Hello everyone and welcome to Saturn Returns with me Kaggy Dunlop. This is a

podcast that aims to bring clarity during transitional times where there can be

confusion and doubt.

Today I am joined by Yomi Adegokai. Yomi is a journalist and writer, and she has just written

the most fantastic book. If you haven't heard of it, where have you been?

It's been everywhere and it's called the list and it really explores the sort of

complexity of the social media landscape what is true what is not it's

something that I feel we've all experienced to varying degrees or we've at least

witnessed and it's been picked up to be made into a TV show.

She's just on this journey at the moment that's so exciting to witness and so I

was really overjoyed that she came on the Satamatans show and spoke to me about her

journey into journalism some of the tricky things she navigated along the way.

We touched a lot on imposter syndrome and how writing a book like all the things that

come up for the ways that we yeah we have to face all the of those aspects about ourselves battling that

imposter syndrome and she's already come out the other side like conquering those

feelings and has achieved amazing things and so it's very

inspirational to see. We also discuss the toxic world like I mentioned of

social media and how that has created this cancel culture space where

without realizing you could say something online go and make a cup of tea and come back and have gone viral and everything has spun out of

control and whether or not that has ever happened to you. You have read it, you have seen it online and that creates this quite fear-based system where

we're all very quick to jump on that judgment train and to as my dear friend Africa calls it to digitally stone people

it's actually really disgusting when you see some of the things that happen but what I

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