The History behind Wednesday Weekly Wisdom
Ayo started Wednesday Weekly Wisdom as an Instagram series in February 2022 sharing her own wisdoms and musing. In Summer 2023, Ayo started inviting guest to join her series interviewing them on their life paths and the wisdoms they had garnered to share. Wednesday Wisdom is now available as podcast based on her original popular Instagram series. Guests share their inspirational stories of success through brilliantly meandering conversations, all the while sharing pearls of wisdom on topics like representation and diversity.
About me
and the show
Ayo Sokale is a BBC presenter, civil engineer and speaker on all things diversity, equality, sustainability and engineering. Ayo is working on her first book, which draws on her experiences of navigating the world as a black, female, autistic woman in STEM and using her coaching credentials to help anyone else who feels ‘othered’ in today’s world to achieve their goals. She is currently a presenter on CBeebies ‘Get Set Galactic’ which is available on BBC iplayer.
The ‘Wednesday Weekly Wisdom’ series is available on Instagram here and YouTube here.
Other series founded and produced by Ayo are:
Everyday Science:
- Everyday science – the science of braces
- Everyday science – water cycle and flooding
- Everyday Science – what are factorials?
- Everyday Science – why do we dream?
- Everyday Science – why do we get seasonal allergies?
- Everyday Science – why does walking feel good?
- Everyday Science – how does sunscreen work?
- Everyday Science – why do we get tunes stuck in our head?
- Everyday Science – why are summers getting increasingly hot?
- Everyday Science – why is the sea salty?
- Everyday Science – what is fusion technology?
- Everyday Science – why it smells good after the rain!
- Everyday Science – how are rivers and floods managed?
- Everyday Science – Your Potted Plants are cleaning your air đŸ’¨
Esoteric Stories for Modern Lives:
Ayo’s company Metis Communication Ltd, cover presenting, keynotes, producing books, podcasts and video across multiple digital platforms.
Ayo regularly features on other podcast as a guest:
- Podcast series, Moisturise your Elbows in the following episodes: Privacy vs Secrecy, ‘Our school selves’Â and ‘Growing old disgraceful’
- Dr. Shini Somara Youtube series eSTEAMd on women in STEAM industries, Innervation in season 2 episode 15: https://youtu.be/p18emlpI_6g
- The Engineering Success Podcast – Profile Editions:https://youtu.be/Idd180_DwMU and Episode 027
- Karen from Unbiased UK on The Unbiased Podcast: Listen here
- You Unleashed with Femi Akinyemi: Living Life on purpose with Ayo Sokale
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