Actress Kelechi Okafor - Standing up for yourself, reclaiming 'bossy' and transcendent grief
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to actress, personal trainer and pole/twerk instructor Kelechi Okafor about standing up for yourself, using the word “crazy” to subjugate women, reclaiming “bossy” and “strong”, the problem of unrelenting good vibes, the history of twerking, fad fitness, therapy and transcendent grief, going to Nigeria, affirmations and social media.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Eating disorders, childhood abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | I always wanted to be faster, needed to be stronger. |
| 0:02.8 | Why? Why? |
| 0:04.0 | Why? Because ultimately when I looked at it, |
| 0:06.7 | I need to protect myself because I'm not good enough. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm not good enough yet and I need to be good enough. |
| 0:11.6 | Because when I'm good enough nobody can |
| 0:13.1 | hurt me. |
| 0:15.3 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:20.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen and you are listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:28.8 | Podcast, or in short, Mopad. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm a stand-up comedian and I'm from Denmark that explains the weird accent and this is my |
| 0:36.5 | podcast about especially as me speaking to nice people about how to do life and if |
| 0:41.8 | they don't know how to do it which spoiler alert no one knows how to do life it |
| 0:48.4 | ends up just being just a chat about life where we find out that we're not alone. I know that sounds |
| 0:54.8 | crunchy but that's basically what it is. This week I am speaking to oh my god |
| 0:59.9 | Kalechi Oka-Fol and she if you're right now listening and you don't know who this is go |
| 1:06.4 | follow her on Instagram and and where she's called Kaleh Kaleh Kaleh K, I think, Kolechna Kav, and watch her Instagram stories. |
| 1:17.4 | She is just a powerful person and you're so great. |
| 1:23.0 | So I'll let you listen to the chat in just a bit. |
| 1:25.0 | First, I'm on tour at the moment with my show, Dead Baby Frog, |
| 1:28.0 | my stand-up show about, it's a stand-up show about emotional abuse, |
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