#9 - Jesse Wellens & Meymuna Hussein-Cattan & Christian Davis, Flavors from afar. Refugees Sharing their Cuisines ?


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Mar 13 2022 100 mins   1

In the Recharged Podcast series I invite fellow content creators and artists to explore exciting ways to make a difference in the world. I take my guests to visit local social good projects in my self converted electric 1973 VW van. We’ll be having real and raw conversations about our lives and hearing from social good heroes that we can all be inspired by

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On today's podcast our guest is Jesse Wellens, an award winning filmmaker, director, musician, fashion enthusiast , and philanthropist. Jesse was one of the early biggest youtube creators and pioneered the pranking and daily vlogging genres on youtube with his former partner Jeana on their Channels PrankVsPrank and BoyfriendVsGirlfriend and has built a social following of over 23 million. He has more recently pursued a passion for music video directing, working with some of the biggest names in Music

Today we’re visiting Meymuna Hussein-Cattan and Christian Davis both cofounders of  Flavors From Afar, a restaurant that works with refugees to share their traditional, home cooked dishes to create a rotating international menu. Flavors From Afar has had the goal of helping both the world as well as the communities that the business is connected to as an extension of the Tiyya foundation, an organization that helps refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced Americans re-assimilate into the country; Flavors From Afar provides work, a source of income, for those in need. With refugees from Somalia, Egypt, Eritrea, Syria and several other countries, They highlight a new menu each month with recipes provided by those who immigrated here and gives them a percentage of the proceeds earned