The Yellow Pill Podcast

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - https://bit.ly/typs9e16   ### On this edition of #Cinematherapy, Wole and Tobi discuss the iconic movie "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), which explores the balance between work and personal life. The movie follows aspiring journalist Andrea as she becomes the assistant to the demanding Miranda Priestly in the high fashi...

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - https://bit.ly/typs9e15   ##   Work-Life Balance Do you have a good understanding of what "work-life balance" means? It's a term we hear a lot, but have you ever stopped to think about what the "balance" part really refers to? Let's take a moment to consider some more questions together: Do you think work-life balance...

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - https://bit.ly/typs9e14 The debate on the conditions of unconditional love continued in this cinematherapy episode. To be honest, we feel this topic was one that was too complex & difficult to arrive at a consensus in 2 hours of conversation. The movie we chose to potentially break this down further was ‘The Spectacula...

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use -  https://bit.ly/typs9e13 ### A mysterious concept, a romantic ideal, and a taken-for-granted understanding. These are three things that we feel characterize the concept of unconditional love, and in typical Yellow pill fashion, we don't take things for granted. In the context of emerging and sustaining relationships, u...

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use -  https://bit.ly/typs9e12 ### On the latest episode of the podcast, Wole and Tobi tried to use the Ikigai framework to figure out a part of their lives connected with purpose. But, honestly, they just ended up with more questions than answers about how practical the framework was. It was like they were in a constant sta...

To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - https://bit.ly/typs9e11 ### You've probably stumbled upon a bunch of frameworks and popular guidelines on how to find purpose in life or discover your reason for existence. One such concept is Ikigai, a Japanese term that translates to "the reason for being". The idea is simple: each person finds their reason for being...

To leave a comment 👉🏾  - http://bit.ly/typs9e10 . . . "Ultimately, people age, and children need to live their lives." This sad but true reality is beautifully portrayed in our latest cinema therapy episode, where we take a look at The Father (2020). The movie features an outstanding narrative and strong characterizations from the cast. As we talked about last week, the topic of caring for agein...

✨NEW✨: To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use -  http://bit.ly/typs9e9 . . . About this episode: The way life works is that the people who give us life, raise us, support us, and care for us will eventually reach a point where they need our help and support too. Watching our parents grow old can sneak up on us, and we may only realize it in moments of epiph...

✨NEW✨: To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - https://bit.ly/typs9e8 . . . Picking a movie for this week's cinematherapy episode was a tough call, man 😓 Even after giving chatgpt some plot hints, we weren't fully sold on the options it gave us 😒 In the end, we went with Blue Valentine. We're betting only a few of you out there have seen it. Wole was alr...

✨NEW✨: To leave a comment at any point during your listen, here's a link you can use - http://bit.ly/typs9e7 . . The Yellow Pill Junkies Campaign ENDS soon. Here's your chance to win a £25 Amazon voucher 💳: https://lkh8vm25tg2.typeform.com/to/M1deAAPd . . Do you recognize this relationship cycle? The meeting with a “stranger”, the chase, the honeymoon, the comfort, the tolerance, the downhill,...

Anxiety, bridges burnt, and an existential tipping point. These are some of the words that best describe the upcoming Nigerian elections and the state of the nation. Whether we like it or not, the outcomes of this upcoming Nigerian elections matter to the world. Why? For starters, Nigeria is the most populous black country on earth, and one out of every five persons of African origin is Nigerian....

We wanted to find a useful cinematherapy resource for the theme of love and Valentine's Day, so that meant we stayed away from the cheesy classics 😄. We decided to go for nostalgia and revisit the classic movie, Love and Basketball. We discussed the important love lessons that emerged from the movie, such as friendship, childhood romance, and the balance between career and love. Aside from the on...

As February 14th draws near, Wole and Tobi take a different approach to discuss Valentine's Day. Instead of focusing on the good, romantic aspects of the holiday, they delve into the darker side of it, exploring the taken-for-granted expectations and experiences that can lead to negative outcomes for couples and singles. They ask if and how Valentine's Day can *do more harm than good* for all invo...

📣 The Yellow Pill Junkies Campaign is still on. Here's your chance to win an Amazon voucher 💳: https://lkh8vm25tg2.typeform.com/to/M1deAAPd . . . Watching American Psycho for cinema therapy was more like cinema what the hell! Despite all the violent/crazy scenes, we dove into this movie again because it has strong themes of materialism we couldn’t ignore. If you haven’t seen the movie, it revolv...

Link to the TYP Junkies campaign:  https://lkh8vm25tg2.typeform.com/to/M1deAAPd . . For a while now, Wolé and Tobi have been reflecting on the importance they attach to material possessions. Wolé's thoughts on materialism began recently when a life transition made him question the number of clothes he needs. Tobi's thoughts have been more mature, stemming from his longstanding view that he places...

This episode contains explicit language from clips we included from the film. ## In our first-ever  #cinematherapy episode, we dive into “Marriage Story”, an amazing movie starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. We dissect scenes and themes in the film that reflect our current topic of discussion about premarital fears and the apprehension of divorce. We picked and loved this story because it...

Link to the TYP Junkies campaign: https://lkh8vm25tg2.typeform.com/to/M1deAAPd In this episode, Wolé and Tobi sit down to really talk about some premarital fears they have. While they both share the same desire to settle down one day 🤞🏾, their paths towards that destination are quite different 🛣️. Part of what drives this difference is that Wolé has premarital fears that Tobi can’t relate to, an...

Are you ready for another season of familiar dilemmas and wicked problems? Join us as we try to make sense of the world we find ourselves in through intimate conversations, piercing thoughts, and provocative questions. We've also got a couple of new experiences lined up this season, including a new campaign we're launching which we talk more about in the episode. Tune in for a preview of what's co...

Happy New Year everyone! 🎊 In this first episode of 2023, Wole and Tobi sat down to talk about the year ahead, personal plans for the year and how they both approach each new year, and a bit about what's coming up on the podcast's new season. The episode also features responses from you our listeners to a recent survey we put out. Stay tuned for the trailer episode for the new season next week, w...

First, we would love to know how your 2022 went, as well as your outlook for 2023! So please tell us two things here. First, how was your 2022? Second, what are you optimistic about going into in 2023:  https://ngl.link/theyellowpillpod92164 In this episode, Wole and Tobi catch up after a minute. Wole talks through the life transitions he’s had to deal with since finishing his PhD, including movin...

In this bonus episode, Tobi is back again with another one of his monologues. This one sees him reflect on being a groomsman at a friend's wedding a weekend ago, and his newfound understanding of why he thinks he's always leaned towards having a small wedding ceremony. He also dives into the symbolism, rituals and pageantry of a wedding. . . . If you love listening to the podcast, here's how you c...

In this bonus episode, Tobi shares his thoughts about what he describes as "a gentle kind of practical and efficient love". He also gives a quick overview of the areas to seek to know a person as highlighted by the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) created by John Van Epp in his book " How To Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk " . . As always, if you love listening to the podcast, here's how you...

In this bonus episode, Tobi gives a bit of insight into what he does for a living. . . As always, if you love listening to the podcast, here's how you can show us some love! Leave us a review where you're listening right now! 💫 Follow us on Twitter ( @yellowpill_pod ) 🐦 Follow us on Instagram ( @theyellowpillpod ) 📷 Subscribe to  The Yellow Pill Newsletter on Substack  🗞 Send us an email with a...

In this bonus episode, Wole breaks down the meaning behind the name of the podcast!  . . As always, if you love listening to the podcast, here's how you can show us some love! Leave us a review where you're listening right now! 💫 Follow us on Twitter ( @yellowpill_pod ) 🐦 Follow us on Instagram ( @theyellowpillpod ) 📷 Subscribe to  The Yellow Pill Newsletter on Substack  🗞 Send us an email with...

In this bonus episode, Wole and Tobi have a chat with one of our mates from high school who was a part of the set design team for the Netflix original movie from Nollywood, Anikulapo. With a total of 8,730,000 global views, Anikulapo is presently ranked among the top 10 non-English language movies on Netflix Gbadebo tells us about the experience of being on set, his decision to go to film school a...