Talk It Thru with Rui Pedro Silva
by Rui Pedro Silva
Talk It Thru is a project that aims to give voice to the real people all over the world, trying to create a bigger awareness to the real problems we all face.We will be sharing a series of conversations with people from all parts of the world, that share at least one characteristic: The desire to help others overcoming difficult situationsStay tuned and let's Talk It Thru together
Episodes
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Candace Lightner | You can be the game changer
Do you know Candace Lightner? One of the most influential activists in the history of the United States. Known by being the founder of the "Mothers Against Drunk Driving", an organization created after she lost her daughter, hit by someone driving under the influence of alcohol. MADD has changed…
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Catarina Marques Rodrigues | Let's talk about Gender Equality?
Catarina is a TV Host at RTP, the Portuguese Public Broadcast channel, and her biggest focus is related to gender equality, civil rights, and fairness of treatment in general. During this podcast, we talked about Catarina's youth that drover to her current profession, but we also talked about the...
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Ricardo Diniz | Connect with Nature, Part II
Another great conversation, to inspire people all over the world. Today we talked with Ricardo, a famous personality in Portugal, a lot because of his adventures as solo sailor, but as well speaker, business man, and an inspiring person. We talked about his life, his character, but we also talked...
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Ricardo Diniz | Connect with Nature, Part I
Another great conversation, to inspire people all over the world. Today we talked with Ricardo, a famous personality in Portugal, a lot because of his adventures as solo sailor, but as well speaker, business man, and an inspiring person. We talked about his life, his character, but we also talked...
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Barry White Jr | Treating children as individuals
Barry became famous because of his personalized handshakes at the school where he teaches. We had to talk to him and learn where did that come from, what is behind, and who is the men behind the handshake thing. Well, the outcome is brilliant. An amazing conversation debating how much we should...
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Juliet Birungi | Say NO to more orphans in Uganda
The number of Orphans in Uganda is quite significant, and while the institutions do the best they can to give a good life to these kids, the fact is that they won't, likely, ever relate with their biological family. This is even more obvious, if we take in consideration the large business around...
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Marieke Bink | Combating Elderly Loneliness
How many times do we hear "that virus is just killing older people" or "at that age what would you expect?" Loneliness is an issue no matter what age. Everyone deserves dignity and happy life at all stages of their lives. We connected with Singapore to talk with Marieke, a Dutch woman that took…
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Conscious Change | The narcissistic abuse
Have you ever heard about Narcissistic people? Is the first thing it comes to your mind, the person that often looks at the mirror? Well, there is a lot more in there to be known. Today, we talked about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and how much people with that disorder can abuse others…
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Julia Lalla-Maharajh | Female genital cutting is not a myth
When we think of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting, we tend to believe it is not something that still exists. Well...it does, and we need to bring that up, so we raise awareness to that. We had a great conversation with Julia about the beginning of the Orchid Project, something that she set up...
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Dr. Eric Harris | Dental care can't be a nice to have
Do you think Dental Care is not something we would bring as social awareness? No way we would leave that out. For the record, dental care is one of the most important things we should think of, because contrary to what people may think, if we have problems on our mouth, we have a massive risk to...
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Maria Martinez | Get the Plastic Off
We are back on the environmental topics, and this time we went to Spain to discuss it with Maria. Maria has created a company that is aiming to raise awareness to the fact that we are the first ones to blame when it comes to plastic issue all over the world. She produces content to get people to...
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Abhik Bhattacherji | Go out and help others through education
You may not think about it, but there are plenty of people without access to proper education. It may sound crazy that these days we have those issues, but it is still quite a big issue. Today we talked to Abhik Bhattacherji from "Teach for India," an organization placing young people in schools...
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Avani Prasad | What is good or bad touch?
Not every day we meet someone so young pausing a potential successful career after a successful journey in her education, to make something entirely different. Avani is such an inspiration. Few months ago, she started Project Sparsh, which is a project trying to raise awareness to what is good or...
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Susan Pratt | Help the planet by going Vegan
Veganism is something we all believe is positively contributing to a better world, supporting animal protection, and overall environment protection. Today we talked with Susan, who is a Home Cook, and the conversation was super funny and interesting. We learned that vegetables can taste much…
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Neisha Himes | Surviving Domestic Violence
"Domestic Violence has no face" That may sound like a cliché, but it is just a fact. Today, we talked with Neisha about her story, and how did she survive a 5y relationship that not just affected her physically, but psychologically. She walked us through the painful journey of realization that…
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Emmanuel Ikoro | Feeding and Dressing Up Nigeria
Today we visited Nigeria, and the Bakog Foundation. Emmanuel Ikoro, directly from a location where an outreach was being prepared, walked us through the amazing work done by this foundation. They try to fight poverty in marginalized areas, by bringing food, clothing and hygiene products to those...
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Preetham Murva | Fly Higher India
After having this conversation with Preetham, we are even more sure that India can fly really high. Preetham, together with his volunteers, has created a quite interesting concept to support children through special programs, that aim to provide tools and skills for them to be successful in a...
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Michael Anthony | Think Unbroken
We have talked with a lot of people that went through quite traumatic experiences, and Michael is definitely on of them, with quite an impressive story. From psychological violence, abuse, drug addiction, Michael went through a lot, but that did not define who he wanted to be. His "mirror moment"...
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Tomas Tigchelaar Lourenco | Cleaning up the basics
How a simple act can make such a difference? Well, that is exactly what Tomas just explained to us during a fantastic conversation. Today we talked about cleaning up the beaches and the oceans, but not necessarily with very big initiatives, but rather with a very simple and old fashion process:...
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Chris Parkes | Part I: The Institutional Racism
The first part of an extraordinary conversation with Chris. We talked about Chris's career, his passion about photography, but we also talked about Apartheid or the fact that we have likely been helping the racial discrimination, by institutionalizing racism. Chris opened up his views about the...
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Chris Parkes | Part II: The Institutional Racism
The second part of an extraordinary conversation with Chris. We talked about Chris's career, his passion about photography, but we also talked about Apartheid or the fact that we have likely been helping the racial discrimination, by institutionalizing racism. Chris opened up his views about the...
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Agne Nainyte | Experteering rather than volunteering
Today we talked with Agne about her time in the rural Uganda, during her career-break. Interesting conversation about something that we usually know as volunteering, but that she clearly describes as experteering, as she believes she brought expertise in a specific area, rather than just come and...
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Rose Shuman | Technology impacts to the society
What a great time we just had with Rose over a podcast. Rose just walked us through the process of coming up with the idea to the "Question Box". She also shared the experiences and learnings that she and her partner took out of this project, that are still helping them today during projects they...
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Hugo Amaral | Racket for a smile
We just spent a fantastic 30 minutes talking with Hugo about the Raqueta Por Um Sorriso project, or in English, Racket for a Smile. What an experience to learn how did Hugo start, and to get to know the stories behind the time he drove to Bissau, or the award in Barcelona for his project. This...
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Talk It Thru the first days!!
Rui Pedro Silva just gives some thoughts of the first days of Talk It Thru project, explaining where we are, what are we doing and what to expect
About this show
Talk It Thru is a project that aims to give voice to the real people all over the world, trying to create a bigger awareness to the real problems we all face.We will be sharing a series of conversations with people from all parts of the world, that share at least one characteristic: The desire to help others overcoming difficult situationsStay tuned and let's Talk It Thru together
Hosted by
Rui Pedro Silva