The Word Café Podcast with Amax

Send us Fan Mail What is faithfulness? Who should we refer to as being faithful? The word faithfulness can be best described as a quality which points to an individual’s resolve to stand true to a course or an idea. It is that factor that keeps a relationship connection strong and enduring.   Our existence and interactions are defined by relationships, be it formal and informal and these connectio...

Send us Fan Mail Dealing with brokenness is a fundamental aspect of life and living. In this episode of the Word Café, we deal with the subject of repair by looking at the old Japanese art called, Kintsugi. The translation from Japanese of Kintsugi or Kintsukuroi means golden joinery or repair with gold where the gold powder is applied on lacquer. Some refer to it as Kintsugi art with a metaphor o...

Send us Fan Mail The power of your story! For what we have come to embrace today and has influenced us and the decisions we have been making is not unconnected to the stories we have been told and have believed. Our society thrives on stories. In this Episode of the Word Café podcast, I look at the power in a story. My focus here is on the discovery of the River Niger by Mungo Park, Scottish explo...

Send us Fan Mail In concluding the phenomenal woman series, i had to bring in a guy on the conversation to have that masculine view on the subject. My guest for this episode is Dike Chukwumerije Dike Chukwumerije is a Nigerian spoken word and performance poetry artist and an award-winning author. He has eight published book including the novel Urichindere, which won the 2013 Association of Nigeria...

Send us Fan Mail Stay at home mums, who are they and what do they do?  For this episode of the phenomenal woman series, we will be featuring Rachael Ogbidi and Ifeoma Omoniyi, two resilient women who have demystified the myth of ‘stay at home mum’. They have shown that staying at home, does not mean staying idle.  They have taken the art of home engineering to an all-time high, creating content th...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, they are passionate and this quality is what drives the phenomenal woman    Olubukola Seun-Oguntuga, is a lawyer, John Maxwell Team certified executive leadership coach, and speaker and trainer who is passionate about helping young people become the best versions of themselves. She is the the Convener of Leadership for Lawyers Initiative, a coaching and mentoring platform for...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the phenomenal woman series i had the privilege of sharing the space with Grace Ngozi Onyeobuolise,  a lady who defines her phenomenal woman  essence through books Grace is the CEO of Write Treasurez Educational Resource Center with the soul objectives of helping individuals and organizations achieve their development needs vai training and book reading.  Write...

Send us Fan Mail Celebrating the woman phenomenon is an endless one. in this episode i had the honour of discussing with someone who loves music. her name is NK Maduforo. NK Maduforo is an international recording artist who creatively communicates God’s love through her lyrics, music and visuals. She’s often described as an innovative artist leading the new generation of gospel artists who have cr...

Send us Fan Mail 'The WOMAN factor lights up the world, she brings meaning and form to humanity and I must say who doesn’t like the light ' Amachree Isoboye from The Colour of Words The first teacher most of us had were our mothers.  Continuing on the phenomenal woman series, in this episode I had the singular honour of having an educator as my guest, her is Irene Bangwell. Irene Bangwel...

Send us Fan Mail One quality that has set women apart within the society is Multi-tasking. I see this expressed i the Proverbs 31 Woman; ' She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fle...

Send us Fan Mail One quality of the phenomenal woman that captures my attention any day is RESILIENCE. Resilience has been defined as,  the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. our human existence is marked with a lot o challenges, that one cannot but be resilient in responding to these challenges. I had the honour of discussing this with Tonbra Nwosuagwu,  She describes herse...

Send us Fan Mail ‘The bible describes the WOMAN phenomenon as worth more than a treasure that can be sort after’ Amachree Isoboye from ‘The Colour of words’ The year 2021 has been an awesome year for our ‘WOMEN’ in so many brilliant ways I must say. We witnessed and still witnessing great moments that can only be described as phenomenal for the women. In this Episode  I will be talking about my mo...

Send us Fan Mail What is disruptive?  For us to consider the word disruptive, we shall first consider the root word; disrupt. Means to prevent something, especially a system , process , or event , from continuing as usual or as expected . One thing stands out in this definition and it is moving away from the norm (usual) as it were. What is thinking?  It is the process of considering or reasoning...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, the mind and words, how do they function, the science more r less? In this episode of the Word Café, I have the privilege of discussing this with a Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr. Joyce Nona Ededki. We talked about the following; Ø  How the mind processes words Ø  The unconscious mind Ø  The subconscious mind Ø  Where creativity ‘dwells’ Ø  Emotional intelligence Ø  Body languag...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the word café, I come to look at what I term ‘The word Smith’. One thing I have come to observe all around me is the effect of words and more often than not, it is our doing, yes the way we use words. We have come to pay attention to so many things we consider ‘treasures’, but have paid less attention what truly should be treasured; our words. Our reality be it...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode of the word café, we are looking at a concept termed 'word whisperer'.    The focus here is on how we should approach the usage of words, listening with the inner pair of 'ears' and appreciate the power behind our words and not just to run off with everything we hear and start using them in the bid to belong.  Our essence as human beings is carr...

Send us Fan Mail This is the  first episode on The Word Café Podcast. This episode gives an inside information on how I came to fall in love with words on the pages of books through the help of my teacher, Mrs. Jones. Here I share my challenges  and struggles with reading and how I came to overcome this with the help of my teacher who took so much interest in me at that age. This experience is for...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the Word Café Podcast. A Podcast that inspires you to see words and its place in your life differently, to be more intentional in your approach with usage of words. On this show I will share some salient principles I consider vital in living a purposeful word driven life. Every episode will motivate and challenge you to live purposely, and stay positive with a...