Dr May Ikeora-Amamgbo aka Onodu-Ugo of Amakofia Ukehe

Welcome to Issue 10 of Raising Women Magazine! This year, our theme is The Woman: Her Worth, Wealth, and Well-being, celebrating the core pillars that empower every woman to thrive. In this issue, we highlight Lady May in our Cover Story, a champion of women’s empowerment. Her work inspires us all to embrace our worth and build lasting wealth while prioritizing our well-being. We also celebrate @badgalriri in Bold & Beautiful, whose journey to creating a generational legacy shows us how to turn bold ambition into lasting success. From redefining wellness to stepping away from societal pressures, this issue encourages you to embrace your worth, wealth, and well-being in every area of your life. Here’s to a year of empowerment, balance, and growth. Stay empowered and harmonized! Check it out with the 🔗 link in our Bio

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Can’t quite put your finger👆on that feeling? While nature speaks to us in many tongues, from gentle vibrations to roaring trembles, the spoken word can often fall short of expressing what our bodies innately know and feel. Here are 5️⃣ words for emotions you may have felt before, but were unable to explain: ~ Énouement: The bittersweet feeling of realizing that a certain period of your life, or an entire relationship, is coming to an end. ~ Sonder: The feeling when you realize that everyone, including strangers, have a unique life just as complex as your own. ~ Adronitis: The desire to get to know people more deeply, even if it takes time, and the excitement of that potential connection.problems, and ambitions. ~ Nodus Tollens: The sense that your life no longer makes sense, like a story where the plot suddenly takes an unexpected turn. ~ Liberosis: The feeling of wanting to care less about things, a sense of calmness that comes when you let go of unnecessary concerns. ✨ Reference: the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows #nonenglish #mothertongue #emotions #bilingual #multilingual #languageispower

I cancelled my birthday Glow Social because I was genuinely too tired to be a good host to myself and my friends at the same time. So I rescheduled. For one. L’Avyanna face mask. The silky robe I made for exactly this kind of evening. My Galaxy Glow butterfly pea drink. My LED face masks. A film I had been saving for the right moment. It was one of the best evenings I have had in a long time. Your skin works from the inside and the outside simultaneously. That evening reminded me of that in the most personal way. The Glow Social with my girls is still coming. But if you would like to experience one for yourself …indicate your interest below. Beauty is better together. But it starts with you. 🤍🖤 . . . #GlowSocial #LAvyanna #SkinGlow #LEDFaceMask BeautyRitual’. .

We said we see you. Now we want to work with you. L’Avyanna is looking for UGC beauty creators and the only qualification that matters before anything else is that you have used our products. Not heard of us. Not followed us. Actually used us. Because we do not want faces. We want believers. If you have purchased from L’Avyanna at any point, you are already ahead of the queue. Email [email protected] with the subject title UGC and tell us what L’Avyanna has done for your skin. Don’t forget to include your handles so that we can view the work that you’ve done. It’s going to be interesting filling what’s coming 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 We check our records. 🖤

Where is the lie in what Uncle @fekomi said? I owe him a cold Coke. 🤗😜 Here is something people forget: every serious brand founder was already a creator long before that title got reserved for social media content. We built narratives, products, communities and experiences from nothing. So yes, we can play in that space and win. But it diverts our attention from what we are actually building. I genuinely respect great creators. But some of you are pricing yourselves out of a market that is becoming more saturated by the day. Charge your worth, absolutely. Just think carefully before you send that rate card, because no single creator can build a brand alone. If that were possible, you would have built your own. What makes it worse is paying the rate, then having to manage you as an additional problem. The only people who have earned the right to give me headaches at @lavyanna_skin are the customers spending real money on this brand. They are the true ambassadors. To every L’Avyanna customer: we see you. We appreciate you more than you know. You have never been background noise to us and you never will be. Stay close because something is coming for you. 🖤✨

@mayikeora is advancing women’s empowerment through a holistic approach that combines advocacy, entrepreneurship, wellness, and leadership development. Through the Raising Women Initiative, she supports women and girls with mentorship, financial literacy, emotional resilience, and reproductive health awareness while creating platforms that amplify women’s voices and lived experiences. As Founder and CEO of L’Ayanna Skin Naturals, she also challenges harmful beauty standards by promoting culturally affirming skincare products designed for melanin-rich skin. Her work demonstrates how African-owned enterprises can combine business success with advocacy, confidence-building, and community impact. By bridging human rights advocacy, storytelling, and enterprise, Dr. May Ikeora-Amamgbo continues to champion dignity, identity, and economic empowerment for women across communities. #PeaceMedia #the360changemakers #131of360

Happy birthday sis… May this chapter of your life bring you lasting joy. IJN 🙏🏾 Amen @onyeka_sweetness 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Apparently, society tried to convince women that to be taken seriously, they must become harsh, loud, emotionally unavailable, and permanently exhausted. Meanwhile, women like Dr. May Amamgbo @mayikeora are quietly reminding us that ELEGANCE still belongs in the conversation. You can be educated and still be soft. Influential and still be modest. Powerful and still be graceful. Success does not have to erase femininity. Growth does not have to remove polish. There are women climbing mountains in heels, carrying vision in one hand and grace in the other and doing it beautifully. 🤍 This is for the women who refuse to lose themselves while building themselves. #ElegantDecency #SoftnessAndStrength #FemininityAndPower #ModernWoman #GracefulLeadership

Dear Alex, I was so scared to text you, not because I did not want you to yab me for following social media news, but because I did not want this to be true. You were not just a friend and a brand ambassador, but one of the most intelligent people I knew. Funny, witty, warm, and full of life. I am honestly lost for words. To think of everything you went through, and now this… it is heartbreaking. Whilst I am still in disbelief over what this world has lost in you, I pray for your family and everyone who loved you. May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace, my friend, ALEXX. This is so sad. I want this to be fake news so bad 😭😭😭😭

We are live in Praia, Santiago in Cape Verde… working in collaboration to shape tomorrow’s football legacy. I come in from a safeguarding viewpoint for Athletes’ safety and agency. @missioneighty9 @afacconference

Lomé Airport, HELP! On the 10th of May (yesterday morning) , sometime around 11:20am, I mistakenly left my iPad Air in the toilet area near the boarding gate at Lomé Airport. I remember the exact timing because I sent a message to someone as I was leaving the restroom. I have already contacted both the airport authorities and Asky Airlines, the airline I travelled with, but there has been no update yet. I am kindly appealing to @asky_airlines and the authorities at Lomé Airport @lome.airport to please assist me in recovering it. A huge number of people who pass through that airport are diplomats, development professionals, and international travellers. I am hopeful that a Good Samaritan may have found it or handed it in. What makes this even more difficult is that my work is on that device, including the presentation that brought me to Cape Verde. I only got the iPad in March, so this loss has been quite devastating. If anyone has any information or can help amplify this message, I would deeply appreciate it. #LomeAirport #AskyAirlines #TravelHelp #LostAndFound #CapeVerde InternationalDevelopment