PODCAST · leisure
The Professional Hobbyist
by Zahra Abiola
Meaningful conversations about how leisurely pursuits bring fulfilment and success for corporate professionals of the diaspora
Episodes
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Chizu: The Bowling Kingpin Customer Success Manager
How bowling helped Chizu turn a big, unfamiliar London into a city full of familiar faces. Moving to a new city as an adult can be lonely. When Chizu moved from Manchester to London for work, he found himself navigating a city where the usual routes to friendship of school and university were no...
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Kareem: The African Drum Playing Quant
You can do everything right in life. You can get a high paying job, buy a house and thrive academically in STEM but you may still crave the need to discover yourself and feel truly challenged. But with the stakes so high to maintain all of his achievements, he had to look to drumming to satisfy...
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Koko: The Books Binging Consultant
As a consultant, Koko found herself with up to 6 hours to herself on travels weeks to client site. Instead of relying for screens for her entertainment, she chose to start binging books instead. Despite the rise and grind propaganda pushing self help, productivity and money making books as the…
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Ayo: The Salsa Dancing Software Engineer
Ayo describes himself as a stereotypical software engineer - an introvert that got into coding at a young age. So at university, he took on salsa as way to get him out of his shell. Through dance, Ayo has been able to be more confident both socially and at work, get leadership experience, learnt...
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Emma Talks Dancing
Emma had an unconventional route to her job but her love for dancing has always underpinned her life. As a child in Nigeria, dancing was her way to let loose and discover herself and even now she uses dancing to get breaks from her sometimes 24/7 corporate job. As an outlet for life, she has…
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Hiking with Temi
Temi used to spend a lot of his time looking at screens. Between working as a software engineer, catching up with loved ones in different countries and scrolling on TikTok, the need to get away from the hustle of his life only grew. He has managed his urges to escape the stress of life through...
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Badminton Group with Emeka
What started out as a way for Emeka to easily find badminton opponents has gotten a mind of its own and grown to a 90 members strong community in just a few weeks. Ready Rally’s reception has been strong, with tickets for weekly sessions selling out in minutes. Emeka played a lot as a child in...
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Photography with Lami
Lami has always been a creative. From drawing comics in secondary to acting during university, he has always been interested to story telling. But it was when he got his first proper camera when he moved to the UK that he was able to take his love for imagery further. What started as a hobby...
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Produce Gardening with Desola
Desola doesn't think of herself as someone with a green thumb but has managed to grow everything from tomatoes to carrots to okra to pumpkins over the last 2 years. All on her balcony in her London flat. Growing her own produce has given her a sense of accomplishment and responsibility that keeps...
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Meaningful conversations about how leisurely pursuits bring fulfilment and success for corporate professionals of the diaspora
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Who hosts The Professional Hobbyist?
The Professional Hobbyist is created and hosted by Zahra Abiola.
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