Relax as your host Yinka fills your cup with wisdom, wit, and lessons learned the hard way. On the menu specials, she fills your cup in places she has been, and encounters she had in them.
Join me in recounting the many ways we filled our cups this season on the season 2 finale! For more updates on the podcast follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/fillmycuppod/
Marriage is beautiful when done right. sometimes you find the one and other time the one turns out to be a lesson learned the hard way. For more updates on the podcast follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/fillmycuppod/
Settle in as we discuss my maternal / lack of maternal instincts when it comes to having children of my own. On this episode we tackle motherhood, and how seeing my mother has informed my parenting decisions. follow us on instagram @Fillmycupod email us at Fillmycupod@gmail.com
While some fear the prospects of getting older, and there is a multi-billion dollar industry that caters to people's fear of aging. There is something an anti-wrinkle cream cannot fix and that is age. With time comes mistakes, wisdom and more mistakes but that's the fun part about aging. The older we get the wiser (some) of us become.
A recent journal entry made me realize how far removed I've been from myself by way of a memory from high school I have long repressed. Along the way I learned that actions have consequences and excuses become disrespectful to the people we hurt. For more updates on the podcast follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/fillmycuppod/
On todays episode we travel through grief, especially in a year where we've all be surrounded with it. I figured I'd talk about how much of a disconnect I have with the words "I am sorry for your loss" Though i've said it to people I care about, I never quite felt it to be sincere.
Fill your cup as we journey to America. In this episode my mother recounts the reasons she decided to travel across the Atlantic ocean, leaving a life she knew behind. We uncover the first few years of hardships as well as lessons learned along the way. For more updates on the podcast follow us on instagram www.instagram.com/fillmycuppod and email us at fillmycuppod@gmail.com
On the season 2 premiere, fill your cup with me as we take a deep dive into the meaning of my name by way of my mother as she tells the story of why she gave me a name separate from my father. As we journey through the season and her life we get a backstory into her marriage, and find some lessons along the way.
On the season finale, fill your cup with me as we journey through Mexico by way of a drake lyric that has been quoted multiple times on all social media platforms and learned that sometimes friends are found in unlikely places and unlikely people. Listen as I recount my favorite trip of 2020 and how I wished I enjoyed it more in retrospect.
On todays episode, Listen as I recount my most recent birthday (from hell) and learned a thing or two about my unhealthy relationship with "expectations" and how moving forward my future birthdays will be much different than they were in the past. I also learned, how therapy helped me navigate my feelings and confront them head on.
On todays episode, fill your cup with me as we journey through my "coming to america" story. and realize that all that glitters isn't gold, and no matter how far you travel, foreign lands will never be home.
This week on fill my cup we delve into dreamland of sorts and dig deep into what turns bitter adults into bitter adults and why we have stopped dreaming. As you listen, to this episode i want you to think about What are your excuses: are you scared of seeing whats behind door number 2 that you prefer not to try? what does your next 30-40 years look like? And lastly another question I want you to ask yourself is...what are you willing to sacrifice for your happiness?
Today on Fill My Cup we take a journey back in time. What happens when a crush from the past DMs you? Do you respond? Ignore it? What's the protocol? listen to find out. Grab a glass as we journey through a phase of life I wouldn't dare relive and fill your cup with me--In High School.
On today's episode of Fill My Cup; listen as your host talks about one of the trickiest things to navigate in adulthood--time. A lesson on failure shifted my perspective on how important it is to trust the timing of my life by way of the multiverse and airplane analogy.
Listen to what happens when a trip to Nigeria, turns into a lesson in the deep psyche of my parents and how they navigate, or rather fail to navigate what it means to take responsibility, and in other cases accountability.
"Honesty is the best policy." This is a saying that has been drilled into me from a young age. As an adult, I am beginning to see the importance of not only being honest with people but being honest with oneself. Unfortunately, I learned the hard truth about honesty in a series of gut-wrenching encounters. This is episode 3 of Fill My Cup, and we are filling our cups with honesty.
Join me on a trip to puerto rico where my cup was filled with the harsh reality that i truly do not know it all, no matter how well versed i might think i am.
In the first episode of 'Fill My Cup', I talk about a tumultuous time in my life where fear took over and festered into something crippling, and in the end I had to adult and learn a thing or two about life and myself.
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