<![CDATA[Echoes and Parables]]>Echoes & Parables is a reflective podcast exploring how the stories we live continue to shape who we become. Through honest conversations, we uncover meaning in experience, identity, and memory.

]]>www.femiakande.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:37:10 GMTMon, 23 Mar 2026 07:11:16 GMT60Femi Akande<p><b>Echoes &amp; Parables</b> is a reflective podcast exploring how the stories we live continue to shape who we become. Through honest conversations, we uncover meaning in experience, identity, and memory.<br /></p>episodicFemi Akandeakandefo@gmail.comno<![CDATA[Funmilayo Akinwale]]>What if you become successful before you ever decide what success means?

Funmi was eighteen when she graduated from university. Soon came the career, the expectations and the respectable life she was supposed to want.

Until one day she realised she was living it for everybody except herself.

What followed wasn't simply a career change. It became an interrogation of some of life's most ordinary assumptions:

What is work for? What is money for? What is success?

And what happens when you stop inheriting the answers?

]]>f5d33e18-4819-4347-9357-41f97980185eThu, 20 Aug 2026 22:12:58 GMT<p><b>What if you become successful before you ever decide what success means?</b></p><p>Funmi was eighteen when she graduated from university. Soon came the career, the expectations and the respectable life she was supposed to want.</p><p>Until one day she realised she was living it for everybody except herself.</p><p>What followed wasn't simply a career change. It became an interrogation of some of life's most ordinary assumptions:</p><p><b>What is work for? What is money for? What is success?</b></p><p>And what happens when you stop inheriting the answers?</p>no01:05:5417Funmilayo Akinwalefull<![CDATA[Lydia Idakula]]>What if the life you've been told to want isn't the life you're meant to live?

Long before Lydia Idakula became a producer, storyteller and founder of Taruwa, she was wrestling with a question that refused to leave her: Why am I here?

In one of the most reflective conversations on Echoes & Parables, Lydia shares the journey that led her from certainty to searching, from searching to purpose, and ultimately to a life devoted to creating spaces where others can heal, belong and dream.

]]>5b606416-59d6-47fe-a0cd-98d5a54e2ebeWed, 22 Jul 2026 01:15:18 GMT<p><b>What if the life you've been told to want isn't the life you're meant to live?</b></p><p>Long before Lydia Idakula became a producer, storyteller and founder of Taruwa, she was wrestling with a question that refused to leave her: <i>Why am I here?</i></p><p>In one of the most reflective conversations on <i>Echoes &amp; Parables</i>, Lydia shares the journey that led her from certainty to searching, from searching to purpose, and ultimately to a life devoted to creating spaces where others can heal, belong and dream.</p>no01:04:1916Lydia Idakulafull<![CDATA[Oyenike Balogun]]>How early is too early to start answering life's questions?

Growing up in Jos Nigeria, Oyenike often found herself explaining why she had a Yoruba name but spoke Hausa like a native.

It seems like a small detail.

But that question opens the door to a much larger story about family, responsibility, belonging, marriage, loss and advocacy, and the quiet work of understanding who you are when life refuses simple categories.

]]>185ac12b-8e8a-4757-a3bb-a155ed8ed22cTue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:33 GMT<p><b>How early is too early to start answering life's questions?</b></p><p>Growing up in Jos Nigeria, Oyenike often found herself explaining why she had a Yoruba name but spoke Hausa like a native.</p><p>It seems like a small detail.</p><p>But that question opens the door to a much larger story about <b>family, responsibility, belonging, marriage, loss and advocacy</b>, and the quiet work of understanding who you are when life refuses simple categories.</p>no01:19:4815Oyenike Balogunfull<![CDATA[Nanre Nafziger]]>The most important people in our lives do not always give us answers. Sometimes they teach us better questions. In this conversation, Nanre Nafziger reflects on a life spent crossing cultures, challenging assumptions, and discovering how curiosity can become a way of finding your place in the world.

]]>ad089d25-b949-4df2-bbf5-0a3919cec556Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:42:26 GMT<p>The most important people in our lives do not always give us answers. Sometimes they teach us better questions. In this conversation, Nanre Nafziger reflects on a life spent crossing cultures, challenging assumptions, and discovering how curiosity can become a way of finding your place in the world.</p>no01:19:1714Nanre Nafzigerfull<![CDATA[Edet Okon]]>Edet Okon reflects on the tension between fitting in and truly belonging. What begins as a conversation about creativity and community gradually unfolds into a deeper story about identity, faith, silence, and the cost of becoming honest with yourself.

]]>4f5ef620-41e0-4435-b838-c9730e35815eWed, 13 May 2026 00:15:37 GMT<p>Edet Okon reflects on the tension between fitting in and truly belonging. What begins as a conversation about creativity and community gradually unfolds into a deeper story about identity, faith, silence, and the cost of becoming honest with yourself.</p>no01:06:5513Edet Okonfull<![CDATA[Grace Nwigwe]]>Grace has always known how to start over. Raised in uncertainty and shaped by independence, she learned to carry life on her own terms. But when control slips away, something unexpected emerges. This is a conversation about absence, resilience, and the moment community shows up when you least expect it.

]]>070534ea-cdca-4937-a68e-b233ea16a1e3Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:57:50 GMT<p>Grace has always known how to start over. Raised in uncertainty and shaped by independence, she learned to carry life on her own terms. But when control slips away, something unexpected emerges. This is a conversation about absence, resilience, and the moment community shows up when you least expect it.</p>no00:41:3712Grace Nwigwefull<![CDATA[Okwi Okoh]]>Okwi reflects on growing up in Jos, Nigeria — a place where difference was visible, but not divisive. In this conversation, we explore how early environments quietly shape identity, perception, and the way we move through the world.

]]>91a3cacd-940f-4204-a866-2ce9564c8bf4Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:29:15 GMT<p>Okwi reflects on growing up in Jos, Nigeria — a place where difference was visible, but not divisive. In this conversation, we explore how early environments quietly shape identity, perception, and the way we move through the world.</p>no00:47:2811Okwi Okohfull