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The Work Ethic Podcast with Bidemi Ologunde

The Work Ethic Podcast with Bidemi Ologunde

Written by: Bidemi Ologunde
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The Work Ethic Podcast is a weekly show about how high performers build dependable output—without sacrificing their values, health, or joy. Hosted by Bidemi Ologunde, each episode breaks down practical systems you can actually use, shares real stories from people doing the work, and ends with a simple weekly challenge you can join. Listeners can participate, share wins, and get feedback inside a private group chat. Built for ambitious professionals and builders of all kinds—and welcoming to leaders, athletes, performers, and diaspora communities—this is a home for sustainable excellence, not hustle culture.

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Episodes
  • 23. Chanda Coston
    May 28 2026

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde speaks with Chanda Coston, founder of Chanda Co., a U.S. Navy veteran, business strategist, coach, and Personal PMP/Success Strategist who helps women entrepreneurs in the "third quarter of life" turn their experience into income, build businesses that fit their current season, and move from scattered effort to structured execution without burnout. The conversation follows Chanda's timeline from military service to corporate strategy, consulting, entrepreneurship, and coaching: What does reinvention really require after 40? How can women choose the right business model for the life they are actually living now? Where can technology, automation, and project-management systems create clarity, and where do they quietly fuel overwhelm? Chanda shares practical lessons on confidence, focus, execution, and building a business that supports life instead of consuming it.

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    35 mins
  • 22. The Ambition Gap Is Usually a Support Gap
    May 21 2026

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores a powerful question: when someone looks "less ambitious," are they actually less ambitious, or less backed? Centering women and under-supported professionals, Bidemi examines how sponsorship, manager advocacy, flexibility, feedback, and visible support shape sustainable excellence across careers, businesses, creative work, sports, and community life. What happens when ambition is present, but the system around it is thin? How do professionals, builders, leaders, and performers identify the support gaps quietly limiting their growth?

    Listeners are invited to take part in the Seven-Day Support Gap Challenge: choose one ambition, name the missing support, identify one person with leverage, and make one clear ask this week. Participants can share reflections and feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

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    17 mins
  • 21. Money, Meaning, and the Side-Hustle Trap
    May 14 2026

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores the tension between money, meaning, and well-being in a generation trying to stay ambitious without becoming chronically overextended. When does a side hustle create freedom, and when does it quietly become fear in disguise? How do you build multiple income streams without turning your whole life into work? And what does sustainable excellence look like for students, operators, creators, managers, founders, freelancers, athletes, and diaspora builders carrying real financial pressure and big personal goals?

    Listeners are invited to take part in this week's Money, Meaning, and Margin Audit challenge by naming one project, side hustle, or ambition they are carrying, identifying its money purpose, meaning purpose, and margin cost, then deciding whether to continue, resize, pause, or stop for the next 90 days. Share your reflection and feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

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    23 mins
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