June 14, 2024 • 23 mins
In this exciting episode of Influence Unplugged, Kudzai sits down with the dynamic and inspiring influencer, Joanna. With a massive following and a knack for creating engaging content, Joanna shares her journey from humble beginnings to social media stardom. Join us as we delve into her secrets for maintaining authenticity, navigating the ever-changing digital landscape, and her top tips for aspiring influencers. This candid conversation is packed with valuable insights and behind-the-scenes stories you won’t want to miss. Tune in and get inspired by Joanna’s remarkable story!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's Up?
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the
chat Room. I'm kod Zama Chandebayer and yeah, I'm just
excited for this episode. I'm sure you've heard of the
guest that we have today. If you haven't heard of
her from way back in the day, you've probably heard
her on radio.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have Joanna. How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I'm good, How are you? Thank you so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks here, and yes, you are most welcome here. How
are you doing during these times? Though, like I always
ask this first because yeah, you never really know, but yeah,
how you doing considering what's going on around?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Is I am doing?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You know what they say, you kind of have to
learn to adapt and also not only adapting, so you
have to be sensitive to the times and be able
to know when to really push yourself and keep going
and when to also stop and take a break and
just rest because it is just a lot. But otherwise
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, all right, now that's good to hear.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I think the best thing that we can do right
now is just to keep on pushing and keep on going.
But yeah, so I talked a little bit about how
you have probably been heard on radio, because yeah, you
have presented for one of the biggest, if not the
biggest radio station in Zimbabwe, that is ZFM. But you know,
(01:58):
radio is something that not a lot of people really
get into. So I think the first question that I
really had for you today is what made you get
into radio or what made you interested in radio in
the first place.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Very very interesting question. If I had asked myself, like
maybe five ten years ago and told myself that I
would have done radio school and gone to radio, I
would have been like, oh, oh really, because it was
not at all something that I was dreaming of or
picturing myself doing. I was actually into medicine so bad.
(02:35):
I was so in love with being an orthodontist, and
I really wanted to do that and just a change
of hearts and it wasn't practically working. I was like,
what am I going to do? And I decided, look,
I think I want to do media and stumbled across
the ad, went from the auditions, made it, and then
(02:58):
had an awesome time in class learning about radio, you know,
not just presenting, but even like the back end stuff
that we never really know. You know the fact that
you know, you actually have to apply for a license
to have a station. There's certain rules and regulations you
have to follow, certain music that you should play, or
(03:18):
you have to declare whether you're like, you know how
much of talk, how much of music? You know, all
sorts of stuff like the technicalities and of course as
well as just presenting and you know, the dues, the
don'ts and learning those skills that will put you just
above a standard you know anyone who presents. So it
(03:40):
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
When you say you stumbled across an ad, do you
mean like you were like driving and then you saw
billboard or did you see like a fly on the floor,
Like I'm just trying like that's an interesting fact, you know,
it's not. It's not the normal path to you know,
whatever career part you're going to. So how did you
(04:03):
come across I'm just this just for interest sake completely,
how did you stop that?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Your friends? Yeah, and they were like they saw it
and they's all of me and tended to me. And yeah, like,
I think that's a good thing to surround yourself with.
People that want the base for you will see something
and you know, because you might not always like physically
face to face or whatever like bump into what's meant
(04:32):
for you, but there's other people who see something and
will just think of you, or you know, they'll be
in a room where you're not there and just recommend
you and you know, you just those are the kind
of people that you should surround yourself with. And that
person is the one that got me to where I am.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So yeah, all right, I'll we love the advice that
you just threw in there. But yeah, just you're you're
very young, Joanna so and you're really have your radio license.
So around which time did you get into the radio business,
because yeah, I think you're very young, so you must
(05:10):
have started much much early or does it take like
maybe a your two to do the course?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
How long is it and how does it work.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So I don't have a radio license. I would love
to actually have a radio station one day, which require
the licensing, but I am certified. I did my training
with the Ginger Apple group. So does a radio present
a master class? And our class was the inaugural class
and it was a class over eight months. So yeah,
(05:42):
so it kind of depends on sort of way exactly
you're doing new classes, the route you want to take,
because also you can go the more academic routs and
actually study media and sort of journalism and then get
into radio or in our case in Zim, you have
opportunities and institutions like that that war go through the
(06:07):
course and internship was actually part of our eight months
and tours as well. We actually toured and we were
in South Africa and Johnberg visiting different stations there and
then attached to stations, which is actually how I ended
up working at a station. So that's all.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So let's say I am to switch on the radio
and listen to whatever station that you're working at. What
am I expecting from your segments? Because I know with
a lot of radio presenters, they have things that make
them unique, things that they specialize in, so what can
we expect when we actually get onto radio and listen
(06:49):
to your segment, which is about two hours three hours.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think one thing that I can say was my
thing that would set me apart and I really enjoyed
doing was a segment that I used to call take
Me to Church, And basically this is when I would playlist, uh, well,
we playlist the whole segment as presenters, well because we
(07:12):
were new, and but that segment was playing Christian music
that didn't sound like your typical Christian music because we're
quite used to, you know, the generic stereotypical gospel. There's
a lot of like Christian music that's either rap or yeah,
(07:34):
like all sorts of different genres. So I would find
different songs and have a couple for the week and
for the segment and then just play and people kind
of wrote like which one they would like, and also
make the link available to people to listen to on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So yeah, all right, so just a side note, who's
your favorite Christian rapper? Because like, I'm also into Christian trip,
So I listened to a lot of La Craig, you know,
Andy Mino and KB.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So yeah, so this is just for interestake.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I would I wouldn't say that Christian rap is like
my fav but I have songs by La Cravee that
I really like and I also think yeah KB is great.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, all right, all right, all right, shout out for that.
And obviously you were are well not obviously, but you
know a lot of people that actually do follow you.
And by the way, Johanna has a huge follow base.
You know, your Instagram is booming. Shout out some of
us sisted in the three figures. But anyway, you know,
(08:43):
you you managed to cope work with work work, and
when I say work, I mean like work that's outside
of radio, with actual radio presenting. And I think this
is this is the key when it comes to us
as the youth. Again, it's a podcast for you, so
please tell us how you managed to balance between work
(09:04):
and radio presenting and how it affected you know, just you,
yourself and your life basically.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Wow. Yeah, I definitely look like at my life and
think I didn't live the normal you know, nineteen year old,
twenty year old whatever life. Even from eighteen or even
from before, I've always been interning and trying to get
work experience. So the way I coped I guess was
(09:33):
going through day to day at the time. When I
finished radio school, I then went on internships and that's
also when I started radio. So I would literally have
like you know, nine to five year at work in
the office doing different things. I was working for a
media house in Hadad, and so we were doing different
(09:56):
projects during the day, and then I'd have my shifts
at radio. My main shift was midnight. They called it
the graveyard shift, so it was midnight to three am,
so kind of get home, do whatever I wanted to do,
spend time with my family whatever, eat dinner. Usually I
take a nap and then wake up, drive to the
(10:19):
station there about an hour before make sure everything's fine,
maybe if I haven't finished my playlist, finished my playlist
to sort for the like, you know, for the three
hours and then be on air and then drive back
home and then sleep for a little bit and wake
up and go to work again. And other days we have, Yeah,
(10:41):
we'd have different shifts sometimes during the day to cover
like take or sometimes on holidays we'd fill in for
the other season presenters who were there, so we'd fill
in like on certain holidays, you know, Christmas, New Year's
So yeah, it was. It was interesting, But I love this.
(11:02):
I really did enjoy being the being able to connect
with people on radio and through social media as well.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh yeah, And I think that's the greatest thing of
radio presenting, like just the entire industries, the connections that
you make so just out of interesting. Again, Oh man,
I feel like today there's a lot of things that
are just interesting. But oh, did you meet any famous people?
I think this is the question that every listener just
(11:30):
wants to hear. Which famous people did you meet, did
you speak to, did you connect to?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And how do we connect to them? I'm joking about
the last quason.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I did.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I actually did get to meet interesting people and famous people,
some musicians, some just like you know, socialites or whenever.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We want names, we want names, you want oh wow, word.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
People like yahha, David Tammy, moil people like the actual
presenters themselves. We always just hear and you hear of them,
you know, like Simbly Limby and miss Red and.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Then that guy.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And like basically the whole station. But it's different when
you're seeing them. They're like, oh my word, is this
shown from sport? Like wow, you know, is this is
this a mod this is actually a mod and seeing
them off the mic, so it is it is interesting
and just enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That is so nice. That is so nice.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I think, you know, just looking at what hearing
and listening to how busy you were and how busy
you probably are still because to my understanding, you are
studying right at the moment. So you know, what do
you like doing for fun? Like what's your typical off day? Basically,
(13:06):
like what do you like to do for fun?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I love visiting new places and also spending time with
family and friends. So with COVID it's been tricky because
I mean we spent the whole of last year basically
learning online. So I've basically been able to make friends
at school this year because I was only at school
for a month last year and I was, you know,
just finding my feet. So now just spending time with
(13:33):
family friends. Sometimes you go for a hike, sometimes you
go for a picnic, and as you go sight seeing
and I'm just watching a movie altogether at home or
just me time binging series for a bit. Yeah, I'm
(13:55):
so everywhere, oh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
One of those.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, like this show is terrible and I'll be like
I kind of enjoyed that it was easy, but it
was great.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, I I a f feel you and I'm just
to get back to your studying. What are you studying
and are you hoping to get back into the radio
industry or whatever you're studying is literally just you know,
that's where you're hitting at the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So I'm studying strategic brand communication, which is quite quite bored,
and usually when I'm asked what I'm studying, I usually
have to say it twice because it's like a sentence.
The strategic brand communication sort of falls into the bigger
umbrella of marketing, just to make it a bit more
(14:45):
basic and understandable, but it's more focused on, you know, brands,
building the brands and understanding consumer behavior and the more
technical decisions behind the scenes of a brand and putting
it out there. It can connect to radio because in
any case, when you are a presenter, you are creating
(15:08):
your personal brand, and that's something that I hope to
continue to build. And then going back to radio, I
do want to go back. I think I would more
want to be in TV rather than on radio in
terms of presenting, and it is a dream of mind
to actually one day have a station and not just present,
but to have a station.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, all right, now we'll definitely tune into the station
based believe, but oh man, it's not it's just truly
it's exciting to hear, you know, something different and to
just see that you know, zibolvements, Young's involvements are just
shining in every single area, and you know, it's being
(15:50):
incredible just getting to interview some of the great minds.
But just getting into a little bit of fun questions.
I like to call it the fun segment. But yeah,
I have a few questions for you here, and I
think the first one is something that you've probably heard before,
but yeah, who is your favorite radio presenter in Zimbabwe?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And why? Actually, let me just add.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That in Wow, my favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
No pressure, no pressure, all the pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All the pressure. I think I would have to say
that I enjoy Captain Awesome's presenting. I don't know if
you ever listened. Captain Alsom is a presenter at CFM.
He ausually presents on Saturdays. Does the Top forty. Yeah,
(16:50):
when he's presenting, like, I just feel like even if
you're sad, like you're going to be happy, Like he's
just like he's just so viby he's someone who's related ball,
so in terms of that, he's very good at what
he does. He's just on point in terms of being
on top of that segment and just being himself being awesome,
(17:13):
being the captain of awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So yeah, alright, cool, now that's very interesting. I actually
really I like him. I like him a lot because yeah,
I've personally heard him as well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And yeah, the top forty is it's never the same. Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So the second question that I have for you is, HM,
which do you think is the best radio station in Zimbabwe.
I know there's a little bit of bias towards CFM
because you work there, but I want you to like
really just think in the broader scenes, which do you
think is the bast radio station in Zimbawe?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh you know, no pressure, no pressure.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I personally enjoy VFM, and like he said, build be
a bias towards it. I just feel like ZFM is
more like maybe when they when they do their stuff
and they think who's their target audience, Like I fit,
I fit the bill for that. I just enjoy the
lineups and the presenters and the playlisting. So for me,
(18:21):
ZFM is my my Yeah, I go to you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
All right, and they do have that catchphrase Z but yeah,
it's very catchy.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And the last question that I have for you is
very random.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
If you could have any superhero power, which one would
you go for?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And why?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I think that I would want to be able to teleport. Yeah,
I think especially now with COVID, like having to travel
and all this stuff is becoming so much more completing
and just in general traveling is expensive. So you imagine
just being able to like go visit a new country,
(19:06):
like just in a few seconds, I could just go
take a walk around, come back like I'd be able
to just visit home whenever, like just teleport to school
and back to the shops. Like imagine not having to
pay for transport. It would just be great and just
being able to be places.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You know, I think see that the US are killing
you down day.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It is dead.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
But and listen, I thought about something I want to
add a favorite presenter. I was thinking about it to
be on the spot. One other person I really really
like is so profound, so profound, just so real and genuine,
and he doesn't like like sometimes when you enter a
space you feel pressured to fit the mold. Or there's
like instruction to fit a certain mold. And he's someone
(19:52):
who he just has real conversations and doesn't want like that.
His goal is not to just he ate like a
presenter in jail. Like he is radio in a way
that you connect and you have like banter that's not
not like planned or anything, but it just works.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
It just clicks, and.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He really thinks out like everything he does in a
way that just makes sense and makes radio great. So
I think he's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
All right, that's very interesting stuff. And so it's been
it's been great having you here. But just before we
say goodbye and say our goodbyes, right, you know, and
there's some I ask this. I think maybe if you
do listen to the podcast, I ask this every single
time because I think this is like the most important
(20:43):
part of each interviews in my opinion. But like, what
advice can you give to zimvolvements that want to choose
your career path, which is you know, the entertainment industry,
you know, not just radio, but like here, like what
advice can you give them? And you know, obviously you
faced challenges as well, so you know, it's not just
(21:05):
like things that have been smooth.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So what advice can you.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Give the young people out there that are that don't
want to be a misread or a captain awesome?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know, well, what can you tell them?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I think I would say that there's always something new
to learn, and would I would just advise. I'd advise
anyone to just you know, find someone you can talk
to and ask questions. We have so many people like
available to us, like social media. You know, you can
(21:40):
literally just send a DM to someone and just speak
to them five minutes. Even platforms like LinkedIn, like you
have so much access to to message someone who's in
your career or in working somewhere that you maybe want
to work or doing something that you want to do
and be a part of. And we're able to literally
just send them a message and be like, hi, there,
how you are interested in what you do? Do you
(22:02):
have you know, five minutes to just chat and just
talk or you know, what would you do for this situation?
And you literally lose nothing if they do not reply
or say they unavailable, But you gain so much if
they say yeah, sure I have five minutes, and you
get so much knowledge for them from them. Yeah, and
beyond that then work your hardest to try and apply
(22:25):
some of that knowledge in your space. Like wherever you are,
there's always something that you can do to even if
it's just one baby step to get closer today, you
can actually do that and can you know, make a
difference for you in your journey in the long run.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So yeah, that is sound advice, very very interesting and
beneficial to me myself even you know, so shout out
for that, and thank you once again for coming on.
It was a blast. We've learned a lot about the
radio industry. You know, it's not just you know, getting
up every day and going to present.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There's a lot that goes on around there. So thank
you for that.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Hey, thank you that strays And yes, I think that's
enough for today, and thank you once again for listening
to the chat room.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
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we are just we are. We're grateful for them for
the growth that we're experiencing. Again, catch us on Monday
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be spoken about.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
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Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the
chat Room. I'm kod Zama Chandebayer and yeah, I'm just
excited for this episode. I'm sure you've heard of the
guest that we have today. If you haven't heard of
her from way back in the day, you've probably heard
her on radio.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have Joanna. How are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I'm good, How are you? Thank you so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks here, and yes, you are most welcome here. How
are you doing during these times? Though, like I always
ask this first because yeah, you never really know, but yeah,
how you doing considering what's going on around?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Is I am doing?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You know what they say, you kind of have to
learn to adapt and also not only adapting, so you
have to be sensitive to the times and be able
to know when to really push yourself and keep going
and when to also stop and take a break and
just rest because it is just a lot. But otherwise
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, all right, now that's good to hear.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I think the best thing that we can do right
now is just to keep on pushing and keep on going.
But yeah, so I talked a little bit about how
you have probably been heard on radio, because yeah, you
have presented for one of the biggest, if not the
biggest radio station in Zimbabwe, that is ZFM. But you know,
(01:58):
radio is something that not a lot of people really
get into. So I think the first question that I
really had for you today is what made you get
into radio or what made you interested in radio in
the first place.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Very very interesting question. If I had asked myself, like
maybe five ten years ago and told myself that I
would have done radio school and gone to radio, I
would have been like, oh, oh really, because it was
not at all something that I was dreaming of or
picturing myself doing. I was actually into medicine so bad.
(02:35):
I was so in love with being an orthodontist, and
I really wanted to do that and just a change
of hearts and it wasn't practically working. I was like,
what am I going to do? And I decided, look,
I think I want to do media and stumbled across
the ad, went from the auditions, made it, and then
(02:58):
had an awesome time in class learning about radio, you know,
not just presenting, but even like the back end stuff
that we never really know. You know the fact that
you know, you actually have to apply for a license
to have a station. There's certain rules and regulations you
have to follow, certain music that you should play, or
(03:18):
you have to declare whether you're like, you know how
much of talk, how much of music? You know, all
sorts of stuff like the technicalities and of course as
well as just presenting and you know, the dues, the
don'ts and learning those skills that will put you just
above a standard you know anyone who presents. So it
(03:40):
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
When you say you stumbled across an ad, do you
mean like you were like driving and then you saw
billboard or did you see like a fly on the floor,
Like I'm just trying like that's an interesting fact, you know,
it's not. It's not the normal path to you know,
whatever career part you're going to. So how did you
(04:03):
come across I'm just this just for interest sake completely,
how did you stop that?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Your friends? Yeah, and they were like they saw it
and they's all of me and tended to me. And yeah, like,
I think that's a good thing to surround yourself with.
People that want the base for you will see something
and you know, because you might not always like physically
face to face or whatever like bump into what's meant
(04:32):
for you, but there's other people who see something and
will just think of you, or you know, they'll be
in a room where you're not there and just recommend
you and you know, you just those are the kind
of people that you should surround yourself with. And that
person is the one that got me to where I am.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So yeah, all right, I'll we love the advice that
you just threw in there. But yeah, just you're you're
very young, Joanna so and you're really have your radio license.
So around which time did you get into the radio business,
because yeah, I think you're very young, so you must
(05:10):
have started much much early or does it take like
maybe a your two to do the course?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
How long is it and how does it work.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So I don't have a radio license. I would love
to actually have a radio station one day, which require
the licensing, but I am certified. I did my training
with the Ginger Apple group. So does a radio present
a master class? And our class was the inaugural class
and it was a class over eight months. So yeah,
(05:42):
so it kind of depends on sort of way exactly
you're doing new classes, the route you want to take,
because also you can go the more academic routs and
actually study media and sort of journalism and then get
into radio or in our case in Zim, you have
opportunities and institutions like that that war go through the
(06:07):
course and internship was actually part of our eight months
and tours as well. We actually toured and we were
in South Africa and Johnberg visiting different stations there and
then attached to stations, which is actually how I ended
up working at a station. So that's all.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So let's say I am to switch on the radio
and listen to whatever station that you're working at. What
am I expecting from your segments? Because I know with
a lot of radio presenters, they have things that make
them unique, things that they specialize in, so what can
we expect when we actually get onto radio and listen
(06:49):
to your segment, which is about two hours three hours.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I think one thing that I can say was my
thing that would set me apart and I really enjoyed
doing was a segment that I used to call take
Me to Church, And basically this is when I would playlist, uh, well,
we playlist the whole segment as presenters, well because we
(07:12):
were new, and but that segment was playing Christian music
that didn't sound like your typical Christian music because we're
quite used to, you know, the generic stereotypical gospel. There's
a lot of like Christian music that's either rap or yeah,
(07:34):
like all sorts of different genres. So I would find
different songs and have a couple for the week and
for the segment and then just play and people kind
of wrote like which one they would like, and also
make the link available to people to listen to on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So yeah, all right, so just a side note, who's
your favorite Christian rapper? Because like, I'm also into Christian trip,
So I listened to a lot of La Craig, you know,
Andy Mino and KB.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So yeah, so this is just for interestake.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I would I wouldn't say that Christian rap is like
my fav but I have songs by La Cravee that
I really like and I also think yeah KB is great.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, all right, all right, all right, shout out for that.
And obviously you were are well not obviously, but you
know a lot of people that actually do follow you.
And by the way, Johanna has a huge follow base.
You know, your Instagram is booming. Shout out some of
us sisted in the three figures. But anyway, you know,
(08:43):
you you managed to cope work with work work, and
when I say work, I mean like work that's outside
of radio, with actual radio presenting. And I think this
is this is the key when it comes to us
as the youth. Again, it's a podcast for you, so
please tell us how you managed to balance between work
(09:04):
and radio presenting and how it affected you know, just you,
yourself and your life basically.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Wow. Yeah, I definitely look like at my life and
think I didn't live the normal you know, nineteen year old,
twenty year old whatever life. Even from eighteen or even
from before, I've always been interning and trying to get
work experience. So the way I coped I guess was
(09:33):
going through day to day at the time. When I
finished radio school, I then went on internships and that's
also when I started radio. So I would literally have
like you know, nine to five year at work in
the office doing different things. I was working for a
media house in Hadad, and so we were doing different
(09:56):
projects during the day, and then I'd have my shifts
at radio. My main shift was midnight. They called it
the graveyard shift, so it was midnight to three am,
so kind of get home, do whatever I wanted to do,
spend time with my family whatever, eat dinner. Usually I
take a nap and then wake up, drive to the
(10:19):
station there about an hour before make sure everything's fine,
maybe if I haven't finished my playlist, finished my playlist
to sort for the like, you know, for the three
hours and then be on air and then drive back
home and then sleep for a little bit and wake
up and go to work again. And other days we have, Yeah,
(10:41):
we'd have different shifts sometimes during the day to cover
like take or sometimes on holidays we'd fill in for
the other season presenters who were there, so we'd fill
in like on certain holidays, you know, Christmas, New Year's
So yeah, it was. It was interesting, But I love this.
(11:02):
I really did enjoy being the being able to connect
with people on radio and through social media as well.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh yeah, And I think that's the greatest thing of
radio presenting, like just the entire industries, the connections that
you make so just out of interesting. Again, Oh man,
I feel like today there's a lot of things that
are just interesting. But oh, did you meet any famous people?
I think this is the question that every listener just
(11:30):
wants to hear. Which famous people did you meet, did
you speak to, did you connect to?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And how do we connect to them? I'm joking about
the last quason.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I did.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I actually did get to meet interesting people and famous people,
some musicians, some just like you know, socialites or whenever.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We want names, we want names, you want oh wow, word.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
People like yahha, David Tammy, moil people like the actual
presenters themselves. We always just hear and you hear of them,
you know, like Simbly Limby and miss Red and.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Then that guy.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
And like basically the whole station. But it's different when
you're seeing them. They're like, oh my word, is this
shown from sport? Like wow, you know, is this is
this a mod this is actually a mod and seeing
them off the mic, so it is it is interesting
and just enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That is so nice. That is so nice.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And I think, you know, just looking at what hearing
and listening to how busy you were and how busy
you probably are still because to my understanding, you are
studying right at the moment. So you know, what do
you like doing for fun? Like what's your typical off day? Basically,
(13:06):
like what do you like to do for fun?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I love visiting new places and also spending time with
family and friends. So with COVID it's been tricky because
I mean we spent the whole of last year basically
learning online. So I've basically been able to make friends
at school this year because I was only at school
for a month last year and I was, you know,
just finding my feet. So now just spending time with
(13:33):
family friends. Sometimes you go for a hike, sometimes you
go for a picnic, and as you go sight seeing
and I'm just watching a movie altogether at home or
just me time binging series for a bit. Yeah, I'm
(13:55):
so everywhere, oh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
One of those.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, like this show is terrible and I'll be like
I kind of enjoyed that it was easy, but it
was great.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, I I a f feel you and I'm just
to get back to your studying. What are you studying
and are you hoping to get back into the radio
industry or whatever you're studying is literally just you know,
that's where you're hitting at the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So I'm studying strategic brand communication, which is quite quite bored,
and usually when I'm asked what I'm studying, I usually
have to say it twice because it's like a sentence.
The strategic brand communication sort of falls into the bigger
umbrella of marketing, just to make it a bit more
(14:45):
basic and understandable, but it's more focused on, you know, brands,
building the brands and understanding consumer behavior and the more
technical decisions behind the scenes of a brand and putting
it out there. It can connect to radio because in
any case, when you are a presenter, you are creating
(15:08):
your personal brand, and that's something that I hope to
continue to build. And then going back to radio, I
do want to go back. I think I would more
want to be in TV rather than on radio in
terms of presenting, and it is a dream of mind
to actually one day have a station and not just present,
but to have a station.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, all right, now we'll definitely tune into the station
based believe, but oh man, it's not it's just truly
it's exciting to hear, you know, something different and to
just see that you know, zibolvements, Young's involvements are just
shining in every single area, and you know, it's being
(15:50):
incredible just getting to interview some of the great minds.
But just getting into a little bit of fun questions.
I like to call it the fun segment. But yeah,
I have a few questions for you here, and I
think the first one is something that you've probably heard before,
but yeah, who is your favorite radio presenter in Zimbabwe?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And why? Actually, let me just add.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That in Wow, my favorite.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
No pressure, no pressure, all the pressure.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All the pressure. I think I would have to say
that I enjoy Captain Awesome's presenting. I don't know if
you ever listened. Captain Alsom is a presenter at CFM.
He ausually presents on Saturdays. Does the Top forty. Yeah,
(16:50):
when he's presenting, like, I just feel like even if
you're sad, like you're going to be happy, Like he's
just like he's just so viby he's someone who's related ball,
so in terms of that, he's very good at what
he does. He's just on point in terms of being
on top of that segment and just being himself being awesome,
(17:13):
being the captain of awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So yeah, alright, cool, now that's very interesting. I actually
really I like him. I like him a lot because yeah,
I've personally heard him as well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And yeah, the top forty is it's never the same. Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So the second question that I have for you is, HM,
which do you think is the best radio station in Zimbabwe.
I know there's a little bit of bias towards CFM
because you work there, but I want you to like
really just think in the broader scenes, which do you
think is the bast radio station in Zimbawe?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh you know, no pressure, no pressure.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I personally enjoy VFM, and like he said, build be
a bias towards it. I just feel like ZFM is
more like maybe when they when they do their stuff
and they think who's their target audience, Like I fit,
I fit the bill for that. I just enjoy the
lineups and the presenters and the playlisting. So for me,
(18:21):
ZFM is my my Yeah, I go to you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
All right, and they do have that catchphrase Z but yeah,
it's very catchy.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And the last question that I have for you is
very random.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
If you could have any superhero power, which one would
you go for?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And why?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I think that I would want to be able to teleport. Yeah,
I think especially now with COVID, like having to travel
and all this stuff is becoming so much more completing
and just in general traveling is expensive. So you imagine
just being able to like go visit a new country,
(19:06):
like just in a few seconds, I could just go
take a walk around, come back like I'd be able
to just visit home whenever, like just teleport to school
and back to the shops. Like imagine not having to
pay for transport. It would just be great and just
being able to be places.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You know, I think see that the US are killing
you down day.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It is dead.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
But and listen, I thought about something I want to
add a favorite presenter. I was thinking about it to
be on the spot. One other person I really really
like is so profound, so profound, just so real and genuine,
and he doesn't like like sometimes when you enter a
space you feel pressured to fit the mold. Or there's
like instruction to fit a certain mold. And he's someone
(19:52):
who he just has real conversations and doesn't want like that.
His goal is not to just he ate like a
presenter in jail. Like he is radio in a way
that you connect and you have like banter that's not
not like planned or anything, but it just works.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
It just clicks, and.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
He really thinks out like everything he does in a
way that just makes sense and makes radio great. So
I think he's awesome.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
All right, that's very interesting stuff. And so it's been
it's been great having you here. But just before we
say goodbye and say our goodbyes, right, you know, and
there's some I ask this. I think maybe if you
do listen to the podcast, I ask this every single
time because I think this is like the most important
(20:43):
part of each interviews in my opinion. But like, what
advice can you give to zimvolvements that want to choose
your career path, which is you know, the entertainment industry,
you know, not just radio, but like here, like what
advice can you give them? And you know, obviously you
faced challenges as well, so you know, it's not just
(21:05):
like things that have been smooth.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So what advice can you.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Give the young people out there that are that don't
want to be a misread or a captain awesome?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know, well, what can you tell them?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I think I would say that there's always something new
to learn, and would I would just advise. I'd advise
anyone to just you know, find someone you can talk
to and ask questions. We have so many people like
available to us, like social media. You know, you can
(21:40):
literally just send a DM to someone and just speak
to them five minutes. Even platforms like LinkedIn, like you
have so much access to to message someone who's in
your career or in working somewhere that you maybe want
to work or doing something that you want to do
and be a part of. And we're able to literally
just send them a message and be like, hi, there,
how you are interested in what you do? Do you
(22:02):
have you know, five minutes to just chat and just
talk or you know, what would you do for this situation?
And you literally lose nothing if they do not reply
or say they unavailable, But you gain so much if
they say yeah, sure I have five minutes, and you
get so much knowledge for them from them. Yeah, and
beyond that then work your hardest to try and apply
(22:25):
some of that knowledge in your space. Like wherever you are,
there's always something that you can do to even if
it's just one baby step to get closer today, you
can actually do that and can you know, make a
difference for you in your journey in the long run.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So yeah, that is sound advice, very very interesting and
beneficial to me myself even you know, so shout out
for that, and thank you once again for coming on.
It was a blast. We've learned a lot about the
radio industry. You know, it's not just you know, getting
up every day and going to present.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There's a lot that goes on around there. So thank
you for that.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Hey, thank you that strays And yes, I think that's
enough for today, and thank you once again for listening
to the chat room.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And we keep growing each and every single week and
we are just we are. We're grateful for them for
the growth that we're experiencing. Again, catch us on Monday
Night Lives with the Boy. We always make it shake
there with topics that are controversial, but they need to
be spoken about.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So that's it from me until next time. Peace,
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