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Adulting Lessons

This is a collection of thoughts, lessons, stories, and all those late-night conversations you have with your friends after a long week. Those conversations where you discover things you have to unlearn, how far you've come and where you are potentially heading over wine well...... gin & tonic. Let's talk about it!

A letter to my younger self on my 32nd birthday.

Ibiyemi Balogun

May 12
7 min

A letter to my younger self on my 32nd birthday.

Last week I was talking to a 22-year-old who coincidentally was born on my birthday May 12. We had such a great heart-to-heart about...

I guess i'm afraid?.....Lessons from my solo trip to Kenya

Ibiyemi Balogun

Apr 26
6 min

I guess i'm afraid?.....Lessons from my solo trip to Kenya

My therapist said something to me that has stayed with me. She said, " Ibiyemi, I think you might be in your “walking on water” season....

I packed my bags and moved back to Nigeria (temporarily)

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Nov 16, 2023
5 min

I packed my bags and moved back to Nigeria (temporarily)

2023, the year that I couldn’t have predicted….. I don’t even know where to start from. At the end of last year, my mom planted a seed in...

Lessons from my 1st ever solo trip to Mexico

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Apr 5, 2023
7 min

Lessons from my 1st ever solo trip to Mexico

It's my last day in Mexico on this trip that turned out to be my first solo trip! All I can say is that God has been faithful! Having...

Can we talk about STRIVING? are you doing too much?

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Mar 13, 2023
6 min

Can we talk about STRIVING? are you doing too much?

So for the last month or so, I’ve felt like I have been running on a hamster wheel to nowhere. Like nowhere. The amount of “projects” I...

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and the Life-Changing...A look back at 2022.

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Dec 29, 2022
6 min

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and the Life-Changing...A look back at 2022.

I knew going into 2022 that it would be the end of an era. Like I just knew that it was the “last year” of this season of my life. I...

Become an entrepreneur they said…..it would be fun they said….

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Jul 4, 2022
5 min

Become an entrepreneur they said…..it would be fun they said….

This entrepreneurship journey has been wild…. Nobody tells you that when you become an entrepreneur you are suddenly the I.T guy, the HR...

Living your "BEST" life seems like a scam_ramblings of a tiredt millenial

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Jun 16, 2022
6 min

Living your "BEST" life seems like a scam_ramblings of a tiredt millenial

The last couple of months have been so busy with travel and I love it BUT I also deeply hate it lol….hear me out, I love the meeting up...

All I want for the new year is good habits……year-end reflections :)

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Dec 31, 2021
5 min

All I want for the new year is good habits……year-end reflections :)

After 3 years of juggling multiple roles especially with being a full-time worker and part-time MBA student, a lot of things fell through...

Driving miss Ibiyemi......get it?! like the movie ;)

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Jun 15, 2021
6 min

Driving miss Ibiyemi......get it?! like the movie ;)

I’m not sure why I’m choosing to tell this story now other than the fact that I think the holy spirit(God) just told me to do so…..only 2...

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