GoodLiving Podcast

DISCUSSION GROUP Where did you first learn what love is supposed to look like? Koke traces it back to childhood crushes and the Disney princess story: a damsel in distress, a dragon, and a prince whose reward for saving her is happily ever after. He calls it the “simp industrial complex,” a theory that the template teaches men to sacrifice themselves for women, and that the companies funding our m...

DISCUSSION GROUP Koke walks to the gym, which takes 17 minutes on foot, and uses the time to give the update he promised after his earlier trip: how the podcast network and his December event are actually going. The original plan was five shows with a 12-episode season each. After reading how other networks stumbled by launching too many shows too early, he scaled back to three running at once and...

DISCUSSION GROUP What if being single isn't a waiting room for your next relationship, but one of the most important periods of your life? Inspired by Karen Uzo's book How to Be Single , this episode explores what the host has learned from several periods of solitude throughout his life. From the heartbreak of his first university relationship in 2017, to the curiosity and self-education that foll...

DISCUSSION GROUP A gubernatorial candidate in Lagos gets asked a question in Yoruba and can't answer fluently — and overnight it becomes a referendum on who actually "owns" Lagos. Koke and a friend (unplanned, mic-still-warm energy throughout) unpack the Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour language controversy, then pull the thread further: is this really about language, or a convenient distraction engineered t...

Corrections Note  A quick correction on a couple of things said in this episode: The strait referred to as "Al-Hammud" or "Al-Hermon" is actually the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait , and the "Sea West Canal" mentioned alongside it is the Suez Canal — both real waterways along the Red Sea shipping corridor. Also, the account of the Pentagon memo naming seven countries for regime change was attributed to "a f...

This one didn't come with a plan. Koke steps outside his own compound — a full-circle moment from where he used to record during the NYSC series — to just talk through three days of feeling off: a stalled business he's poured money and pitches into with nothing to show for it, a meditation practice that was going well until it suddenly wasn't, and the quiet guilt of a day where he did literally no...

DISCUSSION GROUP Koke sat down to cook a simple Sunday lunch and realized he couldn't fully trust a single ingredient in it — the chicken, the salad cream, the seasoning, none of it. In this episode, he walks through just how deep Nigeria's fake-goods problem actually runs: adulterated meat and fish, counterfeit alcohol quietly damaging livers in the east, fake toothpaste, eggs, even tap water sit...

BRAIN DROPPINGS DISCUSSION GROUP Why does a bank manager have to drive a truck for 18 months after moving abroad — and why do we call that resilience instead of asking why it's happening at all? Koke traces a pattern from migration and labor to advertising and self-image: how systems are built to extract a country's best minds for its worst jobs, and how that same logic shows up in something as sm...

Show Notes The philosophical case that free will is mostly an illusion — shaped by choices your parents and environment made before you ever had a say What propaganda actually is, and why the people most confident they can't be manipulated are often the easiest targets How propaganda operated in Nigeria historically — through news coverage and even entertainment like Super Story The claim that tod...

It's Koke's case for teaching people — starting from adolescence — how to actually understand and negotiate consent, rather than leaving it as something nobody ever explains clearly. He opens by breaking down consent as a spectrum rather than a single line: outright force is obviously rape, but he argues coercion — wearing someone down through persistent pressure until they give in just to escape...

Koke grew up Anglican — Sunday church, good clothes, a bottle of Mineral with lunch. Then at 10, three years after losing his mother, he was sent to a boarding school that worshipped on Saturdays instead of Sunday — and everything he thought was settled about faith started to unravel. In this episode, he traces that unraveling honestly: the questions that never got resolved, the argument it caused...

Nigeria got independence in 1960 — but did it actually get freedom? In this episode, Koke breaks down geopolitics in plain terms: how loans from the IMF and World Bank come with hidden strings attached, how the Nigerian Civil War was shaped by foreign interference, and why countries like Burkina Faso are only now starting to break free of decades-old colonial arrangements. He also shares a persona...

DISCUSSION GROUP: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K8JRdSTXMbE1KgzNt7hb2f?s=cl&p=i&ilr=0 WEBSITE: https://goodlivingpodcast.transistor.fm/ BRAINDROPPINGS THE E-BOOK: https://selar.com/8477qp1615 SHOW NOTES   The quality of your relationships shapes the quality of your life. In this episode, we explore ten practical principles that can help you connect better with people, build deeper relationship...

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Every billionaire got in early on something. Koke traces that idea back to a Ponzi scheme that cost him ₦1,000 in university, through the accidental discovery of podcasting in 2022, to the decision that's now becoming GoodLiving Podcast Network. This is the real-time unboxing of how a passion project turned into a business — recorded at the actual beginning, uncertainty included. Show notes Koke h...

A bus that won't fill up. A driver they say has bad energy. A race against a 6.30pm kickoff. In this real-time recorded episode, Koke narrates one ordinary Monday evening — and finds an unexpected lesson on manifestation hiding inside it. Not a lecture. A story, told as it happened, with the thinking left in. Marcos couldn't make it to football today, so Koke has to find his own way to the pitch —...

There is a name for something you have been watching happen for years. The Olodo Uprising — a slow cultural shift away from intellectualism and toward the celebration of stupidity — has been building in Nigeria's music, comedy, governance, and everyday life. In this episode, Koke traces how it started, why it has thrived, and why the people who can see it most clearly are also the ones making it h...

In this episode, Koke unpacks the aspirational timeline, the social expectation, and the specific, uneven pressure that lands on women when they fail to meet it. From old Nollywood to the church pew to the auntie at the family -- the expectation is everywhere. Nobody agreed to it. Nobody can even say exactly where it came from. And yet, somehow, all of us have internalised it so deeply that we use...

They are putting ads on WhatsApp. The one app most Nigerians use for everything -- family, business, community, privacy. And if you are surprised, Koke thinks you should not be. Because this was always where it was going. In this episode, he traces the line from the moment these platforms launched for free to where that decision has now brought us. Somebody had to pay for Instagram. Somebody had t...

You turned off your WhatsApp blue tick. Maybe to avoid confrontation. Maybe to buy yourself time. Maybe just because you do not want people knowing when you have seen their messages. But it says something. And we think you already know what it says. In this episode, we build a full argument for why transparency is not just a moral virtue -- it is a practical advantage. And why the people who opt o...

The prostitutes of the future are in primary school right now. So are the armed robbers, the cultists, the bad politicians. We know this. So why are we not doing anything about it? That is the question this episode is actually asking. Koke works through a genuine philosophical argument about prostitution, not from a moral panic position, but from a structural one. Why has the world's oldest profes...

Lagos has between 18 and 22 million residents. A housing deficit running into millions of units. And if you are a young person who just moved here, a self-contained apartment now starts at N800,000 a year. If you are lucky. Koke just finished house hunting in Lagos. This episode is the full debrief. He breaks down exactly why Lagos rent is this expensive as a structural argument. The city attracts...

Arsenal are champions. 22 years. This is a bonus episode: not the usual GoodLiving format. This one is for the Arsenal fans. And for everyone who has ever been the underdog. Because what this Arsenal journey has been about. Since 2019, since Arteta, since two years of trusting a process while the whole internet laughed is something that goes beyond football. It's about what happens when mockery be...

The final episode of the NYSC Series is here. After 341 days of service in Lagos, this episode captures the real emotions of finishing NYSC . Growth, loss, ambition, survival, and everything in between. From sneaking into exam halls in university to building a podcast during service year, this is an honest reflection on how life can completely change in one year. In this episode: • Finishing NYSC...