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People Like Me

di Leah E.

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For People Who Consider Motherhood

In this episode I chat with my sister Alyssa, and my two cousins, Tarika and Philly about motherhood. 0:00 - Guest Introductions 3:50 - "This or that": Mom Edition 6:40 - Is Motherhood Hard? Social Media vs Real Life 10:00 - Having a kid in 2026 vs. our parents' generation 15:50 - Losing Yourself in Motherhood 20:00 - How many kids are too many? 23:00 - Jamaican/Ghanaian/Black Family Experiences 28:00 - What your kids teach you, breaking generational traumas 33:00 - Gentle Parenting Perspectives 37:00 - The importance of a support system 41:15 - How much money do you need to save for a kid? 43:00 - What to expect from your partner? 46: 00 - Were your kids planned? 51: 00 - Black Maternal Health 53:00 - Favourite thing about being a mom

For People Who Love Music

I chit chat with my music buddies Sineet and Peter about alll things r&b and music related. 0:00 - Intros 5:00 - This or that: R&B Edition 9:20 - Where did your love for music begin? Habesha and Nigerian Influences 17:50 - Why do you listen to music? 19:25 - Music for travelling (hack!) 21:45 - What is your fav genre of music? 24:35 - "low vibrational music" 27:00 - Can you separate the art from the artist? 29:30 - Fav song from 2016 31:20 - How Tiktok has changed music? 34:30 - Why is music not sticking? 41:30 - AI music (scaryyy) 43:40 - Sineet and Peter get CALLED OUT 45: 00 - New fav artist

For People Still Living in 2019

In this episode Jack (@mascblocwr) and Kemora (@moratalks) and myself talk about how COVID is still impacting the masses regarding masking, desirability politics, disability justice, and sooo much more. And don't forget to find us @peoplelikmepod on Instagram/Tiktok! 0:00 - Intro 2:20 - How have you changed since covid began, where are you now? 9:20 - Do you call yourself "Covid Cautious?" 18:00 - Desirability and Covid 22:00 - Masking and Entertainment 25:00 - Are Covid Cautious Communities "Too Angry?" 33:00 - Masking and Intersectionality/Race 35: 00 - Positive Stories With Masking 40:00 - Who's fault is it that we're still dealing with covid? 45: 00 - Making Covid Awareness more accessible? 51:00 - Final thoughts for People Still Living like it's 2019

For People Who Need The Full Picture

In this episode, Jessica Carmichael joins the People Like Me Podcast as she promotes her debut novel "The Full Picture". 0:00-09:00 Intro/ Who is Jessica Carmichael? 9:00 Do the Black girls need to leave Toronto to find love? 10:00 What were the steps you had to take to become an author? 23:35 Feeling “Ghanaian enough”, cultural dis/connections. 28:00 Osei vs Kelvin. 30:00 Do Romance Authors Find Love Easier? 33:00 Character development in The Full Picture. 36:00 Grief and Robyn’s Story 38:00 Detaching from The Full Picture as an author. 44:00 Where do you see The Full Picture in the future?

For People Who Are Queer

For people who are Queer, for people who are #FiguringThingsOut, or for people who simply want to know more about Queerness, this episode is for you. Please enjoy the uncoverings of queerness that my friend Jam (IG: @jams.creative.lab) get into. HAPPY PRIDE! Intro (0:00- 3:50), Game: How Queer Are You? (4:00), What is Queerness? (6:10), Does being a lesbian make you less of a “Woman”? (10:45), What does it mean to be a Woman? (14:00), Black Womanhood and Gender (15:15), When did you first know you were gay? (20:00), Queer “Scent”: how do we know who’s queer? (24:30), How is your art also Queer? (27:45), Is Queerness Contagious? (29:20), Are Cis Gay Men Messy? (32:30), The GAY in Greys!! (34:30), Are Bisexuals Valid (37:10), Is Christina Yang Queer?? (39:00), Is Queer Representation important to you? (40:00), Final Thoughts on queerness (42:00), Outro/Where You can find Jam (43:00)

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For People Who Like Season Finales

The tables turn as Host Leah E. gets interviewed about the creation process of the “People Like Me Podcast” by her fellow family members (who are also podcast hosts). This episode is a live recording of the first ever People Like Me Party! Enjoy this recording full of laughs, introspection, and amazing audience participation!

For People With Depression

For people with depression, for Black People with depression, for Ghanaian-Canadians with depression this is for you. In this episode I got a chance to sit down with Kwasi Adu-Poku, creator of The Reach Series (IG @TheReachSeries). Kwasi isn’t shy when it comes to discussions around mental health, his advocacy work around destigmatizing mental health, personal development support, and very relatable love for anime has helped numerous people in the GTA. In this episode, we delve into Kwasi’s experience with depression as we talk about the ins and outs, the social determinants, the interpersonal, the romantic, and even the silver linings of depression. intro(0:00), “This or that”(3:30), What is your first understanding of mental health?(5:15), Campus Therapy (9:00) , Debilitation with mental health(11:30) , Experiencing Depression as a Black person(14:00), Ghanaian Culture(17:00), What’s the “solution” for Black People with depression? (21:00), Jane and Finch Community(24:00), Navigating Friendships with Depression(26:38), Reciprocity and Depression(32:00), Romance Relationships and Depression(35:00), What’s the worst part about depression?(41:00) , Joy and Depression(44:00) , Suicidality(47:00), Final feelings about depression(48:00), outro(50:00)!

For People Who Please

For People Who “Please”, PLEASE listen to my friend Mohammed and I as we journey through the ins and outs of People Pleasing, as two recovering people pleasers. We ventured into the complexity of our behaviours, and how familial, racial, and gendered aspects all play a role in our People Pleasing. What constituted this conversation was several online discussions about People Pleasing that I found to be one-dimensional. And so Mohammed and I took a holistic approach in dissecting the nuances of People Pleasing. We answer questions like “What does it mean to be in community with people pleasers?” and the longstanding question, “Is People Pleasing Manipulative?”. Mohammed’s background in Law and Gender Studies, and his desire to seek for the "why" of things, offered an in-depth feminist/sociological perspective on People Pleasing. Note: Our voices sounded unusually high in this episode? Idky! Also my friend Capucine was kind enough to support our conversation and gather her thoughts on the topic as well–so listen out for her voice!! Intro (0:00), Would You Rather: People Pleasing Edition (4:15), Culture and People Pleasing (6:30), Online #Discourse (9:20), The N word….”Nuance” (13:05), Definition of Fawning (15:40), Falling out over People Pleasing (19:00), The rules we make up as People Pleasers (23:00), Middle Child Plight (24:00), BOUNDARIES (27:00), Is there a solution to People Pleasing? (28:40), Being in Community (32:30), Is People Pleasing manipulative? (33:50), Women/Gender and People Pleasing (34:00) Advice Segment: Do we forgive cheating?! (38:15), Outro (43:20)

For People Who Are Jamaican-Canadian

For people who are Jamaican-Canadian, please enjoy this fruitful conversation on all things Jamaican-Canadian. In this episode I sat down and spoke with my good-up friends (aka yaardies) Shana, Khadecia, and Nakyta and discussed our shared and differential experiences living in Canada as both Canadian-born-Jamaicans and Jamaican-born-Canadians. This is a culture-filled episode as we question and interrogate the ever-changing aspects of language, family, preservation, and community in the Jamaican-Canadian experience. This episode was recorded in early June, before the news struck regarding Hurricane Beryl. Please go to the @peoplelikemepod instagram bio to find out information on how you can help Caribbean countries recovering from the hurricane. Intro (0:00), How do you identify? (1:30), Game/Trivia (2:50), Growing up in Canada (8:40), Jamaican Community in Toronto/Toronto Slang (14:00), What makes someone Jamaican? (19:15), How do we keep our culture alive (22:00), Jamaican Women and losing accents (25:05), Is Patois a language? (33:00), Going back to Jamaica (37:04), The concept of community in Jamaica (39:30), Teaching Leah Patois!!! (42:36), Jamaica vs. The World (47:00).

For People Who Don't Know About The Tigray Genocide

For people who may not know, or who want to know more about the Tigray Genocide, this is an episode encapsulating the current politics from the perspective of Delina, Snit, and Heaven. With the utmost vulnerability, the girls share their experiences as Tigrayan women living in the diaspora, what is happening in Tigray today, and what we can do to help. This episode is full of information, knowledge, personal anecdotes, hope, and care. Please engage with an open heart as we touch on one of the worst atrocities of the century. This episode does have volume issues, please expect overlapping sounds to subside around 6 minutes. Intro (0:00), What is happening in Tigray? (6:10), Why is it controversial to say “Genocide”? (11:35), Pretoria Agreement- TPLF and Ethiopia (14:40), Immigrant parents and generational healing (17:50), Identifying as Tigrayan vs. Ethiopian (23:22), Mixed Identity (26:55), How do we feel about Ethiopian people now? (28:00), Why African countries get left out of these conversations (32:50), Social Media Activism (33:50), Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and interconnected struggles (41:30), How do we help Tigray? (44:50), Having hope (43:35), Canada is also complicit (47:00).

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