Faux Astronaut: Recent Episodes
Ian Irabor
I dont tell myself nice things enough. I dont have a proper handle on leading myself.Its embarassing.
We lost 2 nil to Real Madrid. Its a new week. I have to be goooood at illustrating yuno.
Life update on things. Single on valentines day.Working on this my current design project has been tough as it had been interesting.
what do you do when you face difficult things. I used to run away. I am learning to face these difficult things.
Made progress today with my illustrations and rightly so. Mirroring illustrations i like and admire is the way i would be going now.
The moral of the story is, be kinder to yourself. We was not made to be perfect people and thats facts.
Recorded myself and my friends have a short conversation about the burna boy and his grammy (almost) win. Why I kept hoping he won,lots of pidgin and hot takes in between. Enjoy
Sophomore episode to this new podcast run i am trying to do. Had an ok day. Learnt that alcohol is a friggin drug. Who would have thought bro? Lol.
After a long time away, I am back. The need to be fancy with producing content , kept me giving excuses on excuses. I am back recording my thoughts and sharing.
My ordeal from waking up late today. I got to work mad late and this is my experience,in words
I am stressed at work. But I want to keep a proper demeanor while I prepare for the opportunity ahead of me and also do my very best at the very moment. This is very important for me.
Got a cue from Candice's and Casie's podcast.A very useful habit I am looking to picking up.
I shared three major podcasts I listen to and why I listen to podcasts weekly. They are ;1. The brilliant idiots. 2.loosetalk podcast 3.. Whorible descisions .
You should check them out on sound cloud and thank me later.(of course)
It's hard not to live with expectations. What if we stripped ourselves of this burden and just lived?
lost money yesterday and it was a very good social experiment for how I handle emergencies.
It turned out to be a solemn episode, far from what I planned. MAy her soul rest in power.
We all win at all we do. Even when we fail, we are winning. I learnt this from a book I am currently reading.One of the most profound lessons I have learnt yet.
On this episode, my nose is really stuffed with catarrh. I am in my feelings and I just poured my heart out reminiscing about where I am coming from.
Aug 16th.
. In this episode, for the first time, I talk about girls. The first of many for sure. *insert giggle *
August 15th.
I called my cousins who are both 13 years old.First time I am speaking with them on the phone. I liked it.
It rained today. For a Monday,it was too much rain for us to deal with. Going to work was a mess.The day was poised to be frustrating. but I kept my calm and had a great day regardless
After my first today I tried an outro for the 1000th time and it's still Blehhhhhhhh. insert cry emoji
Aug 9th: . Managing my money is an extreme sport and I am learning the ropes. It's a lot of work.
I deleted two episodes of my podcast by mistake two days ago. This episode is me trying to make up for yesterday's episode and still speak today about how pizza is scaring me and how it's important for my growth.
Really short episode. I had quite a shitty day at work today but I am keeping it faith 100%.
There is an method to going about online friendships and or relationships.Yours truly didn't get the memo!
4th August- I am overly opinionated and sometimes this segues easily to arrogance. I suddenly don't listen to anyone or anything and I know I need to change and do better because it is wise to listen to instructions at times.
I may have slid into redundancy at work and for some reason I am blaming every other thing but myself for this. This episode Is a short therapy session where I tell myself the honest truth and hopefully commit to doing better from now on
In this episode, I share a lesson I picked up from a book I have been reading for over a week now: 'BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE' by Steve Barker. The difference between having Self Esteem and Self compassion.
Aug. 01 . 18 Guess who is growing up?Me!!!!!I save money instinctively now. Proud of myself.Barely 3 days in and I have gone into a relapse with my plan to stop nail biting.
31st July: Navigating office politics is an extreme sport and this is why I think so. Do have a listen.
Today July 30th was a great day at work . I want to stop biting my nails and trust me,it is a struggle getting to do this. I talked about how I am trying to trick myself to stop
On this episode I talked about why I want to try my hands on blogging on my podcast I. E a podcast a day. Honestly don't know if this would work or if people would like it, that's secondary. All I know is that I want to be better at telling stories and this challenge would aid that.
It took me four years to truly realize the reason why i need to save every last Kobo I have to set up my website.
A whole 4 years!!!!
How is this even possible? I talked about it in this episode.
In this episode, I catch up on what I have been up to so far in the last month. How I moved to Lagos, the job, the peculiarities of Lagos.
I shared a few thoughts about the really BEAUTIFUL Nigeria World Cup kit. That Jersey is definitely a 10/10 for me.
In this episode, I talked about how I deal with my feelings of anxiety, doubt and self loathe as a growing adult drawing lessons from real life stories.
I basically talked about what the podcast would be about and gave little background stories about how I got to starting the podcast.