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The enfant terrible of the food industry is my guest today!The fear of Opeyemi Famakin is the beginning of wisdom for chefs, restaurants, food bloggers and content creators everywhere.But how he got here is incredibly inspiring.He tells me that he heard the voice of God literally and clearly telling him this is his path, and so he quit his job as a senior editor in his twenties to do this thing that no one else had ever done on this scale before.After saying no to one high-paying job, he went home and cried. Because he was so afraid he was making a mistake.We also talk about:● Why he regrets criticising Don Jazzy’s burger brand and what he would do differently now.● The fight with his mom that has led them to not speak for several years.● Why he feels hurt when people who know him personally in the food industry attack him on social media.● Why he is sad only his negative content gets the most virality when he lifts up countless brands - and how he eventually learnt to stop caring about that.● How he has handled being laughed at, belittled, criticised and cancelled - including how his Instagram page was “permanently disabled” because of his criticism of Igbo ‘oha soup’ and how he survived that scary period and got his page back.It’s Opeyemi Famakin like you’ve never heard him never before.Let me know your thoughts below ❤

“I give you one year and you will fail in this industry.”That’s what the man who trained Lateef Adedimeji in the Yoruba movie industry told him after his training.Today, on our show, Lateef has a message for that man, who is still alive and still in the industry.He face; that same lack of faith for his viral Lisabi movie. Lateef says all the people whopromised to support him, the ones he actually expected to support him, all abandoned him.“There was nobody.”But his wife Mobimpe stood by him like a rock.We also talk about:— How he and his wife have responded to the people who call her barren. — Why he spent months denying a relationship with his wife and the shocking way he finally proposed to her.— How his father went from locking him out of the house for being an actor to investing in his very first film (which then failed woefully!).— How he often has no confidence in himself, and how his wife stands in to remind him of who he is and what he can do. Without her, he doesn’t know what would have happened to him.Today, as the epic sequel, Lisabi: A Legend is Born is released on Netflix, Lateef is here to share his testimony.Watch the 30 minutes interview version this evening at 5pm on YouTube and the full 1-hour version on withChude.com.Let me know your thoughts below after watching ❤.

“People say we are barren because we’ve been dating for 10 years and don’t have a child” — Kassia and KellyRae #BBNaijaPromo caption #BBNaija’s Kassia broke up with the winner winner Kelly Rae because he wasn’t being responsible about money. Then later he tried to break up with her because he thought she deserved better and he couldn’t provide for her. Little did he know that in 2024, both of them would enter the Big Brother house and become millionaires in a matter of months. They talk about - Going through thick and thin together - death, cancer, a gambling addiction, a cheating incident, being thrown out of his friend’s house, accusations that he was being frisky in the house, and having to hide the fact that they were married in the house. Her desperately wanting to be married to him for years and he didn’t propose, and then when she decided she no longer cared about marriage fulfilling her - he proposed, just weeks before the house. How they respond to people who attack them for being barren today because they have no children after 10 years together. They smiled when people said their marriage wouldn’t survive the house. They are still smiling today. Because underneath all of the drama and the face and the money is a great, great love story.Let me know your thoughts below after watching. ❤

Frank Edoho is regarded by many as the greatest TV host alive - but this interview was not about ‘Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?’It’s about the Frank Edoho you’ve never heard about - and the exclusive stories he has never told anyone anywhere. Like the details of how the sponsors of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ called him to a meeting in Ikoyi, Lagos to fire him because his wife had accused him of being a wife-better. Frank says that never happened, he was in fact the victim, and till today he hasn’t said a complimentary word to his ex-wife because he can’t understand why she did that. He tells me about: - the depression and loneliness he has dealt with since his childhood - and that he continues to deal with today.- ⁠his parents’ divorce and how it shattered his sense of sense - and why he fought against it when they tried to get back together. The trauma was too hard to relive. - ⁠how he has learnt not to depend on anyone emotionally apart from his children - because people break your heart and people leave. One must know how to stand alone.- ⁠why he began to buy shoes and why he began to play football - and how his hard comebacks to errant people on Twitter are actually quite therapeutic for him. And so much more. The Essential Frank Edoho - like you’ve never seen or heard him before. 

How do you escape a toxic relationship or marriage?How do you even identify it in the first place? What are the signs? What do you do when you are in it? And how do you rebuild your life when you come out of it?My guests over the years have shared deeply and honestly about this - and we have a special YouTube episode with some of the most powerful stories. It’s now up on @WithChude on YouTube and on withChude.com. Let me know your thoughts below. ❤

I stumbled upon a Steve Hills (Stephen Ogbonna Orijinta) live worship session on YouTube a few months ago after watching a video of EbukaSongz - and I caught the fire! Immersing myself in viral hit ‘Fire and Light (The Supernatural Anthem)’ was like jumping two-feet first into Heaven on Earth. I am Fire! I am Light! I am Glory, oh! The Supernatural!I immediately changed all my plans for our annual The Music Playlist episode - I wanted to experience this fire live; and to experience this special anointing that I am certain will take over the world next year. The full worship session is up on @WithChude YouTube and the session plus interview are exclusively on withChude.com!This is my Christmas gift to myself - and to you ❤.

When Shopsydoo’s (Adesope Olajide) father came to visit him in the UK he couldn’t believe the life his son was living. He asked him - “You left a life as a prince to come and live like a pauper here?”But he stuck with his dreams for himself and his family. Now, no major Afrobeats concert in Europe and the United Kingdom is complete without Adesope. He is of the country’s biggest hype men and MCs.  We talk about how that industry and that sound has changed over the years - from 2face and Psquare to Rema and Fireboy - changed the world and changed his life. “Black women didn’t want to date us because we had Nigerian accents,” he tells me. “But now, because of Afrobeats it is now mainstream to be African, to come from Africa, to be part of the culture.”He says he will forgive Tiwa Savage and Wizkid because these pioneers made it possible for this change to happen.And he tells me the greatest lessons he has learnt from the great successes and great failures of Nigeria’s music industry. Consider this a masterclass.