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It all started with a trip. Three friends showed up, and what began that day became the blueprint for a life-giving friendship five years later.

In this episode, Angella sits down with two of her closest friends, Dorcus Nakachwa and Margaret Odero, to reflect on the friendship they’ve nurtured over the past five years. The spontaneous trip unexpectedly bonded the three women to be each other’s anchors through heartbreaks, career struggles, and life transitions. The group talks about the intentionality, accountability, and safe space that keep their friendship alive across countries and time zones.

The group shares stories of supporting one another, learning together (including how money and investing became a group conversation), and how the qualities of your friends ultimately shape the kind of person you become. This is a raw, honest, and joy-filled conversation about the beauty of women’s friendships, the work it takes to sustain them, and why they can become a blueprint for love, trust, and growth in every area of life.

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Reverse Culture Shock: Coming Home After 10 Years Away

What happens when home doesn’t quite feel like home anymore?

In this episode, Angella sits down with Njoki Mburu, a Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni from University of British Columbia, to explore the complex realities of reverse culture shock after more than 10 years abroad. Njoki shares why she chose to return to Kenya, craving wholeness, family, and a sense of belonging, and the joys of rediscovering home, from familiar food to speaking her language again.

But the return hasn’t been easy. From friendships lost to building new ones from scratch, navigating political tensions on the ground, being treated differently because of her accent, and redefining her sense of purpose and rest, Njoki opens up about both the challenges and the healing of coming back.

This is an honest and heartfelt conversation about belonging, identity, and what it truly means to come home after years away.

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In this episode, Angella sits down with Sabelo Dube, a Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni from Ashesi University, to have a raw and much-needed conversation about mental health from the perspective of an African man.

Sabelo shares his deeply personal journey with depression, which led him to leave university and return home to Zimbabwe before he was later clinically diagnosed. We talk about the challenges of navigating mental health in environments where stigma is high, the silence men are often conditioned to keep, and why bottling things up can be devastating.

Through his story, Sabelo highlights the power of therapy, the importance of daily self-check-ins, and why male friendships need to go beyond surface-level connections. His message is clear: men must talk, open up, and support each other if we’re going to break the stigma around mental health.

This is an honest, courageous, and eye-opening conversation that sheds light on what it means to take care of yourself as a man, especially in the African context.

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