Ça Bouge ! with Sabou

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Ça Bouge is a podcast I started because I needed a place to slow down and step away from performance and hustle culture. It’s an invitation to just be — with yourself, your thoughts, your body, and whatever is moving inside of you, even when it’s messy or unfinished. Most episodes are voice notes or conversations recorded while walking, talking, or sitting around a table. No lessons to extract, no answers to find. Just staying with the process and letting things move. Recorded mostly in English, sometimes in French. Nothing is fixed. Everything evolves.

  1. EP077: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #7) - Silence Doesn’t Always Mean Rejection

    13h ago

    EP077: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #7) - Silence Doesn’t Always Mean Rejection

    For most of my life, I interpreted silence as rejection. If someone didn't call, text, respond, initiate, or seem interested, I assumed it meant something about me. That I wasn't enough. That I wasn't interesting enough. That I hadn't done enough. In this episode, I reflect on where that belief came from and how it shaped the way I showed up in my relationships. For years, I felt responsible for keeping connections alive. I was the initiator, the fixer, the one making sure the relationship kept moving. But lately, I'm learning something different. Sometimes silence is information. It tells you where people are. It tells you what they value. It tells you what capacity they have. And sometimes silence is protection. Not every closed door is a punishment. Not every absence is rejection. Not every silence is about you. This one is about relationships, trust, boundaries, and learning to let people reveal themselves without rushing in to fill the gap.

    26 min
  2. EP076: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #6) - I Don't Need To Fill Every Silence

    1d ago

    EP076: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #6) - I Don't Need To Fill Every Silence

    For most of my life, I interpreted silence as rejection. If someone didn't call, text, respond, initiate, or seem interested, I assumed it meant something about me. That I wasn't enough. That I wasn't interesting enough. That I hadn't done enough. In this episode, I reflect on where that belief came from and how it shaped the way I showed up in my relationships. For years, I felt responsible for keeping connections alive. I was the initiator, the fixer, the one making sure the relationship kept moving. But lately, I'm learning something different. Sometimes silence is information. It tells you where people are. It tells you what they value. It tells you what capacity they have. And sometimes silence is protection. Not every closed door is a punishment. Not every absence is rejection. Not every silence is about you. This one is about relationships, trust, boundaries, and learning to let people reveal themselves without rushing in to fill the gap.

    23 min
  3. EP075: 35:Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #5) - Cringe Is Part Of The Process

    2d ago

    EP075: 35:Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #5) - Cringe Is Part Of The Process

    For a long time, feeling cringe was a sign that I should stop. Stop posting. Stop sharing. Stop showing up. Stop being seen. But lately, I'm learning that cringe is often just the feeling of doing something before it feels natural. In this episode, I reflect on my journey with social media, visibility, and learning in public. Because the truth is, most things feel awkward before they feel embodied. Most things feel uncomfortable before they feel natural. And if we disappear every time we feel cringe, we never give ourselves the chance to grow into the person we're becoming. This one is about staying visible, staying curious, and realizing that cringe is often just the sound of practice.

    19 min
  4. EP074: 35 Things I'm Learning at 35 (Lesson #4) - Pressure Made Me Productive. Safety Makes Me Honest

    3d ago

    EP074: 35 Things I'm Learning at 35 (Lesson #4) - Pressure Made Me Productive. Safety Makes Me Honest

    For most of my life, I believed pressure was a good thing. Pressure made me work harder. Pressure made me achieve. Pressure made me productive. And to be fair, it worked. It helped me build businesses, create projects, push through challenges, and accomplish things I’m proud of. But it also came with a cost. Stress. Exhaustion. Performance. Constantly feeling like I had something to prove. In this episode, I reflect on where that pressure came from, how it shaped my life, and why I'm consciously choosing a different way forward. A way built on safety, honesty, and trust instead of urgency and pressure. Because lately, I'm realizing something: When I feel safe, I tell the truth. When I feel safe, I listen to myself. When I feel safe, I build things that actually feel like mine. This one is about letting go of the belief that pressure is the only path to success, and learning to create a life that doesn't require me to sacrifice myself to build it.

    22 min
  5. EP073: 35 Things I'm Learning at 35 (Lesson #3) - Being Good At Something Isn’t Reason To Keep Doing It

    4d ago

    EP073: 35 Things I'm Learning at 35 (Lesson #3) - Being Good At Something Isn’t Reason To Keep Doing It

    35 Things I'm Learning at 35 — Lesson #3 For most of my life, I assumed that if I was good at something, I should keep doing it. It sounds logical. But lately, I'm learning that competence and alignment are not the same thing. In this episode, I reflect on the Playground experiment and the decision to cancel it, even after people had signed up. From the outside, it looked like it was working. Inside, my body was telling a different story. Stress. Anxiety. Sleepless nights. A constant feeling of pushing instead of creating. The more I listened, the more I realized that I wasn't excited. I was operating from familiarity. From an old version of myself. From patterns that had worked before. This one is about learning the difference between fear and misalignment, between capability and desire, and giving yourself permission to walk away from something you're good at if it no longer feels true. Because sometimes the bravest thing isn't continuing. It's choosing something different.

    19 min
  6. EP072: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #2) - Being Needed Isn’t The Same As Being Loved

    5d ago

    EP072: 35 Things I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #2) - Being Needed Isn’t The Same As Being Loved

    35 Things I'm Learning at 35 — Lesson #2 For a long time, I believed that being loved meant being needed. If I could help, fix, support, carry, solve, advise, or be useful somehow, then I felt valuable. Then I felt chosen. But lately, I've been realizing that this way of loving came with a cost: overextending myself, overgiving, and making my worth dependent on what I could provide. In this episode, I reflect on where that belief came from, how it has shaped my friendships and relationships, and what I'm slowly learning instead. I also share a conversation I had with my mom that reminded me that sometimes the most valuable thing we can offer isn't advice or solutions. Sometimes it's simply our presence. This one is about love, usefulness, listening, and learning that you don't have to earn your place in people's lives.

    16 min
  7. EP071: 35 Thins I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #1) - About Confusing Worth With Effort

    6d ago

    EP071: 35 Thins I'm Unlearning at 35 (Lesson #1) - About Confusing Worth With Effort

    35 Things I'm Learning at 35 — Lesson #1 In this episode, I reflect on something that has been showing up in different areas of my life: the feeling that what I do is never quite enough. I share two recent examples — one from my portrait series and one from a friendship — that helped me see how often I confuse my worth with my effort, and love with usefulness. The more I sat with it, the more I realised how exhausting that pattern is. Always pushing. Always proving. Always trying to earn rest, validation, or belonging. This one is about enoughness. About listening when your body tells you to slow down. And about the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you've already done enough.

    23 min
  8. EP070: About Staying Purposefully In Discomfort & What You Learn From It

    May 27

    EP070: About Staying Purposefully In Discomfort & What You Learn From It

    In this episode, I reflect on discomfort — and how staying in it might actually be the thing that helps us grow the most. Lately, with content creation and showing up online, I’ve noticed that the more I stop trying to control everything, the more natural and true my voice becomes. It’s uncomfortable. It’s awkward. Sometimes it feels cringe. But I also realized that when I stay in that discomfort instead of escaping it, something deeper comes out. Something more honest, more embodied, less stuck in my head. This one is about discomfort, creativity, control, and why maybe we quit too fast when things stop feeling comfortable.

    24 min
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Ça Bouge is a podcast I started because I needed a place to slow down and step away from performance and hustle culture. It’s an invitation to just be — with yourself, your thoughts, your body, and whatever is moving inside of you, even when it’s messy or unfinished. Most episodes are voice notes or conversations recorded while walking, talking, or sitting around a table. No lessons to extract, no answers to find. Just staying with the process and letting things move. Recorded mostly in English, sometimes in French. Nothing is fixed. Everything evolves.

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