As a little girl, from onset, I always knew that I was going to become someone of influence. I can't tell when I began to cultivate this belief or if my mind was always just running based on imaginations. If so, I have come to believe those imaginations and embraced them.
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There was this paper laptop I had then. It was a craft made by a senior and when I asked for it, they gave it to me. During school breaks, when Mom would have left really early for Summer school (she was a teacher then), I would dress up, take a bag and pack my "laptop" then take Mommy's old phone and begin to act the scenes I saw in movies.
In our room, I would play "arriving at the office (flips hair)", then the "hardworking gal" and finally will get "riled up" by my teammates and would be the one trying to solve the problems. In my mind, at that very moment, I wasn't a little girl but the owner of a Multi-billion dollar corporation, a woman of steel with ambitions the size of an entire planet. I lived those imaginations and somehow, I am "living it" now.
I will be answering the prompt questions (two of them) in a simple line in which I would go into details: I will become famous for the reason that I will build wealth from investing in the business industry; I will own a conglomerate of businesses that it would be impossible to ignore me.
As I grew, became wiser, I saw that holding a job will not make me rich. I had ambitions as a little girl and with every new age, something in my desires changed. I would discover something, relearn something.
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As I became more keen to the happenings in the world, I realized that the workers of corporations were almost slaves, working to achieve someone else's dreams. Mind you, I came to this realization before I started reading any book on finance or development (I was a girl who was a walking, living fiction fanatic). I just saw my Mom slave away, neighbors (especially the bankers) and telecom managers too. They were being paid huge money and yet, they almost have nothing tangible to show.
That was when I first got to hear the name Dangote. Prior, I always thought Dangote was just the name of the sugar we used, the pasta too. But I found he was a real person who came from a poor home and (at that time) now a multi-millionaire. I got fire-rized!. Ambition ignited when I realized that I could be the woman I see in my mind. The passion started as a little flame until it became a full blown wild fire.
It is really not coincidental that LOH pose this question at this point in my life given that I have applied for a grant towards this amount 🙂. The reason I don't talk about it is because people have an ability to kill dreams and one very stupid thing Nigerians (especially your friends) tend to do is talk you out. I learned to keep things lowkey and if they work, people see the results. They wouldn't know the process of course.
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For the sake of the originality of my ideas, I will not disclose them here. One thing I have also learned in business (at this little age of mine) is that if you aren't fast enough, the rug would be pulled from under you. How many times have ideas been stolen? I can't count.
What I will disclose is that I will be going in to real estate should I be given the grant; also the food business and the entertainment business. Already spoke to a few potential partners and grant or no grant, we would make it work. The truth is we are just young Nigerian individuals with same inhibitions and level of hunger. We are people who bonded over our experiences and have made the conscious decision to be the best no matter what.
So, I know it deep down that I would be famous for the wealth (in both business and connections) and the lives I will touch because I plan to give back to the community.
This is my response to the Ladies of Hive Community Contest.
