#WithChude

What makes people think of suicide? What makes even a successful, famous person consider committing suicide?

How do you avoid getting to this point? How do you recover if you get to this point?

And how can you help people you love or know who have arrived at this terrible point?

My guests over the years have shared deeply and honestly about this - and we have a special YouTube episode with some of the most powerful stories.

It's now up on @WithChude on YouTube and on withChude.com.

Let me know your thoughts below.

❤

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“They were contemplating cutting off my legs in the hospital emergency room.”

Victony (Anthony Ebuka Victor) says as a child, his parents were away all the time, they left him on his own, and he was very lonely. That, he says, has completely reshaped his life.

He has had to rely on himself to take care of himself emotionally and mentally, but it has also helped him build the resilience to face life - including the infamous accident that landed him in a wheelchair.

In this conversation, he shares:

— The real possibility in the emergency room that his leg was going to be cut off and how he survived that ordeal.

— Why he had to answer those who said he was using his wheelchair for sympathy - and how he grew out of the deep frustration of that incident.

— Why he feels his heart cannot be broken because of how he has trained himself to be, based on the loneliness of his childhood.

Pensive, reflective and wise - Victony’s clarity will soothe your spirit.

Watch the full one-hour version on withChude.com.

Let me know what you think in the comment section ❤.

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For years people have been asking me: What’s your own story?

This year, I am finally saying yes and sharing a part of my story. The part I think the world needs to hear today.

When my show hit its stride, I stopped saying yes to interviews because I wanted to focus on listening, on hearing, on being a channel for others. I wanted to have something significant to say to the world before speaking again.

I believe that time has come.

My book ‘How Depression Saved My Life’ will be out in April 2025 and it is a memoir of my life from 2014-2024 - a journey that led me through depression, heartbreak, thoughts of suicide, quitting my job as CEO and landing here as host and creator of #WithChude. It tells a story I believe the world urgently needs to hear today.

To help me prepare for the release of the book, I have some heavy hitters starring as guest-hosts on this show - with me as guest. I am honoured by all the people who either offered or said yes.

The first special is with my sister and friend, the chart-bursting actor, producer and director — Omoni Oboli.

She reached out to me last year to say ‘you need to tell your story and I want to interview you’ and it’s because of her that we came up with this special series.

This is one of the deepest, truest, most heart-felt conversations I ever did. We cried, both of us, as I told never-before-heard stories about my life, my emotions, my mother, my career, and the moments when I thought it was all over and I wanted to end it all.

This interview will move and bless you deeply. ❤

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I don’t have guests twice on my show - unless there is a deeply compelling reason. Pastor Bolaji Idowu is only the second guest I have gotten back on the show.

Because, I attended the Next Level Prayer Conference in London last year and I was blown away. He has been a brother for over a decade, but to actually see him on stage minister to tens of thousands of souls who had come for freedom and healing was to see a man transformed.

Today, on the eve of the NLP Conference in Lagos, I sat with him to talk about how much the ministry has grown in the two years since our last interview.

We talk about:

Why he is called a celebrity pastor - and why celebrities flock to his church.

The shocking stories of emotional healing he has heard - including that of a married woman who was impregnated four times by her own father.

The dramatic stories of healings from cancer, near death experiences and what he says to people who disbelieve these miracles.

His answer to critics who think he is “doing too much” on the internet.

How his focus on emotional healing comes from his own childhood - where he didn’t feel the love of his father and grew up being taken advantage of by others.

The level of truth and vulnerability in this interview will blow you away.

This one is a MUST WATCH.

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After leaving Nigeria in 2017 to make a better life for himself in America, Tolu Michael suddenly collapsed from a heart condition. The doctor said if he had been just 5 minutes late, he would have died.

That literally life-changing situation made him realise how short and fleeting life is.

Because of it, he has written 8 books in the past four years, and he has developed a business that transforms the lives of people like who immigrate to America and don’t know the first thing to do.

This is a man in a hurry to make his life count - and in this interview, he tells you exactly how you can do the same in your own life.

The full interview is now up on withChude.com.

I’d love to hear your comments below ❤.

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The enfant terrible of the food industry is my guest today!

The fear of Opeyemi Famakin is the beginning of wisdom for chefs, restaurants, food bloggers and content creators everywhere.

But how he got here is incredibly inspiring.

He tells me that he heard the voice of God literally and clearly telling him this is his path, and so he quit his job as a senior editor in his twenties to do this thing that no one else had ever done on this scale before.

After saying no to one high-paying job, he went home and cried. Because he was so afraid he was making a mistake.

We also talk about:

● Why he regrets criticising Don Jazzy’s burger brand and what he would do differently now.

● The fight with his mom that has led them to not speak for several years.

● Why he feels hurt when people who know him personally in the food industry attack him on social media.

● Why he is sad only his negative content gets the most virality when he lifts up countless brands - and how he eventually learnt to stop caring about that.

● How he has handled being laughed at, belittled, criticised and cancelled - including how his Instagram page was “permanently disabled” because of his criticism of Igbo ‘oha soup’ and how he survived that scary period and got his page back.

It’s Opeyemi Famakin like you’ve never heard him never before.

Let me know your thoughts below ❤

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“I give you one year and you will fail in this industry.”

That’s what the man who trained Lateef Adedimeji in the Yoruba movie industry told him after his training.

Today, on our show, Lateef has a message for that man, who is still alive and still in the industry.

He face; that same lack of faith for his viral Lisabi movie. Lateef says all the people whopromised to support him, the ones he actually expected to support him, all abandoned him.

“There was nobody.”

But his wife Mobimpe stood by him like a rock.

We also talk about:

— How he and his wife have responded to the people who call her barren. 

— Why he spent months denying a relationship with his wife and the shocking way he finally proposed to her.

— How his father went from locking him out of the house for being an actor to investing in his very first film (which then failed woefully!).

— How he often has no confidence in himself, and how his wife stands in to remind him of who he is and what he can do. Without her, he doesn’t know what would have happened to him.

Today, as the epic sequel, Lisabi: A Legend is Born is released on Netflix, Lateef is here to share his testimony.

Watch the 30 minutes interview version this evening at 5pm on YouTube and the full 1-hour version on withChude.com.

Let me know your thoughts below after watching ❤.

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“People say we are barren because we’ve been dating for 10 years and don’t have a child” — Kassia and KellyRae #BBNaija

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#BBNaija’s Kassia broke up with the winner winner Kelly Rae because he wasn’t being responsible about money. Then later he tried to break up with her because he thought she deserved better and he couldn’t provide for her. 

Little did he know that in 2024, both of them would enter the Big Brother house and become millionaires in a matter of months. 

They talk about - 

Going through thick and thin together - death, cancer, a gambling addiction, a cheating incident, being thrown out of his friend’s house, accusations that he was being frisky in the house, and having to hide the fact that they were married in the house. 

Her desperately wanting to be married to him for years and he didn’t propose, and then when she decided she no longer cared about marriage fulfilling her - he proposed, just weeks before the house. 

How they respond to people who attack them for being barren today because they have no children after 10 years together. 

They smiled when people said their marriage wouldn’t survive the house. 

They are still smiling today. Because underneath all of the drama and the face and the money is a great, great love story.

Let me know your thoughts below after watching. 

❤

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Frank Edoho is regarded by many as the greatest TV host alive - but this interview was not about ‘Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?’

It’s about the Frank Edoho you’ve never heard about - and the exclusive stories he has never told anyone anywhere. 

Like the details of how the sponsors of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ called him to a meeting in Ikoyi, Lagos to fire him because his wife had accused him of being a wife-better. Frank says that never happened, he was in fact the victim, and till today he hasn’t said a complimentary word to his ex-wife because he can’t understand why she did that. 

He tells me about: 

- the depression and loneliness he has dealt with since his childhood - and that he continues to deal with today.

- ⁠his parents’ divorce and how it shattered his sense of sense - and why he fought against it when they tried to get back together. The trauma was too hard to relive. 

- ⁠how he has learnt not to depend on anyone emotionally apart from his children - because people break your heart and people leave. One must know how to stand alone.

- ⁠why he began to buy shoes and why he began to play football - and how his hard comebacks to errant people on Twitter are actually quite therapeutic for him. 

And so much more. 

The Essential Frank Edoho - like you’ve never seen or heard him before. 

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