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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/
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We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 surface-level representation without structural change is just performance. She breaks down how mainstream feminism centered white women’s access to power without dismantling t...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 grounded in who you are while navigating systems that weren’t designed for you? Drawing on her Three Clarities framework — Identity, Context, and Power, Chisom unpacks the strategic re...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 myth that more effort always equals better results. When geopolitical instability shook the market, Cecilia responded the way many high performers do: more action, more campaigns,...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 exhausted from wearing a mask, performing the version of yourself you think will succeed. This episode will help you take it off. Thorey Proppe is CEO and founder of Alda, a workplace culture platfo...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 they had to become to get there. What began as a blog evolved into a full-fledged movement rooted in identity clarity and radical, countercultural decisions. The Humble Penny was born fr...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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, leadership, power, sexual agency, and culture change — all through the lens of someone who refuses to play by outdated rules. Cindy shares how her tagline “I like to blow shit up” isn’t just branding...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 of the Reykjavík Global Forum — to reflect on a leadership journey that was never planned, but deeply purposeful. With honesty, humor, and hard-won insight, Hanna speaks about what it means ...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 episode, Chisom introduces the sharpened 2026 focus of Overnight Wisdom and explains why Identity Clarity is the one clarity you can’t lead without. What you’ll learn: What Identity Clar...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Kubbra Sait on Identity, Power & Writing Yourself Whole What 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 author Kubbra Sait joins Chisom to reflect on her journey toward identity clarity—from surviving childhood trauma to leaving corporate life and stepping into her power as a storyteller. Together...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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. Since launching on May 28th 2025, Chisom has released 30 consecutive weekly episodes, interviewing an extraordinary lineup of artists, activists, entrepreneurs, educators, and leader...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 in the world, Jonathan shares the personal and professional threads that shaped his journey. He opens with a serendipitous account of how his Swiss mother met his Nigerian father in Londo...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 across the world, she reveals why most goals fail — not for lack of ambition, but for lack of clarity. Using real-life scenarios, including what it means to launch a product-based company...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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, context clarity, and power clarity. With honesty and precision, Chisom challenges the myths of performative leadership and highlights the hidden costs of unclear leadership — eroded t...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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 and necessary conversation about what it really takes to lead with values in an uncertain world. Together, they unpack what most leadership books don’t: the fear, the resistance, t...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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-driven impact. Astrid brings over 30 years of experience across scale-ups, start-ups, and global organizations. Together, they unpack what it means to lead with clarity, humility, and emotional honest...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. 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, cultural complexity, and systemic change. Together, they unpack: Why great leadership isn’t a title or destination, but a practice rooted in self-awareness, agility, and relational trustThe importa...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In this solo episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits with 11 questions sent in by listeners — thought provoking, and personal. Questions like: — How do you know when to start or stop? — Is there a strategy or blueprint for building a business? — How do you navigate fear, failure, and the weight of doing too much? She also reflects on happiness, leadership, power, and the quiet truths that don’t always get said alo...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. A Post-Summit Reflection with Chisom Udeze & Sayantani Saha In this raw and deeply honest episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom Udeze and Sayantani Saha sit down together—post-Diversify Summit—to unpack the emotional, financial, and logistical weight of pulling off the largest equity-focused gathering in the Nordics in a year defined by scarcity and uncertainty. With warmth, exhaustion, and truth-telling, they re...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker, writer, and creative entrepreneur whose work spans continents, cultures, and causes. In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Shruti opens up about the life-altering loss that led her from banking to film, the complexities of navigating identity across geographies, and the discipline of building a purpose-driven creative career. We explore what it means to speak truth in an industry not b...
We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In this deeply reflective and expansive conversation, Dr. Yaba Blay — cultural critic, scholar, and author — joins Chisom Udeze to explore identity, race, and beauty through the lens of lived experience, history, and consciousness. Born in New Orleans to Ghanaian parents, Dr. Blay shares how growing up between cultures shaped her worldview — never fully “of” one place but belonging to both. She reflects on what it ...
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