Victimhood & Self-sabotage Is Destroying The World In 2022: Africa Brooke

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Africa Brooke is a speaker and podcast host, who has built a community that has helped hundreds of thousands of young people navigate the unique pressures of the world today. From binge drinking to cancel culture, sexual empowerment to race and politics - Africa isn’t afraid to speak completely honestly and frankly about anything. No one has come in to speak to us with as much honesty and vulnerability as Africa. This is a one-of-a-kind conversation that left us speechless. There's never a topic on Diary of a CEO that’s off-limits, we will always bring you the world’s leading people telling their honest truth. What to make of their opinions is up to you, but as soon as Africa walked through the door of my kitchen to record, any pre-conceptions of what she was about to say were left on the other side. She certainly didn’t hold anything back. Follow Africa: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/africabrooke/ Website - https://africabrooke.com/ Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If I'm not drinking or snorting something, what the fuck do I actually enjoy doing?
0:05.0	You know, who am I?
0:06.6	Africa Brooke is a speaker, a podcast host, and she's helped hundreds of thousands of people
0:11.8	see the world in a new light.
0:13.6	That's true.
0:14.8	Pleasure.
0:15.8	Africa does not give a fuck and that's why I love her.
0:18.8	If you're on the left then you're the good person.
0:20.9	If you're on the right then you're the bad person. We're hanging out online where these platforms incentivize binary thinking. Are you with us or are you against us?
0:30.0	There's only so much you can take.
0:33.0	Most people didn't like.
0:34.0	When I said that as a black person, I'm not oppressed.
0:37.0	That there is a very real difference between being a victim
0:40.0	and making victimhood and identity. Because if you don't think that you're worthy that's
0:45.9	always going to be the belief that you feed every single time.
0:49.2	What became your dark side?
1:06.0	From the age of 14, I was a blackout drinker. That's when I started to see that I was behaving in the exact same way that my dad did. Sex and sexuality.
1:08.0	Can you talk to me about what you've learned about those topics that might benefit me?
1:12.0	Wow. about those topics that might benefit me.
1:12.6	Wow.
1:15.0	Without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett,
1:16.8	and this is the driver CEO.
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