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Activist/author/entrepreneur Jeremiah Emmanuel and well-being expert/talent manager Kelly Okogwu meet brilliant people from the world of business and entertainment to discover the dreams that helped them get through the most difficult times of their lives.Inspired by the book of the same name, Dreaming in a Nightmare is a Bookomi Original podcast written and produced by Richard Kilgarriff.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/Dreaming-in-a-Nightmare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I’m 20 years old. I’m an activist, an entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament. I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first. Raised in south London, I lived in an area where crime and poverty were everywhere and opportunities to escape were rare. Violence was accepted; prison was expected. Your best friend might vanish overnight, never to be seen again. That was the world I knew - the only one I thought was possible for people like me.