THE WORLD AS MY WITNESS

HAHAHA Do you know me? As if I ever had a clue what’s really next? It’s strange that I had this ‘dream’/goal of driving impact in 3rd world countries, and now that I’m here I’m just at a crossroads of what I want next. Maybe it’s an American thing: Go to school, get a job, get married, etc (Ohmigosh is that what’s next? Getting married?! Duck!) and I’ve reached my goal to a certain extent and now it feels like I’m recalibrating - almost starting over. Now I have a job, but how do I want to shape my career? What I’ve learned is that my guiding star is growth and impact. I left PwC because I had high growth but minimal impact. I left Komaza because I had high impact and low growth. My relationship was preventing me from growing, but maybe impact was there? And that’s what I’m using as my compass right now. So while it does feel like since I turned 26, I’m writing similar learnings and having similar introspection and reflection, I’m ok with that. I don’t regret anything. I’ve learned mor...

Well, like at the end of the movie Mean Girls , I sucked the poison out and cut that toxic shit out of my life. Riiiiigggghhht..... As if it could be boiled down to one easy sentence but I suppose it really actually could. It definitely didn't feel easy (and it still doesn't) and it definitely didn't happen in one sentence but here I am. As 2021 turned the corner, I started therapy (#NormalizeMentalHealth - guess what? May is Mental Health Awareness Month!) I'm trying out meditation for the first time (I highly recommend the app Insight Timer - great free resource). I quit my job and started a new one. When I put in my notice, someone told me 2 other people put in their notice on the same day (Seriously, can I not have a surprise to myself!!!?). I loved and I lost (If you somehow end up reading this... I’m sorry I wish you the life you deserve). Phew! It's been quite the Q1! And right now I’m typing this as my view (I’m dogsitting those two doggos and see how they...

It’s bittersweet to read my last post; how I talk about self-love and perspective, self-awareness, etc, Only to find myself not too far from where I was when I turned 26. So what happened since I last left you? It feels like so much and not at all. Geographically, I’ve moved a couple places. Traveled to Thailand and Ireland. Professionally, I’ve also also moved. Personally, well I’m back where I started it feels like. I’ll try to make sense of the last 3 years, at least for myself, if not for you. So after my last post when I turned 26, I went home, albeit for a short week period. It felt weird, like I saw this parallel life I could be living. Anyway, it was the first time home after moving to Kenya 7 months prior, and while I was glad I was home to reset and feel grounded, I’m also glad I was only there for a short time. Otherwise I would’ve probably gotten homesick and stayed. It was when I was at home, I said no more d*ck drama (yes duck drama hehe gotta keep this PG for my mom) bec...

Wow so it’s basically been 3 years since my last blog post...around the same time as my birthday. 3 years?! And while it’s been in the back of my mind to update this (and also because of my mom’s reminders), I got a Google Alert that my Google Site will need to be updated since they were changing platforms. I have a google site? I made a google site? Apparently, I made it back when I was in college!!! This is what it looked like (you can visit it here if you want to): This made me incredibly nostalgic and it felt out-of-body to read those words I wrote so long ago, about who I was, where I came from and who I wanted to be almost a decade ago. I forgot one of my favorite words used to be indelible which means: making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or washed out; that which is impossible to eliminate, forget, or change. That meaning deeply resonated with me: what I wanted to do with with my life, the purpose I’m trying to define - also probably not too uncommon among millennials...