On International Women’s Day 2023, I had the opportunity to give a keynote speech to a group of high school students participating in the annual Technovation Girls program. When I first received this invitation to talk about my experience as a woman in STEM, I thought really hard about what I wanted to say to… Continue reading Just Try
Month: September 2025
The Best Imposter Ever
You could read this article, or watch the talk I gave on this. In One Way Or The Other, We Are All Imposters” – Ebun. Imposter syndrome – we hear so much about it and even encounter it in our personal and professional lives. But what exactly is it?Imposter syndrome by definition is an overwhelming… Continue reading The Best Imposter Ever
The Dots Eventually Connect
You Can’t Connect The Dots Looking Forward; You Can Only Connect Them Looking Backwards. So You Have To Trust That The Dots Will Somehow Connect In Your Future” Excerpt From Make Something Wonderful Have you ever had a moment of sudden reflection where you realize that some event in your life is significantly linked to… Continue reading The Dots Eventually Connect
Lessons In Soccer
I’m not an avid sports fan, as a matter of fact I don’t really watch or play any sport, but I love hearing the stories of athletes. I believe athletes are some of the most disciplined and hardest working people. Recently, I watched the Beckham documentary on Netflix and I was deeply inspired by David… Continue reading Lessons In Soccer
The Startup That Is You
Your life is your startup, treat it with seriousness. It is the best enterprise you’re ever going to be a part of.” These words from a conversation between Oprah Winfrey and Arthur Brooks stuck in my head like my favourite fridge magnets the first time I heard them. For a few days, I ruminated on… Continue reading The Startup That Is You
Moving Forward By Going Back
“Forward ever, backward never” is a saying that I heard so frequently growing up in Nigeria. To many, it was unfathomable and undesirable to ever have to go back instead of always progressing in the forward direction. But the more I experience life, the more I realize that sometimes progress involves going back so that… Continue reading Moving Forward By Going Back
I’m Going To Be A Doctor
A dream is just a dream until you decide to wake up and make it happen. All my life I have always been certain about the things I want, and one thing I was very certain about as a kid was that I was going to be a doctor. My certainty in a career in… Continue reading I’m Going To Be A Doctor
On Delayed Gratification
It still feels surreal to me that I swapped my days of writing code for long days of learning anatomy and working with cadavers. Even though I still spend an insane amount of time in front of computer screens (mostly studying), my biggest realization has been that medicine is just one big game of delayed… Continue reading On Delayed Gratification