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We're switching up the pace this week. Have you ever been in a season in your life where you feel like you're being taken for a ride? Regardless of how much you pray nothing is aligning or working out? Well, that was me and my homegirls not too long ago and we had to sit down and talk through it. Life won't always go as planned and it will suck but it's sometimes in those unplanned moments that God does His best work and when you look back, you realize how it shaped you. Listen to the musings of three 20-something-year-old ladies who are on this journey called life.

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Follow Lindi: @the_awaited94

Follow me: @rumuty

Systemic anti-black racism shows up in a variety of ways and in a variety of places. One of those places is in academia. It can be so difficult to navigate academic spaces as a black person, not seeing yourself represented on campus or in the material you are studying. Listen to a conversation I had with a young brilliant scholar, sharing her experience as a black undergrad student.

The voices of two black women who can't be bothered to muffle their words in the face of injustice. 

Navigating academic spaces as a student of colour can be a challenging experience, but also vital in preparing one for bracing the world as a whole. I sat down with one of my friends to discuss what this has looked like for us, an immigrant and a first-generation Canadian, especially in a city like Toronto. Tune in.

After a video documenting the shooting and killing of a young black man in Georgia, I had to share my thoughts and my heart about the continued violence and brutality that is committed against black bodies constantly. These are my raw honest opinions I got emotional at several points in this recording. I urge everyone who listens to this to think about the ways they are currently interacting with this system. To my fellow black folks "we gon' be alright".

Have you ever wondered what happens after you die? Do you think death is the worst thing that could happen to you? I recently came across a video that prompted me to share the truth of what happens after death from a biblical standpoint. Death is not the worst thing that can happen to you, but not knowing where you will go after you take your last breath is. As full of life as we might be, at our prime and peak, death is one thing we can be sure awaits us all but don't be scared of physical death, what truly matters is your soul and where you will spend eternity.

Watch the video I'm talking about, 25-year-old shares Testimony of heaven and hell here.

God Bless y'all

I sat down with one of my best friends, author, playwright, and all-round superstar, Lindi, to chat about race and gender and how as Zimbabwean, and African women, we have interacted with these social structures in our lives. Join us as we revisit some junior school and university experiences that have shaped our views on race and gender and also until now, we hadn't taken the time to fully digest and reflect on. Follow Lindi on Instagram @the_awaited94, you can find some of her short stories on her blog awaitedwords.wordpress.com and buy a copy of her book Birth Place: A Collection of Recollections on Amazon.

Do you ever feel like you don't deserve to be where you are or have the things that you have? I feel like this a lot. I feel it at work I felt it when I was a grad student and even doing this podcast brings up these feelings. Let's chat Imposter Syndrome, and this internalised sometimes debilitating fear that you're a fraud and someone is going to find you out. Listen to my honest, raw and pretty emotional experience with insecurities and Imposter Syndrome.