x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda

The show where business meets love, and culture meets critique. We’re Aiwan and Tamanda, two Black women with 20 years each in entertainment, research, and social justice. We’re also a married couple figuring out what it means to build a life and two businesses together.We"ll talk about the realities of running a business, making creative work that matters, and navigating research with integrity.What You’ll Find:Honest conversations on entrepreneurship, research, and creativity.Unpacking the

society & culture personal journals

All Episodes

32:52

Bonus Drop: When Strategy Meets Soul | Shani Gonzales...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/06/24

We’re keeping your ears and minds warm between seasons by spotlighting the shows and creators who are moving us, challenging us, and reminding us why we do what we do.This week, Aiwan shares a pick close to her heart: an episode from The Pursuit Playbook hosted by Aprileen Alexander - a finance powerhouse, creative producer, and former gal-dem team member. Produced by AiAi Studios, the show is a masterclass in navigating corporate spaces as a Black woman. It’s giving honesty, guts, and unapologetic

en

59:46

Notes From the Margins: Unfinished Business |...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/06/17

We’re back with another Notes from the Margins - our freestyle format where we bring the ideas, tensions, and fragments we’re still sitting with.This one’s all about the stuff that didn’t feel done. The thoughts that followed us around. And the threads we couldn’t let go of.First, we return to Episode 1, and our conversation about faith and queerness as Africans. We talk about what it meant to open the podcast with that episode, what we held back at the time, and how the tension between visibility

en

1:16:43

Unmuted & Unscripted | Our First Live with the Rigour...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/06/10

We decided to do something a little different...We went LIVE for the very first time. To reflect on the journey so far, answer listener questions, and share a glimpse of life behind the scenes of Rigour & Flow. What followed was a surprising, hilarious, and deeply moving encounter with the people who’ve been with us from the jump.We were joined by listeners from across our community - some who’ve known us for years, others who found us through the podcast - and we talked about everything from

en

1:07:33

Out of Time | Colonial Clocks, Capitalist Deadlines...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/06/03

What if time wasn’t neutral? What if urgency was a trap? What if the clock, like so many systems, was never made with us in mind?We step outside grind culture to ask how time works, and who it works for. From production schedules to academic timelines, we explore how time shapes us, pressures us, and polices us as we navigate systems that demand constant productivity - and often without care or a proper sense of our contexts.Aiwan reflects on her journey as a filmmaker in extractive production

en

1:01:01

Hot Combs, Hallelujahs & Hair Trauma | The Politics...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/05/27

We’re taking it back to the roots - exploring the stories, struggles, and politics wrapped up in Black hair.Aiwan opens up about being raised in a Pentecostal church that saw pride and beauty as sin - where dreadlocks were demonised, and even beads were banned. Tamanda reflects on her early obsession with Toni Braxton, the pain of getting her hair chemically straightened, and the complex cocktail of shame, admiration and resistance that came with being the girl with “the good hair.”Together, we talk

en

57:45

Black & British: A Complicated Inheritance |...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/05/20

We explore the complicated inheritance of being Black and British - and how migration, class, race, and belonging continue to shape our stories today.Aiwan reflects on growing up in Britain as the daughter of a Nigerian immigrant mum, caught between a confident Nigerian identity at home and a fraught, often hostile Black Britishness outside it. Meanwhile, Tamanda shares what it meant to migrate from Botswana as a child, and how her understanding of Blackness and Britishness was turned upside down

en

1:08:18

When Faith, Culture and Mental Health Collide | Our...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/05/13

We open up about two family stories that changed how we understand mental health, culture, and the systems that claim to heal us.Tamanda shares the story of her mother's diagnosis - and the painful reality of watching an indigenous African spiritual tradition be misread as delusion by a colonial medical model. Aiwan reflects on her own mother’s experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, when powerful nightly devotions were mistaken for pathology by an overstretched hospital system.Together, we explore

en

55:10

Notes From the Margins: Young, Famous & African,...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/05/06

For this episode of Rigour & Flow, we’re back with another Notes From the Margins - our free-flowing format where we each bring something we can't stop thinking about.Tamanda dives deep into the messy, glamorous world of Netflix’s Young, Famous & African. From Pan-African fame and chaotic conflict styles, we delve deep into the question of how reality TV sometimes hits deeper than we expect.Aiwan brings us into the wild politics of Yellowstone - a neo-Western where land, capitalism, and

en

1:03:47

Talking Money, Marriage and Meaning: When Money...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/04/29

Can you rewrite your money story – or are you stuck with the one you inherited? We crack open the money stories we inherited, and the ones we’re trying to rewrite.Aiwan shares how growing up in a fundamentalist church taught her that true faith meant living modestly, shunning wealth, and being "in the world, but not of it" - until later encounters with the prosperity gospel preached that material success was a sign of divine favour. Meanwhile, Tamanda reflects on growing up firmly wedged between

en

57:29

What It Costs to Have a Baby: Fertility, Fibroids &...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/04/22

The story we almost didn’t tell - a personal, unfiltered conversation about fertility, fibroids, and what it’s like to try and build a family as a Black queer couple.Aiwan speaks candidly about internalised shame, cultural silence, and growing up in a faith community where sex, queerness, and pregnancy were taboo. Tamanda reflects on what it meant to come out of a ten-year heterosexual relationship without a child - and how a shocking fertility diagnosis turned everything upside down. Together, they

en

52:32

Notes From the Margins: What Call the Midwife,...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/04/15

In this third episode of Rigour & Flow, we introduce our new three-part format - spotlighting the stories, ideas, and questions we can’t stop thinking about.Aiwan unpacks a jarring moment in the hit show Call the Midwife to explore how Black people are represented (and misrepresented) on screen, and what it says about who’s behind the camera.Tamanda dives into the story of HillmanTok - a viral, TikTok-powered learning community inspired by the legacy of Historically Black Colleges and

en

57:19

From the Page to the Screen - Why Black Thought Is...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/04/07

Why do so many Black creatives and researchers walk away from the industries they once fought to be part of? In this second episode of Rigour & Flow, we examine the silencing, sanitising, and sidelining of Black thought within white-dominated systems - from academia to media.Drawing from Tamanda’s experiences in research and Aiwan’s in TV production, we unpack the emotional and professional toll of being “the only one in the room.” We explore what happens when your work is deemed “too much,”

en

1:01:02

Can You Be African, Christian and Gay? Who Gets to...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/03/31

Can you be queer, African, and Christian - all at once?In the first ever episode of Rigour & Flow, Aiwan reflects on the five-year anniversary of her documentary Kenyan, Christian, Queer - a powerful film about LGBTQ+ life, faith, and resistance in Africa. She and Tamanda dive deep into the complexities of reconciling Africanness, Christianity, and queerness - both in their own lives and through the communities that shaped them.From Black Pentecostal fire and brimstone to silent Quaker pews,

en

1:54

Welcome to Rigour and Flow

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/03/30

We’re Aiwan and Tamanda, two Black women with 20 years each in entertainment, research, and social justice. We’re also a married couple figuring out what it means to build a life and two businesses together.We'll talk about the realities of business, making creative work that matters, and navigating research with integrity.If you’re navigating business, love, and the messiness of life while trying to do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.Welcome to Rigour and Flow!Please leave a review and

en

34 results

Similar Podcasts

Voices of Life

APG Mannheim

Promo Estereo Podcast

Promo Estereo

Talking Timelines Podcast

Talkingtimelines

גיקונומי

ראם שרמן ודורון ניר

Drømmefanger

Drømmefanger