Business Operations Checklist: Run Your Company Smoothly
You know I’m a checklist and SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) enthusiast. Why? Because having processes in place makes life—and work—run smoother. And who doesn’t love a little more ease and flow? 💡 Last month, I shared my Home Management SOP 🏡🔧. This month, I’m excited to share the Business Operations SOP, …
When Your Name Demands a Stand: Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name is Coming!
Many of us grew up with names that teachers mispronounced and kids teased. When I was nine years old, we moved to the United States. I was pushed into this classroom to introduce myself and I immediately knew I couldn’t trust that room with my name: Ifeoluwa. I knew they …
Stop Enabling Your Erasure: Speak About Your Accomplishments!
Your silence about your accomplishments is not service. It’s just enabling your erasure. I posted that and y’all said, I have dragged you and gathered you, but I just need to make sure you really know what I’m talking about. We’ve been somehow told that we need to humble our …
An Oriki Tribute to A’ja Wilson, the 3-time WNBA MVP
A’ja Wilson just got named the 2024 WNBA season MVP for the 3rd time. So I wrote her an oriki for the occasion. A’ja Riyadh of House Wilson. First of Her Name. The Thousand Point Trailblazer. Hooping Historymaker. Bestselling Book Boss. Dominating Defensive Diva. Top Tier Towering Titan.🪜 Bold Blocking …
Home and Family Management Checklist
I am obsessed with finding ways to make life easier. One of those ways is with checklists/templates OR SOPs (standards of procedures) for repeated tasks that are necessary to run both my life and my business. And I literally have a LIBRARY of SOPs that I’ve created and use. Documenting …
The Definitely Earned It Conundrum and Mediocre White Men Fatigue
Last night’s presidential debate felt personal for a lot of us, even outside the political policies we needed to care about. The fact that Kamala Harris has to take Donald Trump seriously is just further proof that we live in an unserious world. The look of every woman who is …
Travel Luvv Guide – Cheat Codes to Fly With Ease
Traveling expands our world in every way, and to be able to do it for work and play is a privilege I don’t take for granted. And like everything else in this topsy turvy world we live in, it’s gotten increasingly expensive and wildly chaotic. So it is especially important …
Who Are We When the Stakes Are High?
First of all, lemme say that it’s EXHAUSTING living through historical times. Like… I miss precedented times so bad and I want them back. 😭 I think back to my high school days when I would read about historical events with a sense of disbelief. I would ask myself “How …
I Am Intimidating and That’s Okay
I have been called intimidating all my life from when I was little, and I’d like to be like, oh, I’m not intimidating. They’re just intimidated. No, I am intimidating because I move different. My confidence is different. The way I talk and it’s straightforward, it’s different. And for people, …
Let’s Talk About the Glory and Grit of Entrepreneurship
I’m ready to talk about one of my hardest years in business. 2023 almost wiped me out. Business was brutal. And at one point I thought I was going to go bankrupt and it shook my confidence to its core. I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And you know …