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Overnight Wisdom

Overnight Wisdom

Chisom 56 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

Overnight Wisdom is a show where Chisom Udeze, an award-winning economist and business leader, engages in deep and reflective conversations about leadership, business growth, and societal challenges. The podcast explores topics like purpose, power, identity, and resilience through solo episodes or interviews with global change-makers. It offers personal stories, research-based insights, and practical strategies for leading with courage and building a meaningful life. New solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest conversations on Sundays.

Episodes

Leadership is Political | Part 4: Stop Surviving. Start Building Power.
Leadership is Political | Part 4: Stop Surviving. Start Building Power. Aug 19, 2026 834 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.What happens when we become exceptionally good at naming harm, but remain largely powerless to stop it?In this episode, Chisom moves the conversation beyond resilience, recovery, and even systems change, towards something we often seem uncomfortable naming: power.Because care after harm matters. Healing, and represen
Leadership is Political | Part 3: The White Man Archetype
Leadership is Political | Part 3: The White Man Archetype Aug 12, 2026 1547 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In this episode, Chisom looks at the archetype most workplaces are designed for. The same behaviour, ambition, directness, dissent, refusal to conform, is coded differently depending on who performs it. One person’s vision is another person’s attitude problem, and the line between the two follows race, gender, class,
Leadership is Political | Part 2: The Values Gap
Leadership is Political | Part 2: The Values Gap Aug 5, 2026 2037 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. Most organisations have values. Most of those values do not survive contact with pressure. When budgets tighten, when the market shifts, when someone powerful is challenged, the stated commitments to inclusion, openness, and psychological safety tend to collapse quietly, and the people who trusted them are left hold
Leadership is Political | Part 1: What People Recover From
Leadership is Political | Part 1: What People Recover From Jul 29, 2026 1598 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. People carry the cost of poor leadership long after the work is done: self-doubt, burnout, diminished confidence, the slow work of rebuilding trust in their own judgment. We call it personal struggle. It is not. It is the uncounted cost of a system that measures leadership by what it achieves and never by what it le
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 12: The Accurate Name
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 12: The Accurate Name Jul 22, 2026 2275 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 12, the final episode of this part of the series, Chisom returns to Chapter 1 and settles the word. She traces white supremacy to a defeated colonist of Saint-Domingue who in 1802 called it an axiom while the enslaved were beating France, and to the indemnity France then imposed on Haiti, paid for a hundre
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 11: Your Reckoning With The Machine
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 11: Your Reckoning With The Machine Jul 15, 2026 2387 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 11 of the series, Chisom turns the diagnosis onto the reader and refuses the question they arrive with. “What can I do to fix this?” is a trap, because its only honest answer is that you cannot, and the despair is what the structure needs. She replaces it with the question that cannot be escaped, “what am
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 10: The Colonial Hangover
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 10: The Colonial Hangover Jul 8, 2026 1834 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 10 of the series, Chisom turns to coloniality, the empire that stayed behind after the empire left, the quietest form of the machine and the one that leaves no graves because it no longer needs them. Colonialism was the occupation, the flag and the date it ended. Coloniality is what did not end, the rankin
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 9: The Border & The Last Clause of Colonialism
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 9: The Border & The Last Clause of Colonialism Jul 1, 2026 1301 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Episode 9 of the series, Chisom turns to the border, and to the passport as the last clause of the colonial contract. It opens on a boat that left Sfax for Lampedusa in January 2026, on the twin girls about a year old who died of cold within sight of Europe, and refuses to call them a tragedy, because the water di
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 8: The Invention of Race
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 8: The Invention of Race Jun 24, 2026 2163 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 8 of the series, Chisom turns to the secular machinery that took over the work, science, and the lie it was used to build, the invention of race. The claim is that power took the authority of science and manufactured race, to give an ancient hierarchy the one disguise almost impossible to argue with, the l
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 7: Christianity Was a Weapon of Conquest
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 7: Christianity Was a Weapon of Conquest Jun 17, 2026 2312 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 7 of the series, Chisom turns to the institution that blessed all of it, the church. The claim is that Christianity was not incidental to white terrorism but its moral machinery and a material instrument of conquest, the apparatus that turned terror into salvation so the people carrying it out believed the
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 6: Slavery Never Ended
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 6: Slavery Never Ended Jun 10, 2026 2326 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. In Chapter 6 of the series, Chisom turns to the Black American experience itself and argues that it is not a closed chapter of history but the longest-running case of white terrorism on earth. The claim is that slavery in America never ended, it changed clothes, renaming itself in every generation while the line of
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood
Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood Jun 3, 2026 2282 We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions.In Chapter 5 of the series, Chisom turns to what the operating system does when it compounds. The claim is that compounding is multiplicative, not additive: when rac!sm meets patriarchy meets ant!-Blackness, the result is not the sum of three harms but a third condition that neither rac!sm nor patriarchy alone becaus

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