Episodes

Raykhon sits down with her old friend Larisa Pak, a marketing specialist and the creative force, one of Kazakhstan's most prolific cultural producers. What starts as a warm catch-up between two women who go way back quickly turns into a candid conversation about the joy and the cost of following your passion.Larisa shares the bittersweet story of her gourmet popcorn business, a labour of love she ultimately had to close. She has spent over a decade producing TEDx conferences in Almaty, and is no...

In recent years, Kazakhstan has been experiencing a linguistic awakening. A country as vast as the whole of Western Europe. A country I love — and where I began my career as a foreign correspondent. In this episode I speak to Suinbike Suleymenova, a visual artist and filmmaker from Almaty. She spent three decades not speaking her own language. Then she made a film about it. МАМБЕТ: Тіл мәселесі — or Language Matter — is Kazakhstan's answer to Kneecap. A raw, hybrid documentary that follows Sui...

Genia Mineeva is a fashion entrepreneur who started out as a journalist before having a change of heart. Genia's exciting career path took her from empowering social entrepreneurs to confronting climate change with her award winning brand BEEN London. We discuss the circular economy, how to make beauty from waste, and how Genia pursued her passion despite the challenges of family and career.

This week my guest is Nana Dikhaminjia - she is a maths guru and tech entrepreneur who runs cyber camps for girls. We talk about how globally there are still not enough women in tech. Nana's mission is to educate a generation of girls to change the status quo. We discuss how Nana survived the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the 1990s, the importance of maths in early education and how tech solutions can combat lies. Please subscribe to the RM show, wherever you’re watching or listening.

Pavlina Pavlova is a cyber policy and diplomacy specialist whose research focuses on online threats to women and other vulnerable groups. Pavlina was a nominee for International Cyber Security Woman of the World Award, her passion is to translate cyber threats into policies that offer safer online spaces. We discuss gender disinformation and how advances of Artificial Intelligence are creating threats especially for women.