Random appreciation post for some of the people I’ve met or got closer to over the last 6/7 months x spice to my life fr
Love you guys, you’re awesome and lovely and genuinely really good people that I feel really honoured to know ❤️
📸’s tagged x
August. God, I’m grateful ❤️ 📸 @filmabdi
This month has been so busy, and I’m absolutely knackered, but wow it’s been so worth it
- Masters degree at @londonschoolofeconomics is officially complete
- Our @adidaslondon x @guapmag Originals Creator Network took over the Carnaby store, with their artwork and portraits across all the windows. Shallat @_houseofmistry_ everytime
- Co-curated a @vamuseum Friday Late with @guapmag and @mishkk celebrating African Fashion
😭Loool it’s the fact that these all happened in the space of a week. ✨Bro. Do what you can, when you can, and try enjoy the process along the way. ✨
- Topping it off, just found out a dance poetry film I was in, @awokensoma, created by @nadiatrubz and written by @sarah.lisney won an award by @ibdffestival - how cool!
✨This month was defo a work hard play hard kinda vibe, and I think the two biggest lesson I’ve learned so far are
- do what you can, leave the rest to God in faith
- savour the small, intimate moments life has to offer ✨
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Exactly two weeks till the @guap_gala assisting the team thus far has been really cool. Look forward to the final two ❤️
God is great. So gassed to announce that @guapmag is partnering with @vamuseum on this Friday’s Late - a whole museum wide takeover celebrating the AFRICA Fashion Exhibiton 😭😭😭😭! Swipe for the programme!!! Love that I get to share this with so many other companies I admire, and that we get to do it in honour of such an incredible exhibition that has been crafted with so much love, care and detail
For the 7/8 years I’ve been on this journey, it’s been an absolute dream of mine to curate something like this, and so to be actually doing it? Looool God is so cool man! Two weeks ahead of the @guap_gala This is an opportunity for y’all to serve some serious looks, depicting the excellence of Africa Fashion.
Shallat my team @sayo.olu and @letty_rose_smith genuinely wouldn’t have been able to do it without all your assistance
Shallat @jmxney_ on the graphics and @ibrahimkamara_ for your general support and guidance on this stuff man
Mashing work and running in the rain ❤️ very special @ibrahimkamara_@jmxney_
This is exactly 1 hour after the @guap_gala excellence panel where we sat down with some of London’s most respected industry professionals to discuss the gala nominees 😂 life comes at you fast
“Don’t let your current role, stop you from believing you are capable of doing incredible things”
This week’s #UpNext is Elsie Ayotunde Cullen who is passionate about using creativity for change!
A former Intensive Care Nurse, @ayosartofgiving is the community manager at @guapmag where her work includes running exhibitions, workshops, horizontal brand collaborations and secondary school engagement programs. As well as managing the GUAP x @adidaslondon Originals Creator Network, which is a year long development programme supporting 20 young creatives, Elsie is also studying a Masters Degree at @londonschoolofeconomics in Health and International Development. She believes that creativity and culture are essential to both human and social development, and it is her ambition to do further work and research in this field.
Swipe to read Elsie’s #upnext profile
#thedebrief
Q&A with @osaniitv on what it means to be a community manager, full interview is on their YouTube and Spotify channels❤️
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If you wanna get into this role, go find a small/medium platform or organisation you admire and volunteer your time/ideas/services… you never know where it will take you ❤️
I genuinely feel so blessed and grateful to be in a position where I’m now paid to support, connect and build relationships with others. All Glory to God Thank you to the mandem @jmxney_ and @ibrahimkamara_ for allowing me to do this with y’all full time❤️
All of us are community managers in some way and all of us are in need of community, whether it’s a phone call, text, advice, or accountability group…the little things that can turn someone’s day and life around.
✨ “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones…” - Luke 16:10✨
Intention is the first step, followed by the courage to take action. I understand that things like self-doubt, procrastination, fatigue etc can make it feel really hard, as God is my witness, there are still so many things, people and projects, where I need more faithfulness, focus and dedication, may God help us
But yeah, whatever you wanna do, start, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem
✨ “For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.” - Romans 8:19 ✨
All of creation is waiting for you to believe and live in accordance with who The Most High says you are.
My cutie angel 🕊✨🥰 endless bants, intimacy and investment
Lool I’m sooooo happy I have these moments in the archives, cos I am busssing up rn at all the fun we’ve had and will continue to have with you in aerial view - my hitta😂
Document the memories y’all, either in private or public, either way they are pricelessssssssssss ❤️
The peace and preparation my Queen has left me with is astounding. I know you’re in heaven werking. Me too, I’m gonna be werking babes ❤️Legacy continues
For anyone else struggling with the loss of a loved one, this is the passage that came to mi mam in a dream before she ascended❤️
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We received the stage 4 cancer diagnosis in Feb and so even though we thought treatment would be successful, we still had a lot of time to come to terms with everything ❤️ I’m grateful for the 9 months we had to really consolidate our love. Grateful to have nursed you as you nursed me from birth. Grateful for the level of faith, softness and peace you demonstrated even in your most trying time. Grateful for your life and your legacy. Grateful for the peace and assurance you’ve left us with.
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Knowing you’re rejoicing and enjoying in heaven makes it easier to accept you being called to higher service. I love you
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Praying for everyone who hasn’t had that gift of time with their loved one before any unexpected/sudden health challenge. I can’t even imagine the weight of a dramatic loss. Especially for those that took place during COVID, with reduced hospital visiting etc
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Sending all my peeps love, get ya health check ups, stay fit, kiss the people you love on the cheek a lot, and all them good tings there ❤️
Rest in peace Mummy, my Angel ❤️
Last few months have been a lot.
My mum is genuinely one of the most incredible people I’ve ever come across in this lifetime. She has hands and a heart that never stopped creating, giving, working, and supporting others. The softest, most genuine, peaceful, pure hearted, prayerful and acccttttiveeee woman. 😂 some of our last convos were her sending me on errands to sort out her stocks and shares 🥲 but also, that she was worried about all the people who looked to her for support, and trying to make pre-arrangements of money transfers back home…at your most tender, your heart was still always with the people ❤️
A nursery teacher, prophetess and reverend, book maker, poff poff fryer, cake baker, clothe sewer, Mother Christmas, project manager, original DIY babe, mother, grandmother and more and more and more 🥲lol fam, words will never be enough.
With my whole life, I promise to continue your legacy, and never stop talking about how awe-inspiring you are❤️
My Queen, my angel, my sweet baby, my wifey, my inspiration