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Life: After School
by Olusanya Tolulope Awodeyi
We discuss life hacks! Reaching out to young people about the life after school no one prepared us for, we intend to educate, inform, and help understand these essential matters. We'll touch your nerves on a number of issues, and will raise you back to life!
Episodes
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Hope
We live in times of several upheavals in several places. For some, it can be life altering. For some, giving up is just they don't want to do, but do not know what to do next. For some, hope is dwindling. Fast. This podcast is not meant to be preachy, but I sense this is meant for a friend…
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Vision, Sight and Fathers
In this Fathers' Day special episode, we cross boundaries and talk about the importance of insight and foresight. My guest and I talk about the importance of being able to see, in life. We also dig into the critical role Fathers play in our everyday lives. The world desperately needs fathers.…
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Get Knowledge
In this episode, I read a snippet of Ben Carson's book, "Think Big". It is a great book with great lessons. We live in a world awash with noise, and information. You will need to dedicate time to acquire knowledge. This isn't about amassing information, which can be rather unstructured. This is...
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Anticipate Change
What brought you HERE may not be enough to take you to NEXT. Whether in leadership, in a career, a relationship, a profession or a skillset, change is happening. David got to palace by using a stone and sling. He stayed relevant by learning to use a sword, correctly. In this podcast, we discuss…
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Make Things Happen
In the 5th in the Leadership Ideas Series we need for 2023, we discuss industry leaders who have succeeded in changing the fortunes of companies on the brinks of collapse. Yes, you need an idea, however we show why execution is more important than the idea itself. Listen in , and learn how to…
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Stewards and leaders
They are not bosses. They aren't bossy, or arrogant. They simply serve, and they lead. Unassuming. No big swag. Easy to overlook. Yet, they are custodians of power. Clark Kent at work. Superman at heart. At their essence, steward leaders are fully invested in something bigger than themselves.…
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Establish your values
Values are a set of pillars that form your foundation. They are a set of rules you choose to known for and answer to. Question: What are you known for? Do you have a set of values that have almost become synonymous with you? Integrity, kindness, honesty, and financial security are typical…
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Idea 2: Establish your Mission
What's your mission? How do you intend to execute what you've seen or captured in a vision statement? Taking as guide, Jonathan Gifford's book on 100 Great Leadership Ideas, I discuss several corporate giants mission statements, and how well it's serving them. Your mission statement should be a...
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Have A Vision
In the early days, Bill gates articulated the Microsot vision as "A microcmoputer in every desk and in every home running microsoft software. The microsoft vision drove the entire company forward. Google vision statement is "to provide access to the world's information in one click". Apple vision...
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A Christmas Carol
Around this time, English author Charles Dickens created the immortal classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol. "...Jacob Marley was dead..." Famous first lines from Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol". And it does have lessons we would do well to pick up, especially this Christmas. When the…
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Guys (and Ladies), Heads Up!
Young people, you ARE assets. In this podcast, we chat with a gender specialist (Ogun State Economic Transformation Project), and Impact Award winner(US Consulate) on waste-to-wealth strategies, and (heads up!!) she has 17 years experience working with women and young people, especially on gender...
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Words Are Weapons
Still on words. Words are containers of power, life, hope, comfort, or whatever we choose to fill them with. You choose. You've probably heard of poverty, or education, being weaponized. Know this: You words can be weaponized. For good or evil. They impact both the hearer, and the speaker. You...
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Words
Your favorite app runs on words. Your life runs on words. The Economy runs,and works with words. Every programming language needs words to work. Would you believe that the words you speak, to a large extent determines the direction and flow of your life. In this podcast, continuing in the spirit…
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One Percent Kindness, Every Day.
Awhile ago, 4 of my former students ganged up to give me a surprise gift, and Oh, how it made the sun shine brighter! I told everyone what they'd done!! The world is experiencing meanness on a level that is escalating, with everyone and every nation intent on fighting their own private battles.…
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What Will You Do?
The world is not what it used to be. Things are changing quite rapidly. Values are shifting. There's war internal, wars external. All these demand a response from you: What will you do? Find out in this short podcast.
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Family Matters
Ever watched the hugely successful animated film "Encanto"? Listened to the fantastic "Dos Oruguitas" ? You should. You must. Family matters. Family does matter. In a world with an ever-increasing disdain of family and family values, many young men and women do not know where to turn to. Fathers...
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God's SoundMan. 3D animator. Creator. Paul.
I've known this young man for awhile, and he amazes me. Each time. This interview was spurred by a 17 hour marathon he set for himself, and broke. 17 hours straight, on a single project. 20 hours. Cumulative. Non-stop. He calls himself "God's SoundMan". He's a 3D animator. A Sound Engineer. A...
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No Coincidence
A lot of people are going through stuff. A lot of things are going on right now. At personal levels. Family levels, communities, and within and among nations. Things are just happening. Covid. Ukraine. Russia. Brexit. You... Are these happenings random? Is there a script being played out? Do we...
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How To Prepare For Opportunity
In the last episode of this series, we again draw insight from the book, (available on Okada Books) "When Opportunity Knocks" by our guest, Olutoyin Oladele. In this very lively episode, we, more importantly, examine specifics on How to Prepare for Opportunity. Enjoy. And do not forget to share...
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When Opportunity Knocks on your door...
How do you recognize an opportunity? What workclothes do opportunities wear? What's their peculiarities? We are not going to look at opportunities in general, we are tackling your own opportunities; the one that's got your name on it. Maybe your own opportunity is right beside you. Right now.…
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When Opportunity Knocks Again!
In the last episode, we pierced through the fact that opportunity comes oft times unannounced, dressed like a passersby, in work-clothesor like a ache somewhere. In this episode we dig downin how to recognize opportunity when and whenever it shows up, and how to treat it. Our guest says: The…
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When Opportunity Knocks
Its a New year!! But is it a New you? With a great year ahead, there are opportunities. Or are there? How can you see them? Where are they? Is there a key to identifying and keying in? In the first of the 4 episode, Opportunity Knocks series, we invite author Toyin Oladele on a ride with her...
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Strategy over Effort
As the year speeds to a close, I know you've got loads of things to accomplish. We all do. Wait!! Don't just speed blindly on. Have a strategy for what you want to do.Each and every time, strategy trumps effort. Don't just go; get a strategy.
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Making music, with Jethro
Young people are doing great stuff everywhere. In this podcast, we speak with an engineer, a multi-instrumentalist, a music producer and a beats maker. And a person of Faith. Plus, he's all this rolled into One!! We get to know how its like to, as christian, produce music for the contemporary...
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Ready, ready, ready...
You've been there before. You've done all the preparation and analysis. Then paralysis strikes. You don't move or take that step. Or. you just take the plunge. And then come up gasping for air, almost sunk by the icy waters of unforeseen, and disastrous results. But it worked last time, you…
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Just One Person
It's all too easy to blend in, fit in and look nice. Following the crowd is a lot easier. Herd behavior is real: others are doing it, so it cannnot be that wrong!! Standing up and standing out takes courage. Seeing and saying what no one seems to be seeing and saying takes guts. Lots of it. You...
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It really does matter
In The first of its Under-5 minutes series, I speak on a few things we do and use routinely, almost flippantly and definitely carelessly. Interestingly, these things are so critical to our progress in life. They are the small, but mighty matters.
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How To Get Understanding
In our last podcast (listen here), we rooted for the absolute importance of understanding. Knowing the why is a must, we concluded. But then, how does a plain person know the why? How do I/can I get understanding? Is there a key, an approach, a strategy, a person to go to? Whether your desire is…
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Understanding
Everything has changed. From education to healthcare to finances... everything. New variables have been plugged into the equation. Interestingly, some bedrock principles remain fixed, like the North Star. Understanding. This is important, most especially at times like this. Knowing the why and…
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Taking Action
The year is on. And it is time for you to do something about those ideas and dreams you have. Discussing from a business perspective, we discuss a set of "guide posts" that I believe will propel you to take action, in the right direction. You will need to act on these. And it all begins with a...
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Seasons and TImes
Rats don't know the time. Neither do mosquitoes, cockroaches and the famous ants. However, they do understand seasons. They come out at particular seasons, when the signs indicate that the time of action has come. Get an understanding of seasons. Know what is being said in your season. Understand...
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Hope: The Weak can be Strong
So many people have been through turbulence. So many are even thinking of ending it all. Though you might be weak, please hold on in there. In today's world, so many good folks have become weak, or weakened. Life's curve balls have caught many unguarded. If you are like that, as many are, this...
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Hope. The lost can be found
Hope. It is the difference between giving up, and going on. It is that glimmer of light, amidst the thick darkness, that gives strength to a weary soul. In a world that seems to be labor pains, with turbulence and uncertainties pulsating at almost every point, it is easy to lose hope. In this...
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Pioneering, and having to start from zero
In this interview with a veteran survivor who bounced back from a major health challenge, we look at how to start something, from nothing, armed only with a word about "a miracle in the house", willing hands and a bold spirit. Kunle Olaleye is also author of the book "Bouncing Back To Life"…
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Who you following?
In this episode we discuss leadership, followership, success and influence. Our guest has had over 20 years hands-on experience working with young people, and parents. In this episode we learn that: The world needs heroes. How do you define success? How do I know who to follow, the right people…
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Coaching Young people to Lead
You were taught how to be a leader in school? I guessed so!! Mentoring tomorrow's leaders is never an easy task. It wasn't taught in school. most of our parents did't teach it. Whether it's yourself or someone you know, We just face it heads-on, often blindly. In this fiery, heart-warming…
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Are Teens ready?
Are teens ready for life after school? What about their parents? Get ready to be hit! In this interview, we speak with a veteran teen and youth worker with over 20 years in-the-frontlines experience. Let's go.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We discuss life hacks! Reaching out to young people about the life after school no one prepared us for, we intend to educate, inform, and help understand these essential matters. We'll touch your nerves on a number of issues, and will raise you back to life!
HOSTED BY
Olusanya Tolulope Awodeyi
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We discuss life hacks! Reaching out to young people about the life after school no one prepared us for, we intend to educate, inform, and help understand these essential matters. We'll touch your nerves on a number of issues, and will raise you back to life!
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