Episode 3: Pharmacist

The Black Ladder Podcast

Today’s guest is Nike Fakoya. Nike is a Pharmacist, a Business owner, Wife, Sister, and Mother - specifically my mother. Right now, she’s working with the NHS as a Senior Prescribing Advisor of High cost drugs. Her legacy in life is to build people up.

On this episode, we talk about her early admission to university, starting and running her own pharmacy in Nigeria where she faced a few issues such as petty theft and greedy landlords but; she also benefitted from the support of her family and professional networks.

She then takes us to a completely different country and talks to us about starting again with a young family and how previous marks left by other excellent black pharmacists helped her settle into her career within the NHS.

I know i’m biased because this is my mothers career story, but when we were recording this I was speechless because it was so captivating hearing how she broke down barriers and crossed international waters to make a home for her family and still managed to make leaps and bounds in her personal career.

I was particularly moved by her story of why she stopped working in the hospital after a tragic family loss. Keep listening because this story has all sorts of twists and turns from marriage, babies, businesses, illness, moving abroad, exams, racist estate agents, NHS and much more.

Guest details: Nike Fakoya

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Episode layout

Part 1 - Introduction to guest (Quick Fire)

Part 2 - Career ladder and being black in that career

Part 3 - Top tips

Part 4 - Controversial topic

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