What’s really amazing about putting a summit together is that you meet so many amazing creators and I consider myself blessed to have met Awino Awiti, podcaster and also an encourager whose presentation was all about taking small steps towards big growth. But most of all, it’s the insightful content of sharing unspoken stories that really resonate with me, because so many people can identify with them, but are fearful to open their mouths and speak those words.
About Awino
As a multi-award winning podcaster (African Podcast and Voice Awards 2023, 2024) , Awino Awiti’s advice is built from experience – growing her personal brand, hosting a podcast, working with brands and schools. She’s built an engaged digital community of over 15,000 followers through intentional storytelling and strategic content.
She started at univeristy with a tripod, sharing her images on Instagram. She also did a course in radio drama, which emphasised storytelling. She was also active on their radio station. Combining her high school interest in theatre and this broadcasting exprience – podcasting was a natural culmination of this.
Unspoken became not only a place for her to process her mental health thoughts, but also a safe place to connect with others.
Her Podcast
It’s a podcast on personal and self development that seeks to bring untold stories to life that help listeners grow personally, financially and emotionally .
What’s Your Unspoken Story Series
I started listening to some of the episodes of Awino’s podcast and she is really good. I think she is someone who is there not only to encourage and empower us, but also to debunk some limiting beliefs.
I listened to “Womanhood 101: Decentrallization!” and I honestly thing that it’s something that every woman should listen to. She listed about ten issues that woman need to stop making the centre of their lives. Age. Men. Shame. One way of doing things. Pressure to carry everyone. Marriage as the ultimate achievement. Respectability politics. Fears. Need to be nice. Silence. I think the overriding theme was: you don’t have to be on anyone’s timeline, doing a traditional submissive female silent dance. You need to rise and be yourself.
She had another one “The biggest day of my life” where she said that we put too much emphasis on that one day of success, when a lot of small days led up to it. And I think this is the same theme that she spoke about at the summit, “Small steps. Big growth.” She reminds us to live in the now and, in another podcast “unfolding” to be like the butterfly and not to rush the growth, or the process that is going on.
For me right now, the quote I needed to hear is this, from the Womanhood episode:
“But one of the most powerful lessons womanhood has been teaching me is sometimes growth is not about adding more things to your life. Sometimes it is about removing things that are never meant to define you in the first place.”
I’ve been so busy adding to my load I’ve missed the meaning in what I’m doing. Sometimes we have to prune to get that growth and I need to simplify so that I can get back on my path again.
Another profound thought from the “Self Concept” one. “You don’t become that version of yourself until you believe you already are them.”
So thank you, Awino. You spoke the words I needed to hear.
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