Episode O80 -Creating a wealthy future through banking our knowledge, with Maxine Greaves MBE

Welcome back to our birthday celebrations with our second episode of the three. In this episode your host, Dr. Sheree Mack gets to speak with Maxine Greaves MBE.

Their conversation covers:

• Location in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, living across from a park
• Sheffield losing some trees 

• LUSH – word of the year

• Work towards it, not harder, work towards your dreams with purpose 
• TOC – The Outdoor Citizen
• 25 years in Higher Education, creating own role in faculty 
• Coaching and mentoring people to get where they want to be into teaching
• Serving a purpose in a particular space and place in time
• High level teaching role 

• Interconnected teaching with equality leading it and how is the environment impact it also
• Dr. Maxwell Apaladaga Ayamba BEM -Founder and CEO of Sheffield Environmental Movement -correct dates for award 2021, BEM 2023 

• Sheffield Envinrmantal Movement reengage people from global majority back to nature 
• Build their knowledge about the impact on the environment on themselves and how they can lobby to improve it 
• For us/ by us
• Toni Morrison quote racism as distraction echoed by Maxine 

"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” - Toni Morrison 
• Childhood curiosity within an Afro-Caribbean community 
• Play and heightened imagination and applying yourself 
• Understanding of your purpose and your why for knwing your direction 
• The future is extremely wealthy if we contirnue to bank our knowledge to build capacity
• Tina Campt quote: "The grammar of black feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn’t yet happened but must … It is the power to imagine beyond current fact and to envision that which is not, but must be. It’s a politics of prefiguration that involves living the future now … as a striving for the future you want to see, right now, in the present."

 

Bio:

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Reasoning & Research #ActsOfSelfLove, #Freedom, #StyleAndFashion, #EthicalAmbition #HoldingSpace #Climate Mary J Blige, Good Morning Gorgeous, My Life, Betty Wright, Keep Love New, NAO Lifetime, Cleo Sol Mother, There Will Be No Crying Ledisi Love You Too Aretha Franklin Day Dreaming Luther Vandross Here And Now Maxwell Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder) Jamaican Breakfast Drinking Iced Ginger Beer, Turkish Grill Sipping Hot Chocolate Ramen thick noodles Fudge Brownie Watching Grand Designs, Chilling On The Sofa, Over The Yardarm Apple Juice And Fridge Fresh H2O, Utopia Theatre Anna Hibiscus’ Song, DATKH Theaster Gates Black Madonna, Afro-Mingei Matt Small Natasha, Kelly, Angela, Justina Claudette Johnson  Standing Figure (2015), Figure In Blue (2018) Blues Dance (2023)  Ta-Nehisi Coates The Message  Ngugi Wa Thiong’O The Language Of Languages Azeezat Johnson Beth Kamunge And Remi Joseph-Salisbury The Fire Now Malcolm Gladwell Blink, Outliers Jesmyn Ward The Let Us Descend Converse Cool Sneakers, Fenty Smell Good Look Good, Lip Gloss London, Camden Town, Brixton, Kingston Upon Thames Durban Waking Along The Golden Mile, Countryside Man Tor, Ben Nevis, And Scarfell Pike, Yvonne Battle-Felton Remembered  DJ Paulette Welcome To The Club Cebo Cambell Sky Full Of Elephants In Conversation Jeffrey Boakye (Blacklisted), Kehinde Andrews (Nobody Can Give You Freedom) MB Games Frustration; Fitbit Pilates, Peace Walk  Cycling Along The Tissington Trail, Roller Blades, Skates; Cat Ramsey My Words Purpose, Focus Lazy Day Greys Anatomy, Rewind And Come Again, all things Marvel Ramping