Today I would like to welcome Rosie Kamdem to the podcast. Rosie is friend and a bit of a hero of mine. A mother of 5 she is an award winning women and education rights activist in Cameroon working in the countries major cities and most remote villages, and at times across the African Continent.

She spends her time visiting tribes and villages that can only be reached by hiking into the bush as she teaches women how to make soap and other goods necessary to provide a more safe and sanitary lifestyle while producing income for these small women run businesses. In most villages women have never run a business before. In many of these areas women to not know a word for their private parts, or for menstruation.

Rosie also focuses on the empowerment of women on the nationally, locally, and tribal level where women most often do not have a voice. Helping women and young girls understand that they have options in life that include education, owning a business, having the right to have their voices heard, and that child marriages are not necessary are primary focuses of her work.

Today I would like to welcome Asmita Aggarwal to the podcast. Asmita is the former editor in chief of the fashion magazine L’Officiel India. Prior to that she was a writer for the Hindustan Times, the India Today group, and the Asian age as a national Features Editor. A leading women's rights advocate Asmita now writes for the Fashion Design Council of India. We will be joining the conversation in progress.

As guests on the podcast live around the country and the world. You may hear an occasional click, and at times ambient sound in the interviewees space. My apologies in advance for any of these sounds and may appear in the podcast.

Mia MacFarlane and Julien Crougneau, also known as French Cowboy, are a creative force du jour, and an absolute pleasure to collaborate with. In addition to creating imagery for fashion clients across Europe and a career as exhibiting artists they are the Co-Editors-in-Chief at IRK Magazine a Paris based fashion and culture print and web site publication distributed internationally at trend stores and museums, and have recently opened IRK Gallerie in Arles, France, site of the Recontres D’Arles one of the world’s leading photography festivals. They have recently founded the publishing company Les Loupes des Steppes Publishing in Arles, France, and launched their first book Le Sud.