Unspeakable Leadership

What if the life you're living today is only one version of the life you could have? In this Season 6 finale of Unspeakable Leadership, Rohene Bouajram brings My Arena to a close with a deeply personal reflection on endings, release and becoming. Between the season's opening episode and now, so much has unfolded in her own life: a car accident that wrote off her beloved Jack Bauer, doors closing b...

What would it feel like to show up fully in your career without shrinking, masking, or performing your way through the day? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Mercedes Swan, Career Love Coach and founder of the Black Women Bliss Community and Career Love, for a deeply rich and expansive conversation about career liberation, collective freedom, and wh...

What happens when you realize the biggest barrier to your leadership isn't external, it's your own opinion of yourself? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene sits down with Leena Yousefi, founder of YLaw, the largest female-owned law firm in Canada. Leena has spent her career reimagining the legal profession through progressive values like four-day work weeks, pay transparency...

What happens when you realize the biggest barrier to your leadership isn't external, it's your own opinion of yourself? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Haeley Mariah Williams, Founder of The Mental & Physical Coaching Experience, Holistic Health & Wellness Educator, Transformational Coach, and Creator of Remember You™, a trauma-informed fr...

What if the power to heal the world has been inside you all along? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Yeye Omitosin Cyrus, spiritual leader, third-generation guardian of the Kenny Cyrus Alkibidon Ilaiyappa (K C A I I), one of the oldest Orisha shrines in Trinidad and Tobago, and recipient of the chieftaincy title Iyalode de Awaa Bay (Mother Leader, W...

What if everything you were taught about building a successful career is actually keeping you stuck? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Allison Hemmings, career glow-up coach and founder of Nouveau Executive Solutions, for a refreshingly honest conversation about redefining career success, breaking free from traditional employment scripts, and buildi...

What if the very metaphors we use to talk about leadership are already rooted in scarcity? In this episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 6, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Vanity Jenkins, founder of ShiftED Consulting, leadership coach, and human design facilitator, for a rich, honest, and deeply practical conversation about scarcity mindset, self-trust, and what it truly means to lead from a pl...

What does it mean to lead truly, not because the system told you how, but because you decided who you want to become? In this Season 6 premiere of Unspeakable Leadership, Rohene Bouajram opens with one of the most important conversations of the season: her own. She invites you into her arena, a space where you stop performing and start choosing. Between Season 5 and now, Rohene has been reflecting...

What does it really mean to build your own arena? In this Season 5 finale, Rohene Bouajram reflects on the powerful conversations that shaped She Built Her Own Arena and shares the deeper lesson that emerged throughout the season. Building your own arena is not simply about ambition. It is about honesty. It is about having the courage to admit that the life you've built has room to expand into som...

What if becoming the CEO of your financial life has less to do with how much you earn and more to do with the decisions you make? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Chimaobim Udodi to explore how financial literacy, intentionality, and leadership intersect to create a life of freedom, confidence, and possibility. Together, they unpack the mindset shifts that help us move from reacting...

What happens when you stop surviving and start thriving? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Emmerance Victoria for a raw, honest, and deeply moving conversation about intuition, self-love, healing, and the courage to put yourself first, even when the world tells you not to. Together, they explore what it means to reconnect with your spiritual essence, trust your intuition, and reclaim...

What happens when leadership is no longer defined by titles, achievement, or external validation? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Donnette Burrows and June A. Muvunyi for an honest conversation about leadership, motherhood, identity, and the courage to define success on your own terms. Together, they explore the ways women are conditioned to perform, fit in, and seek approval, and...

What happens when you realize the space you worked so hard to enter was never built to see your worth? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Arcadia Gijah Brown, an Independent Financial Planner, entrepreneur, and wellness advocate, to explore what it means to walk away from environments that diminish you and step boldly toward spaces that celebrate who you truly are. Together, they dive...

What if self-love is not something you “achieve” but something you unlearn your way back to? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with nonprofit leader, educator, and executive coach Minnie Karanja to explore why true self-love often begins in the places we avoid the most. This conversation is grounding, reflective, and filled with insight for anyone ready to lead, work, and live from a plac...

What if the shift you are waiting for is not external, but internal? In this episode, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Nicole Allyson , a certified life coach and solopreneur, to talk about what it really takes to dream bigger, choose yourself, and step into an arena you define for your own life. Together, they explore the mindset shifts that help women move beyond people pleasing, rewrite limiting...

In this season-opening reflection, Rohene Bouajram invites us into a personal exploration of what happens after we cross the line. Through stories of immigration, identity, and the emotional cost of shrinking, she reveals how survival can become a thermostat that limits what many women of colour believe they are allowed to have. Rohene reflects on inherited ceilings, inherited definitions of succe...

In this season-closing reflection, Rohene Bouajram invites us to release one of the most persistent lies many of us carry: that who we are is something to fix. Through stories, letters, and the wisdom gathered from this season’s guests, she explores the living practices of radical self-acceptance and radical self-trust as pathways back to ourselves. We hear what it truly means to stop rehearsing s...

The answers you’ve been searching for have been living in your body all along. In this conversation with Kay Thellot, an ethnotherapist and founder of Prensip Minokan, we explore what it means to decolonize mental health and its role in our leadership journey. Remembering that our healing isn’t something we have to earn, it’s something we return to. Kay shares with Rohene Bouajram how reconnecting...

Ambition, radical self-trust, and intentional joy. This conversation between Rohene Bouajram and Bianca B. King explores what it means for women of colour to redefine ambition on our own terms.  Leaving home at 13, later walking away from a successful corporate real estate career, and rebuilding from her “$38 moment” are all experiences that Bianca points back to as a series of catalysts to c...

Ancient wisdom, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and shamanic healing can help women lead with clarity and confidence in the age of AI. Guest Leslie Ann Keeler shares how her journey through loss, cultural identity, and motherhood has shaped her leadership philosophy, integrating spirituality, neuroscience, and presence. Rohene and Leslie discuss what it means to balanc...

In this episode, masking, ADHD, neurodivergent identity, and radical acceptance take center stage as Ammara Wood shares her story of unlearning and rediscovery. She opens up about the years spent hiding her true self to survive in systems that were never built for her, and the liberation that came from choosing authenticity over approval. Through her lens as a late-diagnosed Black woman with ADHD,...

Fear, comparison, and visualization take center stage in this conversation between host Rohene Bouajram and guest Urmi Hossain. Together, they explore how women of colour can break free from the silent race of measuring themselves against others and learn to cross the line into authentic leadership. Urmi shares how she transformed fear into an ally through daily acts of courage, intentional self-r...

What happens when being “nice” stops being a survival tool and starts holding you back? In this conversation, Rohene Bouajram sits down with Amira Barger, award-winning executive and author of The Price of Nice, to unpack the hidden costs of being “the nice girl” in leadership and life. We cover: Why “nice” often means silence, shrinking, or compliance Why the opposite of nice isn’t mean, it’s ner...

In this opening episode of Unspeakable Leadership Season 4, host Rohene Bouajram introduces the theme: She Crossed the Line. Rohene shares a personal story from her childhood in Zimbabwe—her first race, the struggle of undiagnosed asthma, and the defining moment when her mother’s voice urged her to keep going. From that experience comes a lesson that still echoes today: leadership isn’t about arri...

What does it mean to lead unspeakably—and then pause, reflect, and honour what came before? In this powerful season finale of the third season of Unspeakable Leadership , host Rohene Bouajram brings us full circle. With deep reverence and reflection, she revisits the theme Her Next Act —a season that invited women to rewrite their narratives, release what no longer serves them, and reclaim their v...