Unlearning Strongwoman Podcast
Unlearning Strongwoman is a podcast hosted by Tolu Agbelusi, holding space for intergenerational conversation with women from around the world to interogate and process the processes through which we step into ourselves, unravel and reclaim what we mean when we speak of strength and discuss the many things we unlearn to become our best selves.
Episodes
20 episodes
18. Tell Shame No - Michelle Smith
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with lawyer and lecturer Michelle Smithin a conversation that explores self awareness,vulnerability, submission and shame ina world that will pressure you to change course if you arent meeting extern...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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59:26
17. Do It Anyway - Babs Gons
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with writer, poet, spoken word artist, theatre maker, organiser, teacher and Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, Babs Gons in a conversation that explores what it is to feel fear, face hardship, see lack a...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:14:27
16. Knowing When To Surrender & When to Hold Firm - Jendella Benson
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with writer and Chief Editor at Black Ballad UK, Jendella Benson . This conversation encompasses reclaiming your story, unpacking womanhood, shame and all things community. Jendella also reads an excerpt...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:12:48
15. Embracing Incompleteness - Dr JC Niala
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with poet, playwright, anthropologist, historian and artist Dr JC Niala. She is the Head of Research, Teaching and Collections at Oxford University. In this conversation we explore what women have to con...
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48:07
14. A Good Name Is Worth More Than Money-Renée Neblett
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with artist, designer, educator and founder of Kokrobitey Institute, Ghana, Renée Neblett, affectionately known as 'Auntie Renée'. This conversation explores what it means/what it looks like to be a pers...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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44:55
13. Bring Your Voice In - Jasmine Cooray
In Today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks with poet, educator, psychotherapist and authour of poetry collection Inheritance, Jasmine Cooray. This expansive conversation delves into unlearning silence as goodness in womnahood, alopecia, learning ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:22:35
12. Being Strong Is About Knowing How To Ask For Help - Edwige-Renée Dro
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Edwige Dro - translator and founder of 1949 Library of women's writings from Africa and the Black world.This conversation wanders through the many ways we find to ourselves and the joys and re...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:18:35
Recap
This is the Season 2 teaser - host Tolu Agbelusi has woven a spoken word poem out of some of the memorable conversations of season 1 which she reads here. Mention is made of 2 poetry workshops which Tolu is running online in March...
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Season 2
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7:47
11. I Wouldn't Change A Thing - Tosin Oshinowo
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Architect, Designer and founder of CM Design Atelier, Curator of Sharja Architecture Triennial 2023, Tosin Oshinowo. This conversation unpacks what it means to live with purpos...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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54:30
10. Can't Cage the Wind - Mackayla Forde
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to poet, performer, academic and author of Breathing Water, Mackayla Forde, in a conversation that explores the impact of education, what it means to start again, getting out of your own way and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:09:47
9. Bad Sex and Bad Sentences / Anything Is Possible - Leone Ross
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to author, editor and educator Leone Ross, in an all encompassing conversation that moves smoothly from authenticity as a measure of strength, to beauty standards, the miracle of the human body, self tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:26:03
8. Seeing Myself as Whole - Anni Domingo
In today's episode Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Anni Domingo, an Actress, Director, Teacher, Author and Artist. This conversation covers pivoting in your 70's, the importance of role models, fertility and adoption and knowing yourself enough...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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56:00
7. Walking With Audacity - Sarah Ozo-Irabor
In today's episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Sarah Ozo Irabor, Director of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Founder of the Books and Rhymes Podcast & Platform and the Lit Avengers Book Club. We talked unlearning shame, the need t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:06:02
6. Be The Driver of Your own Life - Tolu Stedford
In today's episode Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Tolu Stedford, an Artist, Actress, Producer and co-CEO of Story Compound. This is very much a conversation about unlearning, which takes us through negative internali...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:11:31
5. Weathering The Storm Without Becoming One - Iphie Modu
In today’s episode, Tolu Agbelusi speaks to Iphie Modu, a Lawyer and an RAF officer, our conversation takes us through different permutations of strength whether as physical attribute or mental fortitude, what it means to allow yourself ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:00:09
4. I Wont Be Judged by Outside Measure - Vievee Francis
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...
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1:21:48
3. Wholeness Is the Best Gift You Can Give Yourself - Sanyade Okoli
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
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:01
2.There Is no Strength Without Vulnerability - Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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57:04
1. Power Is Daily Negotiation, Mainly with Myself - Naana Orleans-Amissah
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:17:23