Legally Clueless

Legally Clueless

Legally Clueless is a weekly podcast by Kenyan media personality & social activist: Adelle Onyango!! Here, she documents her raw human journey as an evolving unapologetically African woman. The podcast is a space where people get to know just how okay it is to not know or not have it all figured out. It is also a space where Africans share stories from their lives; stories that teach, make us cry, make us laugh - real, authentic African stories. The #LegallyClueless hotline is +254768628790

Episodes

Trusting Your Body: The Truth About Birth, Pain & Power | For Mannerless Women

October 16, 2025 • 55 mins
In this powerful episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with Wambui Wanjau, a home-birthing midwife and birth doula, to unpack the truths about pregnancy and birthing that too many women are never told. From being shouted at in delivery rooms to the calm of candlelit births, Wambui shares her journey across Kenya, Finland, and Australia, and what she’s learned about how women can reclaim power in one of life’s mo...
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So You Have Irregular Income? Part 2 | Mid Week Tease

October 15, 2025 • 32 mins
In this week’s episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle continues her conversation with Susan Wanjiku, financial educator and founder of The Legacy Hub KE and She-E-O Africa. In Part 2, they dive into the realities behind entrepreneurship, the pressure to keep up appearances, the misconception that investing is only for people with “big money,” and the importance of structure in keeping your business and sanity intact. Susan shares po...
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Unlearning “You Must Be a Mother” PART 3 | Legally Clueless Ep347

October 12, 2025 • 48 mins
Brenda’s finale follows the last mile of her childfree journey: pushing past healthcare gatekeeping to access sterilization, what true informed consent looked like, recovery, the unexpected discovery of a retroverted uterus (and pain relief after it was corrected), and the quiet peace that came with making a choice that fits her life. She also reflects on dignity in maternal spaces, conversations with family, and what autonomy has ...
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Rethinking Food, Fitness & Freedom | For Mannerless Women

October 9, 2025 • 50 mins
In this empowering episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with certified fitness coach and nutritionist Coach Roseanne to unpack the deeper truths behind diet culture and how African women can heal their relationship with food, fitness, and their bodies. Roseanne shares her personal journey from being medically obese to creating a sustainable, shame-free approach to health. Together, they explore:
  • Why most die...
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So You Have Irregular Income? | Mid Week Tease

October 8, 2025 • 43 mins
This week, The Mid Week Tease features Susan Wanjiku, financial educator and founder of The Legacy Hub KE and She-E-O Africa. In this part 1 of our conversation, Susan opens up about her journey from employment to entrepreneurship and the financial shock that came with losing a steady paycheck. She shares real, relatable lessons on:
  • Managing irregular income without panic
  • The mindset shifts that turn creatives into business owner...
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Unlearning “You Must Be a Mother” PART 2 | Legally Clueless Ep346

October 5, 2025 • 51 mins
Part 2 of this series follows a Brenda, deepening her path toward a childfree life; from navigating painful periods and stigma around tampons, to learning contraception, witnessing friends’ very different pregnancy choices, facing healthcare gatekeeping around permanent options, and finally finding language and courage through a childfree community.

In this episode:
  • Body literacy over pain and shame
  • Tampon myths, contraception, an...
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How To Stay YOU In Motherhood, Marriage & Womanhood | For Mannerless Women

October 2, 2025 • 48 mins
In this powerful episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with sleep coach, content creator, business owner, and published author Kitt Nyang'aya Kiarie for an honest conversation about identity. From navigating the pressures of relationships and motherhood, to honoring her individuality in marriage, Kitt shares how she has refused to lose herself in the roles society expects of women. She talks about raising children witho...
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Surviving the Scroll & Staying Human | Mid Week Tease

October 1, 2025 • 22 mins
Social media has become part of our daily lives but it’s also quietly changing us. The endless scroll, the outrage-driven posts, the comparison traps… all of it can keep us in survival mode: tense, reactive, judgmental, and even less empathetic. In this episode of Mid-Week Tease, Adelle unpacks what survival mode actually feels like, the racing heart, the late-night doom-scroll, the sense of always being “behind” and explains how a...
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Unlearning “You Must Be a Mother” PART 1 | Legally Clueless Ep345

September 28, 2025 • 45 mins
In this episode, we document Brenda's path toward a childfree life, from a lively Meru childhood and firstborn duty to the moment, at seven years old, when she first questioned whether motherhood should be her destiny. Through community, Catholic-school conditioning, and a deep love of words, she begins naming a life that’s hers by choice. In this episode you’ll hear:
  • Meru roots: muddy play, tea farms, and a massive, close-knit ...
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Yoga Healed My Mother & Rewrote My Story | For Mannerless Women

September 25, 2025 • 28 mins
In this moving episode of For Mannerless Women, Catherine, the first Kenyan woman to lead a yoga teacher training in Africa, shares her extraordinary journey of healing and transformation. Born and raised in Kariobangi, Catherine discovered yoga by accident, but it soon became the tool that helped her navigate the challenges of her upbringing, heal generational wounds, and support her mother through recovery from alcoholism. You wi...
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Why Women Judge Themselves And Each Other | Mid Week Tease

September 24, 2025 • 18 mins
In this Mid-Week Tease, Adelle dives into the hidden ways internalized shame limits women and how it often makes us judge each other too. Shame is sneaky; it feels personal, but really it’s society’s voice living inside of us. Adelle shares how shame silences us, shrinks us, disconnects us from others, and even makes us police other women. And drawing from Brené Brown’s research, Adelle unpacks what shame resilience looks like and ...
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The Day My Childhood Shattered PART 3 | Legally Clueless Ep 344

September 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Over the past two episodes, we’ve journeyed with Audrey through her childhood and the unimaginable loss of her beloved brother, Warren. In this final part of her story, Audrey shares how she navigated life after loss, the painful burial, the anger she felt at faith, and her long journey of slowly facing the places and memories she had been avoiding.

She also reflects on how unexpected moments, like her mother’s later pregnancies, br...
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Rest Is Revolutionary for Women | For Mannerless Women

September 18, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode of For Mannerless Women, host Adelle Onyango sits down with Ingashian Gibendi, product leader, founder of The Career Whisperer, and a bold advocate for women crafting careers on their own terms. Ingashian shares why rest is not laziness but a radical act of reclaiming power in a world that equates worth with constant work. From taking unplanned career breaks, to rejecting toxic workplace cultures, to choosing life b...
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Breaking the Cycle: Childhood Trauma & Healing Together | Mid Week Tease

September 17, 2025 • 32 mins
This week on Mid Week Tease, Adelle is joined by therapist Natali Mukami from Shamiri Health as they open up a deeply important conversation about childhood trauma. They unpack:
  • What childhood trauma really is and how it shows up in adulthood
  • The subtle ways trauma manifests in our work, relationships, and self-perception
  • Why group therapy is such a powerful space for healing
  • Gentle tools you can begin using to manage trauma respon...
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The Day My Childhood Shattered PART 2 | Legally Clueless Ep 343

September 14, 2025 • 43 mins
When Grief Silences Siblings 

In Part 1 of Audrey’s story, she took us back to her childhood in Migori County, the joy, the cracks in her parents’ marriage, and the loneliness of family separation. In this second part, Audrey shares the unimaginable: the sudden loss of her beloved brother Warren. She opens up about the chaos that followed, the unanswered questions surrounding his death, and the invisible grief siblings often carry w...
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Friendship, Shame & Sisterhood With Janet Mbugua | For Mannerless Women

September 10, 2025 • 49 mins
In this deeply honest episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle Onyango sits down with journalist, advocate, and founder of the Inua Dada Foundation, Janet Mbugua, for a vulnerable conversation on the realities of female friendships. Together, they explore:
  • How the media and society pit women against each other
  • The quiet shame and trust issues that shape how we show up in friendships
  • Friendship breakups, ghosting, and learning how t...
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How Childhood Wounds Shape Our Bonds | Mid Week Tease

September 10, 2025 • 18 mins
Why do some relationships feel like home even when they hurt us? Why do we cling to people who echo the very wounds we’ve been trying to escape? In this episode of the Mid Week Tease, we unpack how childhood trauma shapes the way we love, the way we trust, and the bonds we form, even the ones that break us. From understanding trauma bonds, to relearning trust, to breaking generational cycles, this is a heartfelt conversation on rew...
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The Day My Childhood Shattered | Legally Clueless Ep 342

September 7, 2025 • 46 mins
This week on Legally Clueless, we step into Part 1 of Audrey June’s story. She takes us back to her childhood in Migori County, the joy, the bond with her siblings, the love in her family, and then the cracks that began to appear. From her parents’ separation, to the loneliness she felt as a child, and the strength she witnessed in her mother as she fought to rebuild their lives. Part 2 of her story, where joy and unimaginable hear...
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Hormones Shape Every Woman’s Life | For Mannerless Women

September 4, 2025 • 67 mins
In this episode of For Mannerless Women, Adelle sits down with Dr. Amanda Kenya, a holistic obstetrician and gynecologist passionate about hormone health. Dr. Kenya breaks down the truth about hormones, beyond periods and fertility, revealing how they impact our sleep, mood, mental health, libido, skin, bones, heart, and so much more. We talk openly about perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, and Dr. Kenya gives practical, ...
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Inherited Pain, Inherited Power | Mid Week Tease

September 2, 2025 • 16 mins
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle explores the quiet legacy many of us carry: the wounds passed down through generations of women, and the strength we inherit too. From the silence of our mothers and grandmothers, to the resilience that allowed them to endure, this episode unpacks how we can recognize both pain and power in our lineage. Adelle shares reflections on:
  • The unspoken traumas women before us carried.
  • The survival...
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