising Star category, celebrated for her impact on global entrepreneurship and the natural hair care industry.

The BBBAwards celebrate outstanding Black professionals and entrepreneurs across the UK, championing excellence, diversity, and leadership in business.

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Audrey Indome from the Receipts Podcast

Dr Tijion Esho - Cosmetic Doctor