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
Disrupting Porn with Sex: Cindy Gallop on Identity, Power, and Sexual Agency
Who Are You Without the Title? Leadership, Identity, and Clarity with Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir
The One Clarity You Can’t Lead Without
Focus Your Power. Silence the Noise with Kubbra Sait.
Overnight Wisdom, Year One: The Reflection Episode
Networks, Rituals, Artifacts, and Language: Culture as a Living System with Jonathan Akwue
Why Most Goals Fail — And How the Three Clarities Framework™ Can Fix That
The Three Clarities Every Leader Needs to Build Trust, Direction, and Power
Values Driven Leadership: How to Lead Through Fear, Resistance and Power with Dr. Poornima Luthra
Aligned Leadership: The Work Behind the Role with Astrid Sundberg
Recognizably You: The Power of Authentic Leadership with Thandi Dyani
Fear Is a Companion, Not a Stop Sign with Chisom
Hope is a Strategy: Radical Responsibility as Courage with Sayantani Saha
Unboxable: On Art, Permission and Joy with Shruti Ganguly
Beauty Is Political: The Untold Cost of Survival with Dr. Yaba Blay
This Is What Failure Taught Me with Chisom
Produce. Protect. Restore. Reduce with Wanjira Mathai
God Will Provide? How Religion Is Failing Nigerian Politics with Prince Mbanefo
The Price of Integrity: Duty, Accountability and a Million-Dollar “No” with Dayo Okusami
How to Be Brave in a Burning World with Sayantani Saha
African Awakening: Why Decolonizing the Mind Is Africa’s Greatest Revolution with DJ Bwakali
Hip Hopera: The Art of Audacity and Breaking Boundaries with Babatunde Akinboboye
Music as Medicine: On Grief, Purpose, and Connection with Lujang De’Nyangos
Echoes of Becoming: Art, Boundaries, and Emotional Freedom with Thaïs Sala
Savoring Heritage: the Rise of Zimbabwean Cuisine with Chef Kudakwashe Makoni