Free Your People Podcast Miriam Njoku and Candace Nkoth Bisseck

In this episode Candace & Miriam discuss the pressures and responsibilities of being a first-born in the African context, the concept of parentification and its negative impact on the professional and personal lives of "parentified" adults. They also share lessons from their personal experience, as well as the tools they found useful to start thriving beyond parentification.

TRIGGER WARNING
We mention sexual assault and other topics that listeners might find difficult.

This week Candace and Miriam sit down to talk about intergenerational trauma, how it looks like in their families and communities, how it has impacted their lives, the road to gaining consciousness of the patterns and starting on one's healing journey. It takes one person choosing to reject the family template to start a change.

Candace and Miriam are two career women and recovering workaholics who recently transitioned out of the corporate world. This week they talk about how unresolved trauma has impacted their dating and what they have learnt about themselves from their first boyfriends in their 20s and now. If you would like to learn some tips on how to create a meaningful relationship in which you and your partner both feel seen and accepted, tune in on Thursday.

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Candace is a career & business coach as well as an international consultant. Miriam is a writer, consultant and trauma recovery coach. The idea of this podcast emerged from the realisation of the extent to which the way they were raised has impacted their adult relationships, decisions, and the way they showed up in the world. Coming both from contexts where these topics were not discussed, they hope to help people to connect the dots between childhood abuse and trauma with their adulthood struggles. By sharing personal stories, tools and tips, Candace and Miriam aim to create a space for others to heal, and contribute to destigmatizing mental health in families, in communities, in the corporate space and beyond.


Music: Hard to Love by Katnip feat Emmi - Royalty Free Music

Candace and Miriam are two career women and recovering workaholics who recently transitioned out of the corporate world. As the co-hosts of this podcast, it only felt right for them to begin with the topic of workaholism. In this first episode, they discuss their personal journeys, the emotional roots of work addiction, its manifestations and limits, as well as the ways to thrive professionally without crashing and burning.

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