This episode is about making and breaking plans - both in business and in our creative and personal lives. It's about why we say we want to do a thing (like start a business, take a dancing class, start a podcast or a youtube, start eating righ

Ep #12: Preparing to die

Jun 23rd, 2020 19m 37s

It's a weird thing to say but in a way, I've spent most of my life with blinkers on.... steadily, steadfastly preparing to die. I am only just starting to learn how to live, really. Or to indulge in life. This episode is me poking at that idea

Ep #11: How to start

Jun 16th, 2020 10m 33s

On navigating beginnings. And how loooong they are. And how most of the time you're driving blind. But more than that, beginnings are this unspoken renegotiation of your relationship to the thing you're beginning.

Ep #10: How to be ok when you're not

Jun 9th, 2020 9m 48s

Being in the middle of something hard is, well, hard. And right now, we've been thrown into a lot of hard things, especially with this insane pandemic. There is tons of uncertainty and anxiety and panic and cognitive dissonance about. But amids

Ep #9: How to master your emotions

Jun 3rd, 2020 14m 44s

When emotions are high it's normal to feel like you're spiralling out of control and at the mercy of your feelings. But it doesn't have to be that way. It is possible to master your emotions and regain control - but the path there goes against

Was she scared or is she racist?

May 29th, 2020 10m 3s

We aren’t scared because we're racist. We are racist, we are discriminatory, we are judgmental, we hurt and label and point and blame because we are scared. Fear is the root. And it's spreading -- because we keep passing it around, playing hot

Ep #8: How to be fearless

May 26th, 2020 8m 17s

It's brave to be afraid. Don't you know?

Ep #7: Ever feel like you don't belong?

May 22nd, 2020 9m 6s

I don't really know where I'm from. I was born in London, England. Grew up in Ontario, Canada. My parents and grandparents are from East Africa. But if I never told you, you'd never know--because I don't look or sound like any of the above.

Ep #6: My favourite definition of love

May 18th, 2020 12m 52s

This episode is about the time I broke up with my now-husband. And how that single break up conversation pointed me to a box I had very carefully and meticulously and unintentionally made for myself---a definition of love that I was suffocating

Ep #5: Mastering your creative process

May 14th, 2020 12m 45s

What is your creative process? Do you know? Sometimes I am so head down in the muck of mine that I forget I'm in one. And that it will end. But also it starts up again on auto-repeat if I'm not careful....

Ep #4: I use safe words

May 11th, 2020 12m 17s

No, I'm not talking about the kind of safe words Anastasia Steele used in Fifty Shades of Grey. The safe words I'm talking about are subtle. We use them all the time, every day, mostly unconsciously.

Ep #3: Why I changed my accent

May 5th, 2020 10m 31s

Some people speak two languages. I speak in two accents. ((And I've spent most of my life hiding one from the other.))

Ep #2: On unwritten social rules and fitting in

Apr 27th, 2020 12m 51s

This episode I talk about rules. Invisible rules. The kind that make us give (unwarranted) side eye to "that guy over there" who is chewing way too loud, or that bully us into laughing at a joke we definitely do not think is funny but everyone

Ep #1: The one about #StayHome

Apr 21st, 2020 13m 13s

#StayHome is hard. Not just because I thought I had Corona and freaked out. But also because staying home means no distractions. No escape, really. It's down to me and the mini horror series in my head I call my thoughts.