Yoli Tamu | Host of The back To Me Podcast

Yoli’s journey of becoming a podcaster, educator, speaker, author, and recording artist reflects unfettered resiliency, rejuvenation, self-advocation, voracious optimism, and enthusiastic commitment to use her life lessons and challenges to empower and motivate young people. She had to overcome extreme adversity to get “back to me” and be spiritually, mentally, and physically whole enough to help other young women and men avoid having to “get back to themselves”.

Yoli Tamu | Host of the back to me podcast

Journy Of Yoli Tamu:

In 2020, Yoli Launched The Back to Me Podcast: College and Beyond, Which Has Racked Up Over 100 Episodes and is available on Spotify, Apple, and Google Podcasts

Her 30-minute weekly podcast features monthly themes and special guest interviews.

Next on her “to do” list was to author her first book, Back to Me: A Devotional Walk for the College Freshman Woman, which she self-published on Amazon (February 2018) and partnered with The National College Resources Foundation in support of The Black College Expo Conference the same year. An audible version is due out in 2022/2023.

While her Back to Me world is furtive and growing exponentially every year, getting here has been an ominous challenge, and required years of therapy, completely overhauling her inner core and self-perception.

 

Our History

Yoli credits encouragement from the students that attended her workshops as the impetus to build her brand.

After thirteen years, she recorded and released her debut album, Back to Me. It comprised ten original songs and collaborations with co-writers Jackson Morgan, Akelee Relliford, Jamal Whittington, and Ferrell Drew. Grammy Award-winning producer, Augie Ray (Erica Campbell for Best Gospel Album 2014, Rhianna, Sir Elton John) produced the album and Beloryze served as coproducer. Yoli released Back to Me independently via her company, Yoli Tamu Enterprises (March 7, 2014).

Her album inspired her to establish the Back to Me Project (2016), a curated multi-media brand platform.

It emanated as a series of four theme workshops which also serve as topics for speaking engagements. She parlayed it into creating a Back to Me one-woman show which fuses her authentic storytelling and life lessons with live performances of songs featured on her Back to Me album. Yoli performed her first one-woman show at her alma mater, Howard University, Washington, D.C. She got her feet wet with her first speaking engagement at Cal State Fullerton (2013).