My Story

Amongst other things, two of the things I’ve always known I was gonna be since I was a little girl are a teacher of the next generation (not in the academic sense) and a builder (i.e. someone that just creates things like my own companies, businesses, non-profit organizations, devices and whatnot), because one of my prominent gifts was my ability to just come up with ideas. Whenever I see a problem, my brain automatically starts figuring out possible solutions to that problem, and I’m a pattern recognizer, so I notice lots of problems around me.

I grew up being a little bargaining human who also somehow always eventually got what I needed, but not in the bratty or covetous way, just in the favour way where somehow everything always worked out for me regardless of how many setbacks I encounter. I came to Canada at 17, and almost the minute I set foot here, I started looking for ways to build something of my own and get into entrepreneurship. I had this one buddy who shared the same mindset with me, and only the Lord knows how many things we signed up for with our emails in the name of entrepreneurship and becoming self-employed. We were just two crazy teenagers with a big plan of having something of our own before we got to the part of life where we would no longer have our parents’ finances to rely on.

There’s almost nothing (legal and moral) I didn’t try to start or do. At some point, I was actually tryna start up my own record label. Yeah, literally almost nothing. In all my trial and error, I lost a couple thousand dollars, including 1k of my dad’s money that I lost trying to become a day trader back in high school, just a few months after I got to Canada. I’ve also managed to make a few thousand in the last 2 years of my entrepreneurship journey, so it wasn’t all “failure,” because tbh I never even saw any of it as failure. It was just a learning experience for me of what not to do.

I came across Schulich’s Tech MBA on a random Sunday night. I actually felt the urge that night to randomly check out their MBA program since going for my masters was the next thing on my mind, and I remembered my alma mater (YorkU) had a business school. That was how I came across the Tech MBA. I had never heard of a Tech MBA in my life, so it caught my attention, and I went through it, and it was exactly what I needed to get through my journey of building a tech startup. I couldn’t tell y’all how I got into Schulich for that program because even I myself was surprised. I looked at the requirements and just everything that surrounded that program, and the odds were stacked heavily against me in all ways, but that wasn’t gonna stop me from applying. So I applied, and God counted me in.

I’m well aware Schulich has a big reputation and sometimes is seen as just having a fancy degree, but Schulich is way more than that to me. To me, my program at Schulich gives me access into a room filled with people that have already done, over and over again, what I’ve been trying to do. The difference between someone who’s succeeding and someone who’s failing or in a loop is literally just the information they possess and how they execute that information. Schulich is a place that will give me the knowledge of what to do and the skills of how to do it. 

As a Christian business leader, my goal is not simply to build successful businesses, but to build empires that honour God, create opportunities, and establish foundations that the next generation can stand on, build from, and ultimately surpass me.

My parents have been my rock. They’ve put me through high school and university in this country as an international student, and anyone who knows just how much tuition alone for an international student in this country costs will know just how much of a sacrifice they’ve made to put me through school here. I wouldn’t be where I’m at without them.

I’m the last of 4 kids, and both my parents are about to retire in a country (Nigeria) with severe recession and economic crisis, so unfortunately, they wouldn’t be able to take me through this journey.

This is why I need a village to walk with me through this grad school journey.

Walk with me as far as you're able, even if it's just one step. I value every step taken alongside me.