After the release of the monster hit ‘Caro’ with Wizkid, L.A.X (Damilola Afolabi) became a huge star. And he was only 18.

He tells me the story of how he got that big break, how Wizkid changed his life… and why everything slowed down because his parents insisted he finish school and does his NYSC. 

Whatever that may have done to his momentum, he says he has no regrets. Returning to Nigeria, growing up with his grandmother taught him wisdom. 

We talk about: 

● Why he left Wizkid, and why his leaving made Wizkid worried 

● Why he continues to call Wizkid his Big Brother and why he thinks Wizkid has been on the attack in the past one year 

● Why people think his energy and his career have slowed down, even though he is cleaning out concerts across Europe 

● The heartbreaking story of how he found out his ex-girlfriend was cheating on him - and why he still begged her to stay 

● How he paid her back for the cruelty he suffered - and what he learnt from that entire experience 

● Why he sued the anonymous lady who accused him of sexual abuse and then recanted 

● Why he takes life easy, no matter what other people are doing in the industry or on social media 

L.A.X. says he is a huge fan of the show and that’s a big compliment, because he is without any doubt from one of the coolest guests I have ever interviewed on this show. 

Watch the full 1-hour episode now on withChude.com.

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I watched Teniola in Unbroken and immediately I knew she was a star, from then she’s gone on to feature in some of my favorite movies.

But in December, she finally had a global star vehicle befitting of her massive talent with ‘Christmas in Lagos’.

In this interview she talked about the journey from being behind the camera, wanting desperately to be in front where she knew she belonged but having little opportunity - especially because very few people believed in her talent. 

How she got here is a powerful story of fighting - to be seen, to be heard, to be believed.

We also talk about 

Losing her ex-boyfriend, and why this made her tear up on the show 

How her ex-boyfriend completely changed her life and her relationship with God 

What his death taught her 

The story of her AMVCA Trailblazer Award and what that moment meant to her

How she managed to survive the intense pressure of social media, seeing others succeed while her career stalled 

Why acting matters so much to her 

You’ve never seen Teniola like this before. 

Watch the full 1-hour episode now on withChude.com. 

Let me know your thoughts below. ❤

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"I would like to judge my father (Sir Shina Peters) for how he treated my mother (Clarion Chukwurah Abiola), but I’m not in the position to.”

“The newer generation of Afrobeats artistes saw me as the old guard and was just like ‘we are tired of you’.”

—

With these two statements, you already see how deep we got in this conversation.

For the very first time ever, the greatest music video director of my generation - who avoids interviews like the plague - opens up like he has never done ever before. 

He says #WithChude was the only show where he would go this deep or speak this openly. 

Just after he premiered his revolutionary series ‘Inside Life’ on Netflix, he sat with me and spoke with incredible depth and an open heart. It was well worth the 5-year wait.

We also discuss:

● How he really feels about how his father treated his mother as the tabloids hit her hard 

● Why he learnt to stop judging and forgive his father when he became an adult and had his own relationships 

● How his mother resisted the intense pressure to abort him

● Why the pressure of being child to two superstars led to impostor syndrome 

● The helplessness and fear he experienced as he moved from doing 3 music videos-a-week to the industry ‘rejecting him’

● Why he didn’t make his Netflix film ‘Inside Life’ for the world. 

This was a masterclass - on life, on growth and on how to re-invent yourself after you feel like everything has fallen apart. 

Please watch or listen to the full 1-hour episode on withChude.com. 

Let me know your thoughts below. ❤

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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.

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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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