In today’s episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Vievee Francis in a conversation that spans accepting yourself, fragility, body dysmorphic disorder, beauty, forgiveness and a lot more. Vievee also reads poetry from her forthcoming collection the Shared World. 

 Vievee Francis is an award-winning poet, professor and artist. She is the author of three poetry collections—Blue Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, and Forest Primeval. 

List of poetry collections, poems and essays mentioned in this episode. 

•  A Shared World by Vievee Francis – forthcoming in April 2023
• Scale by Nathan McClain (A poetry collection) – BUY IT and thank me later
• They Went Home by Maya Angelou 
• Shaker Why Don’t You Sing by Maya Angelou
• Skinned by Vievee Francis 
• Taking It by Vievee Francis 
• Against Explanation by Tarfia Faizullah - (essay)
• On Robert Frost’s ‘Nothing Good Can Stay’ by Dana Gioia -  (essay)
• I Found Home  by Tolu Agbelusi
• Locating Strongwoman by Tolu Agbelusi

Remember, there's a transcript available in the notes if you need it. 

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In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with Sanyade Okoli  about what it takes to authentically live as your whole self in world that is bound to try and sell you counterfeit versions of yourself.

Sanyade is the CEO of Alpha African Advisory, an international boutique investment bank based in Nigeria.  She is a life coach and also runs an inner-healing ministry called 'Pursuing Wholeness'. You can connect with Sanyade and find out more about the services she offers here:

Website: https://justasiam.ng/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanyadeokoli/

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In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Dee-Ann Kentish Rogers about what it means to practice vulnerability especially in a lpublic facing eadership role that demands a façade of strength & how does a young woman in the public eye find and choose her own path when the expectations are louder and seemingly stronger than her intuition? This is a foregrounding of the fact that weakness is not synonumous with vulnerability. Sometimes you will need to bend to survive.

The episode transcript is available here.

Dee-Ann is currently the Minister of Education and Social Development in the Anguilla House of Assembly. She is also a barrister, an athlete and the first Black woman to represent Great Britain in a Miss Universe pageant.

Connect with Dee-Ann on:

Instagram: @deeannkentishrogers

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In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Naana Orleans-Amissah about what it means to step into and fully inhabit yourself as a woman. Whether it's rejecting motherhood as matyrdom, learning that strength is also carving out space to be with yourself and replenish, acknowledging that there is strength in saying 'I am not okay',  or facing yourself and being honest with where you could have done better, this is a foray into one woman's journey of self discovery which offers  many learning nuggets.

The episode transcript is available here.

Naana is currently the Director of Strategy at Media Monks, a writer and founder of NOA VTF.

Connect with Naana and watch her Found Art series over on
Instagram: @Noa_vtf

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In this episode, 'Unelarning Strongwoman' host Tolu Agbelusi's  launches the podcast and provides some insight into what's to come as she hosts intergenerational conversations with women to process the process of how we step into ourselves as women.

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