Femi Koleoso

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to JOY January - a mini series! The aim is for you to finish these episodes with more joy to start your 2024. Who better to lead us than the most joy filled musician around - the incredibly talented bandleader and drummer of the award-winning jazz group Ezra Collective, Femi Koleoso. When Femi hits the drums, the world listens. He is on a mission to bring joy to all through music. His career has seen him play all across the world including with Gorillaz and Jorja Smith, and last year Ezra Collective became the first ever jazz act to win the prestigious Mercury Prize. Femi’s heartfelt acceptance speech highlighting the importance of London’s youth clubs went viral.

This episode is the perfect antidote to that post Christmas slump. Annie and Femi discuss the difference between happiness and joy, the importance of music, how his upbringing in a Nigerian Christian household shaped his mindset, faith and joy, the importance of gratitude and most importantly, how you can bring more joy to your own lives through small changes. Here’s to a joyous 2024!

Find Femi on instagram and twitter @femiondrums

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0:38.9	today. We can choose to be joyful.
0:42.8	I say it on stage all the time for the next six minutes.
0:45.8	I'm going to challenge you to decide right now
0:48.6	to leave everything behind and just go for it. It. Hello, happy New Year.
0:55.0	Welcome to Changes.
1:00.0	I am Annie Mac Manas.
1:01.0	It's so great to be back with you at the beginning of
1:03.7	2024. The beginning of a year is always such a big time for change and we've got
1:09.2	some incredible guests lined up to Kickstart 2024. I wanted to start the year with a real kind of
1:16.6	commitment to positivity. The world is terrifying, overwhelming, scary, horrific at times and I think sometimes you have to work at making
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