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Madame Speaker Says

Madame Speaker Says is the podcast for women of colour ready to own the mic, drop that book and get paid like a legend.Join Magogodi oaMphela Makhene - author, speaker and coach - for real talk, shortcuts and receipts to help you lead with confidence — on stage, on the page and way beyond the 9–5. No caucacity, no crusty old school leadership.Edges snatched. Script flipped. No apologies.Fresh episodes drop weekly.Pull up.

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69:49

Stop Waiting for Permission: How to Share Your Story...

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2025/11/16

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 📧JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER: Madame Speaker Says Why Black Women's Stories Matter - And How to Master Yours with Kutloano Skosana Ricci Your story isn't just yours—it's a lifeline for someone walking streets halfway across the world who needs to hear they're not alone. Kutloano Skosana, founder and host of Shades and Layers podcast, reveals why mastering your personal narrative isn't optional for Black women and women of color, how the right people at the right time

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68:35

Facing Bankruptcy, Finding True Currency with Art Chang

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2025/11/09

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 📧 NEWSLETTER: Madame Speaker Says (Weekly Truth Bombs) Why 98% of Immigrant Businesses Fail (And What One Bankruptcy Survivor Learned) | Art Chang on Leadership, Small Business, and the Currency Beyond Money What happens when your business dies at 27 and still, your employees don't leave you? Art Chang—NYC mayoral candidate, women's studies major, and bankruptcy survivor who went on to build dozens of wildly successful companies—reveals the hidden currency

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74:10

She Almost Died and Came Back to Tell Y'all: Stop...

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2025/11/02

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me She Almost Died and Came Back to Tell Y'all: Stop Giving These Companies Your Integrity for Free What happens when you almost die—and then go back to work in a place built on performative safety? In this raw, unflinching conversation, Jodi-Ann Bury shares how a three-week hospital stay rewired everything she thought mattered about career, status and survival—and why she couldn't keep lying to protect a company's image. We get into: 💀 The hospital reckoning —

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74:45

Skip the Book Deal: One Powerful Article with Kleaver...

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2025/10/26

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Skip the Book Deal: One Powerful Article with Kleaver Cruz Tired of waiting for the "right time" to become a thought leader? In this episode, we sit down with Kleaver Cruz to explore the alternative path to publishing—and why you don't need a book deal to build authority. We get into: 🔥 How one well-written article can attract editors and agents—bypassing years of the traditional publishing grind 📖 Why there are no hard and fast rules in publishing—success

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78:34

Claiming Audacity with Sisonke Msimang

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2025/10/19

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Building Thought Leadership as a Marginalized Voice 🎙️✨ Tired of waiting for permission to lead? In this episode, we sit down with Sisonke Msimang to unpack what it actually takes to become a thought leader—especially when the world wasn't built with you in mind. We get into: 🔥The audacity required to claim your voice when structural violence says you shouldn't 📖 Why your belief in yourself has to come FIRST—before the book deal, the Ted stage, the v...

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72:39

Singing Survival with Joy Harjo - BONUS Episode -...

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2025/10/12

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Our 2020 Conversation with Joy Harjo Joy Harjo—the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, saxophonist, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the woman who held that laureateship longer than anyone in decades—breaks down why joy isn't escape, it's resistance. This conversation pulls from her work that refuses to separate poetry from music, grief from celebration and survival from beauty. Harjo, who lost her mother young, played jazz in honky-tonks to pay

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65:55

Ego-Tripping with Nikki Giovanni - BONUS Episode -...

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2025/10/05

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Our 2020 Conversation with Nikki Giovanni Think poetry is just pretty words? Think again. Nikki Giovanni—who survived lung cancer, buried her best friend James Baldwin, and kept teaching at Virginia Tech through everything—breaks down Morrison's genius, the writers who shaped her, and why celebrating "The Bluest Eye" fifty years later isn't nostalgia, it's survival. This was our 2020 conversation when the world felt like it was cracking open and we needed

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84:28

Fighting Back with Arundhati Roy: The God of Small...

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2025/09/28

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Our 2020 Conversation with Arundhati Roy Think love is just sentiment? Think again. Arundhati Roy—author, activist, truth-teller extraordinaire—breaks down how love becomes revolution, how tenderness transforms into resistance, and why the most radical act might just be refusing to harden your heart in a brutal world. This was our 2020 keynote for "Love as a Kind of Cure's Freedom Festival, hosted with my partner in crime Cleyvis Natera. This conversation...

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34:40

Building Unshakeable Confidence: The MAIN Character...

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2025/08/16

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART 3/3 - The MAIN Character Method™: How to Embody Unstoppable Authority Ready to own every room like Beyoncé owns a stadium? This is where everything clicks. We're breaking down the complete MAIN Character Method™ framework that transforms brilliant people from invisible to impossible to ignore. Think you can't have that level of aura and embodiment? Think again. You ARE capable of main character energy—you just need the right method to unlock it. The

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27:00

Unpacking Why Brilliant People Hide (spoiler? you're...

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2025/08/09

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART 2/3 - Why Brilliant People Hide (Spoiler: It's Not Humility) We're diving deep into the real reason brilliant people stay invisible: the fear of judgment that makes you defer to everyone else's narrative except your own. You know that voice that says "What I have to say is stupid" or "Who would want to listen to me anyway?" Time to call BS on that voice and understand what's really happening underneath. Because when you hide behind other people's s...

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31:17

Becoming the Storyteller You're Secretly Stalking...

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2025/08/04

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎯 PART1/3 - Getting Clear on Your Vision Tired of nodding politely while dumber people mansplain your own brilliance back to you? Tired of saying 'someday I'll write that book' while the same plain vanilla people publish plain vanilla stories that become bestselling books? Stop studying success in theory and start dissecting it in practice. We're reverse-engineering how expert storytellers you actually admire built their visibility and platforms—not...

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62:07

Breaking Into Global Cinema with Karabo Lediga -...

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2025/08/03

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me 🎙️ BONUS EPISODE from our podcast sisters at Shades & Layers What happens when the dream your mother sacrificed everything for becomes your personal nightmare? Johannesburg-based filmmaker Karabo Lediga explores this haunting question through her debut feature film "Sabbatical" – a raw portrayal of a 30-something woman forced to return home after professional failure, confronting how her elite education created distance from her mother and the

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50:49

Living Big At Every Age with Maki, my mom!

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2025/07/27

🙋🏽‍♀️Like this Episode? Text me Season 1 Finale with my Mom! This is it — Episode 10 and our Season 1 finale! And who better to close out this incredible season than my own mother, Maki Makhene, MSW? (But since I love you, I'm dropping a fun bonus episode next week with a very cool surprise! 👀 Stay tuned.) In this deeply personal conversation, my mom and I dive into: 🔍 High-functioning depression — you're crushing it but running on fumes 🔞 Life after 60 - your best life at e...

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19:40

The Mistakes That Made Me with Magogodi

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2025/07/20

Real Talk - My Story Behind The Mic This personal episode reveals the mistakes, missed chances, and mindset shifts that shaped who I am as your host. I'm pulling back the curtain and sharing my story—the hard lessons I learned in my 20s and 30s so you don't have to. What you'll learn: My biggest regrets from my earlier decades - and how they became my greatest teachersMindset shifts that completely transformed my perspective on successWhy I'm passionate about helping others through acti...

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70:53

Unpacking the True Cost of Female Entrepreneurship...

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2025/07/13

The True Cost of Being a Female Entrepreneur 💼💥 Tired of pretending it’s all fine? You're not alone. In this episode, I sit down with Yvonne Biggins to unpack her latest research on the real challenges women entrepreneurs face—and the powerful, creative ways they push through. We get into: 📉 Why only 1.8% of UK equity funding goes to all-women teams 👩‍👧‍👦 The pressure of being in the "sandwich generation" 📈 Why 97% of women enjoy entrepreneurship, despite the odds 💡 Science-backed tools to

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71:44

Side Hustling As A Corporate Baddie with Sewela Langeni

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2025/07/06

Balancing A Corporate Gig & Purposeful Side Hustle with Sewela In this episode, we’re joined by the powerhouse that is Sewela Langeni—a full-time corporate leader and the founder of one of Johannesburg’s most beloved bookstores: Book Circle Capital, nestled in the heart of Melville. 📚 We talk about what it means to build something beautiful and necessary in a place still shaped by its past. Sewela is doing what so many dream of—balancing a high-level career while creating space for ...

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59:11

Becoming An IVF Mom with Courtney Montague

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2025/06/29

🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Becoming An IVF Mom While Building a Business What happens when a Type A, high-achieving entrepreneur faces the one thing she can’t plan, schedule, or control? In this powerful episode of Madame Speaker Says, we get real about becoming moms while building businesses. I'm joined by my brilliant friend Courtney Montague for a raw, funny and soul-stretching convo about her journey to motherhood through sperm donation—and my own story of surrender during postpartum. ...

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71:44

Creating Worlds Without Bias with Anu Gupta

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2025/06/22

🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Creating a World Without Bias by Anu Gupta “What would it feel like to live in a world without bias?” It’s a simple question—with radical power. In this episode, Anu invites us to pause, reflect, and imagine. Because if people can dream up colonies on Mars, surely we can dare to envision equity right here on Earth. 🌍✨ Where our mind goes, our energy flows. What if we gave ourselves permission to feel the world we want before we build it? This conversation will move

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83:31

You Are Not Your Productivity - Unlearn the Grind...

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2025/06/15

🎙️ ON TODAY's EPISODE - Unlearn the Grind: Presence Over Productivity with Dr. Kate Otto Chebly What happens when you realize the voices that shaped you—school, church, whitewashed "success"—never actually had you in mind? Kate Otto joins me to unpack the toxic productivity scripts so many of us grew up with, especially as ambitious girls in all the wrong environments. We get into what it takes to deprogram—to save yourself, in your 30s or whenever you wake up—from the grind-at-all-costs

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45:26

How Sarah Crowell Makes Art, Moves People & Leads Loud

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2025/06/08

“She said, ‘They’re not really Black.’ I said… ‘Oh really?’” Instead of clapping back, Sarah Crowell told a story—and changed the room. In this episode, visionary artist and cultural strategist Sarah Crowell joins me to talk about the power of storytelling, the politics of belonging, and what it really means to lead creatively in a world that wants to put us in boxes. We talk about how she dared to be a creative thought leader as an artist, and how Sarah uses movement—both literal and cultura...

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