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The HummingbirdLove LanguagesLasting relationships require intentional effort and commitment. Our love languages help us express the way we feel loved and appreciated. Learning and understanding your love language and your partner's helps to strengthen the bond in a relationship. Each love language is unique and important in its own way. Our love language differs from our partner's depending on our individual personality type. Understanding and decoding your partner's love language will help you to meet their expectations and needs. Understand your love language and find ways to communicate it to your partner. One of our aspirations as human beings is to feel...
2021-02-1427 min
The HummingbirdLetters To My DadA Hummingbird Special Podcast in memory of my late dad. Losing a loved one is a very devastating experience and I feel there's no manual to coping with grief. You just have to sit with it and allow yourself to fully experience these feelings and react in ways that help you process and release these intense emotions. Sometimes, it feels like the pain will never end but as hard as it may seem, you would deliberately and consciously just have to find ways to adjust to life without the person you lost. You never know how strong you are until...
2021-01-2414 min
The HummingbirdChronicles Of Mr & Ms XThe people we meet in our life sojourn have a specific role to play in our lives. To teach us lessons that we need to learn in order to evolve and grow as humans. Pain they say, is a teacher. Your ex doesn't always have to be the villain(well except for cases of abuse). They are wonderful people in themselves because at some point, we shared a beautiful part of our life with them - the pleasant memories and the support system. The problem here is that most people do not come to terms with the fact that nothing...
2021-01-2432 min
The HummingbirdThe Thing In Between Your LegsSexual consent is a very crucial subject in our society today. It is quite unfortunate, that our society has become so morally bankrupt and decadent that pure and genuine relationships, void of sexual intimacy between the male and female is more or less becoming extinct in our generation. As adults, we should be able to let our intentions clear from the get go. Maintaining healthy, open and honest conversations would go a long way in curbing these situations that play out because communication is very sacrosanct in human relationships. One should not assume that once a girl accepts to come...
2021-01-1327 min
The HummingbirdI Am Not That LabelWhen someone assumes something or asserts a claim based on one part of your identity, that is in fact "Stereotype." Stereotypes take on many forms. It is a cognitive aspect in our perceptions of people, communities or regions whether positive or negative. If you walk into a store to purchase a dress or shirt, once payment has been made by the owner, she automatically gets rid of the label/tag and goes ahead to rock the dress in whatever style suits her; the dress no longer belongs to the boutique. As humans, we should learn to get past these beliefs...
2020-07-2921 min
The HummingbirdWhat About My Accent?A Podcast by Mfon Bassey. No individual should be judged on the basis of his/her grip on English Language. A person should not be made to be feel any less or inferior because of his/her accent as long as they are able to communicate and be understood effectively in English.
2020-07-0813 min
The HummingbirdWhat Does Friendship Mean To You?"Commitment is an act, and not a word." - Sartre. I often wonder, why are the simplest things the most difficult to truly see/understand?
2020-07-0610 min
The HummingbirdNaija Music: The SeriesA podcast by Mfon Bassey: Lifestyle and Culture segment. Over time Nigerian music has evolved and grown into a major driving force in projecting African entertainment. We've seen and heard different artistes during this transition. Is there still room for improvement or do we settle for the current trend of whatever suits the market/industry?
2020-07-0311 min
2020-07-0106 min
The HummingbirdHey Priceless (Episode 3)..."God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God" - C. H. Spurgeon.Few days ago, I went out to a supermarket to buy some essentials. Before I left the house, I counted the money in my hand specifically to fit my bills completely. Unfortunately, the world is faced with this pandemic so we have been urged to adhere to certain guidelines whenever we wish to go out so despite the fact that the...
2020-06-1106 min
The HummingbirdEpisode 2 Continued"She invited herself back to the woman God created her to be" -AnonymousYou might wanna put your headphones on.Too often we feel that we need to have everything planned out or figured out before we make a move on our dreams. We worry that we may fail or we wouldn't be good enough, and other times we worry about people's perceptions of us, we are afraid of rejection. According to Martin Luther King Jr, "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." So yes friend, you can take the first...
2020-05-2215 min
The HummingbirdEpisode 2 - Hummingbirddaily Soulfood"Of all the roads she travelled, the journey back to herself was the most magnificent" -Anonymous. Napoleon Hill once said and I quote, "Our only limitations are the ones we set up in our mind" Most of us refuse to take that first step just because we can't see the whole stairs. We are afraid to lift the other foot lest we fall. In the literal sense, we are afraid to make that move because we don't want to fail. You see, the limitation is in the mind.Now when we think of asking, we need to make...
2020-05-1915 min
The HummingbirdEpisode 1 - You're WelcomeHey guys, welcome to my first podcast episode. I'm a bit new to this asides the fact that it feels like I'm having my normal, daily conversations so stay with me as we grow and journey together. I'm learning and exploring new ways of becoming and being; in so doing feeling a sense of purpose as I dive inside the depth of all the creativity laying inside of me. I have realized that the only thing that keeps us and limits us from stretching as far as we are capable of going, from growing is the mind. For a very...
2020-05-1802 min