One of the biggest achievements of 2019, has been running my first 5KM race. In preparation for the big event, I trained. I woke up every morning when everyone was still asleep, Nike run training in my ears, start walking then jogging and eventually running. Each session I had an objective: run without stopping, run…
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“Do you have any luggage to check in?†The hostess asks me. She is incomprehensibly annoyed and doesn’t make eye contact. I answer: “Noneâ€. That’s when she stares at me surprised and repeats: “None??†I can tell what she is really asking is you’re travelling to Africa, how can you have no luggage to check…
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In a conversation over Instagram Tomi Makanjuola shared with me the five tips to self-make your communication if you are a change-maker. Tomi is a chef and the founder of The Vegan Nigerian, a blog and company approaching Nigerian food from a whole different angle: veganism. As reported by the pan-African platform This is Africa:…
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One of the first hashtag I saw when joining Instagram was something related to suicide. At the time it seemed to confirm the idea that maybe that platform wasn’t for me but now I realise that wasn’t my usual solution-based reaction. For the past couple of months I have been running a Facebook live show…
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Hands up if you have heard this one before: if you want to be heard you have to SCREAM. Where scream doesn’t necessarily mean with your voice but with every other feature we use to communicate: clothes, music, colours, personality. I certainly did. And for a while I beat myself up because I wasn’t loud…
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How do you keep your energy level up when you feel knackered, tired and demotivated? I asked myself this question lately because my energy level has been quite low and when that happens, my communication and marketing material suffer.