<p>In this soul-stirring episode of Big Convos, corporate lawyer and author Asmahaney Saad takes us on a 150-year journey through dhow crossings, royal executions, colonial resistance, and divine purpose. </p><p><br></p><p>This isn&#39;t just her story. It&#39;s a revelation about what your own bloodline might be calling you to do.From her great-grandfather&#39;s perilous voyage from Yemen across the Gulf of Aden, to the execution of a Comorian Sultan, to her grandfather Mzee Saad&#39;s legendary stand against colonial exploitation in Budaka ,every chapter of this family saga reveals a pattern: power is inherited, but purpose must be chosen.</p><p><br></p><p>Asmahaney unpacks the &quot;Identity Tax&quot; of being a perpetual foreigner in your own homeland, the irony of a name meaning &quot;Happiness&quot; in a lineage defined by struggle, and the awakening she calls her &quot;Queen Esther Moment&quot; the realization that your position in any palace is not accidental. It&#39;s a divine assignment.</p><p><br></p><p>This conversation will challenge how you see yourself, your ancestors, and the work you were actually put here to do.</p><p><br></p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏰ </p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS:</p><p>00:00 – Introduction: The Irony of &quot;Saad&quot;</p><p>06:45 – The Yemeni Adventurer: Crossing the Gulf of Aden15:20 – Royal Blood, Rebel Spirit: </p><p>The Sultan of Comoro28:10 – </p><p>The Budaka Strike: Economic Liberation vs. Colonial Control42:35 – </p><p>The Identity Tax: &quot;Where Are You Really From?&quot;55:50 – </p><p>The Queen Esther Assignment: Why You&#39;re In The Room1:08:15 – From Lawyer to Author: Choosing Purpose Over Profession1:20:30 – </p><p>The Call: What Your DNA Is Asking You To Do</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>📚 GET THE BOOK:</p><p>&quot;Identity: Lost in History, Found in Purpose&quot; by Asmahaney Saad</p><p>Your history is not a burden. It is your mission. Your ancestors didn&#39;t survive so you could shrink. They fought so you could rise.</p><p>Get your copy today 👇🏾👇🏾</p><p>🔗Website: https://asmahaneysaad.com/book-purchase/🔗Amazon: https://a.co/d/03KkdkOt🔗Momo Marketplace: https://market.momo.africa/Portal/product/193894/1?tenantId=1&amp;lang=en</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>🎙️ ABOUT BIG CONVERSATIONS BY ORDINARY PEOPLE A Miratrax Studio production. </p><p>We go beyond titles to find truth. We believe in Visionary Audio and Human Stories that challenge, heal, and ignite.</p><p>Host: Mark Keron Wamala</p><p>Executive Producer: Miratrax StudioLocation: </p><p>Muyenga Bukasa Kampala Uganda Subscribe for more conversations that matter.\</p><p>📱 CONNECT WITH US:I</p><p>nstagram: @MiratraxStudioTwitter/X: @MiratraxStudioTikTok: @MiratraxStudioWebsite: miratraxstudio.com</p><p>📩 For bookings and collaborations: [email protected]</p><p>💬 DISCUSSION QUESTION:</p><p><br></p><p>What part of your family&#39;s story have you been avoiding—and what would happen if you finally faced it? Drop your thoughts below. </p><p><br></p><p>This conversation doesn&#39;t end here.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p><br></p><p>#AsmahaneySaad #Identity #BigConvosPod #MiratraxStudio #Uganda #Legacy #Purpose #DivineAssignment #Podcast #AfricanStories #Leadership #History #Ancestry #QueenEsther #Yemen #Heritage #Entrepreneurship #SoulWork</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to more on: - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3iDhPBe- Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3iDEu0p- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jEh9Np- Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bcop​</p><p><br></p>