ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
For the dreamers who left home. Explore the joys and hidden tragedies of coming of age again as a Black immigrant in a foreign land.
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Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
30 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
18 episodes
since May 23, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Money requests don’t stop just because you got on a plane. In fact, they usually get louder. We sit down with Derrick Oigiagbe, Head of Product Security at Netflix Games, to talk frankly about black tax, firstborn pressure, and the art of giving without burning out. Derrick opens up about growing u…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What does it take to build a life that holds both where you’re from and who you’re becoming? We sit with writer and public health professional Nkem Akinsoto — known to early 2010s readers as romance author Myne Whitman — to unpack identity, love, and the joy of soft living across continents. From k…
What if the boldest move isn't leaving, but choosing to build where others see only exits? We sit down with McKinsey Partner and thought leader, Kemi Onabanjo-Joseph, to explore conviction, career, and community as the real engines of a meaningful life in Nigeria.Kemi's journey pivots on …
What if belonging isn't something you prove but something you live? We sit down with Kehinde Winful — attorney, novelist, and proud Nigerian-American — to unpack the messy middle between two homes and two careers. From getting placed in ESL for saying three like tree, to facing men who demand …
Reinvention isn’t a branding trick, it’s how you keep your center when the ground keeps moving.
On this episode, I sit down with Tayo Rockson, a third culture kid turned behavioral scientist, TEDx speaker, and author, to unpack the real work of belonging across continents. We get honest about the …
The dream of moving abroad promises freedom and fresh starts, but what about the quiet loneliness after the boxes are unpacked? We sit down with psychotherapist and coach Gbemi Adekoya — former tailor, proud "pivot queen", and zero-gen immigrant — to talk candidly about the fine print of …
A near-firing. A hard truth over steak. And a choice to stop playing small. Bayo "Lion" Adediji, CEO of Wakanow.com, nightlife entrepreneur, and former Amazon senior leader, joins us for a raw, kinetic conversation about going from accent anxiety and a PIP in corporate America to leading …
Everyone leaves home for different reasons.
Nobody tells you what comes after.
Season 2 of Zero Generation explores the lives Black immigrants build after the leap — the pressure, the pivots, the laughter, the longing, and the courage it takes to redefine success on your own terms.
Through intimate…
How is it that we’re already at the end of a full season of the Zero Generation podcast? The time’s gone by so fast! When I looked back on everything I’ve learned and talked about, I came to one major realization: the Zero Generation podcast isn’t over yet. I thought it would only take a season to …
Segun Adeyina was always the kind of person to be heavily involved with his community, so it was natural to him that when he moved from Nigeria to the United States, he would find a way to connect and engage with the Nigerian diaspora. However, even he didn’t think that he would go from being a mig…
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