Ore Oduba
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Podcast Appearances
And I, um, yeah, I feel like I've picked up a baton and I have seen such a collective response.
The collective will, um,
Because I think what you do when you uncover something like this is that people understood that there was an issue.
And I found that in every conversation I was having.
Like, man, to the friend in the gym who told me that he had had an addiction for the first time and thinking, gosh, if we can do this to other people in this gym.
to talking to schools and the issues that they were having.
I was like, everybody's standing shoulder to shoulder wanting to make a change, but they just don't know how.
They just don't know how to influence something that seems so like a tsunami of...
material and the way that young people are existing and through this world.
So I was like, if it makes even a little bit of difference to one person, then it will have been worth it.
And here we are still talking about it.
It looked good from the outside.
I think of myself as a kid that was a really good kid.
And I had to be, because if I wasn't, then you'd be punished.
I've said this before, that growing up in a Nigerian family, it's not abnormal that you have to achieve.
You have to achieve it educationally.
You have to, you know, the legacy of the family and the reputation of the family is key.
You know, my dad was an incredible, well-reputable lawyer in Nigeria.
You know, we're going to a private school, incredible schools.
And so you had to achieve.