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Zoom with Mari & Bahati Mandago: What Grief Reveals About Us
When we suffer loss, we often ask ourselves how to get over grief. But what if grief isn't something we're meant to get over at all? What if it's something we're meant to learn to carry?
In this deeply reflective conversation, I sit down with a mental health advocate and counsellor Bahati Mandago to explore grief beyond bereavement. Bahati wrote a book on grief called Luna, as a way to connect with her clients during sessions on grief. We set out to talk about that book. However, we ended up unpacking the losses we rarely name, the emotions we struggle to acknowledge, and the surprising ways grief reveals who we are beneath the surface.
Having lost my own father in May this year, I felt this episode needed to be about slowing down and trying to learn fromgrief as a teacher—one that exposes our deepest loves, unmetexpectations, unresolved wounds, and capacity for growth.Whether you're grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a dream, or a version of yourself, this conversation is an invitation to reflect on what grief might be trying to tell you.
In this episode we explore:
Why grief is about more than death
The different kinds of loss we carry
What grief reveals about our inner lives
The difference between accepting a loss and making peace with it
Why healing doesn't always mean "moving on"
The guilt of finding joy again
Remembering versus forgetting
What it means to carry grief with grace
Perhaps what grief is trying to tell us is this:
"Pay attention. Here is something for you to understand."
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15 May 2026
Zoom with Mari & Ferdinand Kamuzora: The Person Beneath the Label
This episode starts with something simple, but not small. A question we often rehearse and think we know how to answer: who are you? With conviction and flair, Ferdinand Kamuzora answers it directly: he is human first.
From there, we talk about identity. What happens when you begin removing the things you’ve used to define yourself. The titles, the expectations, the versions of you that make sense to other people. He talks about self-image and how it shifts when those things fall away.
This becomes a conversation about what remains when roles no longer define you. What do you build your self-image on when you are not relying on labels to explain you? He brings in Nietzsche’s concept of the “Übermensch” — the idea of a self that is continuously shaped by values you choose to embody.
I ask him: what is his male perspective on self image? And this is where the tension comes in.
Because even when someone steps away from labels, people still interpret them through those same labels. Especially when it comes to gender. There is a gap between how he defines himself and how he is seen, and that gap becomes part of the conversation. He resists being reduced to a category. I try to hold space for what that resistance is pointing to.
31 Dec 2025
Zoom with Mari & Hellen: The Overachiever in the Holidays
This year has been something, hasn't it? Whew! As 2025 comes to an end, here's a few truths we're sitting with that many of us didn’t have language for before.
In this year-end Zoom with Mari conversation, my friend Hellen and I unpack what overachieving looks like during the holidays, how productivity can quietly replace presence, and why so many high-functioning people struggle to stop, even when the world slows down.
This episode is dedicated to the overachievers who didn’t take a break this holiday season—or any season, not because they didn’t want rest, but because rest didn’t feel safe, earned, or even possible.
It is a gentle closing episode for the year, inviting honesty, self-compassion, and a softer way forward. If you or someone you know struggles with staying still and unproductive, this is the episode for you. As Hellen and I both reflect on why we are both overachievers, our conversation leads us to some uncomfortable truths.
And some end-of-year epiphanies.
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