For the most part, today, I am exactly where I hoped to be: I am working on stuff I am passionate about and believe in, I have great people in my life, have learned how to take care of myself (and finally doing it) - physically, emotionally etc; my Faith is stronger, closer to God and never been more sure of his covering.
Today I am bolder; I have done the scariest hardest things and still standing.
Today, I am proud of Peace. Deeply!
I am grateful to be alive and well, grateful that I am soooo excited about the future - that I can see it clearly.
I am grateful for wealth and for love — for abundance!
Happy Birthday Peace Itimi.
**Today! The only thing I ask for is that you send me prayers and speak life into me.
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She won a contract at 23 with no prior experience.
One of the biggest cheques of her life came from a painting she created in 6 days.
She wrote the first article about Africa’s creator economy in 2011 before Creator Economy became a thing.
Now she is building @crea8torium .
Today’s episode of Founders Connect is about what it actually costs to build a life on your own terms.
Comment ‘ADAORA’ to get the link sent directly to your DM.
This episode is sponsored by @sendwaveangloafrica
I’m a very big fan of experimentation. I believe it’s the actual engine of growth. Not strategy. Not frameworks. Not borrowed best practices.
Real growth comes from getting granular with data, running channel experiments, testing creative, and paying attention to what users actually do,not what you assume they want.
So whether you are building a company or a career, move. Explore. Test things. And then listen to what the data is telling you. It almost always knows before you do.
#growthmarketingtips #careertips
If you have the chance to learn inside something before you build your own, take it seriously. It’s a huge advantage for when you start your own. What are your thoughts on this? Share with me in the comments section👇
Here is what I have come to understand about failure. It is not the opposite of progress. It is a feedback. When you move quickly, test an idea, launch before you feel ready, and it does not work, you have lost very little but gained a signal. And that signal tells you something no amount of planning ever could.
Ship the thing. Ask for the money. Launch the idea. Get the feedback while it is still cheap to change direction.
Fail fast. Build faster.
Do you agree?
#careeradvice #failfast
If I lost my network, capital and platforms today and I had to rebuild, this is how I’d rebuild - Start with the people. Figure out the work. The money follows.
What about you? What would you rebuild first? I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Most people look at Nigeria and see 250 million people. Kola Aina looks at the same number and sees one of the most dangerous assumptions in African business.
He has spent a decade backing over 90 companies through Ventures Platform -Paystack, PiggyVest, Moniepoint among them. He shares the lesson underneath all of it, how it’s not just about market size or capital but also about judgment...
If you’re building anything in Africa, for Africa, you need to watch this conversation. Comment KOLA to get the link to the conversation.
This episode was sponsored by @sendwaveangloafrica
I strongly believe that the size of your ambition is quietly shaped by the size of your exposure.
Exposure is the raw material of vision. And vision is where everything else begins.
Immerse yourself in something beyond what you already know. Let what you see expand what you dare to believe.
Do you agree?👇
On offloading versus delegation, I want to offer a reframe.
Delegation is not the problem. Delegation without support is. The moment you hand something over and walk away, without the clarity, the coaching, the relationship, the feedback loop, that is when it becomes offloading.
Not because you gave the work away, but because you gave it away without giving the person what they needed to carry it well.
Leadership is not about how much you personally produce. It is about how much your team can produce because of how well you have invested in them. As you grow, more and more of the work should move through other hands.
What stays with you is the thinking, the vision, the alignment, the culture.
Just make sure the person you’re delegating to has what they need to succeed.
#leadershiptips #howtodelegate #delegationskills
I used to think balance meant separation. That somewhere on the other side of the work, there would be a stretch of time that was fully mine. What I understand now is that there is no life waiting on the other side of the work. There is just life, and the work is part of it.
Balance, for me, is no longer about creating a wall between work and everything else. It is about weaving the care into the ordinary rhythm of the day. Two hours away and then back to the laptop. A walk that doubles as a reset. A conversation that fills something in you before the next meeting begins.
This is how I approach work-life balance now.
#worklifebalance #productivityhabits #howtoavoidburnouts
