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Hey Black Earth fam,
As we come to the end of Season 4, I feel deep gratitude.
Over the past six months, we’ve shared conversations with inspiring storytellers, policy-makers, scientists, and community builders creating futures that nourish both people and mother Earth.
In uncertain and often overwhelming times, we’ve come together to remember and learn that the worlds we dream of are not only possible, they are already being practiced.
This season has taken us from Quilombola territories in Brazil to the Congo Basin, from South London to Southern Africa. We’ve explored some of the most important issues of our time such as extreme heat resilience, seed sovereignty, clean air, and climate entrepreneurship.
This episode is a highlight reel of our conversations weaved together across three themes:
💌 Our relationship with our own wellbeing
🌍 Our relationship with other living beings
⏳ Our relationship with time.
In a world that often amplifies crisis, these conversations have offered stories of peace, resilience, and regeneration already unfolding.
If there’s anything you can take away from this season is this: we are the ones we have been waiting for. We are our own light.
Thank you for listening and sharing this season!
We will return with Season 5 later this year.
In the meantime, make sure you stay connected with us on LinkedIn and Instagram, where we will continue to share the amazing collaborations and projects we have coming up this year.
Love
Marion xx
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18 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Voix de la paix du bassin du Congo: femmes africaines, leadership et bien-être | S4 E8
Dans cet épisode émouvant de Black Earth, notre hôte, Marion, reçoit Mireille Kayijamahe, fondatrice de Terra Mucho.
Terra Mucho est un podcast et une plateforme qui met en avant le leadership des femmes africaines dans la région du bassin du Congo à travers un partage de témoignages, de mentorat et de bien-être.
Mireille travaille dans l'une des régions les plus riches en biodiversité de la planète, un territoire trop souvent réduit à des extrêmes dans les médias. Certaines parties de cette région, notamment son pays d'origine, la République démocratique du Congo, sont façonnées par des actes quotidiens de bienveillance et de résilience, parallèlement à des décennies de conflits et de souffrances.
Cette conversation porte sur le leadership, la tendresse et les efforts quotidiens pour rétablir la paix, que l'on voit rarement dans les gros titres de l’actualité internationale.
Écoutez pour découvrir :
🎙️ Pourquoi Mireille a créé le podcast et la plateforme Terra Mucho
🌍 À quoi ressemble le leadership des femmes africaines dans le bassin du Congo
🌱 Pourquoi le repos et le bien-être sont des pratiques de leadership essentielles
🕊️ Comment le conflit actuel en RDC a façonné la vie et le travail de Mireille
🗺️ Ce que Mireille voudrait que le monde comprenne vraiment à propos du bassin du Congo
💌 Comment soutenir Terra Mucho et le podcast Black Earth
Un grand merci à notre partenaire financier, Synchronicity Earth, pour avoir soutenu la création de cette saison du podcast Black Earth et le travail de Mireille avec Terra Mucho.
Merci à WorldlyWise pour la traduction française de cet épisode.
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11 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Voices of Peace from the Congo Basin: African Women, Leadership & Well-being | S4 E8
In this moving episode of Black Earth, our host, Marion, is joined by Mireille Kayijamahe, founder of Terra Mucho. Terra Mucho is a podcast and platform uplifting African women’s leadership across the Congo Basin through storytelling, mentoring and well-being.
Mireille works in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, a place too often reduced to extremes in the news. Parts of this region, including her place of heritage, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shaped by decades of conflict and hardship, alongside everyday acts of care, love and resilience.
This is a conversation beyond the news headlines: the voices, leadership, tenderness, and everyday peace-making that rarely make it into global narratives.
Listen to find out:
🎙️ Why Mireille created the Terra Mucho podcast and platform
🌍 What African women’s leadership looks like in the Congo Basin
🌱 Why rest and wellbeing are essential leadership practices
🕊️ How ongoing conflict in the DRC has shaped Mireille’s life and work
🗺️ What Mireille wants the world to truly understand about the Congo Basin
A huge thank you to our funding partner, Synchronicity Earth, for supporting the creation of this season of Black Earth Podcast and Mireille’s work with Terra Mucho.
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(https://terramucho.org/about/)
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