HerOwnHero Podcast is an offshoot of HerOwnHero.org a blog that focuses on young women choosing to take charge of their lives and their salvation. This is our active community where we transcribe words to thoughts by speaking about them. this podcast has a special focus on issues young people face in their twenties, issues we get nervous talking about, issues like anxiety, work, relationship and the interlocking web of adulthood. We hope you enjoy this podcast and that it inspires you to bec ...
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Hello Hero Boys and Girls, Around my birthday, I do this thing where I reflect through the past year, taking note of the lessons I've learned and I share it with you sweethearts. This year is different!! it's even better, I have created content in various formats, just for you, my hero. If you like this episode, you'll love my newsletter even more,…
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S5E3: Our Wildest House Hunting Experience as Single Women
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Finding a house in any major city is hard, but finding a house in Lagos and Accra is the ghetto.In this episode, Mide and I share our collective experiences looking for apartments as young single women in Africa's biggest craziest cities.Come for the gist, stay for the experience. Grab your popcorn and headset and dive into the craziest stories we …
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S5E2: Navigating Childhood trauma with Psychotherapist & Coach @Gbemisoke
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Hello Hero Boys and Gyals, Have you ever wondered how your childhood affects your life now as an adult? This episode will tell you This has been a long time coming, and it's the very first sit-out we are having with a guest. On this episode, Mide and I, spoke with the phenomenal therapist and Coach, Coach G, popularly known for her takes on gentle …
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S5E1: What to Expect in this Season with Cohost - Mide
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Welcome Hero Boys & GirlsWelcome to Season 5 of Her Own Hero Podcast. This season is gonna bang with our Mide, our new co-host who would be on the hot seat with me. We would be bringing in exceptional people, therapists, founders, investors and even content creators who would share their career journey, their relationship struggles & everything inb…
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S4E19: What 2023 Taught Us with Franklin Oladipo
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Hello Hero Boys and Girls, On this show, I sat down with a Friend, Franklin Oladipo, a Mobile Developer, Thinker, Reader, Yoga practitioner, and a lover of humanity to talk about the lessons we learnt in the year 2023. From reframing challenges to burning bridges to learning persistence and Kaizen, this year was crazy, but we were able to get insig…
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S4E17: #EndoftheYear - Reflecting on 2023
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Hello Hero Loves❤️This episode, I reflected on my personal experience this year, how it came with a lot of pain for me, but not just me, but the millions of unsettled people, in war zones, in refugee camps, people displaced and people away from home.This episode is for people who sit in sorry, I see you, and you dont have to be grateful. I wish you…
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S4E16: Impacts of Purity Culture on Sex with @PaniniBaby
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Close your legs Don't lead men to sin Don't touch a man, or else you'll get pregnant Panini and I talk about our experience growing up with Purity culture in religious homes, how we were raised fearing sex and knowing nothing about it. There was no knowledge about sexual education, and our salvation and worth as women was tied to our virginity. Lis…
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S4E16: #BoardingHouseLife - Surviving Bullying with Jacenta & Bella (Bloopers)
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I sat with two of my friends from High School as we recounted the horrific and sometimes laughable ordeal we had to go through at the hands of "seniors". It's been 10 years since Jacenta Omoh, who is now a Social Media Manager and pharmacist & Bella Oguegbu who is now a Lawyer and I graduated from Federal Government College Port Harcourt but our me…
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S4E15: #BoardingHouseLife - Surviving Bullying with Jacenta & Bella
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I sat with two of my friends from High School as we recounted the horrific and sometimes laughable ordeal we had to go through at the hands of "seniors". It's been 10 years since Jacenta Omoh, who is now a Social Media Manager and pharmacist & Bella Oguegbu who is now a Lawyer and I graduated from Federal Government College Port Harcourt but our me…
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S4E14: #RandomMusings2 - Old Philosphies, Modern Anxieties for Adulting
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Hey Hero Guys and Girls, Sometimes Adulting can be the Ghetto right? Like you're going about your normal day, trying to be a responsible adult, but then there are all these tiny little things you feel anxious about and you don't know how to deal with... "Am I the only one on this table 😅" madness, total chaos sometimes This podcast sheds more light…
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S4E13: #RandomMusings1 - Inside the Mind of an Overthinker
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls, Dealing with anxiety, depression, and disorders, is not talked about much, with these open heart-to-heart conversations, I hope you understand that you're not different and that you seek therapy & other ways to feel better. Resources 1. High Functioning Anxiety - Rob Dial 2. To Do List Anxiety 3. Productivity Guilt P.S: I a…
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S4E12: #LifeatMEST3 - A lookback at my personal experience
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls, I still remember the goals I had whilst coming here. I wanted to become a badass software developer, I was so sure that in one year, I would emerge as a great dev, 😅but life had other plans. I ended up evolving and unfolding more in my personal life than anywhere else. I met great people and learned great lessons and these …
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S4E11: #LifeatMEST2- A Throwback at Our Entrepreneurial Journey
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#LifeatMEST is a whole ball game, from building dating apps to creating Omni customer service platforms, we have worked on every kind of startup idea that you can imagine. It's been one year of learning, and building and it does not come with its own struggles and challenges. On this podcast, we looked back at our entrepeneurial journey at mEST, st…
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S4E10: #LifeatMEST: Our Shared Experience Living in Ghana
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls, Have you ever wondered what it's like living in the beautiful city of Accra, well you do not have to guess anymore. I invited 3 beautiful guests who are Entrepreneurs, Patience Munene (Kenya), Priscilla Arthur (Ghanaian) & Marriette Ify (Nigerian) to share their experience living here for a year. We talked about culture sho…
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"your thoughts create your reality because thoughts are frequencies and every thought attract like energy" Hello Hero Lads and lasses, we’ve spent the last 2 episodes solidifying what we have been talking about - manifesting abundant reality We spent episode 1 talking about our core beliefs, and episode 2 talking about the laws of abundant realitie…
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls, Can we make this exciting? Lets make this fun I wanted to make it a little bit less formal, learning how to manifest your dream life should be exciting On this episode, we will continue our series - #Howto ManifestYourDream Life Some things we covered in this episode are; Time, energy, and attention and how they relate to t…
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls, Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Pod, a podcast for young people navigating the tricky waters of adulthood. In this series we would be talking about how to manifest an abundant life, a happy life, one were you are satisfied and you are flourishing I have spent 3 years imbibing and saturating myself in #Spirituality,…
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S4E6: Understanding PCOs in Young Women with Dr Kemi Dosumu
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls It is your favorite pod girl again, wildflower Today, we discussed a very important topic related to women's health - the topic of Polycistic Ovarian Syndrome Our Host today is Dr. Oluwakemi Dosumu, Dr. Kemi is the founder and CEO of Preval Healthcare, as well as the current clinical director for the Preval Healthcare women …
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S4E5: #WildlySensual: Navigating Your Sexuality as an African Woman (PT 2)
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Thousands of young women are no longer embarrassed to express their sexual needs and preferences. African women are asserting their right to sexual pleasure and agency, and challenging cultural taboos and restrictions that have historically limited their sexual freedom.Sexual activists like @hausachocolate are making leading the landscape by sharin…
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S4E4: #WildlySensual: Navigating Female Sexuality as an African Woman 1
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There's very little we know about our bodies as women, because growing up as a girl child in Africa, sex is a sacred topic. the one thing that must not be named, so we grow up feeling shame about our sexual organs, desiring pleasure, and having sexWith people like @hausachocolate, the female sexual landscape in Africa is changing, as a self-acclaim…
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S4E3: #WildlyRomantic: Is Valentine's Day ❤️ Special to You?
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Hello Lovelies, Welcome to another episode of HerownHero Podcast... We'll be taking a twist on the podcast with a new series on Deconstruction. In this series, we will be sharing core topics and dismantling our initial understanding of religion, sex, marriage, career, and money. In this episode, we talk about valentine's day in today's world. Valen…
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S4E2: #WildlyDeconstructing - How I Started My Deconstruction Journey
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Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Pod a podcast created to showcase the lifestyle and journey of African women in their twenties, and how they navigate, love, work, and everything in between this beautiful life we have no clue how to live but have to trust the process regardless.. We'll be taking a twist on the podcast with a new series we c…
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S4E1: #WildlyDeconstructing - How to Rethink Your Christain Faith
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Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Pod a podcast created to showcase the lifestyle and journey of African women in their twenties, and how they navigate, love, work and everything in between this beautiful life we have no clue how to live but have to trust the process regardless.. We'll be taking a twist on the podcast with a new series on De…
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S3E10: Building a Career in Artifical Intelligence with Khaulat Abdulhakeem
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Hello, Hero boys and girls. Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero pod, in this special season, we are focusing on women. "Women in Tech" series is a HerOwnHero special that takes you into the career journey of young women building careers in different tech fields, from Web3 to AI, from Machine Learning to Data Science. Today we will be talking t…
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S3E9: Building a Career in the NFT Space with @Yemisi9898
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Can you build a career in the web3 space? What opportunities are available for NFT enthusiasts? If you've ever asked these questions, this podcast is for you, I sat down with @Yemisi9898, a Community leader and a Profit Maxim in the NFT & Crypto Space in Africa. Yemisi has been building, teaching, and managing spaces in the crypto space for years. …
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S3E8: Aniekan Inyang : Starting a Career in Data Science
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Hello Hero Boys & Girls I'm super excited to introduce our latest #podseries - #TheWomenInTech Series. Our first guest is Aniekan Inyang, a Data Scientist and Tech Coach who is passionate about teaching young people Data Science and its application i the real world. Aniekan holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Denver a…
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S3E7: Dating as a Christain Feminist with Ngozi Akubueze
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Can you be a Christain and a Feminist? How do you date as a Christian Feminist? What does the bible say about the equality of men and women? Ngozi Akubueze and I sat down to have a chat about Feminism, a subject we are both passionate about. She is an experienced Human Resource Consultant and Human activist, whose career spans different fields. It …
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S3E6: 7 Tips to Help You Live an Intentional Life
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If you decide to live intentionally, you will look different to a lot of people Choosing to create a life that you love can be risky, breaking out of the status quo, can be intimidating In this episode, I shared 10 tips that have helped me in this scary but rewarding journey of intentional living. Please Subscribe & Share this podcast with everyone…
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Hello Hero Boys and Girls!! Welcome to another episode of the HerOwnHero Podcast. This episode is the 1st in our intentional living series. In this episode, we defined intentional living, what it all means and the different types of intentional living. Next, we compared intentional living to a hustle culture and a luxury lifestyle. The best of this…
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Working remotely has its ups and downs. If you're new to this, you dont have to it alone. In this episode I shared my story, away from a full time role in an office, to a fully remote role. I share tips and tricks I use to stay grounded while working from home. That's not all, I have listed the resources that helped me work and thrive remotely. Sub…
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Most people are surprised when I tell them I no longer live in Lagos.. They go, how, why, what about your job, and your friends and is there even outside Lagos to live in? On this episode of HerOwnHero Podcast, I spoke all about my experience living and working in Africa's biggest city and why I stopped living there In this episode, we touched on 1…
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Season 3 of Her Own Hero Podcast has been coming for a long time... We are happy to be back again, gracing your screens and tingling your earbuds In this season expect to be blown away with different perspectives from a wide range of topics Topics like Feminism, (what it is not), Dating (with real-life stories), Intentional living & a Women in Tech…
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Hey 😊 People! We are back with a bang 💥. I've been planning for a while & finally got the courage to put this up. HerOwnHero Pod Is a podcast for black African women navigating life, love and career in the twenties. Picture yourself at a sleep over, wearing PJs and talking to your favourite girlfriends. That's what our podcast feels like. Be sure t…
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Hello Lovelies, 👑 I just found out that not only ladies listen to our podcast, so I am definitely going to change our introduction to make room for the Gentlemen who listen to our podcast too. Now you thought it was over right, nah, we have extra for you. In this second part of our episode, we still continue chit chat on our experiences as single w…
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Hello Hero Girls 👑 Finally! We have something more laid back and refreshing for y'all. Dating in the busiest city of Nigeria can become a game of keeping up with life. There 's work and bills and everything in between. Plus you have to do all this while dating. So after a night of fun, Kachi & I sat down to have a chit-chat about our dating adventu…
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S2: E8: On the #EndSARS Movement with Richard Samson
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P. S: This episode was recorded on the 12th of October, as at which all information stated here were accurate. We are uncertain how the next few days may turn out and as such, we do not bear the risk of misinformation if subsequent changes are made in the future. What started out as a social media hashtag has grown into a national outcry by million…
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Hello Hero Girls & Guys, 💜The past few days has shown that we can actually be agents of change... It can only happen if you join the cause...here are ways you can1. Share your experience with us 2. Check up on your friends and people you know3. Use your skills to support the cause if you are a designer design...writer, then write, singer, then sing…
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Hello Hero Girls, Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Podcast, this topic is one I’ve been planning for a while. We’ll be talking about Positive affirmations and speaking words to yourself. Why positive affirmations, because as you start your self-discovery journey, you’ll find that there are things you subconsciously believe, they affect your…
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Hey There, On this solo episode I shared some key lessons that has helped me through this journey called life. I hope you enjoy this and subscribe. Find my ebook here: https://mailchi.mp/7c6abf0d6d80/subscribe-to-hero-own-hero-community
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My Self Discovery Journey with Bolutife Oladele
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Welcome back Heroes! We reversed the setting of this episode by placing me, on the hot seat. On this episode, I sat with Bolu Oladele to discuss the process i took to birth my ebook - A Hero Girl's Guide to Self Discovery. This lockdown gave us the chance to self reflect and I did just that. I went to an intense study of seeking and searching, Now …
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Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Podcast today, we’ll be talking about personal finance for millennial women. This episode is going to be really, quite interesting. I have a special guest with me, who is a financial enthusiast. she’ll be talking to us about the basics of personal financial management, some lessons she’s learnt along her fin…
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Dealing with Toxic Habits in Self-Isolation - Tosin Farai
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Dealing with bad habits is enough, and dealing with them when we are alone and the world seem to be on edge makes it even more challenging. Dear HeroGirl, we’ve got you, we know how it s because we’ve struggled with these problems too. In this chatty episode, I talked with Tosin Farai on some practical ways we can get over toxic habits when it hits…
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Hello Heroes, We are back! 💃🏾 And its weird because I didn't think I'd be doing this podcasting thing again, but, where there's a need, then you all trust that we be going to fix It.Right now, a lot of people have questions on how to handle the traumatic news from around the world. I came up with little something that might help you step into your …
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Episode 4 : The Mix of Love & Work with Firi Fombo
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Episode 4: the Mix of Love & Work"Would you date your Boss, colleague or business partner? If you have what has your experience been like?' these are some important questions you should ask yourself before starting a relationship with someone you work with.1. If we have a disagreement, would this affect work2. How would I feel if I am reprimanded b…
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We want to own our first house by 25, but at that age, we are still living with people, trying to cut down coat by splitting the bills and dealing with all kinds of trouble. Living with people can ve tough and this podcast deals qith all the obscene and wwied thinga our ears have heard. What kind of roommates have you had in the past. Lets know wha…
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How do you celebrate your birthday. Two years ago I decided to be more intentional about every new year that given and it has been unravelling. This year, i listed out all the processes that this adventure entails. I hope you enjoy this podcasts. Let us know how you celebrate your birthday too.
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Hey Heroines, and Heroes, welcome to the firsr podcast of HerOwnHero.org. Quite a rough time but it gives you a snapshot of what this podcast will be about. Are you excited or what?
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