Overnight Wisdom

Chisom
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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. 14h ago

    Leadership is Political | Part 4: Stop Surviving. Start Building Power.

    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 systems that remain perfectly capable of harming them. So what does it actually mean to build power? Individually, collectively, institutionally, economically, socially, and politically? What does leadership require? What must organisations change? And how do we build enough agency and optionality that we are not perpetually negotiating from the receiving end of someone else’s power? This is a conversation about becoming harder to exploit, isolate, silence, and punish. Not because power makes us invulnerable. It does not. But because understanding how power works is only the beginning. At some point, we have to build it. This episode opens the door to building power, which subsequent episodes on Overnight Wisdom will focus on Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  2. Aug 12

    Leadership is Political | Part 3: The White Man Archetype

    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 not a perception problem but a power problem, how it determines who is developed and who is disciplined, and what it means that the same pattern operates in society, where the same dissent makes one person a statesman and another a threat to stability. Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  3. Aug 5

    Leadership is Political | Part 2: The Values Gap

    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 examines why the gap between stated and lived values is not hypocrisy in the simple sense, it is a design that treats values as positioning rather than commitment, and pressure is what reveals which one your organisation actually built. Chisom looks at how the same pattern operates in governments and founding documents, and she ask what each person inside these systems, leaders, the people in the middle, and the people with the least formal power, can actually do when the values they were promised stop being true.  Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  4. Jul 29

    Leadership is Political | Part 1: What People Recover From

    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, reduced to skills and competencies and communication styles, and who that reduction serves. I look at why a hundred-billion-dollar industry has never built a tool that measures what people have to recover from after being led. And I make the case that leadership is political, not because it involves parties or ideology, but because every leadership decision distributes power, consequence, and cost, and the refusal to see it that way is itself the most effective political act of all. This episode is for the leader who has never been asked to account for what their decisions produce in people. For the person in the middle, absorbing pressure from above and administering it below, whose discretion has never been called power. And for the person without formal authority who has been told their recovery is their own project. Leadership is Political is a new series on Overnight Wisdom. New episodes weekly.  Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  5. Jul 22

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 12: The Accurate Name

    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, and it lets you believe the thing is receding while the beneficiaries are alive and being paid. Then she holds the record against the statutes the accused wrote themselves, element by element, and finds it meets the definition of terrorism, with the one failing element, illegality, failing only because the perpetrators wrote the code. She defends white as the name of the design, since the operators are no longer only white and Europe never left, refuses the retreat to greed, and keeps the promise made in Chapter 4 with a reparations section built from the archives, because reparations have already been paid, repeatedly, to the wrong people. It closes where Chapter 1 closed. You cannot dismantle what you will not name. Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  6. Jul 15

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 11: Your Reckoning With The Machine

    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 purity. Then she goes first, Nigerian and Norwegian, extracted-from and beneficiary, paid by the institutions she indicts, refusing to resolve whether that makes her the leverage or the alibi. From there come the three questions she hands the reader, identity, context, and power clarity, and the ask that follows, which is smaller and harder than anyone wants: stop laundering it. The structure does not run on monsters. It runs on ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and declining to look at what the job is for. It ends without comfort and without despair, on the fact that you will probably not see this work finished, that it works anyway, slowly, and that the better world does not make itself, it gets built by ordinary people making ordinary decisions, pointed in the direction of a safer and more dignified world for all  Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  7. Jul 8

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 10: The Colonial Hangover

    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 contact but the ranking bolted to it. It walks that ranking through six rooms, the language you think in, the god you answer to, the face in the mirror, what counts as knowledge, the map with Europe at the top, and the shape of what you want, crediting Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Aníbal Quijano, and it refuses to let the word soften, because the ranking was installed by force, the sediment the violence left once it had finished with the body, which is why it still carries the word white terrorism. It proves the intent was written down, by Verwoerd building Bantu Education in 1953 and Macaulay in 1835, names the gendered ranking through Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, and closes on the smallest freedom in this episode, that seeing coloniality does not delete it but converts the reflex from a master into a choice, with Chisom admitting it is still in her, and that she expects to be digging it out for the rest of her life. Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

  8. Jul 1

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 9: The Border & The Last Clause of Colonialism

    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 more than sixteen hundred unidentified dead, the Mediterranean and its deadliest start since 2014, and the proxy, Europe paying the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept and return people into detention the United Nations has tied to crimes against humanity. It names what deterrence is, fear and death used to control where a population may go, the definition of terrorism the series has carried throughout. Then it turns to the ledger, laying the passport index over the colonial map, setting Nigeria and its wasted oil against the Gulf that was permitted to keep the proceeds, and it closes on her own passports, the same face and two verdicts in a minute, and on the reader, told that the distance between them and the drowned was only ever the paper, and the paper is the receipt for the theft.  Support the show ----------------------------------- ✨ On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Connect with Chisom: ✨ Patreon: https://patreon.com/Chisomebi ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chisom.ebi/ ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ Streaming Options: ✨ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze ✨ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz ✨ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Social Media Handles for Podcast: ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ ✨ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom ✨ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/

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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
    66
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Overnight Wisdom
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