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Overnight Wisdom
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 HerTech
Connect: chisomudeze.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/
Episodes
58 episodes
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 8: The Invention of Race
In Chapter 8 of the series, Chisom turns to the secular machinery that took over the work, science, and the lie it was used to build, the invention of race. The claim is that power took the authority of science and manufactured race, to give an...
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Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 7: Christianity Was a Weapon of Conquest
In Chapter 7 of the series, Chisom turns to the institution that blessed all of it, the church. The claim is that Christianity was not incidental to white terrorism but its moral machinery and a material instrument of conquest, the appar...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 6: Slavery Never Ended
In Chapter 6 of the series, Chisom turns to the Black American experience itself and argues that it is not a closed chapter of history but the longest-running case of white terrorism on earth. The claim is that slavery in America never en...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood
In Chapter 5 of the series, Chisom turns to what the operating system does when it compounds. The claim is that compounding is multiplicative, not additive: when rac!sm meets patriarchy meets ant!-Blackness, the result is not the sum of three h...
One Year In — A Reflection on Lessons Learned from Hosting Overnight Wisdom Podcast.
One year of Overnight Wisdom. Whew!On May 28th, 2026, my podcast turned one. One year of conversations, solo reflections, tech issues, learning in public, and occasionally wondering why I added one more thing to my already full l...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 4: Racism as the Operating System.
In episode 4 of the series, Chisom turns to the operating system that white terrorism built: racism. The chapter opens with the precise distinction between racial prejudice and racism: prejudice is what individuals carry, racism is what happens...
On Our Shared Humanity, Leadership, & System’s Change — Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED
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 ...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure
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 chapt...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 2: From Bodies to Borders.
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. ...
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 1: Language Change
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, ...
Designing for Survival: Business, Babies, and What Keeps Us Human with Lexi Montee Busch
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, lead...
The Men Who Drug Their Wives
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 kn...
Imposter syndrome is not a syndrome. It’s internalised systemic failure.
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 pat...
Radical Justice with Nani Jansen Reventlow
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, Chiso...
Patriarchy and The Women Who Keep It Alive: A Colonial and African Lens
Patriarchy doesn’t just survive because men enforce it. It survives because women uphold it too—not out of cruelty, but because the system made survival depend on compliance. In this episode, Chisom traces the root cause of patriarchy (a...
How to Do Meaningful Work Without Losing Yourself with Attia Taylor
How do you do meaningful work… without disappearing in it?This week on Overnight Wisdom, Chisom speaks with Attia Taylor, founder of Womanly Magazine, musician, artist, and health advocate, about what it means t...
The Manosphere Is a Business Model — Radicalization for Profit.
Chisom reviews Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere and diagnoses what it missed — and what it got right. Using her Three Clarities Framework, she talks about the missed opportunity in that the documentary did not nam...
Gender Equality Is Designed For Some White Women
It’s Women’s History Month, and most of what we call “gender equality” was never designed for all women. In this episode, Chisom uses the Three Clarities Framework to diagnose who gender equality actually serves, who it erases, and why su...
Why Working Harder Isn’t Working: The Three Clarities You Actually Need
In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom Udeze reflects on the questions many women and leaders are asking right now: What does it really take to progress? How do you build a company without burning out? And how do you stay gr...
Do Less. Lead Better. The Identity Shift That Changed Everything with Cecilia Flatum
What happens when the strategy that made you successful… stops working?In this episode, I sit down with Cecilia — CEO of Deloitte Norway — for a necessary conversation about leadership under pressure, identity clarity, and the dangerous...
How to Take Off the Mask and Lead Like Yourself with Thorey Proppe
Have you become someone you don’t recognize?Maybe leadership has made you harsh. Aggressive. Detached.Maybe you’ve learned how power works in spaces that weren’t designed for you—and the game changed you.Maybe you’re exhauste...
Money Is Power: The Wealth Habits That Make You Rich with Ken and Mary Okoroafor
In this conversation, Ken and Mary Okoroafor unpack what it really means to build wealth — from mindset to habits to legacy. Having achieved financial independence by age 34, the couple reflects not just on the how, but on the who<...
Disrupting Porn with Sex: Cindy Gallop on Identity, Power, and Sexual Agency
In this bold and radically honest episode, Chisom Udeze sits down with legendary brand innovator and sextech entrepreneur Cindy Gallop, founder of Make Love Not Porn. Together, they explore themes of identity clarity, leaders...
Who Are You Without the Title? Leadership, Identity, and Clarity with Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir
In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom Udeze sits down with Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, the former Mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland’s former Minister of the Interior, Chair of Women Political Leaders, and the founder and Chair ...
The One Clarity You Can’t Lead Without
After a decade of working with leaders globally, Chisom kept seeing the same pattern: capable people failing in predictable ways. Not because they lacked skills or strategies — but because they lacked Identity Clarity.In this solo ep...