My mother’s words, her actions, her tenacity, they nudge me often. Even in her absence, her voice is still a force. I remember how it has gotten her thousands of miles from the village she grew up in, into rooms someone that looked sounded and believed like her may not have been welcome, purchasing her first home, and embodying what it means to be limitless.
I have never wanted to be someone else. However, I have not always been comfortable being myself. I cannot pinpoint...
I ask myself as I sit in yet another family living room in Nigeria. Not bold enough to ask if...
Of all the things I’ll share in this series about what my mom said first, this is probably the one...
One of the greatest gifts I have ever given myself was a solo trip. I had been working for some...
I was on the receiving end of unwarranted aggression and chaos designed to minimize me while simultaneously push false narratives about who I am in a high stakes environment. It became glaring in real time that when people assert the control they perceive they have over your life to exert their agenda, it is done with enormous disregard for the life they trample on.
This is a love letter from the millennial woman who is making peace with her younger self, standing fully in her present power, and aging like legacy. I created MOOAR because I believe there is space for you; not someday, but right now. I dare to take up space and you should too.
Is time meant to be spent with endless busy work that eventually creates a busy life? Sometimes we ask if we can afford to take a break, but I ask, can we afford not to?
This is such a strange thing to say. If you don’t have an in-depth understanding of the power of prayer,...
While this is a common phrase, no one had ever said it to me. When my mother said it, it...
This decade is dedicated to my teenage self. She is the one who believed in me the most. Her dreams about what I could do were limitless. She never considered that fear, intimidation, and procrastination would be my blockers. So, I want to make her proud, honor her.
