What Do You See? Power In Baby Steps

What Do You See? Power In Baby Steps rests on a simple conviction: large ambitions are reached one small, deliberate move at a time, and the small moves are the ones people skip. Oluwatobiloba Olatunji, who also goes by Toby, leads the podcast and greets listeners as their 'tour guide'. Each outing takes one subject and tries to make it manageable. Anxiety gets the A-B-C-D treatment: identify the activating event, name the belief it triggers, look at the consequences, then dispute that belief out loud. For the disputing, Olatunji turns to Bible verses, constant declarations and self-affirmations, even talking to oneself in a mirror, described as the cement in the process rather than the whole foundation. Faith is not decoration here. Olatunji first wanted a guest for the anxiety topic, then took it on alone after feeling prompted by the Holy Spirit to look again at the podcast's own name. 'Why Am I Even Here?' takes on painful questions, including who would miss a person if they died, and answers with a question of its own: what is in your hand? The story of five loaves and two fishes becoming twelve baskets carries that argument, next to a lighter example about a secret chicken recipe and KFC. Relationships come up too. 'Toxic Cycles' uses the glow of Valentine's Day as a way into love bombing, compares the sudden withdrawal of attention to coming off a drug, and recommends talking to a trusted person, a parent, or in severe cases a counselor or therapist. Olatunji calls that episode a cause for awareness, not a full class. Money gets a guest. In 'Financial Baby Steps For 2023', a guest introduced as a finance aficionado discusses cutting non-essential spending, balancing bulk buying against saving, and building emergency funds before investing, all while Nigeria contends with fuel scarcity and a shortage of Naira notes. Olatunji admits to a poor saving and investment habit during the conversation, and the recap names investing in yourself as the most important baby step. Some episodes form series. 'Woman (Part 2)' continues a run of women's life stories, three per episode, and takes from one of them, Huda, the lesson that people hear how words are said as much as the words themselves. 'Problem Solving', part of a series on soft skills, borrows the SMART principle, credits a McKinsey program with widening Olatunji's view, and boils the topic down to define, determine and deliver. The delivery is warm, earnest and conversational, with lines deliberately repeated so they stick, and Olatunji is candid enough to say when an episode rambled. Episodes close by inviting voice messages and comments through Spotify, and sometimes by asking for success stories.