On Our Shared Humanity, Leadership, & System’s Change — Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 5: The Compound in Black Womanhood

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In Chapter 5 of the series, Chisom turns to what the operating system does when it compounds. The claim is that compounding is multiplicative, not additive: when rac!sm meets patriarchy meets ant!-Blackness, the result is not the sum of three harms but a third condition that neither rac!sm nor patriarchy alone because it produces a structural position so specific that the dominant analyses of either race or gender systematically fail to see it. It names m!sogynoir, Moya Bailey’s 2010 term for the specific contempt that is neither generic m!sogyny nor generic ant!-Blackness, and Patricia Hill Collins’s controlling images, the Mammy, the Jezebel, the Sapphire, the Welfare Queen, the Strong Black Woman trap, as the apparatus by which the compound is administered. It ties the compound back to the series’ through-line: the point where rac!sm, patriarchy, and ant!-Blackness converges on a single body is where white terror!sm does its most concentrated work. It traces a lineage fifty years deep and three continents wide, from the Combahee River Collective in 1977, bell hooks in 1981, Hortense Spillers in 1987, Kimberlé Crenshaw who coined intersectionality in 1989, and Patricia Hill Collins in 1990, to the African and Brazilian Black feminist traditions of Oyěwùmí, Amadiume, Mama, Carneiro, and Gonzalez. It names the adultification of Black girls, the Georgetown research showing that adults perceive Black girls as less innocent and more adult beginning at age five, and the five mechanisms of the assault on Black girlhood. It documents the compound in 2026 across five sites: the US economic compound, the political-violence compound in Brazil with the February 2026 Supreme Court conviction of Marielle Franco’s killers, the gender-based-violence compound in South Africa with the November 2025 national disaster declaration, the postcolonial-state compound across Africa with its child-marriage and economic-exclusion data, and the compound carried by Black queer and trans women. It handles five predictable critiques. It closes by turning Chisom’s Three Clarities framework directly toward Black women: refuse the controlling images, see the system as it is, and build your own tables without waiting for a system that may not change in your lifetime.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/]

One Year In — A Reflection on Lessons Learned from Hosting Overnight Wisdom Podcast.

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] One year of Overnight Wisdom. Whew! On May 28th, 2026, my podcast turned one. One year of conversations, solo reflections, tech issues, learning in public, and occasionally wondering why I added one more thing to my already full life. Here are 8 things I’ve learned: 1. Start before you are ready. Your first episode does not need to be iconic. It needs to exist. 2. Consistency needs a system. Motivation is cute. Systems are better. 3. Do not be afraid of failing. Say the thing. Learn. Improve. Keep going. 4. Do not build around fantasy guests. Start with people whose work, lives, and stories make you curious. 5. Protect your energy. Some people will not respond. Some will record and never share. Do not take it personally. Be willing to pivot. 6. Sometimes your niche is not niching. Expand the room. 7. Try solo episodes. If you have a point of view, let people meet your mind directly. 8. Do not be precious. The work will teach you what it wants to become if you are paying attention. One year in, I am still learning, refining, building, and occasionally winging it with confidence and a calendar invite. But I am so glad I started. So if you are reading this and have always wanted to build, something of your own, a business, a project, a piece of art, start with what you have. Start with what you know. Start messy, but start honestly. The work becomes clearer once it exists.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/]

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 4: Racism as the Operating System.

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In episode 4 of the series, Chisom turns to the operating system that white terrorism built: racism. The chapter opens with the precise distinction between racial prejudice and racism: prejudice is what individuals carry, racism is what happens when racial prejudice meets systemic power. The chapter traces the construction of race itself across the papal bulls, the Iberian casta system, the English colonial slave codes, the French Code Noir, and the nineteenth-century scientific racism whose biological dressing has been settled as fiction while the political category continues to operate. It marks the May 25, 2026 Pope Leo XIV encyclical apologising for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery, names that Leo did the specific thing his predecessors refused to do, and notes that the bulls have still not been rescinded. It makes the case for anti-Black racism as the foundational case the operating system was built around through three arguments: the economic, the global export, and the intra-racial reproduction in colorism. It names the family of racisms (anti-Indigenous, anti-Arab, anti-Asian, anti-Jewish, anti-Roma) as variants of the same technology, each with its own history and present. It documents anti-Black racism in 2026 globally: Black maternal mortality in the U.S., in the U.K., in Norway; police violence disproportionately of Black Americans, Nahel Merzouk in France, U.K. stop-and-search disparities, and the 6,243 Brazilian police killings in 2024 with 82 percent of victims Black; the Mediterranean border regime and its more than 30,000 dead since 2014; the Dominican Republic’s mass deportations of Haitian-descended people, more than 276,000 in 2024 and more than 379,000 in 2025; and the post-2023 corporate DEI rollback. The episode names five predictable critiques, including the “we have moved on” deflection among many people across continents and racialised groups who claim we live in post-racial, post-sexist, post-homophobic, post-Islamophobic, post-colonial worlds we do not actually live in. The episode locates Chisom as a woman whose children will encounter the operating system in a different form than she did. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/]

On Our Shared Humanity, Leadership, & System’s Change — Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits down with Logan McClure Davda, CEO of TED, for a layered conversation on leadership, systems change, joy, motherhood, power, and what it means to remain human while building institutions that shape the world. Logan reflects on her path from mission-driven work in East Africa, to Palantir, the Obama Foundation, and eventually back to TED, where she now leads one of the world’s most influential platforms for ideas. Together, they explore what systems change actually requires, why real impact is rarely the work of one heroic individual, and how ideas travel differently when they are held in community. The conversation moves through the responsibility of platforming difficult perspectives, the need for nuance in a polarized world, the role of TED in climate and democracy work, and the challenge of building spaces where disagreement does not become dehumanization. Chisom and Logan also speak candidly about motherhood, caregiving, joy as resistance, privilege in birth, AI, imposter syndrome, and the discipline of staying grounded when the world feels overwhelming. At its core, this is a conversation about clarity, complexity, and responsibility. What does it mean to lead without losing your humanity? How do we build for the future when we may never sit under the shade of the trees we plant? And how do we keep choosing connection in a world that keeps rewarding division? Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/]

Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 3: The Settler Structure

We'd love to hear from you. Send us your questions, comments, and suggestions. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/fan_mail/new] In Chapter 3 of the series, Chisom turns to the present tense. Settler colonialism is not a phase that European empires went through and emerged from. It is a structure that continues to operate, on every populated continent, in 2026. The chapter opens by naming the three forms of white terrorism’s modern operation: extractive colonialism, plantation slavery, named briefly and flagged for a future chapter; and settler colonialism, the focus of the rest of the episode.  Chisom walks through three live cases chosen to show the structure operating across its full register. Greenland under Denmark, where the Spiral Case is delivering individual compensation in 2026 while the colonial relationship continues, shows what the structure does to bodies. Indigenous nations in the United States, where the Doctrine of Discovery still operates in property law and where Indigenous women are murdered at more than ten times the national average, shows what the structure does to land and to law. Palestine, where the July 2024 ICJ ruling has been ignored, where the UN concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genoc!de in Gaza, and where settler violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank reached unprecedented levels in 2025, shows what the structure does to both at once.  Chisom weaves the Doctrine of Discovery through the chapter as one variant of a global legal pattern of fictions that empty the land, alongside terra nullius in Australia, the Absentee Property Law in Israel, and state-land doctrines in the Nordics. She names directly that white terrorism, in the historical sense, is a system built by specific European institutions across specific centuries, now operated by multiple actors including the UAE, China, Russia, and corrupt African leaders, none of whom are the architects, all of whom are profiting from the architecture. She locates herself, as a Nigerian Black woman living in a country occupying Sami land. She closes with three principles for repair: restitution, sovereignty, truth.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464633/support] ----------------------------------- On Overnight Wisdom, new solo episodes drop every Wednesday, with occasional guest and solo conversations released on Sundays. Streaming & Social Links Visit our website https://overnightwisdom.com/ [https://overnightwisdom.com/] YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze [https://www.youtube.com/@Chisom-Udeze] Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/5pD7OuPqWKDsd5ymoo7lSz] Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-wisdom/id1804746544] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/ [https://www.instagram.com/overnight.wisdom/] TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@overnight.wisdom [https://www.tiktok.com/@chisom_udeze] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/overnightwisdom/] RSS Feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2464633.rss] Connect with Chisom on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisomudeze/]