My Life Not Yours

Send us Fan Mail  I’m back and this episode is all about resilience as we’re all resilient in some way or another. Resilience is the capacity to bounce back from adversity, adapt to change, and recover quickly from difficult situations. It is often described as the ability to withstand, recover from, or grow stronger in the face of challenges, setbacks, and stressors. Resilience is not a fixed tra...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, I discuss trust. Trust is a fundamental aspect of human relationships and interactions. It refers to the reliance or confidence that one person or entity has in another person or entity. Trust involves a belief that someone is honest, reliable, and capable of fulfilling their commitments or obligations. Trust is a vital component of human relationships, tea...

Send us Fan Mail It’s been a challenging couple of weeks that’s been full of surprises. Something a little different by way of a diary entry to share my thoughts, hump days and general life stuff.    Enjoy!      If you like this episode, please rate, review, subscribe and share with others! Check out more of me at on my  website Follow me  on Instagram

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about celebrating 10,000 downloads of the podcast and welcoming new listeners and subscribers. This podcast started because I listened to an inspirational  podcast during lockdown and felt compelled to go deep and honest about myself. I encourage listeners to do the same, look inside themselves and speak and own their truth. I have invited other people along on thi...

Send us Fan Mail What a great chat I had with Mia Mauge who is nothing short of fabulous. She is now embarking on a totally different path in life and absolutely lovin’ it. She’s a resonator, model and all-round good egg. I can’t wait for you to lean in and listen to this episode.   Be sure to check out Mia’s Instagram. What a great chat I had with Mia Mauge who is nothing short of fabulous. She i...

Send us Fan Mail Do you love yourself? I mean really love yourself? In this episode, I unravel what self love really means and how important it is, to love oneself.  If you like this episode, please rate, review, subscribe and share with others! Check out more of me at on my  website Follow me  on Instagram

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s podcast coffee n banter instalment, I chatted to the phenomenal Mark Robinson OBE who has and is leading a phenomenal life. It all started in his kitchen where filming took place for a National Health Service (NHS) advert in February 2023, which I featured in as the voice over actor.   Mark’s colourful life (and home), has seen him setting up radio in prisons (rewar...

Send us Fan Mail I love this episode because it explores my obsession in understanding Cultural Intelligence. Settle in for 30mins of banter with my friend Eugene who breaks down this type of intelligence which we should all have.     Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours and at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://tijeanne.com/ If you like this episo...

Send us Fan Mail Transitioning through life is a given and we will just need to embrace life changes like the seasons.  After all, life would  be boring if we all stood still wouldn't it?  Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours and at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://tijeanne.com/ If you like this episode, please rate, review, subscribe and sh...

Send us Fan Mail Following on from my ‘spiritual gym’ episode, I thought it would be great to speak to health & fitness guru, Dean Hodgkin. Dean has been in the industry for over 30yrs and started his journey as a world karate champion and has since passed on his love of fitness to people all around the world.   Lean in and listen to this insightful, educational episode as Dean discusses how w...

Send us Fan Mail It’s all about the ‘spirit gym’ in this weeks’ episode. So often we focus on the physical as opposed to taking a holistic approach to ‘us’. That’s why I give a brief intro to what a spiritual gym is and how to use it in everyday life!     Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours and at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://tijeanne.com/ I...

Send us Fan Mail I’m so excited for this coffee and banter episode as I interview Fat Freddie M (Morrison). With a crazy cool life that most can only dream about, Freddie talks about love n basketball, working with young people, DJing for a renown radio station in London, co-parenting to raise 2 wonderful kids and what it meant to turn 60 in 2022. I hope you love it as much as I do because Freddie...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a bit late in the day to wish you a happy new year so all I will say is, make those goals and intentions count for 2023. I’m super excited as this is my 60th episode and I’m pretty stoked to still be pushing out my podcast. I hope you enjoy this short, but very important poddie around making the most of 2023.      Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours and at: www...

Send us Fan Mail Wishing you all peace, love and happiness at this festive time of year. I want to say a big thank you to all my listeners and here’s to you continuing to listen in 2023. I’ll be back for season 3 mid-January for more juicy content.    Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours and at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://tijeanne.com/ If yo...

Send us Fan Mail This was an emotional episode to record but I felt it important to close a chapter on a part of my life that in some ways, has haunted for as long as I can remember. I hope you enjoy what you hear and try not to cry! I was inspired to record this based on a powerful documentary I watched this year, entitled ‘Handle with Care’…    Read about Jimmy Akingobla’s story   Follow me on:...

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by Steve Bartlett, former owner and founder of the very successful company,  Social Chain I decided to delve into my journal and share some of my comings and goings!  Enjoy   Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours Or at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://tijeanne.com/ If you like this episode, please rate, review, subscribe...

Send us Fan Mail How do you know if you’re being authentic in everyday life? Are you being your authentic self which means being real and aligning your thoughts with your actions. I  love this ‘authentic’ challenge every day so talking about it was an absolute blast!    Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours Or at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at: https://t...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, I get to talk about one of my favourite topics, Lurvvve! Yes, I’m waxing lyrical about Love Languages and how they are the communications framework for all relationships.    Lean in and listen and be sure to leave a review if you like it. Follow me on: www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours Or at: www.instagram.com/nubianteena Check out more of what I do at:...

Send us Fan Mail Superwoman, superhuman, Queen Bea provides a deep but hilariously funny insight into her manic world that involves nurturing 4 children, raising the bar at Microsoft as a senior woman in tech and screaming from the sidelines as a parent coach in rugby. Did I mention that’s just for starters… Lean in and listen and be sure to leave a review if you like it.   www.instagram.com/2021m...

Send us Fan Mail I was so excited when recording this podcast, I could barely get my words out. So many have asked about LOA aka the Law of Attraction and I was only too happy to bring you on the journey that I’m on, explaining a few things along the way!   Enjoy and please do leave me a review if you like it!    www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours www.instagram.com/nubianteena https://tijeanne.c...

Send us Fan Mail Wow what a week it’s been! Queenie died on my birthday and I had a week of mixed emotions.    www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyours www.instagram.com/nubianteena https://tijeanne.com/ If you like this episode, please rate, review, subscribe and share with others! Check out more of me at on my  website Follow me  on Instagram

Send us Fan Mail In my last episode, we delved into what stress is. Not far from that subject, in this coffee and banter series, I chat with Terrell Lewis, an award-winning spoken word artist who cut his cloth in professional football and got mental health problems in the process. I seek to understand how he recognised he had problems and what he did to overcome them.    www.instagram.com/2021myli...

Send us Fan Mail It’s my 50th, yes 50th podcast episode and I can’t believe I’m still going. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve had a bit of a stressful time. A bathroom renovation and volunteering at this years’ Commonwealth Games in Birmingham all collided which wasn’t particularly great.   How we deal with stress is important which I explore in this week’s episode.    www.instagram.com/2021mylifenotyou...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that Emotional Intelligence otherwise known as EI is the ability to express and control our emotions but so is the ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others? Imagine a world where you could not understand if a friend was feeling sad or a work colleague was angry.  Lean in and listen to this episode where I dig deep to break down EI as sim...

Send us Fan Mail In another coffee and banter sessions, I ask do we really know the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest?  Emma Harris does because she had just experienced one of them at the tender age of 49yrs young whilst on business in New York. This deeply honest episode educates not only about how the heart can stop suddenly but how we all need to ‘slow the fuck down’.  Emma’...