#59: Joyce Musoke on Finding, appreciating and establishing her Voice, Value and Pace.

The Busy Being Born Podcast

In this episode the gents sit with award winning actress and director Joyce Musoke and follow her journey from a curious quiet child who wanted to be a queen to her becoming all that and more! From finding her creative tribe and how a casual choice catapults her into the limelight! From Better Days to being a household name, finding footing, understanding, love and leverage while juggling a whole lot. From private to public, concept to product, screen to theatre - Joyce shares stories, gems, dos and don’ts she’s picked on her journey so far. From billboards and frames to drowning in mashed food and diapers, from acclaimed productions to unfair contracts and dragons - the sit down with Kamande and Kigondu explores the duality of success and the balance. Highlighting childhood memories, hidden wins, rap star ambitions, campus joys, early career days, the making of her TV show and films, the trio also dig into Joyce’s segue into voice acting, awards, current projects and more. This episode is really about overcoming worry, turning trauma into triumph, need for better sleep, resilience, complexities of running a company, being an actors’ producer, friendship in marriage, approaching God from a point of curiosity and most definitely finding, recognizing and crowning value in skill and talent.

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About the Guest

Joyce Musoke is a screen, stage and voice actor. The Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role winner at the Kenya Theatre Awards 2024 and Best Director at the WIFA Awards 2024 is a seasoned artist whose skills and interests spill into producing and directing as well. Most prolific at acting, she has graced numerous plays, films, ads and TV shows over the years. Her most recent roles being ‘Lizzy’ on Second Family by Showmax and notable features on Mpakani (Netflix) and Crime and Justice (Canal+). She is also the voice of ‘Dizi’ the mad scientist on ‘Twende’, Showmax’s premier animation series.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

• Post Finance Bill 2024 protests losses - Here and Here
• Beethoven 9th Symphony
• Conscious choices for better sleep
• Evening rituals for better sleep
• A write up on overcoming worry
• BBB Nini Wacera episode
• An interview on Cheese pictures - Joyce and Yafesi works
• More on Joyce and Yafesi’s journey around work, love and family
• Parable of the BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
• Wangu wa Makeri
• SANCTUARY - Restaging at the Braeburn theatre on the 5th and 6th of OCT

BOOKS

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Psychology of Money
• The Body keeps a score