WHAT TO EXPECT...WHEN YOU PUSH PLAY
Diana Gasper has made her life in North Carolina after meeting her American husband in Canada, yet she will always have the most love and longing for her home of Tanzania. Diana is a businesswoman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who helps women and girls in Tanzania to create their own businesses and sources of income, teaching them to work smart, not hard. She talks to Kondwani all about her love for Tanzania, how she started to help support women there and also about founding her Travel Agency, Extra Mile Adventure.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Many women in business across Africa are working very hard but not smart. This is what Diana focuses on in her work with women in Tanzania.
- You have to be an example of what you teach. It’s important to Diana that she isn’t just teaching theory but is an example of success with her own businesses.
- Extra Mile Adventure organises travel and trips for a wide range of clientele and tastes, from Disney tickets to Religious Pilgrimages. They also have a very special product, a franchise to help women join tourism.
- There are so many incredible tourist destinations and things to see in East Africa, including Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the chimpanzees in Uganda, Diana urges everyone to visit, Africa is a rich and diverse continent, you could spend a lifetime travelling and not see everything there is to see there.
QUOTABLES
- 04:02 “I like it, it’s home now”
- 09:96 “I started a non-profit organisation to empower women and girls in terms of giving them education on how they can work smart not hard”
- 11:20 “My heart is in Africa”
- 21:10 “If a man wants to join the team, he better be ready to support women”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-gasper-546193262/
https://54lights.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Kondwani Mwase | Host & Creator
‘The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For most of my life, I have been obsessed with relationships. I have worked, watched and wondered about the complex nature of human interaction. Originally, my interest laid in the narrative…more specifically, I was driven to understand what was happening. Increasingly, my curiosity has been inspired by the underlying motivations behind events…why it happens. It is this curiosity that motivates me.
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