Latest Triggering Podcast Episodes
The Final Episode: Ending the Podcast, Starting Anew and Walking In The Flow of My Purpose
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - January 19, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutesSaying goodbye is never an easy thing, and saying goodbye to something that was created by my own hands, for my own survival and growth is even more difficult. But it's time to let go and move on to newer and better things. This will be the last episode of the Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast. In th...
Ep. #29| Booktober Series: The Book That Saved My Life Ft Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - October 15, 2021 14:06 - 50 minutesIt's the start of the booktober series! This October I'll be sharing some of the life lessons that literature and words have imparted upon me. Books are my safe space, they make sense to me in a world that so often makes little sense. They bring me moments of quiet, reflection, and questioning. B...
Ep. #28|Lessons I've Learned From My Favorite Books Ft 12 Rules For Life By Jordan B Peterson
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - October 08, 2021 15:53 - 54 minutesIt's the start of the booktober series! This October I'll be sharing some of the life lessons that literature and words have imparted upon me. Books are my safe space, they make sense to me in a world that so often makes little sense. They bring me moments of quiet, reflection, and questioning. B...
Ep. #27|Ft Kemelo “Kemi” Sehlapelo: Reconstructing a Sexual Identity After Sexual Assault, Navigating Self-Healing Amidst Echoes of Stigma
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - October 01, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourAs a woman, perhaps my biggest fear is having something sexual or violent been done to my body without my consent, on the backdrops of the #metoo movement, the continuous degradation and disregard for women's bodies and rights running rampant throughout a plethora of legal systems, South Africa's...
Ep. #26| Sexy September Sex Series Ft Wendy Weng: Between Two Worlds, Growing Up In A Traditional Conservative Chinese Family In The US
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - September 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourGrowing up between two worlds with clear-cut and distinguishable differences in values, cultural norms and expectations can be a jarring game of navigation and simultaneous assimilation. This is true for this week's guest Wendy Weng, who was born to traditional conservative Chinese parents and ra...
Ep. #25| Sexy September Sex Series Ft Mo (Queen Cunnilinga) Part 2: Sexual Liberation & Understanding Dialogue Nuance Within Sex Positivity
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - September 17, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourThere is something powerful, beautiful, and scary about finding more of who you are as life progresses and all the pieces collected over time start to make sense. One key area of human identity; one that can cause contention both within us and outside of us, lies within our sexual identity. For w...
Ep. #24| Sexy September Sex Series Ft Mo (Queen Cunnilinga) Part 1: Discovering Sexual Identity Against the Backdrops of Religion & African Conservativism
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - September 10, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourThere is something powerful, beautiful, and scary about finding more of who you are as life progresses and all the pieces collected over time start to make sense. One key area of human identity; one that can cause contention both within us and outside of us, lies within our sexual identity. For w...
Ep. #23| Sexy September Sex Series: Growing Up With a Sex Complex, My Hoe Phase and Discovering My Sexual Voice
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - September 03, 2021 12:22 - 45 minutesGrowing up my mum used to always tell us that "you never taste the penis, if you do you won't be able to stop because it's so good". Random right? She instilled both fear and desire at the same time. BUT what I do appreciate from her quirky expression was that she never lied to my sisters and me ...
Ep. #22| Value and Worth, Where Does Your Value and Worth Come From, I'm Finding Society Attributes and Attaches These To Some Of The More Arbitrary Stuff
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - August 27, 2021 13:50 - 42 minutesPerfection is truly the disease of our society and like Queen, B said "it's the soul that needs a surgery". In today's episode I talk about worth and value, where does my worth and value come from? Can worth be taken away, is it a movable asset? When all the arbitrary things we attach to our wort...
Ep. #21| Mental Health: I'm Trying To Not Be Dealing With The Same Shit and Trauma Into My 30s, Trying To Kill My Ego, The Ego Death Experience
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - August 25, 2021 12:51 - 48 minutesThere is a beauty I have come to find in suffering. The other day I sat on my toilet seat 🤣😎 (TMI) but whatever), reminiscing, and found myself being actually appreciative and grateful for the very difficult year of suffering and loss I've been thrown into. There is a power in watching everything...
Ep. #20 | Discipline, How I lack It and How It's Holding Me Back. Gosh Should I Just Confess That I Do Laziness Better?
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - August 12, 2021 22:00 - 49 minutesIt's FRIDAY the 13TH and I have decided to HAUNT myself today 😂😂😂. I just feel like I have made a life choice to soak, dwell and bathe in laziness. Yes, I am on Spring break after wrapping up a very difficult and challenging first year of my MBA studies BUT this form of sloth has been a long time...
Ep. #19.2 | Miscarriages: The Difficult Healing Process, What Men and Spouses Go Through, Coming Out the Other Side Ft Ndamu
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - August 07, 2021 14:50 - 1 hourThe female body is arguably one of the most powerful forces exiting in our current realm. It breaks itself apart monthly and puts itself back together again. It houses and nourishes life, but it's also one of society's most misunderstood, exploited, and devalued forces. One such way the female bo...
Ep. #19.2 | Miscarriages: The Healing Process, What Men and Spouses Go Through, Coming Out the Other Side Ft Ndamu
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourThe female body is arguably one of the most powerful forces exiting in our current realm. It breaks itself apart monthly and puts itself back together again. It houses and nourishes life, but it's also one of society's most misunderstood, exploited, and devalued forces. One such way the female bo...
Ep. #19.1 | Miscarriages: The Shame That Follows and Why Women Don’t Talk About It, A Harmful Reality Ft Ndamu
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 27, 2021 22:00 - 1 hourThe female body is arguably one of the most powerful forces exiting in our current realm. It breaks itself apart monthly and puts itself back together again. It houses and nourishes life, but it's also one of society's most misunderstood, exploited, and devalued forces. One such way the female bo...
Billionaires in Space
Seth & Guests - July 24, 2021 15:51 - 50 minutesCandid conversations every week on topics some people are afraid to talk about. Join Seth and his guests for some freethinking at it best.
Ep. #18.2 | The Devaluation of Anger, Cancel Culture, Objective Truths vs Subjective Realities Ft Natale
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 24, 2021 09:59 - 1 hourHas society always been this angry? Or is something else at play? Oh how quickly we all get triggered! We see it, we don't like it, we tweet and we fought it goddammit! The rise of social media has also seen a rise in online social wars, echo-chamber debates and conversations, and ultimately the ...
Ep. #18.1 | Cancel Culture, The Current Illusion of Moral Superiority & The Devaluation of Anger Ft Natale
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 20, 2021 17:55 - 1 hourOh how quickly we all get triggered! We see it, we don't like it, we tweet and we fought it goddammit! The rise of social media has also seen a rise in online social wars, echo-chamber debates and conversations, and ultimately the cancellation of people. Grace seems to be lacking and everyone has...
Ep. #17 | Oh South Africa, This is What Happens When The Chickens Come Home To Roost, Why Are We So Surprised?
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 16, 2021 11:06 - 59 minutesThe truth shall set you free, but first, it will piss you off. So, here we are...this episode was not on my episode list, I could not have prepared for this episode until this week, nonetheless, the events that occurred this week were by no means surprising. On the backdrops of COVID-19, rabid in...
Ep. #16 | Sex for Grades A case study on Ghana, On the backdrops of African traditional gender roles, internalized misogyny, female genital mutilation Ft. Tshima
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourShe's back! Welcome back! My sister and I are back in this two-episode special. In this episode, we dig into how sex-for grades have become a thing in Africa and how men are using their positions of power to assault and exploit their female students, with our lens shifting specifically to Ghana. ...
Ep. #15 | The Objectification and Over-sexualization of Women, the Role Social Media Plays and the Power of the Male Gaze ft Tshima
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - July 06, 2021 19:48 - 1 hourThis episode is one for the books, featuring arguably my favorite person in the world talking about a topic that we are both very curious and interested in. You know you cannot scroll through Instagram without coming across some boodies and titties, it's all the rage, it's all the likes and it's ...
Free Britney, We fucked all the way up on Britney Spears, Society's stigmatization of Mental Health, We FAILED.
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - June 25, 2021 06:00 - 1 hourIt's Britney Bitch! That very saying proves that the Princess of POP has been conquering and overcoming all the bullshit thrown her way for decades. The pop-culture expression "if Britney Spears could survive 2007/08, then you can survive anything" is both a testament and an unavoidable reality o...
Ep. #14 | Free Britney, We fucked all the way up on Britney Spears, Society's stigmatization of Mental Health, We FAILED.
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - June 25, 2021 06:00 - 1 hourIt's Britney Bitch! That very saying proves that the Princess of POP has been conquering and overcoming all the bullshit thrown her way for decades. The pop-culture expression "if Britney Spears could survive 2007/08, then you can survive anything" is both a testament and an unavoidable reality o...
Ft. Manzi Njokweni -Being a sexual being, The toxicity of Evangelical Purity Culture & African Traditionalism, Unburdening sexual shame Part 2
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - June 02, 2021 15:17 - 1 hourThis is THAT episode. Let's talk about the uncomfortable stuff. In Part 2 we talk about how the church is failing to meet the moment, its failure to serve the society it exists in, and how it continues to perpetuate the oppression of certain groups. Being raised in the church, sex was always a to...
Ep. #13 | Being a sexual being, The toxicity of Evangelical Purity Culture & African Traditionalism, Unburdening sexual shame Part 2 Ft.- Manzi Njokweni
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - June 02, 2021 15:17 - 1 hourThis is THAT episode. Let's talk about the uncomfortable stuff. In Part 2 we talk about how the church is failing to meet the moment, its failure to serve the society it exists in, and how it continues to perpetuate the oppression of certain groups. Being raised in the church, sex was always a to...
Ep. #12 | Being a sexual being, The toxicity of Evangelical Purity Culture & African Traditionalism, Unburdening sexual shame Part 1 - Ft. Manzi Njokweni
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - May 29, 2021 14:13 - 1 hourThis is THAT episode. Let's talk about the uncomfortable stuff. Being raised in the church, sex was always a touch-and-go topic of contention, you were told that sex outside of marriage was unholy, that gay sex was shameful & deviant and abstinence was an acceptable form of contraception, OMG the...
Ft. Manzi Njokweni -Being a sexual being, The toxicity of Evangelical Purity Culture & African Traditionalism, Unburdening sexual shame Part 1
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - May 29, 2021 14:13 - 1 hourThis is THAT episode. Let's talk about the uncomfortable stuff. Being raised in the church, sex was always a touch-and-go topic of contention, you were told that sex outside of marriage was unholy, that gay sex was shameful & deviant and abstinence was an acceptable form of contraception, OMG the...
Adulting Is Destroying My Life, When You Realize You Are Toxic Traits and Recognizing Duality
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - May 17, 2021 22:23 - 57 minutesIt's been three weeks since the last podcast and that's because life has been kicking my ass. In today's topic, I discuss what adulting means to me, what is adulting? Am I successfully adulting? How do you know when you are an adult? I know I pay bills, pay rent and water and buy groceries and pa...
Ep. #10 | Adulting Is Destroying My Life, When You Realize You Are Toxic and Your Toxic Traits & Recognizing Duality
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - May 17, 2021 22:23 - 57 minutesIt's been three weeks since the last podcast and that's because life has been kicking my ass. In today's topic, I discuss what adulting means to me, what is adulting? Am I successfully adulting? How do you know when you are an adult? I know I pay bills, pay rent and water and buy groceries and pa...
My Life is a Movie, Adulting, My Toxic Traits and Recognizing Duality
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - May 17, 2021 22:23 - 57 minutesIt's been three weeks since the last podcast and that's because life has been kicking my ass. In today's topic, I discuss what adulting means to me, what is adulting? Am I successfully adulting? How do you know when you are an adult? I know I pay bills, pay rent and water and buy groceries and pa...
Bullying, Could Lufuno have been saved? The prevention bandwagon isn't as sexy as the viral aftermath bandwagon
Blunt and No Not Weed Podcast - April 17, 2021 20:59 - 57 minutesOur society continues to love to fetishize the idea of jumping on the social media hashtag trend after the math, for clout? or for whatever. HOWEVER, we don't seem to be so interested in prevention and getting things addressed before the tragedy. This was clearly evident in the events ...
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