Seun Tayo-Balogun

You spend years building a business, nurturing it and giving it everything you can. But at what point do you begin to let go? A reflection on working in versus working on your business, learning to delegate and creating something that can stand without depending on you for everything.

We often treat rejection as a verdict on our abilities. But one unsuccessful attempt tells us very little. A look at the mathematics of persistence, why experience matters, and the difference between knowing when to keep trying and when to change direction.

Before Rachel Ojuromi walked Chanel's runway, she created her own on the streets of Lagos. Her story offers six gentle reminders about giving yourself a chance, embracing what makes you different, finding the right people and turning ideas into action.

Research shows that women can be effective investors and that when we control more household income, the benefits often extend to our families. Yet women entrepreneurs still receive disproportionately less capital. What might become possible if more capital reached our hands?

We spend a lot of time working on our mindset, discipline and habits. But what if the environment around us is quietly shaping those things too? Sometimes better results require more than thinking differently. Sometimes, you need to change the room.

The recent sanitary-pad conversation raises a much bigger question: what happens when consumers can no longer trust the products they buy? Nigeria’s fake and substandard-product problem is not only about consumer safety. It affects purchasing power, competition, legitimate businesses and something every functioning market depends on: trust.