A Leading Career Woman in my industry, Entrepreneur, Author, Board Member, Founder of the Uncommon Woman Movement, Minister of God, Wife and Mom….
By God’s grace, I have come a long way…
From being a young rising Star Girl with lots of dreams and an overwhelming belief in myself…
To becoming a wife and mom…and forgetting these dreams and even doubting my abilities and even wavering in my faith in God’s interest in me.
To staying stagnated in my job for over 7 years without a promotion…yet working so hard and occasionally being celebrated for my results.
To calculating my bill at Mr. Biggs in my head while on the queue and mentally checking to be sure that the money in my bag would be enough for a snack for my son, even though the world saw me as a ‘Big Girl’…
To serially failing at starting businesses…not one, not two…. not even three 😭😭
And then, in a space of 24 months, EVERYTHING CHANGED!
Today, I lead a group of crazy career women here at the Uncommon Woman Movement. Women who are ready to birth ALL the potential in them and make God proud…even with their full-time jobs, wifey and mommy duties.
When my bio gets read at the Women Events where I am privileged to speak, I sometimes find myself asking ’Is that really me?’ and then quickly saying a prayer of gratitude…
Because it was NOT always like this….
I grew up in ‘humble’ home. We were not exactly poor…but there was never extra except on Mommy’s pay day.
My brain was my super-power…and still is. I did not plan to always ‘manage’ for life, so I faced school with everything in me. I graduated best student in my department in university whilst being President of an International Youth Organization called AIESEC.
I got a job straight out of school…my dream job with my dream company. My annual salary as that time was my mother’s gratuity after over 20years of meritorious service to Nigeria.