Overnight Wisdom

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Overnight Wisdom is a show where Chisom Udeze, award-winning Economist, business leader and entrepreneur, engages in deep and reflective conversations, either as solo episodes, or with occasional guests, leaders, artists, & change-makers from around the world. The show explores leadership, business growth, societal challenges,  purpose, power, identity, resilience and the lifelong practice of returning to oneself. These are the defining forces that shape how we lead, work and live.Each episode uncovers pressing global topics, and/or worldview and philosophy that guide us. The conversations move between topics that matter for our individual and collective wellbeing.This is not a show about performance. It is a space for clarity. You will hear personal stories, research-based insights, lived wisdom and practical strategies for leading with courage, building with intention and choosing a meaningful life, whatever that may mean to you.  Thanks for being here. New solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays Host: Chisom Udeze Economist | Leadership Strategist | Multi-Founder Creator of the Three Clarities Framework (Identity, Context, Power) Founder: Chiije, Diversify, Diversify Summit, Diversify Consult, HerSpace and HerTechConnect: chisomudeze.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

  1. 4 days ago

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood

    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 systematically fail to see it. It names m!sogynoir, Moya Bailey’s 2010 term for the specific contempt that is neither generic m!sogyny nor generic ant!-Blackness, and Patricia Hill Collins’s controlling images, the Mammy, the Jezebel, the Sapphire, the Welfare Queen, the Strong Black Woman trap, as the apparatus by which the compound is administered. It ties the compound back to the series’ through-line: the point where rac!sm, patriarchy, and ant!-Blackness converges on a single body is where white terror!sm does its most concentrated work. It traces a lineage fifty years deep and three continents wide, from the Combahee River Collective in 1977, bell hooks in 1981, Hortense Spillers in 1987, Kimberlé Crenshaw who coined intersectionality in 1989, and Patricia Hill Collins in 1990, to the African and Brazilian Black feminist traditions of Oyěwùmí, Amadiume, Mama, Carneiro, and Gonzalez. It names the adultification of Black girls, the Georgetown research showing that adults perceive Black girls as less innocent and more adult beginning at age five, and the five mechanisms of the assault on Black girlhood. It documents the compound in 2026 across five sites: the US economic compound, the political-violence compound in Brazil with the February 2026 Supreme Court conviction of Marielle Franco’s killers, the gender-based-violence compound in South Africa with the November 2025 national disaster declaration, the postcolonial-state compound across Africa with its child-marriage and economic-exclusion data, and the compound carried by Black queer and trans women. It handles five predictable critiques. It closes by turning Chisom’s Three Clarities framework directly toward Black women: refuse the controlling images, see the system as it is, and build your own tables without waiting for a system that may not change in your lifetime.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    38 min

  2. 31 May

    One Year In — A Reflection on Lessons Learned from Hosting Overnight Wisdom Podcast.

    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. Systems are better. 3. Do not be afraid of failing. Say the thing. Learn. Improve. Keep going. 4. Do not build around fantasy guests. Start with people whose work, lives, and stories make you curious. 5. Protect your energy. Some people will not respond. Some will record and never share. Do not take it personally. Be willing to pivot. 6. Sometimes your niche is not niching. Expand the room. 7. Try solo episodes. If you have a point of view, let people meet your mind directly. 8. Do not be precious. The work will teach you what it wants to become if you are paying attention. One year in, I am still learning, refining, building, and occasionally winging it with confidence and a calendar invite. But I am so glad I started. So if you are reading this and have always wanted to build, something of your own, a business, a project, a piece of art, start with what you have. Start with what you know. Start messy, but start honestly. The work becomes clearer once it exists.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    7 min

  3. 27 May

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 4: Racism as the Operating System.

    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 codes, the French Code Noir, and the nineteenth-century scientific racism whose biological dressing has been settled as fiction while the political category continues to operate. It marks the May 25, 2026 Pope Leo XIV encyclical apologising for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery, names that Leo did the specific thing his predecessors refused to do, and notes that the bulls have still not been rescinded. It makes the case for anti-Black racism as the foundational case the operating system was built around through three arguments: the economic, the global export, and the intra-racial reproduction in colorism. It names the family of racisms (anti-Indigenous, anti-Arab, anti-Asian, anti-Jewish, anti-Roma) as variants of the same technology, each with its own history and present. It documents anti-Black racism in 2026 globally: Black maternal mortality in the U.S., in the U.K., in Norway; police violence disproportionately of Black Americans, Nahel Merzouk in France, U.K. stop-and-search disparities, and the 6,243 Brazilian police killings in 2024 with 82 percent of victims Black; the Mediterranean border regime and its more than 30,000 dead since 2014; the Dominican Republic’s mass deportations of Haitian-descended people, more than 276,000 in 2024 and more than 379,000 in 2025; and the post-2023 corporate DEI rollback. The episode names five predictable critiques, including the “we have moved on” deflection among many people across continents and racialised groups who claim we live in post-racial, post-sexist, post-homophobic, post-Islamophobic, post-colonial worlds we do not actually live in. The episode locates Chisom as a woman whose children will encounter the operating system in a different form than she did. Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    44 min

  4. 20 May

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure

    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 settler colonialism, the focus of the rest of the episode.  Chisom walks through three live cases chosen to show the structure operating across its full register. Greenland under Denmark, where the Spiral Case is delivering individual compensation in 2026 while the colonial relationship continues, shows what the structure does to bodies. Indigenous nations in the United States, where the Doctrine of Discovery still operates in property law and where Indigenous women are murdered at more than ten times the national average, shows what the structure does to land and to law. Palestine, where the July 2024 ICJ ruling has been ignored, where the UN concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genoc!de in Gaza, and where settler violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank reached unprecedented levels in 2025, shows what the structure does to both at once.  Chisom weaves the Doctrine of Discovery through the chapter as one variant of a global legal pattern of fictions that empty the land, alongside terra nullius in Australia, the Absentee Property Law in Israel, and state-land doctrines in the Nordics. She names directly that white terrorism, in the historical sense, is a system built by specific European institutions across specific centuries, now operated by multiple actors including the UAE, China, Russia, and corrupt African leaders, none of whom are the architects, all of whom are profiting from the architecture. She locates herself, as a Nigerian Black woman living in a country occupying Sami land. She closes with three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    36 min

  5. 13 May

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 2: From Bodies to Borders.

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Part 2 of a series, Chisom traces the long history of white terrorism in Africa as one continuous story rather than a list of incidents. Twelve and a half million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1501 and 1866. Roughly 1.8 million died during the Middle Passage itself. The trade built Europe. Then it ended, between 1807 in Britain and 1888 in Brazil, and Europe pivoted. From taking Africans, to taking Africa.  From bodies, to borders. The Berlin Conference of November 1884, attended by fourteen Western powers and no Africans, formalized the rules for the territorial conquest of an entire continent in thirty-four years. Chisom walks through what Berlin produced: the Congo Free State and its eight to ten million dead, the Herero and Nama genocide and its direct documented institutional line to the Holocaust through the German anthropologist Eugen Fischer, British concentration camps in Mau Mau Kenya, the French settler colony of Algeria, and apartheid South Africa.  She handles the predictable critiques head-on, including the African kingdoms that participated in the slave trade and the post-independence African leaders who looted their own people. She implicates everyone, including the African leaders who continue to betray their people, and the African educational systems that still teach versions of history shaped for colonial purposes.  She closes with the receipts. The cobalt powering the device you are listening on. French uranium extracted from Niger. The British Museum still holding nine hundred looted Benin Bronzes. Climate displacement falling hardest on the continent that caused it least. Three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth. Africa is not a charity case. Africa is a creditor.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    41 min

  6. 6 May

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 1: Language Change

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Part 1 of a series, Chisom challenges the term “white supremacy” and proposes a language change: it is white terrorism. She traces the term to its 1824 origins, maps the papal bulls that gave genocide divine authority between 1452 and 1493, and shows how the Doctrine of Discovery is still embedded in U.S. and international law.  Using her Three Clarities Framework, Chisom reveals how white terrorism interlocks with patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, and religion to create what bell hooks called “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” She handles the academic objections directly, addressing why “terrorism” rather than “racial capitalism” or “settler colonialism,” and acknowledges the lineage of Black freedom thinkers from Du Bois to Bell Hooks who used “white supremacy” descriptively for the system. She closes with the present. In April 2025, France acknowledged the injustice of Haiti’s independence debt and stopped short of reparations. Acknowledgment without restitution is the modern face of white terrorism. The crime is named. The wealth stays. Words shape reality. Let’s stop calling it supremacy. It’s terrorism. Part II - May 13. Overnight Wisdom is a weekly podcast, with new episodes every Wednesday. Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    28 min

  7. 22 Apr

    The Men Who Drug Their Wives

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In March 2026, a CNN investigation exposed a global network of men teaching each other how to drug and assault their wives and partners. This episode examines what the investigation uncovered, why this keeps happening, and what women need to know. We discuss the infrastructure enabling this violence — from pornographic platforms hosting thousands of “sleep” videos to Telegram groups where men trade advice on dosages and detection avoidance. We hear from three survivors who discovered their husbands had been drugging and assaulting them for years. But this isn’t just about individual perpetrators. This episode maps the systems that make this possible: platforms that profit from illegal content, police who dismiss survivors, laws that fail to protect women at home, and a culture that still treats women’s bodies as accessible to their husbands. We also address what needs to change — at the platform level, in law enforcement, in legal systems, and in how we raise the next generation. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of drug-facilitated sexual assault and violence against women. Resources: US National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 or RAINN.orgInternational directories: UN Women, The Pixel ProjectSupport the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    29 min

  8. 15 Apr

    Imposter syndrome is not a syndrome. It’s internalised systemic failure.

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.  In this episode, Chisom challenges the concept of ‘imposter syndrome’ and argues it’s not a personal failing — it’s internalised systemic failure. Using her Three Clarities Framework, she traces the origins of the term, exposes how it pathologizes individuals instead of diagnosing racist and sexist systems, and provides nine diagnostic questions to help you see clearly that you’re not broken. The system is. This episode is diagnostic. Grab a pen, and do the work. This episode gives you the language and tools to stop fixing yourself and start addressing the structures that make you doubt your own competence. Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    33 min
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Overnight Wisdom is a show where Chisom Udeze, award-winning Economist, business leader and entrepreneur, engages in deep and reflective conversations, either as solo episodes, or with occasional guests, leaders, artists, & change-makers from around the world. The show explores leadership, business growth, societal challenges,  purpose, power, identity, resilience and the lifelong practice of returning to oneself. These are the defining forces that shape how we lead, work and live.Each episode uncovers pressing global topics, and/or worldview and philosophy that guide us. The conversations move between topics that matter for our individual and collective wellbeing.This is not a show about performance. It is a space for clarity. You will hear personal stories, research-based insights, lived wisdom and practical strategies for leading with courage, building with intention and choosing a meaningful life, whatever that may mean to you.  Thanks for being here. New solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays Host: Chisom Udeze Economist | Leadership Strategist | Multi-Founder Creator of the Three Clarities Framework (Identity, Context, Power) Founder: Chiije, Diversify, Diversify Summit, Diversify Consult, HerSpace and HerTechConnect: chisomudeze.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

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  • Creator
    Chisom
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Overnight Wisdom
  • Show Website
    Overnight Wisdom

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