Redefining Beauty: Empowering Women through Self-Care & Inclusivity with Zainab Balogun, Mojibade Sosanya & Mitchel Ukachukwu | WATCH
Our #BNSCONVOS has been nothing quick of unprecedented this year, in case you might want to presumably well even indulge in been following the BellaNaija Style Females’s Month campaigns, you might want to presumably well agree that every session has been a construct-up to how unprecedented the following session one will be.
Powered by NIVEA, our 4th episode saw three (3) fantastic females flourishing of their various fields join BellaNaija Style to communicate about “Redefining Magnificence: Empowering Females By Self-Care & Inclusivity“, hosted by the unprecedented Motunde Ibironke. Hit the ▶ button below to survey:
The session featured a freeing candid dialog between the hosts and our company:
(1)Mitchel Ugochi Ukachukwu — Omit Universe Nigeria, the 1st and easiest beauty queen in Nigeria’s history to clinch both titles of Most Ravishing Girl in Nigeria and Omit Universe Nigeria; (2) Zainab Balogun — a British-Nigerian Actress, TV Host, and the Government Producer at ZABA Productions; and (3) Mojibade Sosanya who has constructed a mighty profession as an organization communications executive, match host, TV presenter, and public speaker.
When Motunde asked, “How has self-care and self-cherish played a feature to your advocacy effort and the diagram has it helped you have your story?”
… I shared my story as a result of I didn’t desire one more girl to procure it laborious to pick up pick up entry to to this info. In sharing my story I even indulge in been in an enviornment to construct a community of females who can establish with this anguish and now know what to attain.
Self care was crucial for me, proudly owning my story was a style of self-care as a result of I wasn’t allowing the enviornment resolve what I can fraction and what I can’t fraction. Self-care doesn’t want to be preferrred going for beauty upkeep, it can moreover be you taking a moment to be soundless.
— Zainab Balogun
When Motunde asked Mojibade about her tactics for building self belief and finding her habitual steadiness after pivoting profession paths amidst a busy time desk, her response revealed a solid mentality routed in self-consciousness, self-acceptance and self-cherish.
Initially building self belief and finding steadiness requires work. I’m mountainous on preparation and in a male-dominated commerce, I’ve gotten to the bellow the build I do know that I’m bringing price on board and I’ve gotten previous the fraction the build it looks like I’m now not factual ample as a result of folk don’t acknowledge that I’m as factual as my male counterpart.
I’ve gotten to the bellow the build I’m in actual fact confident in myself as a result of for the client to settle me they imagine I even indulge in price to give. I moreover cherish myself and don’t review myself. Whereas there’s room for development and private trend, I’m now not going to change who I’m.
I put collectively to head on stage with the 3 Rs: I read, review and rehearse. This helps me to head on stage and shine in my uniqueness.
— Mojibade Sosanya
When asked about her standpoint on navigating her commerce’s strain and staying correct to oneself and values, Mitchel shared as follows:
In keeping correct to 1’s self and values, the first thing is to achieve what those phrases mean to you and when you might want to presumably well even indulge in a definite definition of what self-self belief and self-expression mean to then you you’re on the criminal route of keeping correct to your values as a result of then you know what those values are.
It’s now not easy as a result of there’s a style of strain to be ideal, to survey a definite methodology, to attain things a definite methodology to look in sure locations and it’s now not easy to place up with these objects and this is why your foundation has to be solid in convey that you just might want to presumably well arrangement boundaries. Folk in overall externalise boundaries but it’s moreover crucial to arrangement boundaries for yourself:
what are the stuff you might want to presumably well’t compromise on? What are the things I can’t let creep of? If you’re in an enviornment to construct this foundation, it helps you discontinue correct to yourself after which you don’t without concerns succumb to the strain… Having a big strengthen gadget and the criminal folk spherical you moreover helps.
— Mitchel (Nee Ihezue) Ukachukwu
See the 2d fragment of the dialog, hit the ▶ button below:
How can females contain their habitual identities of their fields and industries and moreover redefine beauty for themselves?
There is energy in spirited that all the pieces that makes me who I’m is ammunition, it’s vitality on its have, there’s now not any diversified particular person like me. It doesn’t matter the build I’m, I do know that I must bear a definite degree of credibility with my uniqueness and I even want to celebrate that.
I are seeking to assist females to indulge in a sense of self consciousness like no diversified. Be in an enviornment to repeat yourself what is correct, what is fabricated and what is a lie.
— Zainab Balogun
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The digital world has penetrated extra into society and it has stolen the chance to paint your lifestyles within the route that you just might want to indulge in while not having a survey at one thing else that has been curated. It’s now not a mistaken thing to indulge in mentors and those who you survey up to, nonetheless, you might want to presumably well even pick up misplaced in case you don’t indulge in your have sense of individuality.
It’s vital to be able to distinguish between proper lifestyles and social media; and indulge in a solid foundation to enable you now not to pick up carried away by the buzz.
— Mitchel Ukachukwu
When asked how folk can celebrate range and inclusivity inner the thought that of womanhood pulling from her fresh viral interview on stereotypes in opposition to females and marriage, Mojibade Sosanya answered:
I’m a single girl over 3o and I’m now not ashamed of it. I’m single but I’m full, highlighting the indisputable truth that there’s now not any disgrace in singleness and there’s now not any disgrace in desiring to be married.
I are seeking to be married but I’m now not but married and I’m now not going to build my lifestyles on abet until that happens, I creep to live my lifestyles to the fullest and I at all times preach this to each young female that I communicate to wherever I’m going. I’m entirely overjoyed to live my lifestyles to the fullest until marriage comes.
It’s a completely frightful mindset to stereotype females that are now not married and we must combat it. You would also even be 40 but entirely overjoyed and single, singleness is now not a condition, you might want to presumably well even very effectively be preferrred single and that’s the reason what it is far. It doesn’t style you lesser than someone who has gotten married and who gave us these timelines?
I need us to construct an even bigger society the build females can live to their fat possible whether or not they are married or now not. A society without strain and preferrred letting folk be and allowing them to breathe. Whatever fraction you might want to presumably well even very effectively be in, allow yourself to breathe and seize pleasure within the wonder of that fraction.
I’m single, I’m entirely overjoyed, I’m thriving…
See the fat interview for additional inspiration and join us this Saturday at 5 PM WAT on @bellanaijastyle‘s Instagram LIVE for the rest episode of #BNSCONVOS at some stage within the Fifth model of our Females’s Month birthday celebration.
