Every once in a while I get a little lost. I find myself doing things I set up this platform to stand against. I compare myself with others, get envious, feel like quitting and loose my sense of self and place. It usually takes a friend, reading something I’d written years ago or most especially praying to get my self…
It’s Monday again. Another week to power through, raise dust and achieve amazing things. By now, most of us have our to-do lists written out. We have our plan for the week sorted, that deal we need to sign, that contact we need to make, that goal we need to reach. Some of us have probably even connected with our…
Ever wondered what Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and other inspiring Entrepreneurs have in common? Habit! Success is the outcome of habit. According to Sanjan Patel of Entrepreneur Magazine, whose article we’ve published below, Being an entrepreneur isn’t easy. It requires the kinds of habits that most people simply don’t have, along with a discipline, passion and dedication that are unmatched among…
Now, if you ever wanted to sit on anyone’s shoulders to learn about life experiences, wouldn’t it be on the shoulders of one of the worlds oldest billionaires? We saw this article written by Abram Brown of Forbes magazine and we felt it contained useful tips not just on making money but also on living life and creating essential balance…..check on it!…
If there was a woman I loved for reasons other than blood, for reasons other than any aesthetic quality but simply because by merely speaking and existing she somehow manages to awaken parts of me that very few are able to do. It would be Chimamanda Adiche Calling Chimamanda a mentor or an inspiration would be too much of a…
Authenticity- there are few greater qualities. Learning to accept who you are and living in the freedom of that expression is priceless. This has always been an underpinning philosophy here at IBG. So you can imagine our absolute glee when Michelle Obama- the First lady of the United States of America expressed the same sentiments during her speech at the Tuskegee University, Alabama,…
Is it just me or did the public holiday and weekend whiz by with extraordinary speed? I feel like it should at least still be Sunday and definitely not Monday. Or maybe, its because my mind is still fixed on the events of last week Sunday, where myself and over 100 women started #Redefiningfinance together. Like I told everyone during…
YAY! Its officially 6 more days to the #RedefiningFinance Event and we are SUPER SUPER excited. To prepare our minds for the event, we decided to post this article from our headline speaker Arese ugwu of smartmoneyafrica.org-3 easy steps to organize your money. What we loved the most about this article is how ‘easy’ and practical it really was! We hope…
The tired adage is true, ‘no one will value you more than you value yourself’. But in this world, where we are constantly competing and comparing ourselves, only to helplessly fall short, how can we see any value in who we are? When I started the Inspire Series, all I had was a feeling. I wanted to do this, I…
Believe it or not but we are almost at the end of the 1st quarter of 2015. Literally the first 3 months have flown by and, for many, so have the aspirations and rigour that started the year. Last week, was the World International Day for Women and yesterday was Mother’s Day. Two days that aim to raise the awareness…
