Season 4 Podcast
Episodes
Season 4 officially launched
Welcome to the Leadership in Africa Redefined Podcast, where insightful conversations unfold under the expert guidance of your host, Taaka Awori.
In Season 4, we are focusing on “Leadership from Within,” inviting inspiring guests to share their personal journeys of doing the deep, inner work required to lead effectively. Alongside these powerful stories, our signature “Nuts and Bolts” episodes return to give you practical, actionable ways to turn leadership theory into everyday practice.
Joining Taaka for this season’s masterclass sessions are the brilliant Gillian Hammah and our newest co-host, Daniel Pobee.
S4 Epi 4: The Power of the Pause in Leadership
In this episode of Leadership in Africa Redefined, we explore The Power of the Pause in Leadership and what it means to lead from within.
At the heart of the conversation is a simple but powerful idea: you don’t have to respond to everything immediately. Sometimes, creating space between what you feel and what you do is where your leadership becomes most intentional.
S4 Epi 3: Is Your Ego in the Driving Seat?
In this episode of Leadership in Africa Redefined, Taaka Awori sits down with Daniel Pobee, a seasoned leadership development practitioner, to unpack one of the most persistent forces shaping leadership from the inside: the ego. This isn’t about vilifying the ego, a healthy ego gives you the confidence to lead boldly. This episode is about what happens when it goes unchecked. Daniel and Taaka draw on real stories from boardrooms, workshops, and leadership teams across the continent. They close with practical ways to check your own ego, protect the truth-tellers on your team, and navigate a boss whose ego is the one in the driving seat.
S4 Epi 2: The Stories We Tell: How They Shape the Way We Lead (with Xoli Fuyani)
In Episode 2 of Leadership in Africa Redefined Season 4, host Taaka Awori speaks with Xoli Fuyani, founder and Executive Director of Black Girls Rising, a youth-led movement working at the intersection of climate justice, gender, and leadership across Africa. Together, they explore how the stories we tell ourselves about worthiness, strength, success, and emotion shape our leadership, and what becomes possible when we start telling new stories. Because sometimes the story that needs changing isn’t the one happening around you. It’s the one happening within you.
S4 Epi 1: Am I Enough? Reclaiming Your Worth (Taaka Awori & Dr. Gillian Hammah)
In this first episode of Leadership in Africa Redefined Podcast Season 4, host Taaka Awori and Dr. Gillian Hammah explore how feelings of “not enough” impact leadership.
They discuss how worthiness becomes conditioned by family, culture, gender, race, leading leaders to tie their value to external markers like titles, productivity, achievements.
Through relatable examples, they highlight patterns such as perfectionism, micromanagement, and unhealthy comparison.
The episode concludes with practical strategies to help leaders lead from a place of unconditional self-worth.