The Sage Dosage: Recent Episodes
Oluwaseun Ayansola
Oluwaseun Ayansola is a high-achieving young professional, mentor and excellence enthusiast.
The Sage Dosage is a career building and personal development podcast. It explores different issues relating to careers in law, Finance and Investment Banking. It also offers tips on securing and acing internship and/or volunteering opportunities.
Whether you are a young professional in or simply aspiring to build a career in these fields, this podcast offers insight, support and tips that not only improve your understanding of how these fields work but also helps you navigate your way through them.
In this episode, I share some of the ways I deal with procrastination. I explored the mental and efficiency elements of the problem and shared some tested solutions.
On this episode, I shared my process for setting specific measurable achievable relevant and time-bound (SMART) goals and how to ensure you stay accountable throughout the year.
In this episode I explored factors to consider when deciding on a master’s degree and shared tips on how I survived Oxford.
Sharing notes from a transformational book I’m reading titled Secrets of Productive People
I got the interviewer’s perspective on how to ace top law firms interviews. You will find this extremely useful.
I explored 10 common myths of working as an NYSC Associate or Junior Associate in a top law firm.
In this episode, I introduce listeners to what open banking means and how it will revolutionize the future of banking in Nigeria.
Including specific responses to “what is your salary expectation?” and “how much are you paid in your current employments?” questions
In this episode, I help you answer some of the most common law firm interview questions from “Can we meet you?” “Why this firm?” “Why Finance” “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”
In this episode, I discuss the ways of engaging a mentor for the best mentorship experience.
The episode explores the many factors to consider when deciding on a Masters - immigration, network, career advancement, exposure etc.
This is the concluding episode of the series. I discuss how to thing about goals and the best way to manage unmet goals.
In this episode, I did a review of 2020 and the lessons 2020 taught me. In the next episode, I will talk about goal setting and the systems that work.
In this episode, I responded to a recurring question, “what do I do if I have good grades but desire employment in a top tier law firm?”.
This is the second episode in the series on how to become a globally relevant professional or student in Nigeria.
This is the first episode of a series exploring how to build a global mindset as a student and young professional in Nigeria.
In this episode, I attempted to demystify the application process into top-tier law firms from start to finish.
In this episode, you will learn other ways to secure prestigious graduate and undergraduate internships than bu application.
This episode explores networking tips for introverts and professionals generally especially on LinkedIn. In this episode, you will learn how to send personalised connection requests, follow up, post regularly and engage your connections on LinkedIn.
I have always wondered why people become less ambitious and idealistic as they age. In this episode, I have shared thoughts from a few authors on how we can lead a more enriching life by simply saying “yes” to more random things.
This is the concluding episode for last week’s podcast on “Litigation or Corporate/commercial?”. In this episode, I gave a quick recap on litigation, corporate/commercial and Banking & Finance. I then drilled down on Capital Markets/Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology, Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications (TMET), Business Advisory and Intellectual Property teams.
In this episode, I specifically discussed the day-to-day life of a Banking and Finance Associate. I went out from the general to the specific: I discussed which the practice group is more lucrative between corporate/commercial and litigation; I then threw some light on each of litigation and corporate/commercial practice groups before concluding with the quotidian tasks of a Banking and Finance Associate. I will take the other teams in the Corporate/commercial group such as Capital Markets, Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications, Business Advisory etc. in subsequent episodes.
In this episode, I attempted to demystify the concept of Pollyannaism which is also known as The Pollyanna Principle or The Positivity Bias. I shared from a practical perspective, how to make a message out of every mess. I also talked about what I planned on doing if I couldn’t redeploy to Lagos and had to serve in Edo state or if I missed an opportunity to work with a big firm or if my application got rejected by a top university.
In this episode, I share my unique story and why you should own yours too. I also touched on the danger of comparison and how nothing is really effortless; what you see on stage really and truly takes years of practice.