Episode 75 - Sunil Sharma
Citizen Podcast
Tetherball Academy Media
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Sunil Sharma joins the show.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll see you in the next video. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Citizen, we got a very special guest today. Actually, well, not technically your |
| 0:47.4 | second time since it's a different show, I suppose, but more or less the same, Sunil Sharma. |
| 0:54.2 | How's it going, buddy? |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, good thanks. Good to be back. I've been following your show. It's such a great, such a great |
| 1:01.8 | concept. And as much, we see like this here in the UK. So yeah, we're good stuff that you guys are |
| 1:07.6 | doing. |
| 1:08.2 | Well, tell for people that didn't see the, when you were on a American party before, tell them about |
| 1:12.9 | yourself who you are, what you do. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, so I work full-time in, in finance, that's my sort of day job. I was part of a small team that |
| 1:24.6 | started a group called Concert Friends of the Commonwealth, a nonprofit organisation around seven |
| 1:30.4 | years ago, which the concept of trying to connect our government with other Commonwealth governments across the |
| 1:38.8 | world is sort of closer relationships of trade, whether it's human rights, just trying to get more |
| 1:45.1 | cross-collaboration for people who don't know what the Commonwealth is. It's essentially ex-British |
| 1:50.0 | colonies, so countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India. So we were trying to build closer |
| 1:57.9 | ties with these countries and after the European Union, so we had exited European Union, after |
| 2:04.0 | Brexit, the referendum vote that had happened. We thought this was a really good opportunity now for |
| 2:07.7 | the country to be more focused on building trade and building relationships with people that we |
| 2:13.8 | have a bit more historic and cultural history with, and so that's essentially how I've sort of, |
| 2:23.7 | when we started it maybe seven years ago, it was quite a small team we've grown since then. It's |
| 2:28.9 | become a lot more topical now. A lot of people will talk more about the Commonwealth and we've kind |
| 2:35.0 | of grown as an organisation. We've had lots of great people on our podcast, on our platform, in our |
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