A few years ago, BellaNaija columnist, Glory Edozien
got bitten by the bug of passion and drive for women. She wanted to
show the women were more than just fluff and weave. So, she started The Inspire Women Series on BN. {Click here if you missed the first two interviews}
She has now decided to step things up
even further, by starting her own website and launching her own talk
show. Today, we’re so proud to announce that after all the hard work,
the site, The Inspire Series is ready to hit the ground running.
Here’s what Glory had to say about her motivation for starting this project:
“As my friends and I, danced away at
my 30th birthday, in between the cutting of cake and the clinking of
champagne glasses, I felt a niggling sense of loss. I kept asking
myself: “what have I achieved?”, “what have I done with my life”? While
to some, I may have been the poster child of things to do before you are
thirty; highest educational qualification at age 28, great career,
expense paid travel to present research at international conferences….I
felt deeply unsatisfied with my life.
As I thought about it, I realized it
was because I had done everything everyone expected me to do, gone to
school, found a job and was now waiting patiently for my husband to
arrive on a unicorn and whisk me away into the land of happily ever
after dotted with perfect children, a nice house and summer vacations
abroad. While there is nothing wrong with any of that, I still figured
with the billions of people on earth, and with people dying and being
birthed every second there had to be more to life than the ticking of
boxes. There had to be more to God’s plan for creating me.
The more I thought about it, the
more the notion possessed me, and it is this possession that has birthed
the inspire series. I wanted to learn how to live dangerously. Not
bungee jumping and rock climbing, I mean REALLY live by pushing the
boundaries of what society said I could and couldn’t do. Do new things I
never thought possible and debate topics many considered taboo.
What better way to learn these
things than by sitting on the shoulders of women who are doing just
that? Conquering the world in small and big ways while loving every
single moment of it.
I assumed that if I felt this way,
there were at least 10 or maybe even 20 women who felt the same? If you
are one of these women then the Inspire Series is for you!
Let’s delve deep together and
inspire each other. Let’s discuss openly the issues we face and discover
solutions together. The Inspire Series is being birthed everyday, so I
might not get it perfect from the start, but stay with me as we all
learn and inspire each other to live the life God has created for us to
enjoy.”
The Inspire Series Online Talkshow by Glory Edozien - Promo Shots
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