Episode 3

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Published on:

28th Dec 2020

Language of Love

In our last UC episode, we talked about our relationships with our mothers and how we learn from those relationships to treat our partners as adults. We wrap it up with what kind of legacy of love we want to leave for our black kids - a legacy of shame, of forgiveness, of silence, of belief in our ability to be unique and fully express ourselves. 

This episode will go a little further and explore our language of love as black men, and how we effectively communicate it. Culturally speaking there is a disconnect between  what we think love is and what women perceive as love, not always romantic love but respect. Are we speaking clearly? And in a way they can hear us? 


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About the Podcast

Uncomfortable Conversations
About getting us -black men - to sit up and pay attention to the black women around us. How do we know they are loved? Safe? Cared for? Wait...how might we be the problem? Or better yet, how can we work towards a solution.
Through a series of uncomfortable conversations, our host and select black men will have honest discussions about how we can and have been complicit in harming the black women in our lives, and what we NEED to do to change that.

Your host: Funmilade Taiwo
Your Producer: Folarin Odunayo

About your hosts

Funmilade Taiwo

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Product (UI/UX) designer with a background in digital mental health and the food industry. Two seemingly diverse worlds, but there’s as much empathy in feeding people as there is in creating loveable digital experiences. I’m obsessed with both!

Folarin Odunayo

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Hi, I’m Flo. I’m a financial planning expert, small business strategist, speaker, and multidisciplinary creative based in Toronto. I have a passion for storytelling and a deep curiosity about how we can build spaces for openness and vulnerability, particularly for young black men.