30 episodes
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast Mutondwa
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- Society & Culture
I've been told my whole life that I'm a little blunt, not sharp, blunt. I simply lack the finesse required for sharpness. Maybe it's because I'm a Sagittarius or the fact that I am a sensitive bitch, nonetheless my mind is both a scary and enlightened place, sometimes my mind is kind to me, sometimes it hates me. I sometimes like it here, I sometimes don't, and the older I get the more I'm fucking okay with that. I don't have all the answers, nor do I claim to (well to be fair sometimes I really do have the answers, I just don't like them). I'm on a learning, discovering, and enlightenment journey. I have questions, many questions, for life and the experiences it encompasses. Something I say a lot is the expression "that makes no sense" and usually it slips, sometimes I scream it out, sometimes under my breath when I come to the realization that there is a bigger picture. That many of the things we are raised to believe make sense really don't. I love love these moments because it means I've been given a chance to learn, listen, and grow from someone's story, experiences, and existence. In these moments my mind got bigger, my capacity for understanding and knowledge expounded and my empathy beamed. So this podcast will simply be me asking a lot of questions, talking, and learning about whatever I want. So come along! You may agree or you may disagree BUT just remember life is full of glitter and glue and we ebb and we flow!
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The Final Episode: Ending the Podcast, Starting Anew and Walking In The Flow of My Purpose
Saying goodbye is never an easy thing, and saying goodbye to something that was created by my own hands, for my own survival and growth is even more difficult. But it's time to let go and move on to newer and better things. This will be the last episode of the Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast. In this episode, I explain why I've decided to close this chapter, what's coming next (Yes, I am not done with podcasting yet), and where my mindset is in 2022. A huge thank you to all my guests (Natale, Ndamu, Tshima, Manzi, Wendy, Mo & Kemi) for making this podcast pleasurable, authentic and so enlightening, and insightful. Thank you for your stories, your wisdom, your inspirations, and your intellect. Thank you to Sarah, for being my first fan, for believing in this podcast, and for your constant feedback and support. Thank you to me, Mutondwa Murendeni Nemurangoni, for leaping and biting fear, anxiety, and the chatter of what will people say. Thank you to me for being willing to be vulnerable about the things and thoughts that scare & haunt me, about my dreams and aspirations, and my journey towards self. I'm so proud of you Mutondwa, you did well. Last but certainly not least, thank you to my 988 downloaders (I checked today), thank you for giving me your ear and compassion, thank you for spending your valuable time with me and my guests, and thank you for your support, it means the world.
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Ep. #29| Booktober Series: The Book That Saved My Life Ft Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's the start of the booktober series! This October I'll be sharing some of the life lessons that literature and words have imparted upon me. Books are my safe space, they make sense to me in a world that so often makes little sense. They bring me moments of quiet, reflection, and questioning. Books are my safe space, the cheapest and arguably the healthiest form of "escapism" out there. Books speak to me, they open small windows of insights inside my mind, which then seeps into my soul. I'm grateful to books, I'm also deeply indebted to books. In this episode, I'll be sharing some of the lessons I've learned from Eat Pray Love. To say this book saved my life would be a complete understatement, it was a devastating, enlightening, and simultaneously chaotic read. It challenged my beliefs, made me accountable for my own life, and answered questions about prayer, God, and spirituality at a time when questions were all I had. There is a reason its a best-seller and was turned into a movie (Lol still haven't watched the movie, probably never will)
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Ep. #28|Lessons I've Learned From My Favorite Books Ft 12 Rules For Life By Jordan B Peterson
It's the start of the booktober series! This October I'll be sharing some of the life lessons that literature and words have imparted upon me. Books are my safe space, they make sense to me in a world that so often makes little sense. They bring me moments of quiet, reflection, and questioning. Books are my safe space, the cheapest and arguably the healthiest form of "escapism" out there. Books speak to me, they open small windows of insights inside my mind, which then seeps into my soul. I'm grateful to books, I'm also deeply indebted to books. In this episode, I'll be sharing some of the lessons I've learned from Dr Jordan B Peterson's best-seller 12 Rules For Life. This book is untamed in its brilliance and unashamedly affecting in its dissection of our world.
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Ep. #27|Ft Kemelo “Kemi” Sehlapelo: Reconstructing a Sexual Identity After Sexual Assault, Navigating Self-Healing Amidst Echoes of Stigma
As a woman, perhaps my biggest fear is having something sexual or violent been done to my body without my consent, on the backdrops of the #metoo movement, the continuous degradation and disregard for women's bodies and rights running rampant throughout a plethora of legal systems, South Africa's very real and scary femicide in the form of gender-based violence, sexual violence, and murder; a clear message is being sent to women, and it's not one of protection, freedom, safety, accountability, and liberation. Sex is sometimes not sexy, in this episode I sit down with Kemelo “Kemi” Sehlapelo and discuss her journey of navigating the muddy waters of reconstructing a sexual identity after sexual assault and how she has channeled self-healing & self-efficacy amidst the echoes of societal imposed stigma, shame, guilt. She comes in blunt, honest, and very real.
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Ep. #26| Sexy September Sex Series Ft Wendy Weng: Between Two Worlds, Growing Up In A Traditional Conservative Chinese Family In The US
Growing up between two worlds with clear-cut and distinguishable differences in values, cultural norms and expectations can be a jarring game of navigation and simultaneous assimilation. This is true for this week's guest Wendy Weng, who was born to traditional conservative Chinese parents and raised in the U.S. The values she learned at home and the ones found within the society she was living in couldn't have been more day and night. This theme and clash would continue throughout her life as she navigated puberty, her sexuality and ultimately becoming a woman. In this episode, she talks about her experiences growing up as an Asian girl in the US and then later on returning back to Beijing, China. She shares about how the "sex talk" went down in the Weng household and how she feels navigating the world in her body and skin. Let's talk about sexy things!
PS: We have a lot of inside jokes 😂😎😅
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Ep. #25| Sexy September Sex Series Ft Mo (Queen Cunnilinga) Part 2: Sexual Liberation & Understanding Dialogue Nuance Within Sex Positivity
There is something powerful, beautiful, and scary about finding more of who you are as life progresses and all the pieces collected over time start to make sense. One key area of human identity; one that can cause contention both within us and outside of us, lies within our sexual identity. For women, black women, women with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals this can be an extremely difficult journey towards sexual discovery and freedom. In this episode, I sat down to talk to Mo, aka Queen Cunnilinga, a young South African queer woman who is discovering and exploring her sexuality through her own gaze, however, being constantly confronted by the unavoidable gaze of society and the backdrops of her environment. In Part two of our two-part conversations (check out last week's episode if you haven't yet), we talk about sexual freedom, the desire to be liberated in one's sexuality without it always being a statement or form of activism but rather as a natural part of human existence. Mo brings light to the nuances and complexities necessary for a holistic sex-positivity conversation. Let's get physical!
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