A Note from Adenike:
I am immensely proud to introduce FIRST BORN DAUGHTER, a podcast that examines Black women, labor and success. I’m a daughter, a sister, and a media entrepreneur who’s worked at international media organizations like the New York Times, Penguin, and HarperCollins and have started my own company –AYO Media, a digital first platform for Black women across the diaspora.
I’m all about facilitating community with women like me–Black, ambitious, seeking to live the biggest life possible–and forced to interrogate our increasingly complicated relationships with work and labor in a rapidly changing world. How much space do we give to work and separated from it, who are we, really?
For me, a lot of tension is rooted in being a first born daughter. It’s where I can see the seeds of my relationship to labor taking root–hence the title of this podcast.
And I have a feeling that for many Black women- who aren’t even necessarily first borns, their seedlings began early too. And so this is a podcast that maps out those origins of our ambition and the path it’s led us on along the way. I talk to amazing women across the diaspora like editor in chief of The Cut, Lindsay Peoples, French journalist and activist Rokhaya Diallo, Irish-Nigerian writer Emma Dabiri and media entrepreneur Tai Beauchamp.
You can find all episodes of FIRST BORN DAUGHTER here.
Thanks for listening,
Adenike
