Joy Esemene

A dress maker, fabric seller and a preacher

[Joy Esemene @EsemeneJoy]

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[Joy Esemene @EsemeneJoy]

It was evident that she was one of those people who has been discouraged by this frenemy of mine. Things was going really bad and at the end of the second year, I couldn't pay the rent so my friend helped with 3months rent. No work no sales, I started avoiding my own shop.

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saw a dress on me and she said, see as this cloth fine for your body but if na person own, you go spoil am. I looked at her and asked her, have you ever given me cloth to sew for you before? Has anyone ever complained about my work to you before? She said nooo, I just dey talk

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So does he husband because he's an Hausa man but she's from Edo. She kept praising my work and along the line made a statement and I quote. ' e no good make person dey listen to wetin people dey talk sometime '. I understood her statement so I didn't push further. One day, a lady

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I told my friend about the dream but she didn't take it serious. One day, a lady walked into my shop and said she wanted to make a particular Hausa style. She brought sample and I made it for her. 2 days later, she came back with another fabric and told me how she loves the cloth

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I was telling my friend in the dream, see this woman is stepping on these beautiful clothes you've made but, she wasn't seeing anything. Life is truly spiritual. When I woke up, I understood that their work has has been spiritually tampered with that's why they were being rejecte

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reason. When they asked what the problem was, the customers will say, nothing but we don't just want the clothes. Haa, this one has passed be careful o, according to my mum😁. I was praying one day in the night, and I saw a lady stepping on all their clothes that they made.

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These friends of mine had clients abroad and we're good at what they did. I even used to opportunity to learn more from them. Guess what?? After like two months with me, these people started getting rejection from their clients. Their customers will reject their clothes for no

[Joy Esemene @EsemeneJoy]

Words in my spirit, kokoro to je efo, idi efo lo wa. Pardon my Yoruba pls.
I had to call my friends who were tailors and sewing from their homes to come join me in the shop so as to keep it busy and help with the splitting of the rent because I wasn't making money again

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Shop and climbing my sewing machine and pooing on it. It will climb my cutting table and do the same. I remember cutting clothes one day and the fowl entered my shop that has a burglary, and jumped on the table while I was there. E shock me 😁. Everytime I prayed, I heard this

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Me that she wasn't lying. Hmmm, I called another good customer of mine, who I sometimes make clothes on credit for and she pays at month end and she told me the same thing. Did I mention that I started experiencing strange things in my shop. Things like fowl, entering into my

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of her clothes. She said, she was stupid to have listened to this so called friend of mine and that she was really sorry because I had been good to her. To show her remorse, she brought two clothes for me to make and also brought the other 2 the other tailor made for her to show

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She poison's their minds against you and they go and never return. This broke my heart so bad and she said, to be frank, I love your work and every clothes you've ever made for me are the best in my wardrobe. She told me that this lady took her to another tailor who has spoilt 2

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Anymore, and she said, let me tell you the truth, this your friend has been spoiling your handwork everywhere and because you don't come too early like that, people who come to look for you to make clothes and intending apprentice, she calls them to come wait for you in her shop

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Prayer request. She said, your charge to high and you don't know how to sew that she cannot pray such prayer. I was shocked to be frank and she asked me, una dey fight? Me- never. I called one of my customer who stayed in the same compound with her why she wasn't patronizing me

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The women all gathered around me and prayed for God's intervention. On my way back to my shop, the woman I did contribution with came to me and said, I have to tell you something. You have to be careful of this friend of yours, she was making jest of you when you brought your

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I knew what I was facing wasn't physical but spiritual. My work is good, I get good feedbacks from my customers of how they loved their dresses but something wasn't just right. I went to my church one day for women prayer and I raised the prayer concerning my business.

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It was becoming really frustrating that even my customers close to my shop were beginning to go somewhere else. I had this friend who has a salon close to my shop. I will go to her and pour my heart to her and she would assure me that all was well, that I should keep praying.

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My shop was double, well arranged and beautiful that when people come inn, they marvelled that such a beautiful shop was in a local area like that. I kept wondering why my patronage was dropping and people who made enquiry wasn't coming back. I was disturbed, I prayed, I sowed

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The first year was blissful that repayment of my rent wasn't an issue. The following year, I started experiencing low patronage and everyone that came to me that they wanted to learn never returned. I had 7 manual machines, 3 industrial machines and 1 weaving machine.