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. 8H AGO

    TED's CEO On Our Shared Humanity, Leadership, & System’s Change — Logan McClure Davda

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits down with Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED, for a layered conversation on leadership, systems change, joy, motherhood, power, and what it means to remain human while building institutions that shape the world. Logan reflects on her path from mission-driven work in East Africa, to Palantir, the Obama Foundation, and eventually back to TED, where she now leads one of the world’s most influential platforms for ideas. Together, they explore what systems change actually requires, why real impact is rarely the work of one heroic individual, and how ideas travel differently when they are held in community. The conversation moves through the responsibility of platforming difficult perspectives, the need for nuance in a polarized world, the role of TED in climate and democracy work, and the challenge of building spaces where disagreement does not become dehumanization. Chisom and Logan also speak candidly about motherhood, caregiving, joy as resistance, privilege in birth, AI, imposter syndrome, and the discipline of staying grounded when the world feels overwhelming. At its core, this is a conversation about clarity, complexity, and responsibility. What does it mean to lead without losing your humanity? How do we build for the future when we may never sit under the shade of the trees we plant? And how do we keep choosing connection in a world that keeps rewarding division? Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    1h 45m

  2. 4D AGO

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 3 of the series, Chisom turns to the present tense. Settler colonialism is not a phase that European empires went through and emerged from. It is a structure that continues to operate, on every populated continent, in 2026. The chapter opens by naming the three forms of white terrorism’s modern operation: extractive colonialism, plantation slavery, named briefly and flagged for a future chapter; and settler colonialism, the focus of the rest of the episode.  Chisom walks through three live cases chosen to show the structure operating across its full register. Greenland under Denmark, where the Spiral Case is delivering individual compensation in 2026 while the colonial relationship continues, shows what the structure does to bodies. Indigenous nations in the United States, where the Doctrine of Discovery still operates in property law and where Indigenous women are murdered at more than ten times the national average, shows what the structure does to land and to law. Palestine, where the July 2024 ICJ ruling has been ignored, where the UN concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genoc!de in Gaza, and where settler violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank reached unprecedented levels in 2025, shows what the structure does to both at once.  Chisom weaves the Doctrine of Discovery through the chapter as one variant of a global legal pattern of fictions that empty the land, alongside terra nullius in Australia, the Absentee Property Law in Israel, and state-land doctrines in the Nordics. She names directly that white terrorism, in the historical sense, is a system built by specific European institutions across specific centuries, now operated by multiple actors including the UAE, China, Russia, and corrupt African leaders, none of whom are the architects, all of whom are profiting from the architecture. She locates herself, as a Nigerian Black woman living in a country occupying Sami land. She closes with three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    36 min

  3. MAY 13

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 2: From Bodies to Borders.

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Part 2 of a series, Chisom traces the long history of white terrorism in Africa as one continuous story rather than a list of incidents. Twelve and a half million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic between 1501 and 1866. Roughly 1.8 million died during the Middle Passage itself. The trade built Europe. Then it ended, between 1807 in Britain and 1888 in Brazil, and Europe pivoted. From taking Africans, to taking Africa.  From bodies, to borders. The Berlin Conference of November 1884, attended by fourteen Western powers and no Africans, formalized the rules for the territorial conquest of an entire continent in thirty-four years. Chisom walks through what Berlin produced: the Congo Free State and its eight to ten million dead, the Herero and Nama genocide and its direct documented institutional line to the Holocaust through the German anthropologist Eugen Fischer, British concentration camps in Mau Mau Kenya, the French settler colony of Algeria, and apartheid South Africa.  She handles the predictable critiques head-on, including the African kingdoms that participated in the slave trade and the post-independence African leaders who looted their own people. She implicates everyone, including the African leaders who continue to betray their people, and the African educational systems that still teach versions of history shaped for colonial purposes.  She closes with the receipts. The cobalt powering the device you are listening on. French uranium extracted from Niger. The British Museum still holding nine hundred looted Benin Bronzes. Climate displacement falling hardest on the continent that caused it least. Three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth. Africa is not a charity case. Africa is a creditor.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    41 min

  4. MAY 6

    Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 1: Language Change

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Part 1 of a series, Chisom challenges the term “white supremacy” and proposes a language change: it is white terrorism. She traces the term to its 1824 origins, maps the papal bulls that gave genocide divine authority between 1452 and 1493, and shows how the Doctrine of Discovery is still embedded in U.S. and international law.  Using her Three Clarities Framework, Chisom reveals how white terrorism interlocks with patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, and religion to create what bell hooks called “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” She handles the academic objections directly, addressing why “terrorism” rather than “racial capitalism” or “settler colonialism,” and acknowledges the lineage of Black freedom thinkers from Du Bois to Bell Hooks who used “white supremacy” descriptively for the system. She closes with the present. In April 2025, France acknowledged the injustice of Haiti’s independence debt and stopped short of reparations. Acknowledgment without restitution is the modern face of white terrorism. The crime is named. The wealth stays. Words shape reality. Let’s stop calling it supremacy. It’s terrorism. Part II - May 13. Overnight Wisdom is a weekly podcast, with new episodes every Wednesday. Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    28 min

  5. APR 29

    Designing for Survival: Business, Babies, and What Keeps Us Human with Lexi Montee Busch

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. This is a conversation about what it means to build something that meets people at one of the most vulnerable thresholds of life. In this episode, I sit down with Lexi Montée of Happiest Baby for a layered conversation on parenting, leadership, product, loss, resilience, and the moral weight of innovation. We talk about SNOO, the science backed smart sleeper designed to support infant sleep and safety, but this conversation goes far beyond babies and bassinets. We explore what it takes to build a company around a real human need, the difference between luxury and accessibility, the emotional complexity of early parenthood, and why care should not be treated as a private burden. Lexi shares what it means to work inside a family founded business, lead through ambiguity, navigate systems level change, and hold both commercial viability and moral consequence at the same time. We also talk about loss, rebuilding after the Los Angeles fires, motherhood, imposter syndrome, resilience, and the strange, beautiful work of becoming more human while building something that matters.  Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    1h 48m

  6. APR 22

    The Men Who Drug Their Wives

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In March 2026, a CNN investigation exposed a global network of men teaching each other how to drug and assault their wives and partners. This episode examines what the investigation uncovered, why this keeps happening, and what women need to know. We discuss the infrastructure enabling this violence — from pornographic platforms hosting thousands of “sleep” videos to Telegram groups where men trade advice on dosages and detection avoidance. We hear from three survivors who discovered their husbands had been drugging and assaulting them for years. But this isn’t just about individual perpetrators. This episode maps the systems that make this possible: platforms that profit from illegal content, police who dismiss survivors, laws that fail to protect women at home, and a culture that still treats women’s bodies as accessible to their husbands. We also address what needs to change — at the platform level, in law enforcement, in legal systems, and in how we raise the next generation. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of drug-facilitated sexual assault and violence against women. Resources: US National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673 or RAINN.orgInternational directories: UN Women, The Pixel ProjectSupport the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    29 min

  7. APR 15

    Imposter syndrome is not a syndrome. It’s internalised systemic failure.

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.  In this episode, Chisom challenges the concept of ‘imposter syndrome’ and argues it’s not a personal failing — it’s internalised systemic failure. Using her Three Clarities Framework, she traces the origins of the term, exposes how it pathologizes individuals instead of diagnosing racist and sexist systems, and provides nine diagnostic questions to help you see clearly that you’re not broken. The system is. This episode is diagnostic. Grab a pen, and do the work. This episode gives you the language and tools to stop fixing yourself and start addressing the structures that make you doubt your own competence. Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    33 min

  8. APR 8

    Radical Justice with Nani Jansen Reventlow

    We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. What does radical justice actually require of us? Not just systems change. Not just representation. But a willingness to interrogate everything — including ourselves. In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits down with Nani Jansen Reventlow — human rights lawyer, founder of Systemic Justice, and author of Radical Justice — to unpack the realities of building change from within and what it means to pursue justice at the root. From being the only person of colour shaping digital rights in Europe… to building Systemic Justice as a “movements law firm”… to confronting the limits of working within systems designed to exclude. We talk about the uncomfortable truths: – Why diversity without structural change is harm – How injustice doesn’t stay “out there” — it shows up in our own work – The hidden cost of leadership, especially as a Black woman – And the clarity it takes to know when to build, stay, or walk away This is not a conversation about performative change. It’s about doing the deeper, harder work — even when it costs you. If you’ve ever felt the tension between who you are and the systems you operate in… this one will stay with you.   Support the show ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations released on Sundays.  Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/

    1h 12m
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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
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Overnight Wisdom
  • Show Website
    Overnight Wisdom

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