Mind Your Own

In partnership with Lupita Nyong’o, Snap Studios created Mind Your Own.

Lupita knows what home feels like. But where exactly is it? In Mexico, where she was born? Kenya, where she grew up? Or the States, where she’s spent the past 20 years?

Like Lupita, millions of Africans are spread out across the globe following family, searching for love, building futures and creating stories. It’s these stories – wild and messy, intimate and joyous – that she wants to hear.

Welcome to Mind Your Own, a storytelling podcast navigating what it means to belong, all from the African perspective. Join Lupita as she shares tales of her own and dives into the lives of real people finding their way in new worlds of every kind.

Listen to the trailer NOW.

You can listen to Mind Your Own on any podcast platform starting 9/19/24.

Mind Your Own is a production of KQED’s Snap Studios, with sales and distribution by Lemonada Media. Hosted and produced by Lupita Nyong’o. 

Our beloved Snap Studios is home to the Snap Judgment and Spooked podcasts.

The Mind Your Own Team 

Managing Editor: Regina Bediako.  Director of Production: Marisa Dodge. 

Series Producers: David Exumé and Priscilla Alabi. 

Story Scouts: Ashley Okwuosa, Fiona Nyong’o, Jessica Kariisa, Lesedi Oluko Moche. 

Music Supervisor: Sandra Lawson-Ndu.  Engineering: Miles Lassi.

Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich.

Editors: Nancy López and Anna Sussman.  Story Consultant: John Fecile. 

Operations Manager: Florene Wiley. Graphic Design: Jemimah Ekeh.  Original Artwork: Mateus Sithole. 

Special Thanks: Allan Coye, Jake Kleinberg, Samara Still, Sarah Yoo, Warner Music Group, and Afripods.