Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda
The show where business meets love, and culture meets critique. We’re Aiwan and Tamanda, two Black women with 20 years each in entertainment, research, and social justice. We’re also a married couple figuring out what it means to build a life and two businesses together.
We'll talk about the realities of running a business, making creative work that matters, and navigating research with integrity.
What You’ll Find:
- Honest conversations on entrepreneurship, research, and creativity.
- Unpacking the intersections of business, leadership, relationships, and identity.
- Hot takes on media, culture, and social change.
- Guest insights from entrepreneurs, researchers, and artists.
If you’re navigating business, love, and the messiness of life while trying to do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Episodes drop every Tuesday!
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2025
Talking Money, Marriage and Meaning: When Money Scripts Clash in Relationships
Can you rewrite your money story – or are you stuck with the one you inherited? We crack open the money stories we inherited, and the ones we’re trying to rewrite.
Aiwan shares how growing up in a fun…
What It Costs to Have a Baby: Fertility, Fibroids & the Fight for Queer Parenthood
The story we almost didn’t tell - a personal, unfiltered conversation about fertility, fibroids, and what it’s like to try and build a family as a Black queer couple.
Aiwan speaks candidly about inter…
Notes From the Margins: What Call the Midwife, HillmanTok, and Tommy Robinson Reveal About Power
In this third episode of Rigour & Flow, we introduce our new three-part format - spotlighting the stories, ideas, and questions we can’t stop thinking about.
Aiwan unpacks a jarring moment in the hit …
From the Page to the Screen - Why Black Thought Is Still ‘Too Much’ for White Institutions
Why do so many Black creatives and researchers walk away from the industries they once fought to be part of? In this second episode of Rigour & Flow, we examine the silencing, sanitising, and sidelin…
Can You Be African, Christian and Gay? Who Gets to Decide?
Can you be queer, African, and Christian - all at once?
In the first ever episode of Rigour & Flow, Aiwan reflects on the five-year anniversary of her documentary Kenyan, Christian, Queer - a powerful…
Welcome to Rigour and Flow
We’re Aiwan and Tamanda, two Black women with 20 years each in entertainment, research, and social justice. We’re also a married couple figuring out what it means to build a life and two businesses t…