Hey there! Welcome back to the Brave series 😀. We are almost through with this season🎉. Today, we meet our second to the last guest😀(We are featuring 9 guests this season) Wow! How amazing! Thank you to everyone who has participated in the success of this. I am most grateful.
Let’s meet our guest for today, shall we? (I believe you said yes! Please, tell me you did😀, haha.) Well, his name is,” Emmanuel Ladzekpo”. A man who is determined to make a difference in his generation. Kindly find a brief bio about him in the image below.
“Emmanuel, born on the 5th of June 1984 Was set out to be a great person. Life, however, started being challenging at secondary school, as the results came out for exams and they were not encouraging…… I now spend time helping others understand, that there is hope. My story has been heard in many youth talks, and I some times help people learn to be successful, self-confident, and happy, no matter what comes their way.
If we look at my pictures, you can’t see my struggles. Sometimes it can appear that I had a lot of advantages. I imagine if you saw my upbringing, you might think that I had it easy.
Those who work without complaining do the holy will of God. After the death of my Grandma who was my rock, things became difficult and I was just out of secondary school. I felt life was coming down on me, all though I had some family members who were helping, I still saw I had to do more for my self.
Around 2005, I joined some friends who introduced me to a man who was into event planning. He was so interested in me and taught me a lot about the business but at some point, I got to realize he was gay and wanted me, so, I stopped going there.
I never wasted the knowledge I got from the business, however, as I applied them with some friends as we started planning events for people.
I remember one day at an event, the MC did not show up and it was one of our first big hit event which had ministers of state and even the former president John Mahama. We did not know what to do. The oldest guy amongst us then suggested to save the day and so, I had to try to do it.
To my surprise, lots of people loved what I did and asked for my contacts so I can MC when they have events.
As young men, when we began making money however, pride entered our mist and we resulted in breaking up.
I had to look for other opportunities.
I then got a job to sell a brand of spaghetti to shops and was to be paid on commission. I had to walk miles because I was not offered transportation and at a point, I could not sell anymore because it was a new product and Ghanaians were not buying it.
I still did not give up. I had another job at the Central Market in Accra where I was a loader and helped in doing accounts.
I was called sometimes around 1 A.M to go and receive goods…after that, you expect to come home to sleep, but time will not permit, so, I will stay back until 5 P.M when work is done.
This went on for about 3 years and then I realized I had developed low blood pressure and I couldn’t work there anymore.
Still pressing on, I got another job as a receptionist at a health center. There was a point where customers come and my boss was not around and so, I will use my primary physical education skills to speak to them and when my boss returned, the customers give feedback saying,” your instructor was good.”
But I had to leave there as well as I was not receiving a salary. I decided to stick to my MC work, I got to MC Events of family and friends, but I wasn’t getting paid at all… I still didn’t give up as i saw it as a way of marketing my self.
To the glory of God, a family came to my aid with a new job. We are into making and selling a new brand of detergent but again the Ghanaian market was not receiving us well at the start, but, we did our best to push it and we are still hopeful to sell more.
My happiness in the business is that as part of sharping my marketing and communication skills,
I also have the training and healthy talks from my Uncle and boss who always advised me to multi-task and that has helped me to do other things. Now, by the grace of God, I can say that I have so many in my hands to do to make life better for me.
I often think of people like Bill Gates who could have given up and not become who he is today and at some point saw a river and thought he could not cross. I think we need to look at life like that river. It might seem intimidating and overwhelming, and we might create a dialogue in our heads that tell us we can’t do it, or it is too hard. However, that is just our perception. We have all either met or read about people who manage to get out of tough situations. What makes them any different? It is their mindset.
They believe in themselves. It is their desire for something better. We could all sit home and feel sorry for ourselves when we are sick or have lost a job or experienced anything bad. It is normal to feel sad at times or to feel overwhelmed. However, successful people, pull themselves up and work on developing that inner monologue in their minds. They create a goal and a measurable way to achieve that goal. They look at failure as an opportunity to learn. Our negative experiences allow us to appreciate the positive ones even more.
If you have a voice in your head telling you that you can’t do something, then you can’t if you listen. If you let that voice tell you that you can, I believe you can. I remember after my failures, l spent a lot of time working with people who had similar issues in developing their curiosity. We became a team, borrowed an Uncle’s office and called our selves,” event planners”, we went round to some regions making people’s events successful at the cost of sleeping in garages, event halls and under tents.
There are four things that can hold you back from being exceptional, which I believe will hold you back from success. Those four things are fear, assumptions, technology, and the environment.
If you can recognize the things you fear, adjust the voice in your head that makes incorrect assumptions, embrace technology, and realize the impact that your experiences in life have had on your decisions. I believe you can truly embrace interest which will lead to motivation and ultimately success. The real trick is that you must start today. Every day that you put off striving for the next goal is a day wasted.
I got married in 2017 and i am blessed with a child. I then realized i needed to run much faster and stronger to make my home a better place. Marriage is a school on its own but you have to be a fast student. Find your self an older or another couple to be your role model because things will happen and you might not know how to handle it, especially when children come in.
But in all, I give thanks to God and family for shaping me to be who I am today. But to mention a few, I thank my late Grandma who introduced me to Christ, my parents for allowing me to be born, Mr & Mrs. Dr.Yeboah, Mr & Mrs. Alfred Boye, Mr & Mrs. Amoonaquah and also my lovely Delia.
God bless all who have helped make life easier and better for me.”
Those concluding words. Wow! Such keynotes, I must say. Thank you so much for this, sir! Thank you. I pray that you achieve all that you want to. I pray that Detergent sells big time! I pray closed doors shall open and for you, God will perfect all that concerns you and hold your hand.
Thank you, my dear reader, for tuning in. Please, share, leave your comments below, like and follow this page for more inspiring words.
Boye Paulina Sharon
27th July, 2020.
Leave a Reply to Theodora. Shoga Cancel reply