The Embrace with Ayanpella Podcast
The Embrace with Ayanpella Podcast
Temitope Ayanyemi
Building Confidence as an Undergraduate
27 minutes Posted May 22, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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Starting university can humble you in ways nobody prepared you for.


In this episode, I share my journey from being a sheltered teenager with low self-esteem to entering the beautiful chaos that is the University of Lagos, where everybody suddenly seemed smarter, more confident, more ambitious, and more exposed than me.

I talk about:

  • struggling with comparison and confidence as a "fresher"
  • feeling behind around “CEO” classmates
  • growing up sheltered and entering a completely different world
  • redefining failure as an undergraduate
  • and more

If you’re currently in university, about to enter, or still trying to find yourself in the middle of everybody else’s highlight reel, this episode is for you 🤍


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