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Honorable members.. As we wrap up this incredible season, we're coming together for a very special End-of-Year Ask Me Anything—our way of celebrating you and reflecting on a year full of growth, laughter, and learning. In this festive finale, we're answering your questions, revisiting your favorite moments from the past year, and sharing some personal reflections from the crew on what this journey has meant to us including how PPJA came to be. All with our Christmas tree twinkling in the background!  🎄 We are deeply grateful—for the lessons learned, the experiences shared, and the amazing people who make this show possible.  A special thank you to Digimark Communications for their unwavering support in helping this show run smoothly, and to you, our fans and followers, for giving us the privilege of sharing this time and space with you. You inspire us to keep going. As we close this chapter, we wish you all rest, joy, and a safe transition into the New Year. May it be filled with peace and possibility. To our Ugandan family: Next month brings an important moment for our nation.   We gently encourage you to peacefully fulfill your civic duty for the betterment of our country. Every voice matters. Thank you for an unforgettable season. Enjoy. With love and gratitude,    The PPJA Crew     --- 📌 Episode Highlights: · Your questions answered in our AMA segment · A look back at some of our favorite show moments & topics · Reflection on why and how we started this show · Festive holiday atmosphere & coordinated looks! We have cool hats   🙏 Thank you to our supporters: Digimark Communications| Our amazing fans & followers 🔔 Subscribe and hit the bell to join us next season!    💬 Let us know in the comments: What was your favorite PPJA moment this year?   📲 Follow us on Instagram/TikTok and Twitter for updates ! #PPJA #SeasonFinale #ChristmasSpecial #AMA #EndOfYear #Reflection #Gratitude #Uganda #HolidayEpisode #Podcast #ThankYou

Honorable members We greet you all. As you all know we like to share from our lives and for the most part... We share the best of ourselves. We tell stories about challenges only after we've overcome them... In a sense, we cruise past our failures and head to lessons.. In the episode today we try to sit with failure... Define what it means for us, what it looks like and how we frame it the grand narratives of our lives. Most especially tackling the question... Can a person a human being be a failure or just fail in some endeavours? As always we'd love to hear from you... How do you deal with failure? Do you think we don't talk about it enough? Like share and subscribe as it helps the channel a lot..

Fresh from our discussion on access, this week Primah hosts the pod and has us talking.... "Shortcuts". Everyone one loves a good short cut home or life hack to get something faster in this world obsessed with speed and efficiency... However there's a contradiction at play, we also shame people for taking the easy way out - avoiding a tough conversation, leaning on a relationship or network of relationships to land a job or opportunity.  Today we try to unpack how we make this judgments and ask ourselves if there's anything wrong with taking the easy way out... Or if sometimes, the long difficult way is the point of the taking the trip. Let us know your thoughts, leave a comment, and kindly also tell us where you are watching us from. We'd like to give our global audience a shout out

Is addiction a choice or a disease? Why is there so much shame and stigma around it? In this crucial episode of Deconstructing Mental Health, we tackle the difficult questions surrounding substance use and abuse. Join Joel, Allan and their guest Dr. Innocent Acan, a medical doctor and psychiatry masters student, as she breaks down the science of addiction, challenges the myth of it being a moral failing, and explains its deep connection to mental health. This conversation is essential for anyone who has struggled personally, loves someone who is struggling, or simply wants to understand this complex issue with compassion and facts. In this episode, we discuss: • The difference between substance use, abuse, and dependency. •How stigma prevents people from seeking life-saving help. •The critical intersection of addiction and mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. •Steps and pathways to recovery for you or a loved one. Your mental health matters. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance dependency, please reach out to a licensed medical or mental health professional. You are not alone. RESOURCE FOR VIEWERS IN UGANDA: Butabika National Referral Hospital offers support and treatment.You can contact them for help and information on their support meetings. Tel - 0414504376 Website: https://www.butabikahospital.go.ug/ Heart to heart spaces: https://hearttoheartspaces.com/mental... https://hearttoheartspaces.com/mental...     • What Is Mental Health?: Nancy McWilliams     Follow Dr. Innocent Acan for more insights: @I_I_Acan on Twitter and TikTok) Subscribe to our channel and hit the bell icon (🔔) so you don't miss our next episode where we continue to deconstruct mental health, one topic at a time. ---   Disclaimer: The content in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.    #MentalHealth #Addiction #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #Psychology #Psychiatry #SubstanceUse #MentalHealthUganda #Africa #Butabika

Hey folks... Question.. How do your multiple identities—like gender, tribe, or ability—shape your access to healthcare and education? In today's episode, the guys dive into intersectionality—the concept that our overlapping identities define our lived experiences. Hosts Pumla, Primah, Joel, and Allan discuss how recognizing this in Uganda's context is crucial for building equitable policies in SRHR and other essential services from education, to employment and even social acceptance. We ask: How have your own identities affected your access to services? This episode is Sponsored by The SRHR Alliance Uganda, a consortium ensuring vulnerable young people can access friendly SRHR services and claim their rights freely, without violence. Get resources: SRHR Alliance Uganda – SRHR Alliance Uganda https://share.google/iL41neXfApKgYdJHB

Pumla throws down a challenge: name 3 cultural or societal practices we've personally outgrown or believe our community needs to rethink. From family rituals and gender roles to weddings, funerals, and money habits – nothing's off limits! In this episode, the podcast team takes turns sharing their picks, explaining why these traditions feel ripe for change and exploring the resistance holding us back.  Plus, we dive into your responses from social media! What practices do YOU think are due for a major makeover?  

Pumla throws down a challenge: name 3 cultural or societal practices we've personally outgrown or believe our community needs to rethink. From family rituals and gender roles to weddings, funerals, and money habits – nothing's off limits! In this episode, the podcast team takes turns sharing their picks, explaining why these traditions feel ripe for change and exploring the resistance holding us back. Plus, we dive into your responses from social media! What practices do YOU think are due for a major makeover? Comment below!

In the 1st of a series of conversations around mental health , we examine the Biopsychosocial approach to well being, Alternative Therapies for treating mental anguish, as well as ask whether psychology is more of an art than a science. The guest for this show is Dr Innocent Acan ( @I_I_Acan on Twitter), a medical doctor and psychology student who also happens to be a really great writer. We're grateful for her time and sorry not sorry for all the bad jokes we are both going to drop on these conversations.

This episode finds us at the honorable's home on Labor Day. We catch up on each other's well-being, enjoy some time at Mama Tejass's domicile, and do a mental health check-in. We speak about what we've learned about trauma, about how we navigate the work of healing so we don't bleed on others, and take a quick test using Nancy McWilliams' 10 signs of mental health. If you or someone you love is struggling, please contact someone. Your mental health journey is not something to be ashamed of…it's just a reflection of experiences and environment. There is always hope.    And if you feel like you're alright, check in with yourself and others to see how they're doing. You won't regret it. We'd like to hear from you…How has your healing journey been? What tools have you used and want to share with us I want to give special thanks to Lamera Bakery (@lameraug on Instagram and Lamerabakery on Facebook) for the lovely cookies and cakes. Links -Nancy McWilliams: What is mental health?    • What Is Mental Health?: Nancy McWilliams   -​​A summarized list of the ten signs :https://chhs.source.colostate.edu/10-... Liminal on choosing your hard: https://www.buridansridge.com/p/choos...  

Karl Marx called religion the soul in soulless conditions. It's our expressiom of the almighty... And that expression matters as it either liberates all or causes us to look to the world to come instead of the world we're in The disembodied voice of Allan hosts two old friends who were once church boys, Reverend Captain Gideon and some guy called Joel, to a special debate that has a prodigal and a pastor asking each other what it means to be Christian today Does belief actually make us fail to do what God wants which is to love people and this world and bring justice? Why do we pray about what we ought to be acting on? Does believing in God as symbolic and not literal give anyone true hope? You know.... Light work. 😊 We aren't aiming to fully answer these questions but to rather raise them so you can engage with them We want to hear your answers and questions too. #christianity #Whatthetheory #hegel #Theology

In this episode, PPJ dives into the realities of adulting - is it really a scam, or are we just making poor choices? We share unprepared moments, broke stories, and debate whether adulting is as hard as people let on, or are we just romanticising childhood too much? Share your experiences and thoughts in the comment section below.

Season 2 is here, and we intended to talk about change,ge but instead,d we showed how we process changes in this episode. Joel talks about turning 40 and how they say life starts at 40 because you realize just how short life is and that life happens as you plan. Pumla shares how she navigates friendships and relationships and how she determines when it's time to change, e and Primah gets a revelation about the way she affects people.    Oh, and Allan throws some elderly advice in the wise unseen voice. Welcome back to PPJ, guys Do share some of the things you've made it a point to change this year, how you have noticed you or your relationships have changed and how you choose between accepting things and acting on the hope that we can change our lives, our country, our very being. Do leave a link or comment so we know what resonates with you. Happy 2025

It's the last episode of the year, and Primah had us examining not only what the year has been like, how the show has grown and how what we planned kids have learned and continue to learn about Privilege.   Note : Tell us your favorite PPJ segment, moment or episode from the year   From us to you.. Happy Holidays and if you are in the giving mood...please consider donating to some good causes like;   Yambi community outreach who support young girls in Uganda with reusable pads - https://yambicommunityoutreach.org/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaao1tO9GnIRgPf0pwBfyPKGBnnvmaPIR3byqGE8gRUauJ-3V9Do7Vr5o8Y_aem_GPQRzd6SMbYHaAhytj6-9A Raremark Foundation who aim to improve the lives of people affected by Sickle Cell - https://raremarkfoundation.org/ And lastly .... visit https://www.digimarkug.com/  for all your video audio production and comms deals. They make us look good!!!

Sex!! Now that we got your attention... Pumla is the chair today and she's called us to talk intimacy, talk about healthy attachment, and the great separateness yet longing for connection to feel whole that we call love. Love that force that binds without chaining you, that lifts without emptying you...  That we call God. Oh and we talk about lube!!!   Written by J

This episode we talk about becoming super famous you guys!!! Oh Gosh, how are we going to deal with fame ?!;-) No, but thank you for making us one of the most trending podcasts in the country. We value you spending time with us as we use the show as an excuse to just hang out….

Primah is finally hosting us, dia. We talked about  the theory of attachment from psychology, how the experiences and homes we grew up in may linger in how we express and receive love, as well as some of the benefits and limits of this theory Find and take a test if you so dare here : https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/

They say you can't change the past. Wrong!! You can. In a way, by reframing and contextualising it, we can learn from it, change how we relate to it and lead to different outcomes today In this special edition, Pumla takes the reins and asks us to speak to our past selves about everything from career to faith.

It's been forever since we got to chat and well, the homework was to discuss collectivism vs individualism..along the way we touch on class, capital and even why money is such an issue in marriage and relationships.  For those interested in the bit on climate change..please read https://libguides.depaul.edu/c.php?g=253564&p=1690283 We cannot keep our heads in the sand just because the action needed is going to be collective

We finally have MERCH!!! The lovely ladies over at "Can We Talk 256 "came over to talk about how they started their platform to foster more intimate, meaningful conversations between people . With their help, we will be launching our own "What the Theory" line of Can we Talk cards this week with 75 philosophy-based questions to help you inject a little dialectics into your relationships. We used the cards during the interview and the things we learned !! Oh Boy. You can find the cards and information about the physical meet-up sessions organized by them at https://www.canwetalk256.com/ and the cards are available for order from the website, their Instagram handle and at Bold in Africa, Book point - Village Mall , Gift fairing - Kansanga, Kardamon & Coffee and Mahiri Books

Ask someone about their purpose and they may say some combination of "To live my best life" or to achieve happiness. The Declaration of Independence of the United States, the hegemony of ruling ideology, might capture this well in the line " the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" ... Today's episode will take a thesis, antitheses, and synthesis approach to examine this idea, critiquing it using Pshcialanlys sand then finding some space for synthesis. Also, it wouldn't be Easter if we didn't mention Grace. at the end works cited:    Todd McGowan -https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitc...   Peter Rollins-    • Grace and the Freedom from Self-Help     Slavoj Zizek- https://altexploit.files.wordpress.co...   Jacques Lacan -https://www.academia.edu/32053409/How...