When is the right time to build a family while building a career? How can women optimise both and avoid the classic motherhood penalties that professional women often face?

Who are we kidding? Pregnancy is not always performance neutral. In fact, most times pregnancy and maternity do impact performance! How should employers reconcile this with the prevailing rhetoric?

Surprisingly, babies and toddlers are really good teachers too, if we open our minds and hearts we can learn so much. There really is no monopoly on wisdom

The first thirteen weeks of pregnancy can be very tough! Coping with this in secrecy while working full time is no mean feat.

When it comes to choosing a career, is it really wise to ‘follow your passion?’ I think a skills-led approach is just as valid with the added benefit of letting your passion remain low pressure and enjoyable.

Motherhood while working has it’s tradeoffs, but I also discovered some surprising synergies that increased my productivity at work!

When it comes to investing, time time time is the one big advantage that cannot be overstated. Therefore, learning and applying lessons in your twenties and thirties will serve you well. Here are a few of my top lessons

Living in Nigeria and many other parts of the world, one can become numb to human suffering due to the sheer magnitude of humanitarian disasters we hear about/experience/witness daily. Remembering the humans behind these statistics helps me stay focused on why fighting to reduce inequality is still important

In the quest to espouse humility, many women (me included) end up feeling like impostors in their own lives. Society has trained us to diminish our accomplishments but I think it’s high time we learn how to unapologetically own our successes!