Pink Glasses Convo

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2022 #PGCNation. With the new year comes resolutions, reviews, plans, inspirations, gratitude, faith and a lot of vulnerability; all of which Olaoluwa brings to today’s episode. An excerpt from today’s episode is, “With a new year comes a new quarter, a new month, a new week, a new day and a new minute. Those time lapses are opportunities for a fresh start.” Olaoluwa...

Compliments of the season to #PGCNation. On this episode, Olaoluwa shares her family holiday traditions while encouraging listeners to develop theirs, and wrap the year 2021 with gratitude and reflections. While the holiday is known for the presents, family gatherings, cute pictures, matching PJs, caroling and anything that screams Christmas, today’s episode grounds us on what truly matters, knowi...

"Japa" is a Nigerian slang for immigrating to another country for better work, career or life opportunities. This episode of an overview of Olaoluwa’s experiences and lessons as an African immigrant graduate student in the US. Highlighted are areas easily overlooked by international students while preparing to migrate. Olaoluwa uses the space to appreciate her community, peers and family who suppo...

Asking genuine questions and giving genuine answers is the pathway to having honest conversations and building great relationships. In the spirit of asking questions, today’s episode tackles the most common icebreaker, “How are you?” Whether it's asking close pals, work colleagues, coursemates, or a complete stranger, this question is the go-to in our social toolbox. Although simple, holding ourse...

On this week’s episode, Olaoluwa digs deep on the topic of “Faith and Emotions”. Using real life examples and scripture references she shares the importance of expressing our emotions. Simply put, empathy with a hard knock of truth and reality. This episode is inspired from conversations with believers who are going through hard times but try to mask it with “faith”. God wanted us to have emotions...

Before you roll your eyes and wonder why I am talking about the holidays in November, just know my Christmas has started. Today’s episode covers enjoying the spirit and joy of the holiday season. Its true we are all facing challenges and shortcomings in our lives, but I encourage you not to let that deprive you of the season. I cannot wait to share and hear from others how the holidays went. More...

Ifihan is the Yoruba (a culture in SouthWest Nigeria) translation for Introduction. I just had to find a way to spice things up! So first of all, introduction!! Welcome to the pilot episode of Pink Glasses Convo (PGC) where I introduce myself, fun facts about me, a little back story to the Pink Glasses Convo (PGC) and the first song/quote of the week. In this episode, I share the identities that i...