Marvyn Harrison on the No Strings Podcast with Kojo Anim

About this episode

Marvyn Harrison and Kojo Anim discuss their parallel paths, personal growth, and the importance of collaboration after years of misunderstanding.

Marvyn Harrison and Kojo go back. Two decades of parallel paths, community builders, event makers, fathers, who were never quite in the same room long enough to have the real conversation. Until now. In this episode, they cover everything. The g:hop era. The Sunday Show years, Ed Sheeran performing there eight times, Drake, Jay Cole, Wretch 32, Nicki Minaj, Omarion, Boys II Men. How the show grew from a Clerkenwell warehouse to Leicester Square to 2,000 at Proud. The unspoken tension between Sunday Show and Kojo's Funhouse that both men address for the first time. The people who tried to put them against each other. And why they wasted years not collaborating because of it. Then it gets personal. Marvyn on being in South Africa and genuinely believing his children didn't need him. The phone call from his mum that changed everything. The men in LA who told him being absent was just "the grind." Why he flew home and rebuilt his life around his kids. Why men's happiness is structurally treated as an oxymoron, and what it costs us when we accept that. And what it actually looks like to build a life where your no is powerful and your presence is enough. This is two brothers. One…

People in this episode

Host: Marvyn Harrison

Guest: Kojo Anim

Topics covered

• community building
• fatherhood
• collaboration
• personal growth
• music events
• men's happiness

Keywords

• Marvyn Harrison
• Kojo Anim
• fatherhood
• community
• music events
• personal growth
• collaboration
• men's happiness

Mentioned in this episode

Places: South Africa, LA, Clerkenwell, Leicester Square, Proud

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