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Overnight Wisdom
Are you performing leadership or actually leading?
Overnight Wisdom is a podcast for leaders exhausted from shapeshifting — from becoming who they think their board wants, their team needs, who their family expects or the system rewards.
Hosted by Chisom Udeze, economist, leadership strategist, and creator of the Three Clarities Framework, each episode features honest conversations with founders, CEOs, artists, and changemakers who stopped performing and discovered who they actually are as leaders.
Each week, Chisom sits down with founders, CEOs, artists, and change-makers who stopped shapeshifting and discovered who they actually are as leaders — of their work, their lives, and themselves.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to recognise when you’re performing instead of leading
- What Identity Clarity looks like (and how to develop it)
- What becomes possible when you anchor your leadership in who you actually are — not who you think you should be.
These are conversations about the deeper work of knowing yourself — so you can stop pretending and start leading. We get honest about the work that makes leadership work — whether you’re leading a team, a company, or your own life.
Thanks for being here.
New episodes every Wednesday.
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
50 episodes
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 ...
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Stop Calling It Supremacy: It’s Terrorism - Part 1
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...
Focus Your Power. Silence the Noise with Kubbra Sait.
Kubbra Sait on Identity, Power & Writing Yourself WholeWhat happens when you stop contorting yourself to fit into the world—and instead begin to build a life that fits you?In this deeply honest conversation, actor and a...
Overnight Wisdom, Year One: The Reflection Episode
In this episode, Chisom reflects on the journey of creating Overnight Wisdom — a podcast that began as an experiment in curiosity and connection and evolved into a global platform for truth-telling, wisdom, and courageous storytelling....
Networks, Rituals, Artifacts, and Language: Culture as a Living System with Jonathan Akwue
In this conversation, Chisom speaks with Jonathan Akwue about legacy, leadership, creative capital, and the business of culture. From his serendipitous family origin story to leading one of the most culturally influential agencies...
Why Most Goals Fail — And How the Three Clarities Framework™ Can Fix That
In this solo episode, Chisom Udeze shares a powerful extension of her leadership framework — The Three Clarities™: Identity Clarity, Context Clarity, and Power Clarity. After over a decade of working with leaders and organizations acro...
The Three Clarities Every Leader Needs to Build Trust, Direction, and Power
In this one of a kind solo episode, Chisom Udeze breaks down a decade’s worth of research and lived experience into one of the most important frameworks for modern leadership: the three clarities every leader needs — identity clarity, contex...
Values Driven Leadership: How to Lead Through Fear, Resistance and Power with Dr. Poornima Luthra
In this powerful, emotionally honest and matter of fact episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom Udeze is joined by the brilliant Dr. Poornima Luthra — educator, acclaimed author, and thought leader on inclusive leadership — for a deep ...
Aligned Leadership: The Work Behind the Role with Astrid Sundberg
In this heartfelt and unfiltered conversation, Chisom Udeze sits down with Astrid Sundberg, Executive Director of Operation Smile Norway to explore the evolution of leadership, from corporate ambition to mission-drive...
Recognizably You: The Power of Authentic Leadership with Thandi Dyani
In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom Udeze is joined by Danish-South African ecosystem builder and leadership strategist, Thandi Dyani, to explore the evolving nature of leadership in a world shaped by disruption, cultura...