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I Guess I’m an Adult Now...I was Diagnosed with ADHD at 29: My Experience - Ep 18Text us and share your adulting stories!At 29 years old, I was diagnosed with ADHD.As a high-achieving Black woman, entrepreneur, and Christian, ADHD was never something I thought applied to me. I did well in school. I built a business. I was “fine.” But behind the scenes, I struggled with focus, organization, finishing projects, and constantly feeling like I just wasn’t living up to my full potential.In Episode 18 of I Guess I’m an Adult Now, I open up about being diagnosed with inattentive ADHD at 29 — the signs I missed as a child...
2026-02-1235 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...She was Fired, Found God, and made $150k in 30 days. Meet Cedoni Francis - Ep 17Text us and share your adulting stories!Let BetterHelp connect you with a therapist who can support you - all from the comfort of your own home. Visit my sponsor https://betterhelp.com/chizi and enjoy a special discount on the first month!If you have any questions about the brand relating to how the therapists are licensed, their privacy policy, or the therapist compensation model, check out this FAQ: https://www.betterhelp.com/faq _________________________How does a Trinidad-born, NYC-raised child go from a Political Science major at Vanderbilt to...
2026-02-041h 12I Guess I’m an Adult Now...Abstinence, Sexuality, & Dating At 30 as a Christian - Ep 16Text us and share your adulting stories!Dating at 30 as a Christian comes with its own set of challenges, especially when abstinence, desire, and faith collide.In this episode, I open up about breaking a three-year abstinence pact, the lessons I learned from dating again, and why knowing your values matters more than chemistry. This is an honest, vulnerable conversation about sexuality, faith, alignment, and learning to trust yourself again.CHAPTERS / TIMESTAMPS0:00 Dating Again at 30 & Breaking Abstinence1:00 Why I’m...
2025-12-1831 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Dating, Love, & Marriage: Honest Advice from my African Dad - Ep 15Text us and share your adulting stories!My African dad is BACK — and this time we’re talking dating, relationships, marriage, culture, red flags, green flags, and everything in between. 😂We unpack the conversations immigrant kids never have with their parents, including why he never asked about boyfriends, his evolving views on interracial dating, and what he believes women (and men!) should look for in a serious partner.This episode is honest, funny, and surprisingly vulnerable. Get ready to take notes.CHAPTERS1:00 Growing Up African & Avoiding Dating Convers...
2025-12-1157 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I’m a Depressed Christian on Medication. Let’s talk about it – Ep 14Text us and share your adulting stories!In this episode, I open up about my mental health journey! Starting antidepressants as a Christian, unlearning the stigma around medication, and finally feeling normal for the first time in my adult life.Chapters0:30 — Early Signs of Depression & Anxiety6:20 — Finding My First Therapist8:30 — Understanding Anxiety and Compulsive Habits10:00 — Learning to Name My Emotions11:20 — 7 Years of Therapy and Still Learning13:00 — When Faith Meets Mental Health14:00 — “I’m on Medication Now, and I Feel Great”16:00 — Sobriety, Isolation, and Facing Myself18:00 — Taking the Depression & Anxiety...
2025-11-0640 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Honest Conversation with my African Dad on Life's Uncertainty | Ep 13Text us and share your adulting stories!Life doesn’t always go as planned, and sometimes, the hardest moments end up teaching you the most.In this episode, my dad and I talk about what it really means to fail, start over, and find peace when life throws you curveballs. From losing loved ones and dealing with financial setbacks to learning how to pivot and keep going, he opens up about lessons that shaped his life and changed the way I see mine.It’s honest, emotional, and a reminder that failure isn’t the...
2025-10-2344 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Am I still Christian? Navigating Religion as an Adult - Ep 12Text us and share your adulting stories!Three years ago, I had a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ. Since then, I’ve been on a journey of faith — full of lessons, doubts, and hard truths.In this episode, we're discussing whether I'm still a Christian, navigating religion as an Adult, and what faith really means to me.If you’ve ever questioned your beliefs, struggled with organized religion, or tried to reconcile faith with adulthood, this one’s for you.Chapters0:00 – Intro 1:00 – How I Found Christ3:40 – The Good Side of Ch...
2025-10-1641 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Should you be a Content Creator in 2025? - Ep 11Text us and share your adulting stories!The podcast is back with Season 2, and we’re starting off with a real one. In this episode, I open up about what it actually means to be a content creator, the pressure, the uncertainty, and the parts no one really talks about. From chasing purpose to questioning stability, I share what I’ve learned about building a creative life in a world that doesn’t always understand it.If you’ve ever thought about becoming a creator/Influencer or wondered what it’s really like behind the camera, th...
2025-10-0931 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...My African Dad’s UNFILTERED Take on This Generation - Ep 10Text us and share your adulting stories!In this episode, my dad and I reflect on growing up in two very different worlds— his analog Gen X upbringing vs my digital Nigerian-American life. We talk dating then vs now, his reaction to me walking away from med school, and what it means to parent across cultures. He also drops timeless wisdom that goes beyond generations. Subscribe now and join our community as we figure out this adulting thing together, one conversation at a time.Watch Video Podcasts YouTube - https://www...
2025-08-011h 09I Guess I’m an Adult Now...An Honest Conversation with my African Dad on Addiction - Ep09Text us and share your adulting stories!For the first time ever, I sat down with my dad to talk about my struggle with weed addiction. I wanted to know—did he know? Did he ever suspect? And what was it like for him, watching me go through life while secretly battling something I couldn’t talk about?The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Papa Duru shares his own experimentation with marijuana after immigrating to America from Nigeria—a story he'd never told his daughter before this recording. His vivid description of cultura...
2025-07-1145 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...How I Broke Free of Weed Addiction after 8 years | My Story (Part 2) - Ep 08Text us and share your adulting stories!In this episode, I talk about how I got addicted to w*ed in college, the mental and emotional spiral that came with it, and what healing looked like for me.And if you’ve ever felt like something had a hold on you, maybe this one’s for you, too.If you’d like to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you can right now.Confess your sins and ask for forgivenessDecide in your heart to turn away from living a life n...
2025-06-2734 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I Was Addicted to Weed for 8 years | My story | Part 1 - Ep 07Text us and share your adulting stories!For a long time, I didn’t think I had a problem. Marijuana was just something I used to relax… a little something something once in a while, you know. Until it became a full-on 8-year addiction.In this episode, I talk about how I got addicted to maryjanes in college, the mental and emotional spiral that came with it, and what healing looked like for me.This isn’t about judgment — it’s about honesty and reevaluating our relationship with drugs. And if you’ve ev...
2025-06-1933 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Things I Wish I knew In My Early 20s vs late 20s - Ep 06Text us and share your adulting stories!This evolution from doing things "for the plot" to recognizing my own value reflects the natural maturation process so many of us experience as we navigate our twenties. Subscribe now and join our community as we figure out this adulting thing together, one conversation at a time.Watch Video Podcasts YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ChiziDuruFollow 'Chizi Duru'Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwi7l0PwfZ/
2025-05-2925 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I made $2 Million as an INFLUENCER after quitting Medical School - Ep 05Text us and share your adulting stories!Have you ever stood at a crossroads, knowing your next step would forever alter the course of your life? That's exactly where I found myself as a junior in college—a biology major with a meticulously planned future in medicine suddenly questioning everything about my path.This episode dives deep into one of the most pivotal decisions I've ever made: walking away from medical school to pursue content creation full-time. It wasn't just choosing between two careers—it was choosing between security and uncertainty, between meeting expectations and foll...
2025-05-2240 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I Guess Some Friendships Aren’t Meant to Last Forever - Ep 04Text us and share your adulting stories!Friendship breakups hit differently than romantic ones, yet we rarely discuss the genuine grief that comes when someone who picked you up after every heartbreak is suddenly gone from your life. Whether it's an intentional separation, a natural drifting apart, or the painful experience of being "quiet quit" on without explanation, these endings leave their mark. Remember, we don't have unlimited access to people in our lives. Each relationship deserves intentionality, accountability, and grace. How are you showing up in your friendships ? What changes might strengthen your m...
2025-05-1539 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Should I Freeze My Eggs?? Do I Even Want kids? - Ep 03Text us and share your adulting stories!So… at what point do we start panicking about our eggs? We all know the phrase “biological clock,” but what does it mean? In this episode of I Guess... I'm an Adult now, Chizi unpacks the quiet panic and unspoken pressure that surround fertility. From medical myths to societal expectations, we’re diving into the facts, the fears, and the very real questions many of us are asking behind closed doors.If you’ve ever Googled “Should I freeze my eggs?” at 2 AM, this one’s...
2025-05-0836 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I Guess I’m Tired of Pretending Money Isn’t a Big Deal - Ep 02Text us and share your adulting stories!Money represents far more than currency—it symbolizes power, security, and status in ways that can deeply affect our self-image. "I had to stop and ask myself: am I sad because business isn't going well, or because I feel less than when I'm not making as much?" You are more than your money, but understanding how to talk about it might just change your life.What financial conversations make you most uncomfortable? Subscribe now and join our community as we figure out this adulting thin...
2025-05-0120 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...I Guess I’m Starting Over at 29 - Ep 01Text us and share your adulting stories!From natural hair tutorials to navigating life's toughest transitions, my decade-long journey on YouTube has evolved in ways I never expected. Now, at 29 and approaching a new decade of life, I'm launching this podcast to create something we all desperately need: an honest space to discuss the messy, beautiful reality of growing up.Behind my 500,000+ subscriber count and what appeared to be peak success between 2018-2021 was a reality few knew about – burnout, uncertainty, and a desperate search for meaning. This premiere episode pulls back the curtain on th...
2025-04-2424 minI Guess I’m an Adult Now...Introducing: I Guess I’m an Adult nowText us and share your adulting stories!Adulthood can be tough and honestly? We’re all just figuring it out as we go. I Guess I'm an Adult now... is the podcast for anyone who’s ever had a full-on existential crisis over getting older, picking a health insurance plan, or realizing success isn’t as simple as “work hard, and everything will fall into place.”Join Chizi Duru—content creator, storyteller, and professional overthinker—as she unpacks the messy, hilarious, and sometimes chaotic realities of growing up.From the lies we were told ab...
2025-04-2205 min
something we gotta talk aboutep 7: have I not given everythingWe are giving Queen Mother, aka Auntie Angela Bassett all her flowers this episode following her Academy Award snub and chatting all things Vanity Fair Afterparty, including THAT Black excellence photo. Getting back into our TV show bag, we debrief on the latest season of You on Netflix, sparking the question… can people really change? In this ep, we also speak on the crime that is catfishing and the unseriousness of hatfishing because we really gotta know why a hat can change an entire head and face shape!?!? And following on from last week, we talk more about Black wo...
2023-03-201h 48
Changed for the Better: the power of arts in educationEpisode 25: Chizi DuruThe indomitable Chizi Duru is a content creator/influencer/entrepreneur/media personality. With over 500,000 followers, her YouTube channel promotes her mission to create a space for women to love themselves authentically so they may step into their power. Listen in to see how her time in the dance studio helped her to overcome her fears and inspire her trajectory towards the creation of her social media empire.
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2022-11-0241 min
Clout101 - The Marketing Strategy PodcastChizi Duru on Brand Partnerships, Leveraging YouTube, and MonetizationChizi Duru (@chiziduru) is a notable Digital Creator, YouTuber, and Entrepreneur that executes content across the beauty, fashion, and lifestyle spaces.On episode 1, "Content Is Queen", Chizi and I discuss her journey as digital entrepreneur. We specifically touch on how she built a community of 750K online beauty enthusiasts, how to creatively monetize your influence, the challenges of being a young, black CEO, and much more.Subscribe to Clout101 on your favorite streaming platform for episode notifications!Follow the host on Instagram (@idiaogala), Twitter (@idiaogala), YouTube, and LinkedIn!
2021-01-261h 29
Two Black Guys with Good CreditEpisode 43: Monetizing the SocializeHey family! In this episode we will be discussing how to Monetize the Socializing! Dat’s right - most of us spend way too much time on social media and I believe time is money!! So why not learn how to earn money while clicking LIKE or thumbs up!! Switch your Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp notifications to DND for the next half hour and listen in as we interview beauty guru Chizi Duru, fitness guru Chanel Delisser, and comedian David Beckles Jr as they instruct us on how to Monetize the Socialize! Pod’up people and let’s hashta...
2019-07-3059 min
LIV "The live in love with you lifestyle"LIV LILWY EP06: NATURAL HAIR AND SELF-ESTEEM FT. CHIZI DURUIf you love it, it will grow. We are conditoned to believe that there is only one defintion of beauty. When we build up the courage to finally go natural, most of us only have one concern. Will I still be beautiful?This is what we are going to be diving into today on our self love journeys. Natural hair and self esteem, exploring how to two co-exist. To help me dive deep today is Natural hair and beauty Youtube Vlogger Chizi Duru.
2017-03-2513 min