Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives.
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This is one of the best podcasts from our side of the aisle.
โWe respect the work, and we respect each other so we wanted each other to winโ
Working with your spouse sounds like a recipe for conflict, but Boris Kodjoe proves otherwise.
He shares the one rule that keeps him & Nicole happy in marriage while working together.
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โWe respect the work, and we respect each other so we wanted each other to winโ
Working with your spouse sounds like a recipe for conflict, but Boris Kodjoe proves otherwise.
He shares the one rule that keeps him & Nicole happy in marriage while working together.
๐ฅ The Afropolitan Podcast
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The cruelest grief isnโt failing to get the life you imagined.
Itโs arriving โ and finding nobody home.
Boris Kodjoeโs father lived it for decades. In silence.
Full essay below.
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Most podcasts will keep asking how to win. Good. Someone should.
We'll be here, writing the day Naval never wrote.
The Boris conversation is live now. If you've ever gotten the thing and felt the question underneath it โ start there.
youtube.com/watch?v=KwlHPNZYโฆ
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Boris's father met those questions at the end of his life. Alone.
Our listeners get to borrow the lesson decades early.
That's the entire point of this show.
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That's the territory past Naval's last page. Four questions live there:
Who are you when the performance stops?
Where do you belong?
What deserves your sacrifice?
What are you passing forward?
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And that's the pattern of the whole episode.
We started talking about success. We ended up talking about belonging.
We started talking about achievement. We ended up talking about grief.
We started talking about discipline. We ended up talking about purpose.
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He answered with his father.
A Ghanaian doctor in Germany who achieved everything he set out to achieve and carried a silent depression for decades.
The achievement came. The belonging never did.
Boris gave it a name: existential grief.
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Our Boris Kodjoe episode is the purest version of it yet.
A billion dollars at the box office under his name. Stakes in 70 companies.
We barely asked how he won.
We asked what winning couldn't fix.
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Most shows help ambitious people become successful.
We're interested in what people discover after success stops being enough.
Not accomplishment. Consequence.
Accomplishment is public. Consequence is private.
Consequence is where the wisdom lives.
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The day after the exit. The day after the degree. The day after the migration. The day after the recognition.
That's the day we built the @afropolitan podcast to live inside.
I've always felt it. After this last episode with @BorisKodjoe, I can finally say it.
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I've thought about that line for years.
Because that other day never came.
Naval never wrote it. Nobody did.
The most quoted ending in modern entrepreneurship is an IOU that's still outstanding.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant taught a generation how to get rich.
Then, on the very last page, @naval quietly admits something:
"When youโre finally wealthy, youโll realize it wasnโt what you were seeking in the first place."
And he closes with six words:
"But that is for another day.
The Boris Kodjoe @afropolitan episode is one of the most powerful episodes we've ever done.
It's personally sparked some of my best writing.
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Modern life teaches us to run from all suffering.
But not all suffering is the enemy.
The real question is not how do I avoid suffering.
The real question is what kind of suffering is worth it.
What are you willing to endure for love, legacy, or truth?
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A Somalian referee got humiliated on the world stage.
The most powerful thing Africa could do was post about it.
That is the problem in one frame.
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If 2019 felt like Wakanda to you, you are not crazy.
It was the rehearsal.
The show has not started yet.
What is your version of leverage?
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