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  Want to Get What You Want? Build Political Power 16.09.2026 27min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Politics is much bigger than elections, parties and parliament. It shapes the rules, resources and conditions we live inside every day — often so deeply that we stop noticing they were ever decisions at all. In this episode of the Power series, Chisom explores what political power actually is, how it differs from simply having political opinions, and why being affected by politics is not the same as having th...
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  5 Steps to Becoming Hard to Ignore 09.09.2026 41min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Why do some voices become recognisable, trusted and consequential while equally talented people struggle to be heard? Becoming hard to ignore is not about becoming famous or accumulating hundreds of thousands of followers. Media power is relative. A small, highly relevant audience can create far more opportunity and influence than a large audience that never acts. In this episode of the Power series, Chisom...
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  The Six Stages of Financial Power: Where Are You? 02.09.2026 46min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. You can earn a lot of money and still have very little financial power. You can own a home and still be financially trapped. You can have a good salary and still be unable to leave a bad job. You can have access to credit and still be one emergency away from losing control of your choices. So what actually counts as financial power? In this Episode, Chisom Udeze dismantles some of the most common assumptions we m...
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  You Think You Have Power. Do You? 26.08.2026 33min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. What if most of what we call power is not actually power at all? We often confuse power with confidence, charisma, visibility, status, access, representation, influence, or simply having a seat at the table. But none of those things necessarily tell us who can decide what happens, whose decisions become reality, or who can make other people adjust around them. In this episode, Chisom Udeze takes apart the languag...
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  Leadership is Political | Part 4: Stop Surviving. Start Building Power. 19.08.2026 13min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. What happens when we become exceptionally good at naming harm, but remain largely powerless to stop it? In this episode, Chisom moves the conversation beyond resilience, recovery, and even systems change, towards something we often seem uncomfortable naming: power. Because care after harm matters. Healing, and representation are important. But our ambition cannot be to make people exceptionally good at surviving ...
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  Leadership is Political | Part 3: The White Man Archetype 12.08.2026 25min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In this episode, Chisom looks at the archetype most workplaces are designed for. The same behaviour, ambition, directness, dissent, refusal to conform, is coded differently depending on who performs it. One person’s vision is another person’s attitude problem, and the line between the two follows race, gender, class, and proximity to whatever the organisation treats as its default. Chisom examines why the coding is...
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  Leadership is Political | Part 2: The Values Gap 05.08.2026 33min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Most organisations have values. Most of those values do not survive contact with pressure. When budgets tighten, when the market shifts, when someone powerful is challenged, the stated commitments to inclusion, openness, and psychological safety tend to collapse quietly, and the people who trusted them are left holding the cost of having believed something that was never operational. In this episode, Chisom e...
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  Leadership is Political | Part 1: What People Recover From 29.07.2026 26min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. People carry the cost of poor leadership long after the work is done: self-doubt, burnout, diminished confidence, the slow work of rebuilding trust in their own judgment. We call it personal struggle. It is not. It is the uncounted cost of a system that measures leadership by what it achieves and never by what it leaves behind. In this episode, I ask why leadership was stripped of its political character, re...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 12: The Accurate Name 22.07.2026 37min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 12, the final episode of this part of the series, Chisom returns to Chapter 1 and settles the word. She traces white supremacy to a defeated colonist of Saint-Domingue who in 1802 called it an axiom while the enslaved were beating France, and to the indemnity France then imposed on Haiti, paid for a hundred and twenty-two years. She shows what the word does: it flatters, it turns a crime into an opinion,...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 11: Your Reckoning With The Machine 15.07.2026 39min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 11 of the series, Chisom turns the diagnosis onto the reader and refuses the question they arrive with. “What can I do to fix this?” is a trap, because its only honest answer is that you cannot, and the despair is what the structure needs. She replaces it with the question that cannot be escaped, “what am I going to do given that I cannot fix it?“, and closes the three exits, paralysis, heroism, and puri...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 10: The Colonial Hangover 08.07.2026 30min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 10 of the series, Chisom turns to coloniality, the empire that stayed behind after the empire left, the quietest form of the machine and the one that leaves no graves because it no longer needs them. Colonialism was the occupation, the flag and the date it ended. Coloniality is what did not end, the ranking installed in the mind and left running, and the chapter’s line is that the wrong is never the cont...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 9: The Border & The Last Clause of Colonialism 01.07.2026 21min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Episode 9 of the series, Chisom turns to the border, and to the passport as the last clause of the colonial contract. It opens on a boat that left Sfax for Lampedusa in January 2026, on the twin girls about a year old who died of cold within sight of Europe, and refuses to call them a tragedy, because the water did exactly what it was left there to do. It walks the same design across the Sonoran Desert and its m...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 8: The Invention of Race 24.06.2026 36min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 8 of the series, Chisom turns to the secular machinery that took over the work, science, and the lie it was used to build, the invention of race. The claim is that power took the authority of science and manufactured race, to give an ancient hierarchy the one disguise almost impossible to argue with, the look of objective fact. And the proof that the crime was in the wielding and not the method is that s...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 7: Christianity Was a Weapon of Conquest 17.06.2026 38min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 7 of the series, Chisom turns to the institution that blessed all of it, the church. The claim is that Christianity was not incidental to white terrorism but its moral machinery and a material instrument of conquest, the apparatus that turned terror into salvation so the people carrying it out believed they were doing the work of God, while the same faith, in the hands of the people it was used against, ...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 6: Slavery Never Ended 10.06.2026 38min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 6 of the series, Chisom turns to the Black American experience itself and argues that it is not a closed chapter of history but the longest-running case of white terrorism on earth. The claim is that slavery in America never ended, it changed clothes, renaming itself in every generation while the line of control ran unbroken from the first slave ship to the prison farm in 2026. It opens on Angola,...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood 03.06.2026 38min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 5 of the series, Chisom turns to what the operating system does when it compounds. The claim is that compounding is multiplicative, not additive: when rac!sm meets patriarchy meets ant!-Blackness, the result is not the sum of three harms but a third condition that neither rac!sm nor patriarchy alone because it produces a structural position so specific that the dominant analyses of either race or gender ...
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  One Year In — A Reflection on Lessons Learned from Hosting Overnight Wisdom Podcast. 31.05.2026 6min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. One year of Overnight Wisdom. Whew! On May 28th, 2026, my podcast turned one. One year of conversations, solo reflections, tech issues, learning in public, and occasionally wondering why I added one more thing to my already full life. Here are 8 things I’ve learned: 1. Start before you are ready. Your first episode does not need to be iconic. It needs to exist. 2. Consistency needs a system. Motivation is cute....
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 4: Racism as the Operating System. 27.05.2026 44min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In episode 4 of the series, Chisom turns to the operating system that white terrorism built: racism. The chapter opens with the precise distinction between racial prejudice and racism: prejudice is what individuals carry, racism is what happens when racial prejudice meets systemic power. The chapter traces the construction of race itself across the papal bulls, the Iberian casta system, the English colonial slave c...
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  On Our Shared Humanity, Leadership, & System’s Change — Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED 24.05.2026 1godz 45min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits down with Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED, for a layered conversation on leadership, systems change, joy, motherhood, power, and what it means to remain human while building institutions that shape the world. Logan reflects on her path from mission-driven work in East Africa, to Palantir, the Obama Foundation, and eventually back to TED, where she now leads one of t...
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  Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure 20.05.2026 36min

  We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 3 of the series, Chisom turns to the present tense. Settler colonialism is not a phase that European empires went through and emerged from. It is a structure that continues to operate, on every populated continent, in 2026. The chapter opens by naming the three forms of white terrorism’s modern operation: extractive colonialism, plantation slavery, named briefly and flagged for a future chapter; and sett...