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Helen Ogbu

Helen Ogbu

Sep 9, 2026

7:34
Do you wanna expand on that a little bit for the listeners?
7:36
[laughs] Thank you.
7:38
Well, my, my, my PhD is all around, uh, the first time I started, I thought about the PhD, it was all around, um, identity crisis.
7:49
Uh, that, that was, that was, that was my initial topic, identity crisis.
7:54
And that was because, um, like, like I work in the community.
7:58
I, I talk with a lot of people.
8:00
I call myself a young person because somehow I can connect with young people a lot, and maybe that's because I, I'm a parent, and I'm also a foster mother, so that actually gives me that extra skills.
11:19
It's a bit of a loaded question.
6:47
Mm.
6:48
Actually, the first word I heard from him, a lot of first words that I heard from him while he was taking us on grinds, you know, we, we used to call it, um, kind of homework, helping us with our homework, but in Ireland, I just, the grinds is what people use.
7:02
And, um, he made sure that our education was really important, so he made sure that we did well in school.
7:16
And I remember in my primary school, we used to call it composition, like, "What would you like to be in future?" You know? And, like, people would say lawyer, doctors, nurse, teachers.
7:29
But I said, "I wanna be an ambassador." And my dad was like, "An ambassador? There's no...
7:34
You don't study ambassador [laughs] in school." I said, "But that's what I wanna be." And he said, yeah, because I'd heard that word from him several times.

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31:27
... for his funeral.
31:30
And I remember just washing the car he was killed in, because I told them, I said, "Nobody should touch it." I've never said this to anybody, but ...

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