Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene.
Speaking truth through an African feminist lens. using the microphone as a tool for justice. Amplifying our voices through artivism rooted in ancestral wisdom, healing, and collective liberation.
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene is part of the Feminist Frontlines initiative.
Driven by her three greatest passions Womxn, Africa, and the arts.
Rosie Motene is a Pan-African queer feminist, writer, broadcaster, producer, speaker, activist, counsellor, life coach, and founder of Letsatsi Healing Space. With more than 30 years in media and over two decades of feminist and LGBTQI+ advocacy, she creates courageous conversations that challenge injustice, preserve HERstory, and inspire change.
Each episode explores the issues shaping our continent and our communities through an intersectional African feminist lens. From gender justice and queer rights to creativity, culture, leadership, mental health, and collective liberation, the podcast centres voices that deserve to be heard and stories that deserve to be remembered.
Justice is not only about confronting harm, it is also about healing from it. Drawing on her work as a counsellor, life coach, and reflective and breathwork practitioner, Rosie believes that healing is part of the journey towards personal and collective liberation. Through honest dialogue, storytelling, and reflection, this podcast creates space not only for truth-telling, but also for restoration, connection, and hope.
Join Rosie as she uses the microphone as a tool for justice one conversation at a time.
Available on Buzzsprout, Spotify and Apple Podcasts..
For sponsorships, partnerships, or collaborations: rosie@rosiemotene.biz
Episodes
74 episodes
Philiswa Lila- When Art Becomes Part of the Political Conversation
Philiswa Lila- When Art Becomes Part of the Political Conversation- In Day 1 | Part 1 of my Weavers' Forum 2026 reflections, I explore how art became part of the political conversation through the work of South African multi...
Introduction to The Weavers’ Forum 2026
The Weavers’ Forum 2026 is a space bringing together African feminists, activists, economists, artists, thinkers, movement-builders and practitioners from across the continent and the African diaspora.I’ve created a pop-up studio for Sp...
Episode 4: Choosing Yourself Without An Apology
THE FINAL EPISODE IS HEREEpisode 4: Choosing Yourself Without An ApologyWhat happens when you stop apologising for choosing yourself?After four deeply personal conversations, I close this series not with the pain of what ha...
THEY SPOKE UP. THE FINDINGS WERE SUBSTANTIATED. WHO WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE?- Inside the Investigation into Allegations Against Greg Maloka
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, I examine the detailed findings of the independent investigation commissioned by Kaya FM into allegations against former Managing Director Greg Maloka.Drawing directly from the inves...
Episode 3: The Cost of Staying Too Long
Episode 3: The Cost of Staying Too LongWhat has staying cost you?We often celebrate the courage it takes to leave toxic environments, but we rarely talk about the cost of staying.In this deeply personal episode Rosie reflec...
Speaking Through My World -part of the Feminist Frontlines initiative.
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene.For more than 30 years, the microphone has been more than a piece of equipment to me. It has been a witness, a platform, and a form of resistance.I'm excited to share that Speaking Thr...
Episode 2: When Your Body Keeps the Score
Where Is Your Heart Today? – Conversations with Rosie MoteneEpisode 2: When Your Body Keeps the ScoreYou left the toxic environment.You're finally safe.So why does your body still behave as though the danger remains?<...
Episode 1: Why Physically Removing Yourself Matters
Where Is Your Heart Today? – Conversations with Rosie MoteneEpisode 1: Why Physically Removing Yourself MattersWhere is your heart today?Sometimes breathing and boundaries are not enough. When an environment con...
Episode 7: Daily Regulation Rituals
This episode explores how small, consistent practices can support nervous system regulation over time. Rather than focusing on perfection, listeners are invited to notice what helps them feel a little more grounded in daily life.&nb...
Episode 6: Guilt, Boundaries, and the Nervous System
In this episode, we explore how guilt often arises when we begin to set boundaries and change familiar patterns of relating. Through a nervous-system lens, guilt is reframed not as a sign of wrongdoing, but as a response to doing so...
Episode 5: Breathing Before Responding
In this episode, we explore how urgency is often a nervous system response rather than a true need for speed. You are gently invited to notice where quick reactions may be rooted in protection, not choice. Through simple...
Episode 4 Boundaries as Nervous System Protection
In this episode, we explore boundaries through a nervous-system lens, not as rules or walls, but as signals of safety and self-respect. You’re invited to consider how clear, compassionate boundaries can reduce overwhelm and support ...
EPISODE 3 How Dysregulation Shows Up in Daily Life
In this episode, we explore how nervous system dysregulation can quietly show up in everyday moments, through overthinking, people-pleasing, shutdown, or a sense of urgency. Rather than labeling these patterns as problems, this epis...
EPISODE 2 Breathing as a Signal of Safety
In this episode, we explore breathing as a gentle way to communicate safety to the nervous system. Through simple explanation and slow, optional practices, you’re invited to notice how the breath, especially the exhale ca...
Regulating The Nervous System- Breath, Boundaries, and Safety
This series is a gentle invitation to slow down, notice your body, and reconnect with your nervous system. Over ten short episodes, we explore simple, practical tools—breathing, reflection, and boundaries, to help you feel more grou...
Radical Futures: Ndiilokelwa Nthengwe on Justice, Identity & Change in Namibia
In this episode, I travel to Namibia to speak with Ndiilokelwa Nthengwe, a fearless activist, author and tech entrepreneur. Ndiilokelwa’s work spans LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive justice, youth leadership, and social advocacy, and th...
Sitahen: Sudan’s Women, War, and Solidarity
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, Rosie Motene turns the spotlight on Sudan, a country whose ongoing war and humanitarian crisis remain underreported and overshadowed. While the world rightly raises its voice against ...
Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours, with Michelle Festus
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, titled “Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours,” we journey deep into the soil, into our roots, and into the enduring wisdom the land holds for us as A...
Inside the Open Book Festival: The Past, The Crisis, The Future
In this episode, I sit down with Frankie Murrey, the heart and programme coordinator behind the Open Book Festival, a space that, since 2011, has created room for brave, bold, and necessary conversations through literature.We explore the...
Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber French
Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber FrenchIn this episode, we are joined by Amber French, Senior Editorial Advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Managing Editor of the Mind...
Zoey Black- Gamut 1
I am in conversation with Zoey Black, a queer renaissance and culture documentarian based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is focused on telling authentic and engaging queer stories through film and photography.Zoey is the founde...
Marylize Biubwa- The co-founder at The Queer Republic.
Marylize is a Kenyan intersectional feminist and activist, whose focus is on gender inequality, while their feminism is intersectional and directed towards human rights. They are black and a non-binary lesbian and use they/them pronouns....
Beautiful Trouble with Ashley Waudo
Beautiful Trouble- A book, strategy card deck, online toolbox, and creative campaign incubator.An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.I am in ...