E5 - Isumataq: Where wisdom reveals itself | with Remi Olajoyegbe

What lies in the silence between who we have learned to be and who we are becoming?

Today, the Wodcast sits down with Remi Olajoyegbe, founder, female empowerment coach, business leader, co-founder of Medicine Festival and founder of the Isumataq Collective, for a deeply personal conversation about success, transformation, grief and what it means to live and lead from a place of wholeness.

Having built a highly successful career in investment banking, Remi reflects on what she calls “the void of success”: reaching the milestones, ticking the boxes and receiving the external validation, while still experiencing a deeper yearning for something more. What happens when the language of success we've inherited no longer reflects the life we want to live?

Together, they explore Remi's extraordinary relationship with words, from growing up between Assamese and Nigerian cultures and learning to understand “the weight of the unspoken,” to the words that have accompanied profound periods of loss, grief and transformation in her own life. Remi shares why she believes “words are spells,” and how finding new language can help us move beyond the identities, systems and expectations that once defined us.

The conversation moves through feminine and masculine polarities, leadership, jealousy, belonging, ritual, the wisdom of the body and our inner world or “interiority.” Remi reflects on why transformation cannot be forced, but instead requires spaces where we feel safe enough to soften, tell the truth and allow previously hidden parts of ourselves to emerge.

Ultimately, this is a conversation about wholeness: what becomes possible when we stop dividing ourselves into the parts that are acceptable and those that are not, turn the lens inward, and begin to remember who we really are.

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Topics include:

• The void of success
• Why “words are spells”
• The weight of the unspoken
• Grief, loss and transformation
• Belonging and the language we inherit
• Masculine and feminine polarities
• Living and leading from wholeness
• Interiority and the inner world
• Jealousy as a window into desire
• Ritual, ceremony and transformation
• Listening to the body
• Female leadership and collaboration
• When there are no words

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More from Remi & the Isumataq Collective

➟ Isumataq website: https://www.isumataqcollective.com/

➟ Remi’s website: https://iamremi.co.uk/

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Join us live on Substack next Wednesday.

Mabel & Ben will explore three of Remi's weight-bearing words their origins, histories and the meanings they carry, before slowing things down for the final 15 minutes with music and time to write together, inspired by the words and ideas from the conversation.

See you there ✨