My Journey Through Grief, Bullying & Becoming PART 2 | Legally Clueless Ep 354
Release Date: 12/07/2025
Surviving An Abusive Relationship Part 2 | Legally Clueless Ep 358
Legally Clueless
In episode 358 of the Legally Clueless Podcast, Victoria shares Part 2 of her story, a powerful journey of leaving an unsafe marriage, rebuilding life as a single mother, navigating fear and displacement, and eventually experiencing deep love and devastating loss. Picking up from childhood trauma and survival patterns explored in Part 1, this episode focuses on healing, agency, community support, and what it means to choose life after years of endurance. In this episode, we explore: Leaving an unsafe marriage with children Rebuilding life from scratch during COVID Community support and...
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This Year Asked A Lot Of You: A Gentle Closing Before The New Year | Mid Week Tease
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As the year comes to a close, there’s often pressure to reflect, reframe, and rush into hope. This final episode of Mid Week Tease offers something different: a pause. In this episode, Adelle invites you into a soft, honest moment of witnessing, not to extract lessons or tidy the year up neatly, but to honor what the year truly held. This is a conversation for anyone who feels emotionally tired, quietly proud of surviving, or unsure how to carry this year forward. In this episode, we explore: When the year didn’t turn out the way you expected and why that doesn’t mean it failed The...
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Surviving An Abusive Relationship Part 1 | Legally Clueless Ep 357
Legally Clueless
In Episode 357 of the Legally Clueless Podcast, Victoria shares part one of her powerful life story, growing up away from her mother, navigating multiple homes and boarding schools, and learning independence at a very young age. From her childhood in Nyeri, Karatina, and Garissa to her school years and early adulthood, Victoria reflects on how emotional absence, instability, and silence shaped her sense of belonging and connection. In this episode, we explore: • Growing up separated from primary caregivers • Childhood loneliness and emotional neglect • Boarding school experiences at a...
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From Suitcase to Store: Zia on Building a Fashion Brand, Trusting Instinct & Doing It Afraid | For Mannerless Women
Legally Clueless
What does it really take to build a sustainable fashion brand in Kenya, without overnight success, investor hype, or a perfect plan? In this episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with Zia Nyamari, fashion entrepreneur and founder & creative director of Zia Africa, for an honest conversation about building a business from the ground up, fear, faith, intuition and all. Zia takes us back to her very first business idea at 10 years old (selling popcorn on the street), through years of importing clothes in suitcases, quitting employment, navigating family pressure,...
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When Your Light Makes People Uncomfortable: How to Stop Dimming Yourself in Relationships | Mid Week Tease
Legally Clueless
What happens when your growth starts to shift your relationships? In this episode of Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango explores the quiet, often painful realization that not everyone in your life knows how to sit with your light. This episode unpacks how dimming yourself can show up subtly, why some relationships struggle when you expand, and how to let go without bitterness, blame, or drama. It’s a reminder that you don’t need to make yourself smaller to belong and that release can be an act of self-respect. In this episode, we explore: Why personal growth can make some people...
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My Journey Through Grief, Bullying & Becoming PART 3 | Legally Clueless Ep 356
Legally Clueless
In this final episode of Gachambi’s three-part story on Legally Clueless, we sit with the quiet, life-altering chapters that come after survival, grief, sobriety, faith, and the ongoing work of becoming. After being admitted to the bar in November 2023, Gachambi reflects on navigating unemployment, rebuilding her legal career at her own pace, and confronting the reality that being without work is often a systemic failure, not a personal one Gachambi 3. But the heart of this episode lies in the personal. She speaks openly about grief, losing her father, realising years later what “life...
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The Truth About Vaginas: Dr. Sule Breaks Down Myths, Safety & Intimate Wellness | For Mannerless Women
Legally Clueless
In this fearless and deeply educational episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with Dr. Kristina Sule, one of only two cosmetic gynecologists in Kenya, for a groundbreaking conversation on vaginal health, vulva education, harmful practices, and what intimate wellness truly means for women at every age. Together, they unpack topics we were never taught, including: The difference between the vulva and the vagina How millions of nerves make the clitoris one of the most sensitive organs in the body Why the vagina is a self-cleansing organ What’s actually “normal” when it comes...
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You Don’t Need a New You in January: A Kinder Way to Start the Year | Mid Week Tease
Legally Clueless
As the year comes to a close, the pressure to reinvent ourselves starts to rise. “New year, new me” culture tells us we must transform, overhaul our habits, set 20 resolutions, and show up in January as a completely new woman. But what if you don’t have to? In this Mid Week Tease episode, Adelle Onyango offers a soothing, truth-filled conversation about stepping into the new year gently, without burnout, shame, or the pressure to rebuild yourself from scratch. We explore: Why January reinvention culture creates unnecessary pressure How the self-improvement industry profits from women...
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My Journey Through Grief, Bullying & Becoming PART 2 | Legally Clueless Ep 354
Legally Clueless
In this episode of Legally Clueless, Adelle shares Part 2 of Gachambi’s powerful and deeply honest story, a testimony of resilience through toxic workplaces, repeated exam failures, sexual harassment in the legal world, and the long, winding road toward becoming an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. After passing only four out of nine bar exams, Gachambi faced disappointment, self-doubt, and the pressure to keep going when giving up felt easier. She takes us through the emotional weight of resitting exams over two years, the inner dialogue of remembering “the smart girl she once...
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Why Friendships End: Kui Mwai on Boundaries, Loneliness & the Truth About Adult Connections | For Mannerless Women
Legally Clueless
Journalist and writer Kui Mwai joins Adelle for an unfiltered, deeply relatable conversation on adult friendships: why they end, how they evolve, and what it means to outgrow people you still love. In this episode, they unpack: ✨ Why Kui revisited four former friendships for her viral Vogue article ✨ What really happens during friendship fallouts, guilt, anxiety, disappointment ✨ Why adult friendship feels so different from school-era connection ✨ The loneliness and emotional risk of solitude ✨ Navigating boundaries in a culture that isn’t always taught them ✨ The pain of...
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• Sexual harassment from seniors in the profession — and the silence surrounding it
• Being fired just weeks before her admission to the bar
• Navigating unemployment, anxiety, and the pressure to “have it all figured out”
• Rediscovering her purpose through humanitarian law and volunteering
• The role faith plays in her rebuilding
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