Confessions of a Lover Girl

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Salem

32 episodes

1 day ago

staying tender hearted in a love-less era.

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staying tender hearted in a love-less era.

Personal Journals

Society & Culture

Episodes (20/32)

Confessions of a Lover Girl

A brief love note for the love sick

Some comforting words for hearts that are feeling a bit bruised by love. You are not difficult to love, and love is always rooting for you!

1 year ago

2 minutes 23 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

What is love anyway?

Sometimes love feels like a choice, a process, an inevitability. It is elusive and undefinable, but its very clear when it is present. In this episode I explore a few things I find challenging and invigorating about trying to define love itself.

1 year ago

13 minutes

Confessions of a Lover Girl

The re-brand

Introducing the podcast formerly known as "Stories and Philosophies." Sharing where I've been since the last time we talked and why I'm pivoting into talking about love.

1 year ago

11 minutes 6 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

One time for the self-resourced women entrepreneurs

To round out Women’s history month I talk about the details of what it feels like to dive into full time entrepreneurship again & I take a moment to celebrate the other self resourced women entrepreneurs. Here are a few things I’ve learned 2 years in!

3 years ago

13 minutes 10 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Even paradise has gas leaks

In this episode Salem explores what happens when you've created an almost perfect bubble of care for yourself and still life happens.

3 years ago

17 minutes 4 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

SOMETIMES GIRL SURVIVING. NOT EVERYDAY GIRL BOSSING: 2O22 IS A NEW DISPENSATION.

HI friends, Salem is back with your favorite story telling podcast. Lets talk about letting ourselves off the hook a bit this year. Because whew Chile, its year 3 of a pandemic. Happy 2/22/22!

3 years ago

19 minutes 24 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Let’s talk about how to uncouple from friends & lovers without losing your mind

Season 3 is all about our relationship to change. In this episode I dive into a few experiences I’ve had to uncouple with friends and lovers. How I’ve learnt to manage my own energy around shifting relationships and bounce back from the fragility that can come from ending relationships. Enjoy!

4 years ago

10 minutes 58 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Hello from my big ass bed in Calabar, Nigeria

In this first episode of season 3 I talk about Nigeria as one of my home bases. The philosophy of the episode is centered around the wisdom to be found in exploring versions of ourselves we have consistently identified with for long periods of time and making space for them.

4 years ago

10 minutes 59 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

26 & hella confident

Here I share the journey to feeling confident. Doing the work for me in the space between my 25th and 26th year looked like being intention about building my own confidence compass.

4 years ago

11 minutes 1 second

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Special birthday episode: Bringing in year 26 on an African beach

Coming to you live from an ACTUAL West African Beach!! I was feeling so magical as I brought in my birthday and had to pull out my phone to capture the vibes 💞

4 years ago

5 minutes 25 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Hibernating in West Africa

So I’ve been hibernating in West Africa, here’s the real reason why.

5 years ago

7 minutes 38 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

How Salem got her joy back

In the previous episode I talked about sadness as a state of being. In this one I’m sharing some key things that have helped me move through my sadness. And into a state of more expansive joy. This is for anyone moving through difficult and heavy emotions. I see you!

5 years ago

16 minutes 7 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

From hot girl summer to sad girl summer

In this episode I talk about how to hold grief and creating new baselines for our emotional selves when life shifts happen

5 years ago

10 minutes 9 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

African Nomad diaries

Here I share a mashup of my top favorite travel sensations from the 7 African Nations I’ve been to.

5 years ago

25 minutes 15 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Storytelling motives: Tiese tells stories for her future self

In this episode I sit with my friend, travel writer extraordinaire, podcaster, and the only other person I know in the West who grew up in my hometown about storytelling. We have a kitchen table conversation about our motivations for writing, archiving, storytelling.

5 years ago

11 minutes 40 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Q & A with my mom, the legendary Dr. Uduak Afangideh

I have my mom on the studio today. We talk about mother/daughter tings, parenting fails, and what we enjoy about each other. Enjoy loves

5 years ago

19 minutes 44 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

24: do some heaux shit, build community, love the inner child.

This is a seasonal October episode that serves as a year in review of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt in a particular year. 24 began with a reminder to not just intellectualize and conceptualize my ideas around pleasure, but to work them out in real life in an embodied way. I have also been challenged to build deeper community where I feel seen and supported.. and to pay attention to my inner child. Here are my stories and philosophies.

6 years ago

17 minutes 12 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

I am a displaced person: on home, community, place making and displacement.

In this episode I dive deeper into the realization of being a displaced person, explain the insidious nature of displacement and mental and emotional turmoil of feeling unsettled in where one calls home.

6 years ago

7 minutes 48 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

What is Interiority & why does it matter to me

Exploring the theme of season 2 and why investing in our interior world is important.

6 years ago

11 minutes 47 seconds

Confessions of a Lover Girl

Season 2 Preview

Hi humans. Thank you so much to everyone who listened in for season 1. This is a little preview of what I have waiting for you in season 2 of the stories and Philosophies podcast. Season 2 coming to you in July!!

6 years ago

2 minutes 43 seconds