Never prepare for a presentation, speech or an interview using the voice in your head. It is far more eloquent and fluent than you actually are in reality.
One thing about me, I'll keep working till I get lucky...
I was speaking to a younger filmmaker tonight and she was telling me how hard things are. My only message to her was; don't give up.
It took me almost 3 years to raise the 45m it took to produce Isoken. It was my first film, I knew nothing about film distribution, worse still, no one with experience was sharing information.
I was flying blind and people would call me with so much misinformation pulling me in a million directions. The anxiety from the publicity period leading to the box office release was so intense, I couldn't leave my house for weeks after. I considered giving up, going back to banking, marketing comms, heck even tech (I used to programme banking software, I've lived many lives lol)
5 years later, my life would completely change and I would be signing a deal only God could have orchestrated. But I was only able to sign that deal because it met me with work in my hands. I kept at it... even when it wasn't glamours. Even when I drove the same car for 10years because I was reinvesting everything into my business. My cast and crew would tease me about it for years lol. Even when I couldn't attend my close friend's wedding in Santorini because I had just made a film and in the entire value chain of the business, Producers get paid last and so I was broke lol.
I firmly believe in seasons, and though the sowing season is tough AF (I still cried to two of my friends yesterday so don't think I'm immune now), the only way you get to harvest is if you have sown.
So get to sowing and be patient💕
I’m asking you to do one kind thing today.
Please help my sister continue her fight against Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
A donation, a repost, or a quote would go a long way for Lauretta. 🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾
a little girl was raped, impregnated multiple times, murdered and dismembered and you fucking losers are debating whether you can still listen to his music or not.
24-year-old streamer Tram hails from Lagos. He's tenacious to the core and here for one thing only — the game. No romance, no distractions, no apologies.
#BBNaija
In trying so hard to avoid telling men not to rape, they’ve written a full care manual for handling a dangerous animal at the zoo.
Don’t feed it, don’t make sudden movements, don’t be alone with it.
Every line assumes the man is an uncontrollable animal and the woman’s job is to not provoke it
I’ve always found it odd that men think they should be commended for the “honesty” of letting you know they want to sleep with you. “Look at me, I didn’t misrepresent my intentions”, but you’re still a lascivious wild animal…