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Here's what I've learned. Most women are far more capable than they give themselves credit for. Nnee, the woman you're trying to become has already survived things the old you would have cried about for months. Don't let one difficult season make you forget who she is
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One would think that after surviving something like that, I would never have bad days again. I would never feel afraid again. I would never doubt myself again. What a lie๐. I still have hard days. I still get overwhelmed. It happens to the very best of us.
And that was how we survived. Not because I was fearless, or because I was exceptionally strong. Not because I had all the answers. We just kept taking the next step, even when we couldn't see the full road ahead.
DHL came through and helped immensely too in the person of Mrs E. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't organized. It wasn't the business plan. But somehow, every small solution kept us moving one more day.
We still couldn't cope. My team negotiated the use of someone's corridor in Finima. Yes. A corridor. Finished Products would be picked up, packed there and returned. I would drive to collect them. Looking back now, it sounds unbelievable. At the time, it was simply our reality๐ฅ
Then a family friend promised to send help. A young lady arrived and suddenly there were three of us. My sister, the young lady, me carrying a baby and packing orders. Nneee... the things women can survive when continuation becomes the only option!!!.
One day, I backed my baby and started taking orders myself from the Instagram dm. My sister joined me. Not because we had figured things out because there was nobody else๐ฅ.
So I refunded everyone. Every single person. Not because I wanted to. I simply didn't know how we were going to survive. Then I prayed and prayed and prayed. The answers weren't coming!! Hiiaaan ikegwuru๐ฅ.
As a proper Ada( first daughter) that I am, I had always believed that if I worked hard enough, I could figure things out. This time, I couldn't. For the first time in a very long time, I felt completely stuck.
Some days I would stare at my baby and cry. Other days I would stare at the business and cry. I was tired from postpartum blues, worrying and from praying. The hardest part wasn't the closed gates. It was waking up every morning and not knowing what to do next.
As if that wasn't enough, I had a two-month-old baby. Please, where exactly was I supposed to keep my sanity? I prayed that time should suddenly stop but Olorun Maje He majed to the core cos tell me why day was still breaking and life was hitting me right at my core.
What do you do when customers are anxiously waiting, orders are piling up, your team cannot get to work and every answer seems to lead to another problem!! God I beseech thee was my anthem
COVID had happened. The gates to my community were shut. Nobody was going in. Nobody was coming out. On the very morning everything changed, I was supposed to sign for a production facility for my brand. I remember sitting there completely gobsmacked.
There was a period in my life when I genuinely thought Majesticroobee wouldn't survive. Not because sales were low or because customers stopped buying. But one morning, the entire world stopped.
The side of me that kept asking God when life would finally get better.
If God did not hold me together during those moments, I honestly do not know where I would be today.