SOCIAL MEDIA IS FAKE

January comes with a lot of noise. Pressure to reinvent yourself overnight, to have it all figured out, to wake up as a brand-new person just because the calendar changed. But what if that pressure is fake?In this episode, we talk about the truth behind January expectations, why ...  Show more

Welcome back to I Missed Me.This feels like the right way to start the year: slow, honest, and realIf you’re new here, hi, I’m Mafe. And if you’ve been here since the beginning, thank you for still choosing to listen. This podcast started in 2022 as a safe space for self-love, he ...  Show more

The internet never felt exactly safe, but it did used to feel like freedom. A wild, unstructured frontier. A portal you stepped through to escape family, teachers, and society, diving headfirst into a chaotic unknown. This was before Silicon Valley h ...

This is not a “social media is bad” episode. 

That conversation has been talked to death. The truth is, very few things are inherently good or bad—it’s all in how you use them. But today’s episode is about how they use you. If “they” were writing this, they’d correct me ...

You log onto Instagram and within five seconds of scrolling, your algorithm has your self-esteem in a death grip. It serves you: 1) an old classmate's engagement announcement, 2) another carousel of glamorous vacation pics, 3) a random influencer looking flawless on a rooftop... ...  Show more

It feels like you’re living under surveillance. Every post. Every text. Every word. Measured, reviewed, obsessively rechecked. You shrink yourself to fit inside other people’s comfort zones. You twist your truth until it’s palatable. You call it strategy, humility, self-awaren ...