2023 episodes of Conversations with MM: Community, culture, and leadership

Year 1

Focusing on community events and issues, culture, and leadership that shape up localities in New York, New Jersey, and Cebu City in the Philippines, Conversations with MM has produced 20 episodes and three segments of community outreach ‘Dear Tita Nieva’ so far for the first half of 2023.  It celebrates its first year of streaming community narratives in May this year.

The digital show is produced and hosted by Marivir Montebon, a New York-based writer and multi-media creator for Awesome Media, Ltd. Conversations with MM on YouTube and Facebook platforms through Awesome Media, Ltd., debuted on May 11, 2022, with immigration lawyer Atty. Licelle Cobrador as guest.

2023 Episodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xadmqKD_8wk

January 5, 2023 Tourism Director Zeny Pullugna

DOT Director for Region 4 Philippines, Dr. Zeny Pullugna at a Mt. Pinatubo resort

Miss Universe 2023 R’bonney Gabriel, a Filipino-American beauty from Texas

January 15, 2023 Miss Universe pageant expert Felix Manuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMc_1fBFiL8

January 24, 2023 Rajah Tours CEO Jojo Clemente

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6b6Cr9Ql0

February 22, 2023 Maribago Bluewater Resort CEO Domiku Ugarte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0oymsjwvE

February 24, 2023 Palm Grass The Cebu Heritage Hotel CEO Agripina Guivelondo

Palm Grass The Cebu Heritage Hotel CEO Agripina Guivelondo and Marivir Montebon of Awesome Media, Ltd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFiwf5Br4A

February 27, 2023 Hotel CEOs Guivelondo and Ugarte; Butanding swim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1K-6qtemhk

March 11, 2023 Voices of women leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4ARCvt4Dc

March 17, 2023 Human Nature social enterprise Branch Manager Josine Climaco-Marzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwW56BQgO4

March 21, 2023 Philippine Consul General in NY Senen Mangalile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZTxTPcWlk

March 27, 2023 Have you ever been scammed? Beware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTmCL1tIco

March 27, 2023 Filipino American billionaire Loida Nicolas Lewis; Travel photographers Arlene Donaire and Maryanne Mendoza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNb9A2PK5A

April 1, 2023 WFWP director for UN Relations Merly Barlaan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLq7LWnT6A

April 16, 2023 WFWP NJ HerStory awardees Marivir Montebon and Priscilla Garces

Chef Juan of Juan Dulce Desserts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isQN647sSbg

April 29, 2023 Chef Juan of Juan Dulce Desserts

https://www.facebook.com/cliqontheosm/videos/976520963351963

May 14, 2023 Mother’s Day special - Sharon and Eleanor Goldfarb

Also on Mother’s Day 2023, we launched Dear Tita Nieva segment as our community outreach for mental health. Ms. Nieva Quezon Burdick is the segment host. So far, we have produced 3 segments for our first year.

https://www.facebook.com/cliqontheosm/videos/272269965275545

Our 1st Anniversary episodes:

Susan Simke, guest, remembers life in the Philippines and her mother, Rita Simke, a doctor in Germany who escaped the holocaust and lived in the Philippines in 1940.

https://www.facebook.com/cliqontheosm/videos/1677389349378621

May 25 Susan Simke-Bilar - Filipino-Jewish descendant of Ernst and Rita Simke, German refugees in the Philippines during the holocaust

https://www.facebook.com/cliqontheosm/videos/1390927738432162

May 26, 2023 Marni Halasa - lawyer, figure skater, activist in NYC

https://www.facebook.com/cliqontheosm/videos/1242353316386739

May 30, 2023 Wee Ramirez poetry round table with FFA and WICCAFE

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