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Why Your Team's Results Depends On Relationships, Not Just Skills
You can hire the most skilled people in the room and still watch your results stall. Why? Because skill without connection doesn't drive performance — relationships do.
In this episode, Dr. Ruth Vitsemmo Akumbu breaks down the real reason high-performing teams outperform high-talent ones: trust, communication, and connection do more heavy lifting than technical ability ever will. Drawing from her work coaching leaders and entrepreneurs, Dr. Akumbu unpacks what it actually takes to build a team that delivers — consistently.
If you're leading a team (or trying to build one that works), this episode will change how you think about hiring, culture, and leadership.
🎧 Tune in now.
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Why Smart Women Charge So Little
You can have the degrees, the results, and the track record — and still quietly undercharge. It's not a confidence flaw, and it's not a skills gap. It's a pricing model built on the wrong thing.
In this episode, Dr. Ruth Akumbu (PhD, Global Leadership & Change) names what so many capable women won't say out loud: they price by the clock, by what feels "reasonable," by what they think won't scare the client away — instead of by the value they actually create. She draws on her own collision with a pay ceiling after earning a PhD, and what it took to stop defending her rates and start setting them.
Pulling from her book The Million Dollar Mind: How to Build a World-Class Coaching Business from What You Already Know, this is for the woman who's tired of shrinking her worth to feel safe — and ready to get paid for the outcomes she delivers.
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What to Sell Instead of Your Hours (Get Paid Your Worth)
You can be the best at what you do and still hit a ceiling and it's not a hustle problem. It's a pricing problem.
In this episode, Dr. Ruth Akumbu (PhD, Global Leadership & Change) breaks down why experienced professionals and coaches plateau even when their results are strong: they're still selling time, not value. Whether it shows up as an hourly rate, a project fee, or a retainer, if availability is what you're pricing on, you've built in a ceiling.
Ruth shares three shifts that move you out of constant negotiating and into pricing as a decision the client makes not one you have to defend plus the personal story of hitting her own pay ceiling after earning a PhD, and what it taught her about value-based pricing.
Drawing on her book The Million Dollar Mind: How to Build a World-Class Coaching Business from What You Already Know, this episode is for anyone — coach, consultant, or employee — ready to stop trading hours for dollars and start getting paid for outcomes.
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Welcome to the Jambo! Dr. Akumbu Podcast
Episode Title: The Evolution of AI in Education
Featuring: Dr. Ruth Akumbu & Dr. Eugene KimIn this insightful episode, we dive into the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence in education. Join Dr. Ruth Akumbu and Dr. Eugene Kim as we share candid stories about how we first encountered AI, how it's shaping our classrooms and careers today, and what its future might hold for teaching, learning, and human connection.
💡 Whether you're curious about AI, passionate about education, or navigating both worlds—this episode is for you.
#JamboPodcast #AIinEducation #EdTech #RuthAkumbu #EugeneKim #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfLearning #GlobalEducation #STEM #Leadership
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In this episode, we explore the challenges that nonprofits face when navigating crises, leadership struggles, and financial instability. Drawing from the article, Leadership, Service, and Wicked Problems: Impact of War, Lack of Funding, and COVID-19 in Service of Those with Fewer Opportunities (https://doi.org/10.57229/2834-2267.1024), I examine how external disruptions like war and global pandemics push organizations to the brink.
How do leaders adapt under pressure? What happens when mission-driven work collides with chaos? And what strategies can help nonprofits survive and sustain impact amid uncertainty?
Join me for an insightful discussion on crisis leadership, resilience, and the real-world struggles of organizations fighting to make a difference.
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Leading Across Borders: Interview and Reflections on Leadership, Diversity, and Teaching.
Read more: https://ruthakumbu.substack.com/p/leading-across-borders
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Change Management in the Church: Dr. Akumbu and Rev. Dr. Haney discuss change management in the church following Rev. Dr. Haney's research findings.
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Dr. Akumbu and Dr. Kim discuss their trips to Europe and lessons learned.
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Nov 15, 2023 Episode
Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
Today's conversation is titled Experiencing African Classrooms.Guest: Dr. Carol Carson is an educator in Los Angeles. After her first trip to Africa, she shared her experience, indicating that observing African children's behavior in the classroom was the highlight of her trip.
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Your support is appreciated.
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Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
My guest is Dean Chalak Richards, a justice advocate. Dean Richards currently serves as Dean of Students, Diversity, and Belonging at the Caruso School of Law at Pepperdine University. She is dedicated to bringing diversity, equity, inclusion, and a true sense of ownership and belonging to the law.
Join us as we discuss the Legalities of DEIB: Black Women in Higher Education
In honor of Dr. JoAnne A. Epps and Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey.
Wishing Dr. Claudine Gay great success in her future endeavors.
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#communication #consulting #entertainment #podcast #drakumbu #DEIB #Culture #Law
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Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
Today, I reflect on the events in Africa. Africa Leads: Coups or Revolutions?
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Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building. My guest is Dean Chalak Richards, a justice advocate. Dean Richards currently serves as Dean of Students, Diversity, and Belonging at the Caruso School of Law at Pepperdine University. She is dedicated to bringing diversity, equity, inclusion, and a true sense of ownership and belonging to the law. Join us as we discuss the Legalities of DEIB: Juneteenth-Affirmative Action
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Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
My guest is Dean Chalak Richards, a justice advocate. Dean Richards currently serves as Dean of Students, Diversity, and Belonging at the Caruso School of Law at Pepperdine University. She is dedicated to bringing diversity, equity, inclusion, and a true sense of ownership and belonging to the law.
Join us as we discuss the Legalities of DEIB from an institutional and societal perspective.
Your support is appreciated. https://anchor.fm/dr-akumbu/support
Contact
Dr. Akumbu: https://ruthakumbu.wixsite.com/drakumbu
#education #communication #consulting #entertainment #podcast #drakumbu #DEIB #Culture #Law
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Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
My guest is Peres Owino. Peres is the writer/director of “BOUND: Africans vs African-Americans,” winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at PAFF, an NAACP Image Award nominee for Seasons of Love, which was produced by Taraji P. Henson and co-writer of “African Queens - Njinga” currently on Netflix.
Links referenced:The Historical Perspective of The Woman King with historian, journalist, and the author of Queens of Africa and Heroines of the Black Diaspora, Sylvia Serbin. https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/hVbQ3EF5Xyb
https://youtu.be/EQF6yILA_ZE
“BOUND: Africans vs African-Americans” trailer: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/127283531
Full movie on Amazon, Itunes, and more.
I do not have the rights to the music references in the video. The goal is to highlight and support the African culture, artists, and diversity in music.#podcast #change #intercultural #drakumbu #dialogue #advocates #education #diversity #deib #entertainment #africanmovies #netflix
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Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
My guest is Dean Chalak Richards, a justice advocate. Dean Richards currently serves as Dean of Students, Diversity, and Belonging at the Caruso School of Law at Pepperdine University. She is dedicated to bringing diversity, equity, inclusion, and a true sense of ownership and belonging to the law.
Join us as we discuss the Legalities of DEIB and more from a Christian and interpersonal perspective.
Your support is appreciated. https://anchor.fm/dr-akumbu/support
Contact
Dr. Akumbu: https://ruthakumbu.wixsite.com/drakumbu
#education #communication #consulting #entertainment #podcast #drakumbu #DEIB #Culture #Law
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Jambo! Dr. Akumbu, podcast, bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
My guest is Dr. Aasiyah N. Ghazi, Indian-Pakistani-American She is a leadership consultant and associate Professor of leadership at the University of Arizona Global Campus. In this episode, we’ll reflect on Culture and Community in Times of Crisis as Dr.Ghazi and myself reflect on the power of faith, community, and culture as our friends and family members struggle with health issues. You can listen to the previous episode with Dr. Ghazi following by clicking on this link: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/TDNtW9iGxyb
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Dr. Akumbu: https://ruthakumbu.wixsite.com/drakumbu or [email protected]
Dr. Ghazi: [email protected]
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Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
Today’s reflection is titled: Apostle Paul Was Woke.
The Bible is a book with deep cultural underpinnings. It follows particular beliefs, values, norms, history, heritage, language, and traditions. To understand the culture of Christians today and of old, one must be willing to learn. Christians argue that non-Christians or people like Paul in the Bible could not understand some of the concepts in the Bible unless God opened their eyes, particularly their spiritual eyes.
In Acts 9:1-19, New International Version talks about Paul or Saul’s conversion.
In 1962 William Melvin Kelley wrote, "If you’re woke, you dig it" – meaning if you’re in the know, you understand (https://www.foxnews.com/us/what-does-woke-mean).
Contact for coaching and consulting: https://ruthakumbu.wixsite.com/drakumbu
#education #communication #consulting #entertainment #podcast #drakumbu #DEIB #Culture #Diversity #Equity, #Inclusion, and #Belonging #drakumbu #culture #culturalrelevance #entertainmentindustry #education #leadership #blackowned #blackwomenleader
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Welcome to Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
In today’s episode titled CRT or CRT, I reflect on the clash between culture and theory in our society.
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Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
I'm your host, Dr. Ruth Vitsemmo Akumbu. In this reflective episode, I share my #Reflection, #Prayer, and #Self-Love following the death of #TyrieNicols.
#Diversity #Equity, #Inclusion, and #Belonging #drakumbu #culture #culturalrelevance #entertainmentindustry #education #leadership #blackowned #blackwomenleader
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Welcome, Jambo! Dr. Akumbu. Bringing you culturally relevant multifaceted conversations and reflections intersecting education, entertainment, and business, committed to DEIB and cultural capacity building.
I'm your host, Dr. Ruth Vitsemmo Akumbu. My guest is Kevin Coffee, Professor of Communication Studies at West Los Angeles college. In this episode, we will address Thinking in Education and offer solutions to current challenges.
Current episode: YouTube: Link https://youtu.be/2JnEnK2cElM
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Related episodes:
Cultural Relevance of Mathematics: https://youtu.be/rfECGWCgPJ4 with Kevin Coffee
Fear of Failure: https://youtu.be/YISvy9vm-tw with Dr. Farzin Madjidi
Contact for coaching and consulting: https://ruthakumbu.wixsite.com/drakumbu #education #communication #consulting #entertainment #podcast #drakumbu #DEIB #Culture
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