Bayo Akomolafe - Change Your Story, Change The World

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Easily one of my favorite conversations this year. The depth of Bayo Akomolafe's wisdom is pretty much limitless. Listen in and be blown away. Bayo and I cover a lot of ground here, digging into the importance of ritual, the role of stories in our growth and how those stories are influenced by what's around us, the "atmosphere" of trauma, the microbiome, cripestimology, and looking for (as he calls it) the cracks in human agency. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a globally acclaimed lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, and considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter, his son, and his wife Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive, and completely partial. After losing his diplomat father to a sudden heart complication, Bayo became a reclusive teenager, seeking to get to the “heart of the matter” as a response to his painful loss. He sought to apply himself to the extremes of his social conditioning, his faith, and his eventual training as a clinical psychologist, graduating summa cum laude from Covenant University in Nigeria. Largely nurtured and trained in a world that increasingly fell short of his deepest desires for justice, Bayo’s doctoral research involved meeting with traditional healers as part of his quest to understand trauma, mental wellbeing, and healing in new ways. His deep questions and concerns for decolonized landscapes has congealed into a life devoted to exploring the nuances of a “magical” world “too promiscuous to fit neatly into our fondest notions of it.” Connect with Bayo: -Website: https://bayoakomolafe.net/ -Twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand/ -LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayoakomolafe/ Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	To find brighter light, we must head for the gloomious caves.
0:14.0	To understand ourselves, we must turn to the strange.
0:18.0	To find the way out of our troubles, we must embrace them with fonder reverence and to thrive to live.
0:25.5	We must come to the thinnest places where life and death aren't opposites, but rather bedfellows.
0:34.3	Those are the words of bio Acomo Lafay.
0:38.5	He is my guest today and he is a globally acclaimed lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper changer, aka he's a dad.
0:45.6	And he considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter, son, and his wife.
0:52.0	Bio was born to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. After losing his diplomat
0:58.0	father to a sudden heart complication, he became a reclusive teenager seeking to get to the heart
1:04.0	of the matter as a response to his painful loss. He sought to apply himself to the extremes of
1:09.9	his social conditioning, his faith,
1:12.3	and his eventual training as a clinical psychologist graduating Summa Kamaude from Covenant
1:16.9	University in Nigeria. Largely nurtured and trained in a world that increasingly fell short
1:22.6	of his deepest desires for justice. Bios doctoral research involved meeting with traditional healers
1:29.4	as a part of his quest to understand trauma, mental well-being, and healing in new ways.
1:35.6	He is taught around the world, including at Harvard, Simon Fraser University, Middlebury College,
1:41.8	Sonoma State, Schumacher College, and many others.
1:45.3	His adopted home is in Chennai, India, where the occasional whiff of Kaodung dancing in the air
1:52.2	is another invitation to explore the vitality of a world that is never still and is always surprising.
2:00.0	So today, Bio and I are going to get into a number of
2:04.2	different topics. We generally discuss the current times that we find ourselves in. We discuss how to
2:13.2	face crisis, the importance of rituals and the function that rituals tend to play within culture
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