The "You Only Know Half" Podcast

Georgia Robinson from Bilby, Manchester Jamaica- attorney and children’s advocate

Georgia is from rural Jamaica and is now an award-winning attorney who advocates for children and stresses the value of reading. She is founder of Reading Pays More Foundation that mentors young children and exposes them to positive role models who support ensuring that all children learn to read

Oroyo Eubanks is from the small district of Ft. George in deep rural St. Ann - he’s now a communications specialist in London

From age 11 Oroyo knew he wanted to reach for the stars and that doing so meant his life had to change. He orchestrated that change and took himself from deep rural St. Ann to Manchester, to Kingston and to London. He is an old soul and a young man's body and is an award winning journalist.

Karl Brown from humble beginnings in Manchester Jamaica to Magistrate in Miami, Florida

Magistrate Brown has a unique perspective on the black experience in America. Determination and grit pushed him from his grandmother's three room house in Manchester, through life's setbacks to graduate from law school and to excel as a top litigator in Florida and now he is a Magistrate in Miami.

Award-winning attorney Dawn Brathwaite is a mover and shaker

Born in England and raised in Jamaica, Dawn Brathwaite is quintessential Jamaican for whom determination and multi-tasking is second nature 

Wayne Golding from Kingston & St. Mary, Jamaica is a well-known attorney in the Diaspora

Wayne Golding found his passion for advocacy in being a lawyer, but he is also a hard working Diaspora representative to successive governments in Jamaica. With all his accomplishments, he has not forgotten his humble roots and the sacrifices made to get him to this point in his life.

June Grant is a visionary architect, from Kingston, Jamaica she is one of only 467 registered black, female architects in America

June Grant knew since she was 5 years old that she wanted to be architect. Her curiosity about buildings and constructions sites in her native Jamaica launched her career. She took her lived experiences and wove it into today's communities as she innovates the approach to architecture.

The Murphy family is the American immigrant family- Karen and Xavier Murphy are from Jamaica

Karen & Xavier Murphy are from Jamaica and their three daughters were born in America but grew up in a very Jamaican household. Even today the daughters use Jamaican phrases that confuse their friends. Listen to Karen & Xavier's love story and passion for everything Jamaican.

1972 Graduates of Ardenne high school in Kingston, Jamaica - friends who are family

In Jamaica, high school friendships become life long relationships.  Meet a group of 1972 Ardenne high school graduates who took their friendship, turned it into family and took it across the waters to America and ensured that their bond held - they even welcomed the younger sister of one of their classmates to their circle. #ImmigrantStories #JamaicanAmerica #JamaicaTouristBoard #LawOfficesOfDahliaWalker #VictoriaMutual

Marie Buteau a multi-ethnic Jamaican who embodies ”Out of many one people”

Marie Antoinette Buteau was born and raised in Rollington Town in Kingston, Jamaica. Her Jamaican mother was a mix of different ethnicities and her father was from France. Her parents treated everyone equally and she took a page from them living "whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto Me". She founded Friends of Good Shepherd in America to support numerous charities all across Jamaica.

Sydney Roberts from Pink Lane in West Kingston rose to be a cherished purveyor of Jamaican Culture

As a shining example of "it's not where you start", Sydney Roberts is from the heart of West Kingston - inner city Jamaica.  He went on to struggle to integrate the prestigious Wolmers' Boys School as part of the second class of students coming from inner city schools through Common Entrance and prevailed to become a champion of Jamaican Culture in the Diaspora.