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This episode features our conversation with Rosemary Esehagu, which was live-streamed on March 14, 2026.

Rosemary Esehagu is a Nigerian-American writer and poet. Her poems have appeared in different journals, including Cool Beans Lit, Genre: Urban Arts, a little poetry, Plum Recruit, African Writer Magazine, and Elephant Journal. Her award-winning novel, The Looming Fog, was published in 2006. Her latest book is the Amazon Bestselling hybrid prose and poetry memoir titled Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming (Manhattan Book Group, February 2025). She lives in Texas and puts her psychology degree to work to explore minds to discover that which empowers us or cripples us. Her works investigate that delicate interdependent relationship between self and society, becoming and unbecoming. She is a passionate advocate for becoming our best selves by embracing all that we are and have been, both the ugly and the beautiful parts.

During this episode, we talked about Out of the Cocoon.

How would you live your life if you understood that every scar, trauma, or suffering can make you stronger and greater?

In her memoir, Out of the Cocoon: The Journey to Becoming, Rosemary shares her story of posttraumatic growth and offers a radical perspective on abuse. Despite encountering abuse as a child and racism and trauma when she immigrated to the US as a teenager, she has found her place and is living her purpose. She uses prose and poetry to express that we can overpower and repurpose others' harmful actions.

Out of the Cocoon explores healing from trauma from someone with personal experience and expertise.

Learn more about Rosemary by visiting www.rosemaryesehagu.com.

Mentioned during the episode: The Amadou Diallo Foundation ~ https://www.amadoudiallofoundation.org/

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