Esther Njeru

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May 5, 2014·11 visitors

Blake Ian

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May 5, 2014

Greetings

Esther Njeru · 11:14 AM

Hey.... How are you?

Blake Ian · 11:15 AM

Hey there, Im well you?

Esther Njeru · 11:15 AM

Where are you? Am awesome...

Blake Ian · 11:16 AM

I am in NY

Blake Ian · 11:16 AM

Where are you?

Esther Njeru · 11:16 AM

Nice... Am in Kenya...

Blake Ian · 11:17 AM

Kenya! Wow - I have never been to Africa

Esther Njeru · 11:18 AM

I have never been to New York... How is it there?

Blake Ian · 11:20 AM

Its exciting. People move very fast... haha

Blake Ian · 11:21 AM

So do you speak Swahili and English?

Esther Njeru · 11:22 AM

Hahaha... I do speak swahili and English....

Blake Ian · 11:22 AM

Excellent, I love languages... I wish I learned more when I was a child

Blake Ian · 11:23 AM

So how is it over there - what area do you live in?

Esther Njeru · 11:24 AM

Am a psychological counsellor....

Blake Ian · 11:25 AM

Thats great work. Good for you

Esther Njeru · 11:25 AM

What do you do?

Blake Ian · 11:25 AM

Im sure it is quite tough at times

Blake Ian · 11:25 AM

I built Tawkers :)

Blake Ian · 11:26 AM

well not by myself... with a team of people, but I am the Co-Founder of this app we are using

Blake Ian · 11:26 AM

How do you like it?

Esther Njeru · 11:26 AM

Thats nice... So you are a computer nerd?

Blake Ian · 11:26 AM

haha indeed!

Blake Ian · 11:26 AM

I am also a musician

Esther Njeru · 11:27 AM

Interesting.... What genre?

Blake Ian · 11:28 AM

I am a singer/songwriter... I love to listen to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Radiohead

Blake Ian · 11:28 AM

so those are some of my influences

Blake Ian · 11:29 AM

Do you have an app that you listen to music on? Spotify, iTunes etc?

Esther Njeru · 11:30 AM

Yeah...

Blake Ian · 11:31 AM

Which one?

Esther Njeru · 11:31 AM

Itunes...

Blake Ian · 11:32 AM

k, well you can search for Blake Ian and find all my stuff on there

Blake Ian · 11:32 AM

or you can listen at www.blakeian.com

Blake Ian · 11:32 AM

So do you counsel adults, children, both?

Esther Njeru · 11:33 AM

In a few.... What are you upto now?

Esther Njeru · 11:33 AM

I mainly focus on children..

Blake Ian · 11:33 AM

Do you work at a school?

Esther Njeru · 11:34 AM

No... I am a freelance therapist.... I go where am needed...

Blake Ian · 11:35 AM

Well its important work, so Im sure you are needed

Esther Njeru · 11:36 AM

Hahaha..... Yeah.....

Blake Ian · 11:37 AM

So how did you come across Tawkers? - We are still working on making it as easy as possible, did you find it easy to use / understand?

Esther Njeru · 11:38 AM

Its fair.... I was just messing around in the app store and it tickled my fancy...

Blake Ian · 11:38 AM

nice

Blake Ian · 11:38 AM

Perhaps you could do a Tawk about the work you do with children, maybe with another counselor

Blake Ian · 11:43 AM

its very interesting work, and Im sure people would love to learn more

Esther Njeru · 11:55 AM

How do i identify co-hosts?

Blake Ian · 11:55 AM

Well you can go to the Discover tab and search for Tawks and people

Blake Ian · 11:56 AM

Or you can flip through the featured Tawks by category

Blake Ian · 11:56 AM

Hey btw, I just opened up Flipboard and this article was there. You may enjoy it... http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/04/thriveon/

Esther Njeru · 11:56 AM

Ohhh okey...

Blake Ian · 11:57 AM

It's about tech and mental health

Esther Njeru · 11:58 AM

Yeah... Just bookmarked it...

Blake Ian · 11:58 AM

You may also like to read this tawk I had with a psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal

Blake Ian · 11:58 AM

He is actually from South Africa originally

Blake Ian · 11:59 AM

http://tawke.rs/16DasUN

Blake Ian · 12:00 PM

Oh sorry that link is prob going to take you to the web browser... I'll send you an invite so you can go to it from the app

Esther Njeru · 12:00 PM

Southafrica.... Am waiting...

Blake Ian · 12:02 PM

If you go to Discover tab on the bottom left and search Norman it will come right up as well

Blake Ian · 12:03 PM

You can go into that tawk and look at others who attended and commented... If you view their profiles you may find someone to invite to have a tawk with you

Blake Ian · 12:04 PM

You can also hit the category button and browse to Health and Wellness to find Tawks filled with people with similar interests

Blake Ian · 12:05 PM

OR you can just hit the Contacts tab and invite one of your colleagues to the app and tawk with them!