Diary Of A Black Man
by Gani Makawa
Hosted by Ganizani Makawa AKA Harry], a passionate advocate for social justice and equality, "Diary of a Black Man" features candid talk with a diverse range of ordinary , people and everyday individuals who have unique stories to share. Through their stories, we hope to challenge stereotypes, dispel myths, and create a space for empathy, connection, and growth. Topics covered in our podcast include racism, systemic injustice, cultural identity, mental health, historical context, art and creativity, community.
Episodes
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Why I have been away from podcasting for a minute
In my latest podcast episode, I bravely open up about my experience and share the reasons behind your absence and lack of enthusiasm for actively dating and focusing on personal growth. I dive into the challenges and obstacles I I have encountered throughout my journey this year and reflect on…
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Why Therapy Is Not A Cure For Mental Health. Why I Believe It’s Key To Prevention Of Mental Health
Therapy can indeed be seen as a valuable tool for both prevention and treatment when it comes to mental health issues. While it may not guarantee an absolute cure, therapy can be highly effective in managing and alleviating symptoms, improving coping mechanisms, and enhancing overall well-being....
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Live Your Life Like It’s Yours.We Only Have One Life
Absolutely! Living life to the fullest and embracing every moment is truly important. We should make the most of the time we have and strive to create a meaningful and fulfilling life. Remember to pursue your passions, set goals, and surround yourself with positive people who inspire you. It's…
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How To Prioritise Yourself Into Finding Lasting Joy
Finding lasting joy is an essential aspect of prioritizing yourself and your well-being. Here are a few suggestions to help you in this journey: 1. Self-care: Make sure to carve out time for self-care activities that bring you joy. Whether it's reading a book, taking a long bath, practicing...
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WHY I AM NO LONGER SPENDING TIME AND EFFORT ON BREADCRUMBS OF RELATIONSHIPS
I completely understand where you're coming from! It's important to invest our time and energy in relationships that truly feel fulfilling and meaningful. Instead of spreading ourselves thin or settling for less, focusing on a relationship that feels like a full loaf of bread can bring us a…
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HOW TO HAVE YOURSELF A BEAUTIFUL DAY BY BEING POSITIVE!!
"Unlock the Beauty Within: Embrace the Day with These Simple Steps ✨🌞" Caption: Ready to make every day a beautiful one? Here's how to cultivate a day filled with joy, positivity, and self-care! 💖✨ 1️⃣ Start with gratitude: Take a moment to appreciate the blessings in your life. Count your...
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WHY I SHOULD NEVER DATE AGAIN DESPITE MY YEARNING FOR TRUE LOVE !!
📣 Hey everyone! Today, I want to share some thoughts on why you may be feeling hesitant about dating again, despite your yearning for love. It's important to acknowledge and understand our own emotions and desires when it comes to relationships. ❤️ ✨ Sometimes, we may find ourselves getting…
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RAPTURED TENDON DOESN’T MEAN IT’S THE END OF MY STORY
1. "Ruptured Tendon, Unshattered Dreams: My Unstoppable Journey!" 2. "When Life Tears, I Rise: My Triumph Over a Ruptured Tendon!" 3. "From Ruptured to Resilient: My Story of Healing and Hope!" 4. "Tendon Rupture Can't Break Me: Witness the Unbreakable Spirit!" 5. "Raptured Tendon, Unleashed...
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MOST PEOPLE YOU CALL FRIENDS ARE NOT REALLY YOUR FRIENDS!!
"💔💔 The Harsh Truth: Not Every Friend is a True Friend 💔💔 🚫🙅♀️ Don't be Fooled! Most People You Call Friends Aren't Really Your Friends 🙅♂️🚫 🤝 Discover the Difference Between True Friendship and Casual Acquaintances 🌟✨ 🔍🔎 Surround Yourself with Genuine Connections for a Happier and...
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THIS WILL GET YOU THE RELATIONSHIP YOU DESERVE
Preparing for a successful long-term relationship involves a combination of self-reflection, communication skills, and cultivating a positive mindset. Here are some helpful tips: 1. Self-reflection: Take the time to understand yourself, your values, and what you truly desire in a partner. Reflect...
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Why You Should Stop Showing Up For People Who Don’t Show Up For You
Sometimes, it can be disheartening when we consistently show up for people who don't reciprocate the same level of effort or support. While it's important to be understanding and compassionate, it's also crucial to set healthy boundaries and prioritize our own well-being. Here are a few reasons…
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Loneliness From Overthinking is there such a thing?
Yes, loneliness from overthinking is a real phenomenon. Overthinking can lead to feelings of isolation and disconnection from others, even when surrounded by people. When someone constantly overanalyzes situations, relationships, or their own thoughts and actions, it can create a sense of being...
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What if this is, as good as your life gets Part 2
In this episode I dissect my thoughts and questions I have in quite moments. With my knowledge, skills network and resources I put my reputation on line to share intimate moments that are important to me and how I think I’m a daily basis.
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Show Love and Receive Love
In a world where I believe we have to set our intentions right and live with the right intentions. I personally have lost people and found myself suffering from the fact that I failed to show love when the particular person was in alive and I truly loved them but I failed to express the love that...
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I think I’m lonely but I’m okay with that !!
This episode I speak about my realisation that I’m lonely and I’m okay with that, not long ago spending a day on my own was so terribly terrifying and I just couldn’t bearer it, but now I’ve learnt to be at peace with my loneliness.
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Thank goodness it’s Sunday
Thank goodness is Sunday s a podcast I’m relation to my Sunday morning and how I’ve created something which I enjoy and love and at the same time I’m making financial gains on it. In life you make your life what you want it to be . All I can say is you have to create your milestones and moments…
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What if you were grateful for everything in your life.
Imagine one day you wake up and you are finally thankful for the 47 years you’ve been alive. What if by design your experiences which include love, kindness, hope , peace, sadness, anxiety, anger, emotional outburst, spiritual awakenings, miracle healing, mental breakdown, marriage, birth of your...
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Success comes from being needed
The need to be needed is one of our fundamental desires. We want to feel significant in the eyes of others, even if it is only one other person.
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The Biggest Lie Is Believing Your Life Has Some Meaning To It.
It has taken me 47years to assess the difference between the gospel and the real truth of life. Those were one and the same for ages—no take-backs, no prisoners, no holds barred. I filtered the kingdom through my African ,Malawian born disadvantaged, denominational lens, and by golly, I found a…
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Time to end a history of violence against women.
Gender-based violence is a worldwide issue. It exists in almost every culture and country on earth and has been accepted and condoned in history for centuries. ‘One in three women will experience violence in her lifetime’, and as a result, she will be deprived of her human rights and put at risk…
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Acquire the knowledge to having a successful relationship.
Coach Harry here just wanted to share a profound message to you that will help you in getting to where you need to be in order to establish a healthy relationship. I have had numerous failed relationships in my life, I’ve had 47 years already to master relationships and my inability to realise…
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Unplug from the Matrix
In this day and age, where original ideas have but all gone and no longer seem to be working. We are stuck in a world where we are compounded in comparison. I find it had to come up with any idea, just because I’m in a world where every idea I see on socials seems better than my idea. There’s no...
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Where are we regarding vulnerability in the Afro community.
On a personal point of view I wanted to quit doing my podcasts only because I haven’t got much traction or interaction. As I turn 47 tomorrow I decided I’ll give it one more shot. What’s the worst that can happen. It’s probably likely that no one will listen or read the description. What I do…
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Real Men and Women Sleep
Have you found yourself falling asleep at the wheel of your car, in the bus or on the train, are you a workaholic and you live your job more than your family friends and you are happy enough to sacrifice yourself and your sleep. Well I’m here to help you put things into perspective. It’s time to...
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Why you are stuck in the same position in your life and you are not moving forward
After watching a movie last night at the cinema, I got home and thought, wow that movie was miserable and that’s when I thought about the reality most of us are living in. We are stuck in dead end jobs, relationships.
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Words become things
This episode I speak about the power of positive talk, the power of using good energy. It’s often been said that you can lose yourself with negative talk. You can manifest with positive things and I’ve found that this is true in my case. I have had a great life because of positive talk, the best...
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Get yourself up and start living your life
In todays life we are all struggling with one thing or another, the main thing to remember is that our struggles will not always be round and most times those struggles are replaced with other struggles. I have always had struggles and I still have struggles and the only change is I now recognise...
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Communication a dying art in the age of social media and mobile devices
In this episode I discuss my thoughts on how social media and mobile devices are failing us and are preventing us from being able to communicate.
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We all need love
Todays episode I discuss love, what is love, who’s love and where’s love. We all need love, some more than others do, I’m sure psychopaths need love too, may be not in the same way that we experience love, but we all need love .
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Body Image Struggles are crippling our lives.
Body image is a sensitive subject matter. I try and explain a few ways you can look at how to tackle this issue. Without being scientific. It’s a duty of us all to be able to understand how our bodies work, so we can have an optimal life regarding body image and health status.
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Why I Am No Longer Afraid Of Living
Fear and anxiety almost killed me, so right now my philosophy has changed, I’m no longe afraid of things that might not happen or things I can not control. It’s our own responsibility to stop having limits as to what we can achieve in life .
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Why I am no longer friends with women.
It’s a war out here, don’t get old and try to date, especially if you are not wealthy, you are not funny or you are certainly not 6 foot tall, blonde with blue eyes perhaps tall dark and handsome. If you are a black man I’m a white space then forget it, it’s game over you are simply not…
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Happy New Year Message
Wishing you a happy new year with a short podcast as a thank you for being on this journey with me .
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Believe in yourself and achieve the sweet spot way of life
In this episode I explain how I have attained bliss in a short period time of my life, how I’ve gone from having severe anxiety to now having joy and bliss, I no longer expect anyone to make me happy. I’m responsible for my joy on a personal level,
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Why are black women fed up with black men?
As a black man, I am seeing a trend in the dating world, the trend worries me a little bit. We have many eligible black women no longer dating black men and getting hitched to other races. We have young black men who are dating white girls and living our beautiful black women wondering why they…
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Declutter Your Mind
Part of growing as an individual is to seek self development, however that looks like for you, I suggest you take sometime out and you step out of your comfort zone. We have a lot to learn from our past, a lot to develop and become well rounded with our thought process. I dive into how my life…
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Successful way of living with chronic illness
In this episode I talk about my passion, regarding living with chronic illness. The coping mechanism and lessons to be learned in order to enjoy a normal life, the way I have manoeuvred myself as a patient without the victim mentality.
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Don’t let social media destroy your peace of mind
This episode is a short episode that delves deep into why I’ve decided to not let social media destroy my peace
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Life away from ancestry home
Three segments, I interviewed my sister at home asking questions about being in diaspora and coping with life after living the ancestral home, the challenges and her thoughts on what it was like the seven years I was away and how she felt to see me again. This is quite revealing and perhaps not…
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Your Trauma Should Not Define Your Path To Growth!
In this episode I speak candidly with my friend Phil Fleming about growing up with trauma. We explore the beginnings and the growth that trauma can have. Growing up in poverty, council estate, parental roles and getting over such things to building a successful life. Living in a world where our...
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My Journey from psychosis and recovery!!
This episode talks about a time I had a mental break, why I believe I suffered a mental break and the reason why the majority of people will have a mental breakdown. It’s a journey in 45 minutes of how I went from having a life saving operation to losing my mind. How I ended up being sectioned…
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Making Changes and breaking out of the cycle of anxiety
In this podcast I discuss a few things I have done to create a space for self love, gratitude and routine to be able to enjoy my own company. As a middle age man who was used to the role of caretaker, I’m now learning to take care of myself.
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Learn to trust yourself again
Today I’m a world of opinions as individuals we have lost the ability to trust our own judgement. In this segment I talk about the reasons why we need to go back to our roots and learn to trust our instincts
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What it’s really like being single in your 40s
In this episode I explain what it’s like living as a single man in your 40s it’s about the reality of a regular man, who’s not wealthy and still has to work a 9 to 5.
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Let’s talk about moving forward from here
I’m this episode I talk about my podcast and how I want this podcast to be interactive for all my listeners. Making a podcast is not easy and most important why listen to my podcast, all of that is revealed in 11 minutes
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I Hate having grief brain
Todays episode is my thoughts on how I’m dealing with grief after the recent untimely passing of my younger brother Chiko. I try to articulate the small parts of dealing with grief, the head space that I find myself in. The title is from a note, that I got from my sister, that describes perfectly...
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Fear is holding back from living your life
In this episode I talk about the reason why you are struggling with your life and why you can’t move on with your life. I want you to see that it’s important to let go of fear.
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Testing Times Need Testimony
It’s easy to think you can have a life where you don’t need to listen to anyone. In truth we all need to hear some truths, some testimony to be able to have a comparison with regards to the struggles we are facing .
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Motivation is Dead
Why you should not rely on motivation to assist you in your daily life
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Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Dating!
After failing in several relationships, I must say not that many at my age, I’ve dated few women in my life and spent over two decades in marriage, I have a unique perspective on how to better prepare for relationships as I dissect my own failures in previous relationships.
About this show
Hosted by Ganizani Makawa AKA Harry], a passionate advocate for social justice and equality, "Diary of a Black Man" features candid talk with a diverse range of ordinary , people and everyday individuals who have unique stories to share. Through their stories, we hope to challenge stereotypes, dispel myths, and create a space for empathy, connection, and growth. Topics covered in our podcast include racism, systemic injustice, cultural identity, mental health, historical context, art and creativity, community.
Hosted by
Gani Makawa