hello, my name is is a storytelling podcast that explores the personal, cultural, and political significance of names and naming. Through conversations with guests, host Mofi B, unpacks the stories and meanings behind names, exploring how they intersect with identity and how much (or how little) names shape who we are, our sense of self, how we are perceived, and how we move through the world.
HMNI is a space to honor the stories, histories, and complex realities carried in the first introduction to every person - their name. Whether you're navigating your own relationship with your name or just listening in, HMNI is a home for stories about identity, belonging, and the meanings we carry.
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hello, my name is is a storytelling podcast that explores the personal, cultural, and political significance of names and naming. Through conversations with guests, host Mofi B, unpacks the stories and meanings behind names, exploring how they intersect with identity and how much (or how little) names shape who we are, our sense of self, how we are perceived, and how we move through the world.
HMNI is a space to honor the stories, histories, and complex realities carried in the first introduction to every person - their name. Whether you're navigating your own relationship with your name or just listening in, HMNI is a home for stories about identity, belonging, and the meanings we carry.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, I chat with someone whose presence is nostalgic, warm and affirming. Olivia is an artist and storyteller who has lived with — and through — multiple names: the name on her passport, the English name her parents chose to protect her, the home name reserved only for family, and the artistic name she stepped into.
We explore the complexity and beauty of naming — how names can hold identity, cultural memory, expectation, and transformation. She talks about the tension of growing up between names, the grief of cultural loss, the desire to reclaim her original name, and the fear of what shifting names might mean for the person she has become. We talk about alter egos, artistic personas, and how stepping into her chosen name opened space for confidence, creativity, and reinvention.
As an artist, she reflects on how naming also shapes her creative world and is a testament to growth, renewal, and blooming despite what life throws at you.
Her story reveals how names can carry identity, history, growth and healing all at once. This is a conversation about becoming, remembering, and the ongoing journey back to yourself. I'm very excited to share this conversation with you. You can find Olivia on IG at @mo.o.nflower & @inbloom.space and on Substack at Liv's Love Letters.
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