Madame Speaker Says

About Madame Speaker Says

Madame Speaker Says is the podcast for women of colour ready to own the mic, drop that book and get paid like a legend. Join Magogodi oaMphela Makhene - author, speaker and coach - for real talk, shortcuts and receipts to help you lead with confidence — on stage, on the page and way beyond the 9–5. No caucacity, no crusty old school leadership. Edges snatched. Script flipped. No apologies. Fresh episodes drop weekly. Pull up.

Publisher

Magogodi

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 May 2025

Latest episode

13 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

64 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Sept 2026

   The Strange Thing About Being 44 and Still Building

   📩 DOWNLOAD free guide to Sound Like the Expert You Are when Speaking to a new High-Stakes Audience: https://lovekindcure.kit.com/a01edf3c35 The Truth? Thought I’d be further along by 44. I thought I’d have more money, a retirement plan, more figured out. Instead, I’m building again — raising a toddler, running a business, and honestly, feeling scared shitless. And as if that's not enough...just for funsies, I’m also experiencing a second adolescence: hormones raging, my body changing, my iden...

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   English Gave Me a Global Passport — It Stole This From Me

   English gave me a passport to rooms I couldn't have imagined as a kid growing up under apartheid in South Africa. It's also, quietly, the language that's been costing me the one I was born speaking — and now that I'm watching my own toddler acquire language in real time, I can't stop thinking about what that trade actually cost, and what it's still costing. This one's a little different — part story, part reckoning. I take you back to being a little girl put on a school stage to recite Engli...

3. 

   30 Aug 2026

   I Don't Get Embarrassed — Here's Why

   I was auditioning to host a live TV show at HuffPost — dressed for it, feeling powerful, killing the segment — when my body decided to remind me I'm human, live, on camera, on a white couch. This is the story of the most mortifying thing that's ever happened to me in a professional setting, and why, looking back, I refuse to call it embarrassing. We talk about confidence like it's about never having the wardrobe malfunction, never having the bad moment on the big stage. But real self-possess...

Who has been a guest on Madame Speaker Says

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sewela Langeni
• Courtney Montague
• Anu Gupta
• Dr Kate Otto Chebly
• Sarah Crowell

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

127,446

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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