On Your Mic

Collins Victory Odabi
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On Your Mic is a conversation-driven podcast about ideas, perspectives, and real-world thinking across tech, business, culture, and personal growth.

  1. Oct 19

    Writing Isn't Just Reflection — It's a Tool for Behavioral Change | Venchele Saint Dic

    Communication is something we practice every day, but that doesn't mean we're good at it. Misunderstandings, unspoken expectations, and assumptions quietly shape our relationships and how we see ourselves — often without us realizing it. Venchele Saint Dic is a public health writer and editor, author, writing coach, and founder of MESFAMI Care Inc. Through her work in public health communication, community engagement, and personal development, she explores how intentional communication and writing can help people build self-awareness and healthier relationships. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Venchele to explore how communication shapes leadership and relationships, how cultural background influences how we interpret each other, why resilience is built through small everyday decisions, and how writing surfaces patterns ordinary conversation often misses. What You'll Learn • Communicating something and being understood are two different things. Venchele's work in Senegal with the Peace Corps taught her that even a well-designed program backed by solid research can fail if the community wasn't genuinely involved in shaping it — the same principle, she argues, applies directly to leadership. Cultural upbringing shapes what counts as honest communication, and mismatched expectations cause real misunderstanding. Venchele contrasts cultures that value directness as honesty against those that prioritize harmony through indirect communication — neither is wrong, but assuming your own default is universal creates friction. • A simple diagnostic question helps separate what you know from what you're assuming: "Is my reaction based on what's happening now, or something I've experienced before?" Venchele uses this to interrupt the instinct to read silence as rejection or disagreement as disrespect before actually checking with the other person. • Resilience often looks like small, unglamorous decisions rather than dramatic comebacks. Venchele points to recognizing when to rest instead of pushing through, adjusting expectations when circumstances shift, and distinguishing genuine perseverance from simply overextending yourself. • Awareness alone doesn't create lasting change — sustained change needs supportive conditions around it. Venchele warns that insight without practice, and environments that reinforce old patterns, can leave people stuck even after years of therapy; real change requires practicing new responses and being intentional about who you surround yourself with. About Venchele Saint Dic Venchele Saint Dic is a public health writer and editor, author, writing coach, and founder of MESFAMI Care Inc., helping people use intentional communication and writing for self-awareness and personal growth. 🌐 pathwaycoachwriting.com 🔗 LinkedIn: Venchele Saint Dic 📚 https://a.co/d/08JQ3F6c Timestamps [0:04] Introduction and episode framing [4:10] What public health and community work reveal about effective communication [9:02] How culture and personal experience shape miscommunication [14:53] The everyday habits and decisions that build real resilience [18:36] What writing reveals that conversation and private reflection don't [22:27] Turning self-awareness into lasting behavioral change Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

    Writing Isn't Just Reflection — It's a Tool for Behavioral Change | Venchele Saint Dic

  2. Oct 18

    Why Myths About Female Sexuality Persist, and What They Cost Everyone | Natasha Senjanovic

    Most people assume what they were taught about sex and the body was scientifically sound. Yet the correct anatomy of the clitoris was not formally proven until 2005, which points to a longer history of narratives about female sexuality being shaped largely by men and absorbed as settled fact. Natasha Senjanovic's reporting background is in gender violence, which taught her how sexuality, inequity and misinformation are intertwined. Her podcast, Women Like Sex, examines the social, medical and scientific myths that have long passed as facts. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Natasha to explore how these myths began and persisted, what they have cost people's understanding of their own bodies and relationships, and how to dismantle them without shame. What You'll Learn Sexual violence and sexual myths are connected. Natasha argues that the idea that boys and men are biologically hypersexual works as an alibi for predatory behaviour. She notes it is a recent story in Western history, since earlier thinkers cast women as the hypersexual sex. Anatomy was ignored, not unknowable. Dr Helen O'Connell published her findings in 1998 and needed imaging technology to prove them in 2005. Natasha adds that Victorian repression and Freud stalled earlier knowledge, and that anatomists were long barred from dissecting women's bodies. Power sets the definitions. Natasha calls it playground politics: those who make the rules use themselves as the measuring stick and cast everyone else as less. Each myth raises the question of who benefits from not knowing. The consequences are personal as well as global. Many women conclude they are broken when the problem is the messaging. Defining sex around intercourse also leaves people afraid to ask for more, and Natasha questions the term "foreplay". Change takes evidence, humour and early honesty. Natasha calls for evidence-based, trauma-informed education, correct anatomy taught without shame, and consent grounded in moral clarity. She notes that young children already understand they cannot take someone else's bicycle. About Natasha Senjanovic Award-winning public radio reporter and producer with a background in gender violence reporting. She hosts Women Like Sex and runs the production company Flipped Script. 🌐 womenlikesex.com Timestamps [0:06] Introduction [3:11] From gender violence reporting to Women Like Sex [11:04] Why the clitoris was not mapped until 2005 [18:58] The real consequences of these myths [30:43] Dismantling myths without shaming people [36:21] Final thoughts: talk to one another [38:34] Consent and moral clarity Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

  3. Oct 9

    Why B2B Ad Platforms Are Designed to Drain Your Budget: Cycle-Based Marketing | Steve Robinson

    Many B2B companies show up to market only once a buyer is already deciding, chasing intent signals and bidding on searches on platforms structurally built to make them spend more to achieve less. They call it strategy, but it is really competing for attention at the most expensive possible moment against every other company doing the same thing. Steve Robinson is co-founder and CEO of Part3, a self-service B2B advertising platform built to give companies back control of their ads without handing it to agencies or the platforms themselves. He developed cycle-based marketing, a methodology built on the idea that real marketing happens long before a buyer expresses intent, and that brands waiting for intent signals have already lost the positioning battle. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Steve to unpack the dark patterns hidden inside ad platforms, why chasing attribution misleads B2B marketers, and what it actually takes to get a brand into the room before the buying decision begins. What You'll Learn Ad platforms profit when you overspend, and some defaults work against you. Steve points to the "audience network" checkbox on LinkedIn and Meta, ticked by default, which turns a social ad into a web banner shown heavily to bots. Unchecking it, he says, has consistently raised real return on investment in his testing, even when traffic drops. Attribution works for impulse purchases, not most B2B sales. B2B deals usually involve several stakeholders, and tight attribution only tracks the individuals who happen to click and convert. Steve argues this pushes marketers to cut early-funnel brand-building spend they cannot directly tie to revenue, starving the activity that actually builds trust. Chasing intent means arriving after the table is already set. Steve calls this the intent illusion: by the time a buyer searches, they have usually already been shaped by competitors with stronger brand presence. Cycle-based marketing starts with a clear picture of your audience and a clear, differentiated position in the market. The Orbit Framework treats your brand as a gravitational body. The goal is pulling potential customers into orbit through genuinely unique perspectives and points of view, not generic AI-generated content, then landing them with a compelling, timely offer once they are in orbit. Build a strong position first, then create pull. Steve recommends lead magnets such as challenges, communities or free tools rather than gated white papers, which he says no longer work in 2026. Positioning without strong differentiation, he notes, tends to make companies dependent on relationships rather than scalable through marketing. About Steve Robinson Steve Robinson is co-founder and CEO of Part3, a self-service B2B advertising platform, and the creator of cycle-based marketing and the Orbit Framework. He has spent 15 years building and testing this contrarian approach to B2B advertising. 🌐 part3.media 💼 LinkedIn: Steve Robinson Timestamps [0:05] Introduction and episode framing [3:23] The dark patterns hidden inside ad platforms [7:22] Why attribution misleads most B2B companies [11:33] What cycle-based marketing asks brands to do differently [16:12] Staying visible as AI floods every channel with content [19:39] Where to start: positioning, lead magnets and nurture [23:08] Final thoughts Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic

  4. Oct 9

    Dissension: A Crime Novel 37 Years in the Making, on Trust, Loyalty, and Betrayal | Rodney Phillips

    Some ideas disappear before we lose interest in them. Others survive for decades, waiting for the right moment to be revisited. Rodney Phillips started writing Dissension when he was 19, and the manuscript sat untouched in a filing cabinet for 37 years before he returned to it as an empty nester and finally published it at 56. Dissension follows two rival cartels and explores how a single disagreement can expose deeper fractures of loyalty, betrayal, ambition and trust. The book raises a question that reaches beyond fiction: how much can change when a conflict that initially seems small is allowed to grow. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Rodney to explore what kept the story alive for 37 years, how he rebuilt it with decades of life experience, and what writing these characters taught him about trust, loyalty and communication. What You'll Learn A good backbone can survive decades. Rodney typed his handwritten teenage manuscript into a Word document, word for word, before revising it. The original story and its twists held up, and his adult leadership and life experience let him deepen the characters and storyline around that same core. Trust takes years to build and seconds to break. In Dissension, broken trust spirals once it starts, fuelled by assumption and poor communication rather than one single event. Rodney says people often take years to build trust but only minutes to shatter it through lying or deception. Blind loyalty and ambition drive opposite kinds of disloyalty. Rodney built the two rival cartels around different dynamics: one shows subordinates following a leader without question, the other shows ambition convincing someone that bending their loyalty is justified by what they stand to gain. Real characters start with more than a physical description. Rodney built detailed profiles for each character covering their reactions, habits and flaws, then tried to write from inside each one. The exercise reinforced two lessons he now sees everywhere: the difference between hearing and truly listening, and the cost of not communicating. Treat a creative goal like an appointment. Rodney's advice to aspiring authors is to make writing a genuine priority and schedule dedicated time for it, since work left to spare moments rarely gets finished. He uses the same approach for the sequel he is now writing. About Rodney Phillips Rodney Phillips is the author of Dissension, a crime fiction novel exploring trust, loyalty and betrayal through rival cartels, begun when he was 19 and published at 56. He is currently writing a sequel. 🌐 rodneyphilipsauthor.com https://www.amazon.com/Dissension-Disagreement-that-Leads-Discord/dp/B0FNW29M3Y/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZSJ3WAK17MW6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._mdj-xwX-fq1vVDizcaCGYJbPmaprTj3KW7jF2VWkjo.LzfUys5J8-RRoR5AxSB_oyfbElBKf65TM6maX_1XrGE&dib_tag=se&keywords=dissension+rodney+phillips&qid=1790197623&sprefix=dissension%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1 Timestamps [0:04] Introduction and episode framing [3:05] Returning to the manuscript after 37 years [6:03] How trust breaks down and spirals into conflict [8:25] Loyalty, betrayal and ambition in the story [11:15] What writing the characters taught him about listening [17:46] Final thoughts: treat your goals like appointments Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

  5. Oct 9

    Breaking the Silence: Why Men Hide Trauma and How the BRICK Method Rebuilds |Ronald "Zion Roseboro

    Many men learn early that silence is safer than disclosure, that performing strength is more acceptable than admitting damage. Most get very good at it, until the performance collapses or what was filed away starts showing up in every relationship and decision they make. Ronald "Zion Roseboro was released from the U.S. prison system in 2004. In the two decades since, he built a coaching practice, earned a master's in human services counselling focused on crisis response and trauma, developed the BRICK methodology for rebuilding after loss, and is now launching the Samson Restored movement, a community for honest, shame-free conversation among men. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Zion to explore what silence actually protects, what becoming his own first client cost him, and what the BRICK method and the Samson Restored community ask of the men who join them. What You'll Learn Silence functions as a kind of emotional arrest. Zion describes an unspoken Miranda law men live under, the right to remain silent about what they carry. That silence, paired with shame, becomes a strange safe place and eventually a prison of its own. Trust in other men is often the hardest barrier. Zion says many men trust women more readily because they are seen as less judgemental, often because their first model of masculinity, an absent or emotionally unavailable father figure, never earned that trust. Breaking that pattern meant getting past his own pride first. Healing is unpacking, not adding on. The BRICK method treats life's blows as both the weight men carry and the material they rebuild with. Zion compares suppressed pain to a backpack of broken pieces, and says men are conditioned to carry it alone rather than let a team help unpack it. Feeling worse can be part of getting better. Trauma fragments the soul gradually, Zion says, so repairing it takes time too. He names connection and love, offered without conditions, as what holds the pieces together, and urges men to expect the process to be uncomfortable before it is anything else. Community does something one-on-one coaching cannot. Samson Restored is built around shared experience rather than individual attention alone, giving men a nonjudgemental space to be seen, heard and held accountable by others further along the same road. About Ronald "Zion Roseboro Ronald Zion Roseboro is a trauma coach, author and the creator of the BRICK methodology for rebuilding after loss. He founded the Samson Restored movement to give men a shame-free space for honest conversation, drawing on his own journey since his release from prison in 2004. 🌐 theshamefreelife.com (free ebook, one-on-one coaching, and Samson Restored sign-up) Timestamps [0:05] Introduction and episode framing [4:04] What silence is protecting [7:53] Becoming his own first client [14:30] The BRICK methodology explained [22:34] What happens in the middle of real healing [28:48] Why Samson Restored is built as a community [33:01] What's waiting on the other side of the decision [38:05] Final thoughts Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

  6. Oct 8

    Hourly Billing Is Unethical: Value Pricing, Fewer Clients and Partnership Marketing | Robin Waite

    Most business advice says to get more clients, post consistently and scale revenue. Few founders stop to ask whether the model they are building produces the outcomes they wanted when they started. Robin Waite has spent two decades arguing that much of this advice points the wrong way. He ran a marketing agency for 12 years serving over 250 clients, and he built a £250,000 coaching practice in 2023 and 2024 with no marketing beyond a single podcast interview that generated 3,000 leads. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Robin to explore why hourly billing fails, how to build the confidence to charge more, why fewer clients make a better business, and how partnerships can replace social media. What You'll Learn Hourly billing punishes competence. Robin compares three web designers: one pads hours, one is penalised for speed, and one sells a guaranteed outcome. Clients want results, not time, and value pricing starts there. Charge more by selling packages and raising prices gradually. Robin's golf coach example turns eight £50 lessons into a £400 package, then raises the price for each new group of clients. Most resistance comes from a negative money story and fear of rejection. Fewer clients make a better business. A garden shed business pivoted to garden rooms, earning about 50 per cent more profit in half the time. The owners missed the daily reward of selling a shed, which Robin says is why many founders prefer being busy to being profitable. Partnerships outperform social media. Robin dropped social media in 2023 and followed five steps: be intentional, meet people in person, add value, befriend their team and make introductions. One podcast delivered 3,000 leads, and he now spends two to three hours a week on partnerships instead of 30 to 40. Examine the model before scaling it. Sunk cost makes founders keep investing in models that are not working. Scaling a flawed model only scales the lack of profit and leads to burnout. About Robin WaiteFounder of Fearless Business, bestselling author and coach with 22 years in business. He ran a marketing agency for 12 years and earlier spent four years as a systems analyst. 📘 fearless.biz/TYS Timestamps[0:05] Introduction[2:36] Why hourly billing is unethical[7:56] Building the confidence to charge more[14:28] What a business with fewer high-value clients looks like[20:50] How to build a practice without social media[31:04] What to do instead of social media[34:47] The first structural change when your model is not working[39:05] Final thoughts Connect with CollinsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

  7. Oct 8

    Where Finance, Defence and Geopolitics Collide: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty | Michael Wellman

    Finance, military power, geopolitics and business are often discussed as separate worlds. In practice, capital crosses borders, supply chains span rivals, and a geopolitical decision can reshape a commercial environment almost overnight. Michael Wellman began his investment banking career at Citibank in 1973 after serving as an Army officer, and worked across New York, London, Tokyo and Buenos Aires. Since 2008 he has focused on acquisitions in aerospace and defence. He has now brought that experience into fiction with In the Jaws of the Dragon, a novel about a future Sino-Japanese war. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Michael to explore how financial and strategic interests intersect, how decision makers assess risk with incomplete information, and what decades of experience bring to imagining a major conflict. What You'll Learn In Japan, government and industry were inseparable. Michael describes the large industrial groupings as almost a de facto proxy army. Meetings with senior government officials helped him anticipate economic policy, and so where banking would go. Defence acquisitions are shaped by regulation. Customers are manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and scrutiny rises towards the military end. You cannot sell critical defence software to China or Russia, and even a simple spacer goes into a highly sensitive system. Economic pressure can drive military action. The novel's thesis is that a collapsing debt market and unfinished tower blocks fuel unrest, so leaders seek an external threat to unify the population. Michael compares this to Weimar Germany and the pursuit of resources. Geopolitical risk is harder to model than commercial risk. A bank can usually obtain the data for a financial model, but political decisions require getting inside the minds of other players. Intelligence is always suspect, so success comes from combining sources to spot a trend and making a bet. Technical authenticity must not bore the reader. Michael drew on his love of maritime affairs, military discipline, friends in the intelligence community and research. He includes the equipment without dwelling on specifications such as the F-35's bomb bay. About Michael WellmanFormer US Army officer and international investment banker whose career spans Citibank, capital markets and M&A in New York, London, Tokyo and Buenos Aires. He has focused on aerospace and defence acquisitions since 2008 and is the author of the novel In the Jaws of the Dragon. 📚 In the Jaws of the Dragon, available on Amazon Timestamps[0:05] Introduction[3:02] What Tokyo taught about geopolitics and business[8:10] Aerospace and defence acquisitions versus commercial deals[12:31] How economic pressure drives military action[18:24] Telling real threats from unreliable information[23:29] Drawing on military and banking experience for the novel[30:18] Final thoughts Connect with CollinsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

  8. Oct 8

    Why Your Business Cannot Outgrow You: Leadership, Mindset and Burnout for Founders | Maggie Perotin

    Most entrepreneurs respond to business struggles by adding more: courses, frameworks, funnels and advice. Yet many businesses fail not for lack of information but because the person leading them lacks the internal structure to carry growth. Maggie Perotin holds an Executive MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute and spent more than 14 years in corporate leadership, much of it in male-dominated technical environments. Born and raised in Poland, she immigrated to Canada alone, went through burnout and rebuilt her career as a coach to service-based entrepreneurs. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Maggie to explore why strategy cannot fix a leadership problem, what breaks first when a business grows, and how founders can move from overworked operator to intentional CEO. What You'll Learn Strategy amplifies whatever already exists in the leader. Maggie's principle is that your business cannot outgrow you. Results come from decisions, and decisions come from perspective, emotional regulation and skill. Founders reach for the next funnel because looking inward can hurt the ego. Mindset breaks before execution does. A strategy is still theory until it is implemented, and Maggie compares it to a scientist refining a formula. Results can take a hundred attempts, and founders often start doubting themselves or blaming the economy instead of refining execution. Leadership begins with clarity. For Maggie, leading a growing business starts with knowing where you are going. The conversation adds that you must lead yourself before you can lead others, since internal capacity decides whether leadership skills show up consistently. Burnout is a misalignment, not just a workload problem. The episode frames it as an identity unable to support the responsibility it carries, so rest alone is rarely enough. Lasting recovery means changing how decisions are made and boundaries enforced. Dream. Plan. Do. closes the gap between intention and action. Maggie's premise is that clarity without execution is noise, and execution without identity alignment leads to burnout. About Maggie PerotinLeadership and business coach and founder of Stairway to Leadership, helping service-based entrepreneurs build stable, high-performance businesses. She holds an Executive MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute and created the Dream. Plan. Do. coaching framework. Timestamps[0:04] Introduction[3:11] Why entrepreneurs confuse more strategy with more success[7:01] What breaks first: mindset, execution or strategy[10:24] Leadership as an operating system[11:17] Clarity, self-leadership and the real causes of burnout[20:31] How Dream. Plan. Do. changes decision-making Connect with CollinsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

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    Collins Victory Odabi
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    152
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