The Episode on Humility and the new Radio Show

Hello and welcome to the show. Today's going to be a noisy episode because I'm just leaving the leaving the studio at Radio Maria 91.3 FM in Abuja, where we just finalized the details for my radio show, which is now going to be airing on Tuesdays, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. We also had a training, an in house training, not just for me but for other presenters as well. You know, a couple of things that we needed to know, you know, about being on radio,

handling callers, ethics, Medicare presentation and all kinds of stuff. And yeah, it turned out to be a really good session. So I guess today, the reason why I'm on the podcast is just to let you guys know, especially those of you who are in Abuja, parts of Nassau are parts of Niger, parts of Kaduna of that your boys finally going to be on the air. So if you'd like to call and talk to me live and the time of the show is 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

every single Tuesday. Again, it's Radio Maria and the, what do you call it? The signal. I'm not even sure what that thing is called. Anyway, the the dialogue radio is 91.3 FM. So that's where they catch me. And the show is going to be called the Business Booster Show. And yeah, that's it. We are going to be live and on the air. OK, Well, the session, the training session that they had for us, well, of course, really, really insightful.

But I must admit that showing up there for me turned out to be a lesson in humility because initially when we started wrapping up the conversations of December last year, I was really, really glad that everything was good to go. Then early January, we recorded the, what's it called, the Jingle to promote the show. Then the producer of the show now told me that they don't need me to come in for training. And initially, you know, I told my father I was like training care, like what do they want to teach me again now, you know,

because as far as I'm concerned, you know, and that's the whole pride thing coming in. You know how I keep attacking Nigerian guys, you know, tell you that you guys need to be cool, you guys need to calm down, you need to be humble. And the reason why I can speak to that confidently is because, you know, I'm a young Nigerian man myself. So it's an ailment that I suffer because as far as I was concerned, you know, you guys are a new radio station.

I've been podcasting for, you know, close to five years now, done over 1000 episodes. And I was thinking like, what do you guys have to teach me? So, but I'm glad I came anyway and I've learnt how to eat humble pie because the people that handled the training were veteran producers. We had Peter Eagle who was a producer with NTA. The the only show that I know of his that I've seen was a Cockroach Dawn. I don't expect half of you listening to this to know, know about that show because even when Cockroach Dawn had, you know, I was already a kid.

I mean, I was still a kid. So, you know, it's just something you see on TV, like, OK, the teenagers are watching it, the adults are watching it. Like, OK, that's adult stuff. So it was Cockerel at Dawn and then I think also the AM show on NTA. So Peter Eggo is a legendary producer. He's been doing his thing since, I'm not sure when he started, sure. But as far as I know, he's been producing, you know, from the 70s into the 2000s.

So he's had a very long, very long spanning career. And he also turns out that he's the father of Tosing Ego. And of course, if you like watching Netflix and Amazon Prime and all those stuff now, you know, Tosin Ego as one of those faces of the new new Niger, how I put it, like the new Nollywood, because they have stuff on Netflix and things like that, you know, really fancy high production value and all that sort of jazz.

So yeah, it's the same family. So Peter Eagle, old school producer and then Toasting Eagle the son. So maybe you're interested to see what Toasting Eagles stuff is like just go on Google and Google the guy and you get to see the list of movies that he has out on Netflix and on Amazon Prime. And you'll get to see the face of the new Nigerian Hollywood that is on the come up, you know, with high production value and stuff like that.

So, so like I said, lesson in humility because I figured, look, you guys can't teach me anything so I don't want to go for this thing. But I say, you know, let me they find something. So let me show up, you know, let me be humble, let me not let them not cancel my show before I start. You know that that kind of thing. So I showed up anyway, I turned out to be a very good session. Lot to learn from Peter Eagle, also a freestyler just like me.

So it's nice to know that I am not a, what's the word? You know, I'm not a freak. Now, the other people who also take the same bent, he had lots of things to say about planning, about scripting, about fact checking your shows, about continuity, you know, all those sorts of things. But I like his approach when it came to planning and scripting. And, you know, he told people pretty much, you know what I say, which is, you know, you should always have a script.

You know, it doesn't have to be detailed. It can't be an outline. But The thing is always have to predetermine what it is that you are going to say because some people would see folks like Peter Hugo, you know, freestyle on stage or maybe see me freestyling and just think that, you know, freestyling is the way to go. But truth of matter is, you know, it's like freestyling in in rap or hip hop. You know, hip hop artists who freestyles never really freestyles per SE.

You have some key themes that you throw around and you have a general thrust of what it is that you want to say beforehand. And so it's the same thing. So yeah. So good stuff from Peter Hugo. And then plus it was nice to meet the man in was nice to meet the man in person. And then since I also come from a media family, well former media family anyway because my parents both started off with NTA. My father in I think NTA was a Kaduna first, then later on Abuja and then my mum see auntie, Auntie Makudi and then later on Abuja.

So it was nice to finally be one of those legends that, you know, back in the day watching TV, everything is scrolling. You don't see the names, the credits scrolling, and you say, oh, Peter Eagle producer. So it's nice to see one of those guys in the flesh. Then the second person who handled the produce, handled the training was Doctor Inya J Audi. She used to be a host of the midday show on radio info. She's currently in the development space.

She runs the Luxe Terror Foundation and she also had some interesting things to say as well. And I guess the most important thing I took out of her session was she mentioned the NBC code. That's Nigerian broadcasting. What's NBC again? NBCS Nigerian broadcasting something a K TS. If you happen to be listening to the show, since you're my fact checker, why don't you check me? Let me know what the NBC is. So, yeah, so she spoke about the code and how I ought to be familiar with the code.

And actually at that point I was, you know, like smacking my head like, like they're like, obviously, you know, if you call yourself a professional sales person and you and you're putting a show on the air, at the very least, you're supposed to have researched a couple of things, known what the guidelines are and what the legal and ethical considerations are. And so it was also nice also to swallow some, some humble pie there, you know, to learn that,

you know, I guess I don't always live out my creed because, you know, sales people, we should always be prepared. So assuming that this was something else, you know, like a business transaction, purely a business transaction, actually, I would have come into this meeting, you know, knowing one or two things for heading in. So yeah, just a reminder that I also need to, you know, practice what I Peach and do all the research and be prepared.

Then let's see. Then I also found one really interesting bit of advice, something I can relate to because she mentioned that for the for your radio show, when you're a radio presenter, that usually there's always one person in the audience who needs to hear what it is that you are saying. And that's something I could connect with because in doing over 1000 episodes of the podcast right now, it really touches me when people reach out because I've said something that they find insightful, all that is applicable in their particular context.

Because, you know, for us, you know, we sit behind the microphone and we're saying stuff and, you know, truly we're speaking out into the void. But then there are people, on the other hand, who are receiving what it is that we have to say. And it can be uplifting and sometimes it can be enlightening just to show people the next step, the next thing to do. And with that, she said that we should approach our jobs with that as a presenter.

And I guess, you know, for those of us who have a podcast that, you know, that a word of prayer might be in order before you get on the air. And I thought that was a very interesting, so excuse me, a very interesting recommendation. You know, for those of you who are in the West, you know, in the UK and in America, you might think, you know, why would you recommend that? But you know, in this part of the world, we are still, what's the word?

We are still conservative is not the right word, but I mean, I'm just saying that in this part of the world, it's not out of place. You know, you have those sorts of recommendations. And it makes sense that we ought to be mindful of the mess of of the power that we have because that there are people listening on the other end and there are people who things are going to start going to resonate with one particular person.

So it was really, really, really, really interesting and happy and I came for it and I just came to make this podcast basically just to say that look, young guys, Nigerian boys, you know, when I say stuff and I pick on you guys, I pick on you guys because I'm one of you. And you know, just like I know my flaws, you know, I know some of your flaws as well. So initially I was going to come to this thing because as far as I was thinking like, you know what?

The F like I'm me, I've got this thing locked down so they can't train me nothing. Because, you know, I grew up in a media household and I've been doing this for a while and I've, because I started off as a wedding photographer, I actually have been doing media production for a while. You know, like the documentaries that will still make the documentaries. What else? The live streaming, you know, all these, all these also things.

So I figured there's nothing that I could learn, but actually there was stuff that I could learn. And I'm really, really glad to have finally been able to see the great Peter Eagle himself. I know that half of you don't know who the hell he is, but just take it that he's legendary as far as Nigerian broadcasting is concerned. But definitely check out the work of your son tossing you go because I've seen one or two of his movies on Amazon Prime.

My wife was like, look, let's watch this thing. It's cool. And I'm like, I beg not another one, not another copycat movie. Because that's the problem I have with the new Nollywood, the face of the new Nollywood as far as I'm concerned. I think it's too it's too what's the word? It's too derivative. It's too 2 copycats of Hollywood. And so I didn't want to see not another one, I beg, but I thought I like your stuff is real good.

So definitely go on Google typing tossing Ego is a producer. You see all his stuff on Netflix, on Amazon Prime, you know, watch a couple of stuff and then see what good, good stuff is out there. So that's it again, the show is going to be on Tuesdays, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM every single week. The show, the radio station is Radio Maria and the dial is 91.3 FM. So for those of you in Abuja, those of you in some parts of Nasawa, some parts of Niger,

some parts of Kaduna, you guys are going to be able to hear me. You're going to be able to call in and let's see how we can solve your business problems on the air. If you'd love to connect with me personally, you don't have to wait until we chat on the radio. The phone number to hit me up on is 08064662140. The country code is +234. For those of you who are not Nigerian and that is my WhatsApp number as well, then you can find me on socials.

The name to look for establish hima IED I you can find me on socials. I'm on LinkedIn. I've shut down all the other handles. I'm not on Instagram, I'm not on anything else. And OK, also Tavishma IED on YouTube. So that's it. Thank you very much for your time and attention. Thank you very much for the support of you guys that have been following along on the podcast. And for those of you who want to catch me offline in the real world, my phone number is there and there's also another Ave.

you can also catch me on the radio. So if nothing else, listen to the show and call in, see if you can stop me, see if you can ask me a question that I can answer. Yeah, let me make that the challenge for you guys. So, yeah, what are people listening to the show? You Kaduna people listening to the podcast right now? You NASA, are people listening to the podcast right now? You people listening to the podcast in, you know, like Mina,

if the signal is strong enough to reach me in Niger state, hit me up, call on the show, see if you can ask me a question that I can answer. I dare you. All right, so I'll catch you guys at the next episode. And then also because of this, I'm not going to be making podcast episodes on Tuesdays because my guess is I probably don't want to overload my voice by doing too much, you know, by podcasting in the morning and then going on the air in the evening.

But we'll see how it goes. So next Tuesday, I won't make a podcast recording. The Tuesday after that, I'll make a podcast recording. But then if I think I can handle it, then I'll just go ahead and keep on making the podcast episodes every single day of the week or whenever I can. So that's it. I'll catch you guys at the next episode.