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B&H Photography Podcast

Tolú Ekundare on Landing Netflix, Podcasting, and Building Your Own Voice

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Arts, Visual Arts

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 7, host Deanna Testa sits down with the vibrant and hilarious, Tolú Ekundare (@tolukundare) to spill the tea on what it takes to grow as a modern creator. Tolú shares how she landed two big Netflix shows, the challenges of getting started in the podcasting space, and how she continues to build her own brand while staying her most authentic self.

Credits:

  • Host & Creative Producer: Deanna Testa
  • Creative Producer: Elena Maidebura
  • Creative Editor: Larissa Mattei
  • Technical Producer: Mike Weinstein
  • Executive Producer: Richard Stevens

 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

And she's like, Tulu.

0:02.3

I said, Jillian.

0:03.7

She goes, what's the worst possible thing that can happen?

0:07.7

No.

0:08.5

I said, Jillian, don't ever start a sentence with me like that.

0:12.2

What are we talking about?

0:13.9

And she goes, yeah.

0:15.7

The audio.

0:16.9

It didn't pick us up.

0:18.8

I said, what are you talking about? She said, the audio didn't pick us up. I said, what are you talking about?

0:21.4

She said, the audio didn't pick us up. I said, no! I said all three and a half hours. I would have been like, we're done. That's a wrap. Goodbye. And honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was like, God, is this a sign? Because I'll take it. I'll take it as a sign. I don't... Hi and welcome back to the B&HH creators' Green Room, a podcast where your favorite creators sit down and spill the tea, just like a real green room. Today, we are so lucky, so honored, so excited to have the one, the only Netflix's favorite star, Tolu Ekandare. Hi, Tolu. Hi, Dee. I'm so excited to be here. I've been waiting for this episode. You don't even know for like weeks and weeks and weeks because I feel like you are the epitome of like the creator to star, star to creator journey. I don't know how we want to describe it, but I've been following you since the beginning. And I'm so proud of you. And I just can't wait to get into this.

1:11.0

Oh my gosh, girl. We have so much to get into. So let's get started. Okay, okay. So, I mean,

1:16.9

I'm sure some of our viewers recognize you because obviously you've been on two Netflix shows now.

1:21.1

But how did this get started? Like, did you always know you wanted to go the reality route or

1:25.1

did that kind of fall into your, not fall into

1:27.7

your lap, but did you kind of, did they find you? Actually, it kind of fell into my lap. So you were

1:33.4

right the first time. I, so pre, like before reality TV, I was just like a corporate girlie,

1:40.7

you know, went to college, got my degree, and I was working in marketing. So I was a marketing manager before like any of that. So right before, no, right during COVID,

1:51.8

I was like, okay, well, everybody's in the house. We're not really doing anything. So I kind of just,

1:58.9

exactly. We're bored in the house and in the house board.

2:01.3

So I took that as an opportunity to just explore all my other passions that I kind of like

2:06.5

pushed to the wayside a little bit.

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