Somewhat Grown

S3E4 Let’s Talk About Failure and Ego Death!

What feelings come up when you think of the words failure or fear? When the journey is not Instagrammable, how do we shift our focus to the process rather than the end goal? How do we fail quicker? Join us as we talk about how our relationships to the f word have shifted to embrace the necessary learning and growth opportunities it provides. We get vulnerable by sharing our previous moments of failure and what they taught us. We also make a case for the importance of trying, before Thembe closes us out with a special reading of a poem.

 

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S3E3 Is EDIB Dead? featuring Eugene from Social Matters

We're thrilled to bring you our first special guest feature of the season so far! Eugene is Co-Founder and one-third of Social Matters, a consultancy specialising in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB). So, what does belonging look like in the workplace and how do we keep on doing the work of inclusion? Does it even still matter? Whilst Izzy brings her professional EDIB expertise and Thembe offers thoughtful reflections, Eugene shares knowledgeable insights from his work at Social Matters and beyond. Together, we discuss the current landscape of EDIB, share our observations when comparing the UK to the state of play in the US and dig into what bringing our authentic selves to work and life truly means.

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S3E2 On Laughing Through Life’s L’s and Finding Community

Join us as we introduce a new Somewhat Grown feature: the Silly Billy Awards! This is where we hold space for our imperfections and embrace silly moments in a lighthearted way. We also talk about what makes community important and the struggles we face when seeking it out. Is there a real difference between community and friendship? Other highlights include Izzy sharing the exciting life update of her recent engagement(!) and how culture and upbringing can shape our idea of community. We hope you enjoy this one.

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S3E1 Thirty, Flirty and Loading...

We’re back and we missed you all! Wondering what we’ve been up to since 2023? What’s new from 2024 and 2025? How it feels to transition from our twenties to thirties? Join us as we reflect on our highlights from the past year, including turning 30, adventures in Barbados and reconnecting with family in Nigeria and South Africa respectively. We also discuss the importance of rest, career qualms, together with redundancy and navigating life changes. There’s a lot to catch up on and we hope you enjoy listening! You can now also watch this episode on our BRAND NEW YouTube channel: Somewhat_Grown.

S2E10 On Forgiveness: Is Everyone Trying Their Best?

How does healing take place when the hurt is still fresh? How much benefit of the doubt should we give to people who consistently move a bit mad? What role does self forgiveness play in helping us to forgive others? Join us as we reflect on what has gotten us through 2023, what we look forward to embracing more of in the new year and share what we're learning about forgiveness. We hope you enjoy this final episode of season two!

S2E9 On Accountability: Boys Don’t Cry and Men Are Trash? With Chimdi & Fortune

Joined by two male guests who also happen to be our good friends, we talk about the differences we noticed in how we were raised based on our gender. How were cultural norms played out or challenged as you were growing up, and how does that affect you now? How do we take accountability to become better humans?  Listen as we all chime in on our second audience question about gender differences and family dynamics.

S2E8 Passion VS Money with founder Jemilea Wisdom-Baako

How do you stay connected to your passion when it goes from a hobby into a means for your livelihood? How do you pursue the thing you love in a way that remains soul nourishing? We’re joined by award winning poet and founder of Writerz n Scribez, Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (@PoeticJemz) as we respond to an audience question on whether to chase your dreams as a self starter or financial stability. Jemilea shares her key learnings about asking for help, the importance of fostering well being at work and how creativity can bring healing. We also discuss how to deal with falling out of love with our passion and to evolve with our aspirations. Have your notes app open for this one because it’s full of gems!

S2E7 We Tired, Girl. We Tired.

What tensions arise between staying on top of work and being kind to yourself? Who gets let down sometimes by how you choose to spend your time? How do you overcome the discomfort of being alone? In this episode, we take a bit of time to do something that we can struggle to make enough space for in our day to day grind: pausing to come up for air. In keeping with our love of speaking authentically, our conversation centres around that golden check in question: how are you really?

S2E6 Road to 30

We recently turned twenty-nine which means we’re approaching the big adult age of thirty! How do you handle the internal and external pressures that come with reaching a certain age? How do you balance enjoying where you are now with looking forward to where you hope to be in the future? How has journeying through your twenties reshaped your goals and unmet expectations? Listen as we discuss our true feelings about approaching the milestone of turning 30 and meeting the new versions of ourselves dawning on the horizon ahead.

S2E5 Feelings Aren’t Everything, but also, They Are! (Boundaries Revamped)

This episode is all about boundaries. How do we cope with the grief from losing a relationship to newly set boundaries? How do we know when it's time to let someone go in order to honour ourselves? What role do our feelings play in deciding our boundaries? Following on from our season 1 episode on boundaries, we go deeper into lessons learned about respecting them since then. To round up, we share our hopes for stepping into age 29 this month (shout out to our fellow June babies)!