I'm officially on episode 10 of the Not Rude, Honest Podcast and although it may seem like a small achievement to many, it's kind of a big deal to me so I'm choosing to celebrate it. 🥳 Maintaining a podcast is a huge commitment but, so far, I'm having fun with it. I still need to settle on a jingle/intro and I eventually plan to have some guests on the show, but all in all, the podcast has been received positively. I want to say a huge thank you to those who have shown the

If you grew up in a country outside of the USA, being black is mostly a phenotype as cultures are more specific to ethnicity. You are black if, by looking at you, you appear to be a person of sub-Sahara African descent. You did not grow up with the one drop rule which means that, if you are mixed in any way, you are not considered black, you are mixed race. It unsettles me when mixed raced people with "black" heritage class themselves as black because, a) it is disregarding t

Losing a loved one is an incredibly hard thing to experience and life after their death is difficult to adjust to. The current pandemic has claimed the lives of so many and unfortunately, we do not know how many more will lose their lives before it is "over". When offering condolences to the bereaved, it is very easy to come across as insincere or just plain insensitive so I am here to tell you the things you must absolutely avoid doing in order for your empathy to come acros

As this decade is coming to an end, there is a buzz of excitement for what 2020 and the imminent decade will bring. I saw a thread on Twitter by @justinkan about the things he's learned in the past decade and it got me thinking, here is what I've learned. 1. Rejection And Failure Are a Part of Life I had faced both rejection and failure before 2010 but it was nothing compared to what I faced after. I had to learn to accept it as a part of life which is incredibly hard to do w

Between the recent terrorist attack in London Bridge and the results of the 2019 General Elections, it has been a rough end to the year for many Londoners who mostly voted Labour. To top it all off, the media showed its arse by intentionally misquoting Stormzy and encouraging the racist maggots to come out of the woodwork to attack him for telling the truth #NotRudeHonest. Winter Is Coming (or maybe it's here already... ) but I felt it was important to highlight the great th