# Dr Addy Olubamiji on Love, Loss and Leadership | FOUNDERS WITH AUDACITY Podcast

An episode of [Diary of A Naija Girl](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1888131074), 31 Oct 2025, 40 min.

Audio: https://episode.flightcast.com/y0ugrlzbv56v3f4rk2wn9nph.mp3

In this new Founders with Audacity podcast Ife sits down with Dr Addy Olubamiji, a world-class founder, NGO leader and STEM and global mobility advocate who helps people move abroad and improve their lives. Together, they explore her powerful journey, drawing inspiration from her late sister and discuss the realities of cervical cancer, family life and the complexities of marriage. CHAPTERS 00:00 Coming Up 00:47 General Intro 02:05 Dr Olubamiji's personal intro 03:05 The transition from a full STEM career to founding a business that screams LEGACY 06:01 Upbringing & how it shaped her 11:41 About her late sister- the circumstances surrounding her death 16:20 The conscious fight with Cervical cancer 20:26 The legacy engrained through her death from Cervical cancer 23:33 Find time to enjoy life 24:14 About the HPV Vaccine & the fight to stay alive 28:22 The viral tweet 29:23 The resolution that came from her death 32:57 About building and doing something intentional 34:53 How marriage builds you up positively 39:35 Conclusion Want more visual podcasts from DANG? SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@diaryofanaijagirl #DANG #DiaryofaNaijaGirl #DANGWithIfe About Diary of a Naija Girl Diary of a Naija Girl (DANG) is an online community, founded and managed by Ifedayo Agoro, to inspire women across the world through creative storytelling. Back in 2015, it started as an online diary, sharing the everyday adventures of an anonymous Nigerian woman. Fast forward nine years, and it has become a tribe of incredible women, living their best lives one story at a time. DANG is a safe space for women to be unapologetically themselves, a family that laughs, learns and lifts each other, from Lagos to every corner of the world. About Ifedayo Agoro An entrepreneur, creative writer, content creator, content marketer and media strategist, Ifedayo Agoro is the founder of Diary of a Naija Girl (DANG) and DANG Lifestyle, a premium home and body care production company, which she launched in Nigeria in 2020. Ifedayo is passionate about social responsibility and philanthropy. She sponsors several young residents at Little Saints Orphanage and partners with Lots Charity Foundation, a non-governmental aid organisation. Connect with DANG Online: Like DANG on FACEBOOK: https://bit.ly/3xLjCkU Follow DANG on TWITTER: https://bit.ly/4aBgy9I Follow DANG on INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/4ay4Axu Follow DANG on LINKEDIN: https://bit.ly/3JhGpHM

## Transcript

[0:00] Sovacina Basta, Mrs. Basta.
[0:03] After physics, I did a master's in biomedical engineering
[0:07] with a major in medical physics, then a PhD in biomedical engineering,
[0:11] major in engineering physics.
[0:12] Of course.
[0:13] We have to talk about the system.
[0:15] My sister, she was that mentor.
[0:18] Activated my life, you know.
[0:20] My tummy's tiny somehow under here.
[0:22] I said, go for it. She said, I'll go one morning.
[0:25] My sister just literally called me and said,
[0:28] if I want to die, let me go and die when my father can't see me.
[0:33] Buy me a ticket. I'm going home to die.
[0:37] She died in my mother's hands.
[0:41] She died of something that was avoidable.
[0:50] Hi, everybody. Welcome.
[0:52] This is not the day for a series.
[0:53] We're starting something new, something amazing.
[0:56] It's called Founders with Audacity.
[0:59] You already know, or if you don't know,
[1:01] I already do this on Instagram,
[1:03] where I say, you break founders, tell their unique stories,
[1:06] and how they go to where they are today.
[1:08] When we talk about Founders, we talk about everything that they've been through,
[1:11] not only in business, but in their personal lives, you know,
[1:14] career-wise, how they go to where they are.
[1:16] The little stories that matter that people, you know, don't really talk about.
[1:20] And today I have my first guest, my friend.
[1:22] The amazing, the intelligence brilliance.
[1:26] You know, when she talks, I'm always like,
[1:27] do you think about what she's just like?
[1:29] She's so coherent.
[1:30] When she's having conversations,
[1:32] and it's so interesting that I have her here with me today.
[1:34] Dr. Adi...
[1:38] Hi, everybody.
[1:39] Thank you so much for having me.
[1:40] You're welcome.
[1:42] I first met Adi on Diary of Inajaga page,
[1:45] where when she's commenting, you know,
[1:46] she's giving factors, giving figures,
[1:48] oh, it is, oh, it is possible.
[1:52] And then we moved to the DM,
[1:54] and then physical myths, where, you know,
[1:57] we've, you know, traveled together, had some fun together.
[2:00] She's truly, truly amazing.
[2:02] But I want you to introduce yourself properly.
[2:05] I'm Adiola Oluvamiji.
[2:07] I go by Dr. Adi, Nigerian first,
[2:10] but I will call myself a global citizen, an entrepreneur.
[2:13] And before becoming an entrepreneur,
[2:16] I was a career person.
[2:17] So I hold a PhD in biomedical engineering
[2:21] from Canadian University.
[2:23] And, yeah, I'm married, and I have a daughter.
[2:27] And I'll call myself a founder with audacity
[2:29] because that's the series featuring today.
[2:31] Yeah, you are definitely a founder.
[2:33] You are definitely a founder with audacity.
[2:35] But what made you, because you were initially
[2:39] serious career, stems, advocates, and all of those things,
[2:43] what made you pivot from that career path to being a founder?
[2:49] Let's talk about my career a little bit.
[2:52] Before we go on, if you're watching this,
[2:54] please don't forget to like,
[2:56] to share this very important conversation,
[2:58] and to comment and tell me your experiences as well.
[3:01] Most importantly, click the subscribe button.
[3:04] Pop, pop.
[3:05] So, I started my career back in Nigeria.
[3:09] I hold a bachelor's of science and physics.
[3:12] You know when somebody saw study physics,
[3:14] there was this series.
[3:15] And after physics, I did a master's in biomedical engineering
[3:20] with a major in medical physics,
[3:22] then a PhD in biomedical engineering,
[3:24] major in engineering physics.
[3:25] Of course.
[3:27] Yes, I, this is a lot.
[3:29] Yes.
[3:30] And I've been a trade blizzard of many occasions.
[3:34] So I'm one of the very first boys in 3D printing.
[3:38] And I loved that career.
[3:40] That career got me a very good job in Canada.
[3:44] And after a year plus, a US company had hunted me,
[3:48] brought me here on a disaster sponsorship program.
[3:53] I did that work for a couple of years.
[3:56] I won a lot of awards.
[3:57] So when it comes to enjoying your career,
[4:00] I love to technology and I stood up and I enjoyed it.
[4:04] But after a while, because of how my story went viral
[4:07] back in the day, I started gathering this audience.
[4:10] People wanted me to do beyond just working for a company.
[4:14] So I started with a note for profit,
[4:16] stem of foundation, offering free programs,
[4:19] and really helping people with their career.
[4:21] And then I started my company on the side,
[4:24] Detect Centrics at that time.
[4:26] But what I saw was, yes, I was making impact in technology.
[4:31] But the impact I was making in my community,
[4:33] especially has new immigrants,
[4:35] where my greetings to Canada to the US
[4:37] was absolutely tangible.
[4:39] I could see how people were getting jobs
[4:41] after they come together with me.
[4:43] So we're bringing thousands of people abroad
[4:47] from Nigeria, from Ghana, come study abroad.
[4:50] So I took a step back and I thought about,
[4:53] you know, if I died today, what do I want as my legacy?
[4:56] I've done technology.
[4:57] I have some good patents and different things like that.
[5:00] Publications.
[5:01] I wanted to make sure that as people transition
[5:04] to living abroad, as someone who has lived in multiple countries,
[5:07] I can help people who look like me settle down here.
[5:11] And it went from, as a side hustle,
[5:14] to replacing my income, to making millions a year.
[5:18] Then I thought, you know, maybe this is the time.
[5:21] And I also want to reference growing up.
[5:25] My middle name is Deborah.
[5:27] So as a kid, I believe that God wanted me to lead my people.
[5:32] And I've had that conviction since I was a kid.
[5:36] So when I started doing this coaching
[5:38] and I saw that it was making impact on my community directly.
[5:41] And I just felt like God was calling me to something
[5:44] bigger than just working technology.
[5:46] I still consult in technology.
[5:48] But I'm over the years, the amount of impact
[5:52] we've had in our community.
[5:54] I feel like if I die today, I have to lift my bank something.
[5:58] Yeah.
[5:58] One of the things that I connect with you with is our background.
[6:03] How the background was, because now you talk about,
[6:06] oh, I'm Nigerian first, my childhood, you're being Deborah.
[6:10] It just brings me back to how we grew up.
[6:14] You know, growing up, hooking things.
[6:16] And it's just when a people would say,
[6:18] if they didn't all hock anything, you ain't never be.
[6:22] You studied that, bro, I didn't do all of that.
[6:24] This is God's grace, I'll be here.
[6:26] So every time you talk about a story about,
[6:29] you know, how it was difficult growing up,
[6:31] I remember my story and how we are here today.
[6:34] Is that what I love you?
[6:36] You are.
[6:37] Maybe yes.
[6:38] During the things that we do,
[6:40] tell me about how growing up a shit
[6:43] who you have become today.
[6:46] I think Tomatina Basta,
[6:48] Mr. Basta, I agree.
[6:51] Yeah.
[6:52] I think growing up, I grew up in Mokola, Ibadom.
[6:55] And both of my parents were very lovely people,
[6:58] but they weren't educated.
[7:00] And my mom hocked pepper.
[7:02] No, she was selling the pepper.
[7:04] And we hocked the pepper.
[7:05] Me and my brothers and my sister.
[7:07] And why were lived back in the day?
[7:10] That was a place called Sonnyville, prostitutes.
[7:13] You go and take prostitutes to whatever you want to do.
[7:16] I grew up saying that.
[7:18] I grew up knowing people who were 12 years 15,
[7:21] doing a Risto, and their parents endorsed it.
[7:25] I grew up watching my own brother go to Libya,
[7:28] in left school, right away to Libya, by road,
[7:30] because he wanted to go abroad.
[7:31] And now, so I grew up in an environment
[7:35] that people were trying to do whatever they can do
[7:38] to survive.
[7:39] And to get out of there.
[7:39] Yes.
[7:40] And for us, Hawking was whatever we could do,
[7:43] to be able to send ourselves through school.
[7:46] So while growing up, with all of that happening around me,
[7:50] my uncle, I had two of them,
[7:52] one of them is a professor of nuclear physics,
[7:55] and the other one was a clinical professor.
[7:58] He has a PhD doctor, and they were both living in the US.
[8:02] So my dad proudly displayed their pictures
[8:06] and put them on the wall of our living room.
[8:08] And he would tell us and say, you know, this people,
[8:12] they walked four miles every day, go to school.
[8:15] I was always sick, so I was home.
[8:18] They went to school.
[8:19] This is why they live abroad and highly here.
[8:22] And this is what education can do for you.
[8:24] So my dad knew we needed a way out.
[8:27] And he was constantly encouraging us.
[8:30] The education can be your way out.
[8:33] And that made me say, you know what?
[8:35] If my uncle could do that every night,
[8:37] after I hope he could come back home,
[8:40] I will start reading from night 30 PM with atu pa.
[8:44] And read Lantern.
[8:45] Lantern.
[8:46] Read from that night 32 egg, 1.30 every day.
[8:49] It was a routine.
[8:50] And I saw myself excel in primary school
[8:53] and secondary school and became the Edgar of my school.
[8:57] And just knew that education could actually set me free.
[9:02] And I studied physics and osu,
[9:05] just wanting to follow my uncle's footsteps.
[9:07] And that's how I came about medical physics.
[9:10] At that time, I would inhabit in Nigeria.
[9:12] So I decided I was looking forward.
[9:14] They would offer it for chip.
[9:16] That's how I got to move to Finland.
[9:18] I would say, growing up shipped me a lot.
[9:21] And I always reference my dad,
[9:24] because the type of parents you have
[9:27] will determine who you become.
[9:28] In just having those two men,
[9:30] I never spoke to my uncles as kids.
[9:33] We were not really talking to them.
[9:35] Maybe one of your uncles was up there.
[9:36] No, that's their baby.
[9:38] Oh, yeah.
[9:40] Yes.
[9:41] So we didn't have seen them every day situation
[9:45] or mentoring me.
[9:46] But those pictures were my life's motivation.
[9:49] The second motivator for me was my mom.
[9:52] So my mom was selling pepper.
[9:54] And at some point, pepper was no moving.
[9:57] She had dead oranges and all the fruits.
[10:01] When she started buying it from farmers,
[10:03] she started going to this farm,
[10:04] serialized as she could become a farmer.
[10:07] My mom closed a shop, moved to a part of,
[10:10] or Yosteko, Nusun,
[10:12] and started a career again as a farmer,
[10:15] as a Kukufama plant team took us with her plant.
[10:19] And I saw that you can't restart again.
[10:22] If my mom could restart again with five kids,
[10:26] and just knowing that I didn't have,
[10:28] I didn't have a mother that was a fool housewife.
[10:31] She woke up every day at 3 a.m.,
[10:33] fighting for something.
[10:35] So when I looked back at my life,
[10:38] what really made me this person?
[10:39] First way I grew up,
[10:40] the had sheep in that area,
[10:42] to my dad and his family.
[10:46] How education was just a big deal in my house.
[10:48] And then my mom,
[10:50] I find in spirit, she didn't have to talk.
[10:53] You know, you're every,
[10:55] I just remember our conversations
[10:57] and how you'd say,
[10:58] I've left Finland, I've left Canada,
[11:00] I've left just living, just getting up and going.
[11:04] I understand it more now that you're not ever afraid
[11:07] of starting over.
[11:08] Like because you saw a physical example of that,
[11:12] and it was possible.
[11:15] And it was possible to do it and be successful at it.
[11:19] One of the things is that when you talked about,
[11:21] oh, we hugged me, my brother, my sister,
[11:26] and we have to talk about your sister,
[11:30] because in all your story,
[11:33] oh, my brother went to Libya to do this.
[11:36] My mom started over, my dad was always sick.
[11:40] You've not talked about your sister.
[11:43] So I, my sister,
[11:46] my name is Omele Oluvamiji,
[11:48] and I should have been 44 now.
[11:53] Yeah.
[12:00] You know, we slept on the same bed.
[12:02] We, five of us in the same rooms,
[12:06] but me and my sister,
[12:07] we slept on the same bed since I was a kid.
[12:10] We had that together.
[12:11] We're just two girls.
[12:12] The number of you guys all came together.
[12:14] Yes.
[12:15] So she was the one that started
[12:17] hooking with my brother's first.
[12:19] Then once I was nine, my mom said,
[12:22] you can't follow your sister now.
[12:23] So she's always the first person to do things.
[12:26] And growing up, when they buy her clothes,
[12:29] and she doesn't wear them anymore.
[12:30] She was, of course, under the mom.
[12:32] She would just bring them to me, same with our shoes.
[12:34] So my sister, she was that mentor,
[12:38] active in my life, you know?
[12:40] I see I take steps, then I take the step.
[12:43] I see I do things.
[12:44] And then I just follow, she wears this clothes,
[12:47] and then I get to wear it.
[12:48] And our lives together, our lives were very good.
[12:52] I loved how she literally helped my mom
[12:55] in raising me and shaping me.
[12:57] Or she was a lot different from me.
[13:00] Also, I used to be a tomboy.
[13:03] She was a girl, a pink, white, gold girl.
[13:08] She loves being a girl.
[13:11] She was so, she was very smart.
[13:13] She was that person who was calm.
[13:15] She talks very calmly.
[13:17] She has command over environment.
[13:19] When she comes into a room, she commands attention.
[13:22] And I was the tomboy, get going.
[13:25] Yes.
[13:26] So my mom always said to treat her,
[13:28] how to be a girl, she shipped me a whole lot.
[13:32] I loved our relationship.
[13:33] We were both science students.
[13:35] And my sister went to Fulta.
[13:37] She studied biochemistry.
[13:40] And yeah, she taught me chemistry.
[13:43] She loved it.
[13:45] I went to also studied physics.
[13:50] She did a five year program.
[13:51] I did it four year program.
[13:53] So we're kind of graduating around the same time.
[13:55] And she went to serve.
[13:57] Well, she went to serve.
[13:58] Yeah, I just got to travel before her.
[14:01] Yes.
[14:02] So I went to Finland.
[14:03] She was still back in Nigeria.
[14:05] But during that, she told me,
[14:08] I went to apply for visa lottery.
[14:10] I had a dream.
[14:11] And in my dream, I saw myself going towards a golden house.
[14:18] And I entered the place.
[14:21] So I went to apply for visa lottery.
[14:23] So I said, go ahead.
[14:24] She won that visa lottery.
[14:26] And when she won, she called me.
[14:28] I told you that ain't had a golden house.
[14:30] This is my golden ticket.
[14:32] And I was so happy at that point,
[14:34] I was just literally still in Finland
[14:37] about to finish.
[14:37] And then she relocated to the US on great card
[14:41] through the visa lottery program.
[14:43] They're not doing that program anymore.
[14:46] No, Nigerians don't qualify anymore.
[14:48] Yeah, I'm sorry.
[14:50] What did I ask?
[14:52] What do we qualify for?
[14:53] I don't do the job.
[14:54] God.
[14:55] Yeah.
[14:55] So she relocated here.
[14:58] She was full of dreams.
[14:59] Because someone that had seen it, that she was coming here.
[15:02] All from coming here, she went back to study,
[15:05] both on me, she went back to do nursing.
[15:08] All I knew that my sister did with her life was work.
[15:12] This person didn't believe in any vacation.
[15:15] She just felt like just like my mom,
[15:17] I have to work, I have to work hard, I have to work hard.
[15:20] She was very close to my dad.
[15:22] There were best friends.
[15:23] So our intention in life was to make enough money
[15:26] to take care of my dad.
[15:28] And I watched her here, finished the school,
[15:32] bought a first car.
[15:34] A white, nice car.
[15:36] Did you come visit America?
[15:37] Oh, you guys were still like now moved to Canada.
[15:40] Yeah.
[15:40] And we were closer in time zones, talking every day.
[15:45] And she had finished school and now working.
[15:49] And once she started working, I remember one day,
[15:52] she just called me, I said, my tummy is tiny somehow,
[15:55] under here, I said, go for it, she said, I'll go.
[15:58] She was always busy.
[15:59] She was a nurse.
[16:00] Yes.
[16:01] And then my uncle, the clinical professor,
[16:03] she used to live with him.
[16:05] And just said, Daddy, I have some Tommy stuff.
[16:07] And that time she had moved to California for work.
[16:09] So my uncle said, go and run it, test me the result.
[16:13] And then she did, she didn't check the result.
[16:15] She just emailed the result to my uncle.
[16:17] It was my uncle that found out that my sister had cervical cancer
[16:22] and it has metastasized with everywhere.
[16:26] And she didn't feel anyhow before then, she didn't.
[16:29] So we started that cancer battle where she had to go for therapy.
[16:35] She had to go to the clinic every day.
[16:37] They started treating her and they started
[16:40] with the friend analysis.
[16:41] She removed her womb.
[16:43] She redo chemotherapy.
[16:45] And things like that, it was a struggle for about a year.
[16:49] What did they do?
[16:49] Like, what was the fight?
[16:52] Did they remove the womb?
[16:53] What did they decide?
[16:53] No, we're going to go to a therapy.
[16:55] My sister wanted to have a child if she's alive.
[16:58] So she didn't let her remove them.
[17:00] She said she didn't have to already got everywhere.
[17:03] And there was no point.
[17:04] So they didn't remove the womb.
[17:05] They did chemotherapy.
[17:07] They also said they wanted to do radiotherapy.
[17:10] My uncle, because of his influence as a doctor, as a surgeon,
[17:14] really did try it.
[17:17] But one morning, my sister just literally called me and said,
[17:22] if I want to die.
[17:23] Let me go and die when my father can't see me.
[17:27] Buy me a ticket.
[17:29] I'm going home today.
[17:32] It was the most abrikin thing anybody would ask you to do.
[17:37] But I have to buy her ticket to go and die in Nigeria.
[17:43] Six weeks after she got to Nigeria, she died.
[17:49] She died in my mom's hands.
[17:54] She died of something that was avoidable.
[17:59] If we had this person, we took the sins as kids.
[18:04] Why was this not mandated?
[18:05] Why was this not something that has to be taken?
[18:11] She worked all her life only to return to her parents.
[18:17] I saw my sister who was full of life, so beautiful.
[18:24] Let me just bring out a picture.
[18:27] I saw her go from being so pretty to shrink it.
[18:34] She planned, I think I took a picture of her this morning.
[18:40] Is this her?
[18:43] I saw her go from this.
[18:46] To shrinking, to becoming a skeleton.
[18:50] Oh, she has your smile.
[18:51] Yeah, dark.
[18:53] And she wasn't so much pain.
[18:57] I had to call her every day to sing for her.
[19:01] She wouldn't be able to sleep.
[19:03] I had to talk out to bed.
[19:11] It's just so painful to know that.
[19:13] She just suffered all her life from her kid parents
[19:17] and going to school, to moving to America, to go to Moscow.
[19:23] She didn't live as a child, she didn't live as anything.
[19:28] No, she won't take a break.
[19:31] Send me.
[19:43] Thank you so much.
[20:06] Thank you so much.
[20:26] So when you say that she didn't leave you anything, not kids, nothing, I don't find that
[20:33] to be totally true.
[20:36] She puts in your mouth the message that people need to hear, cervical cancer are more
[20:43] costly than that.
[20:45] And you've made that one of your goals in life to talk about it.
[20:50] Why is that?
[20:52] Because this is avoidable.
[20:55] I feel like the vastness is available.
[20:58] For example, Nigeria right now, that vaccine is free.
[21:04] In Canada, it's completely free.
[21:06] In the US, if you are underage, it's free.
[21:09] Which is the age you should be taking this vaccine.
[21:13] I believe that something that is available or because the information is not everywhere,
[21:21] it's not everywhere.
[21:22] It's not reaching people.
[21:24] But because you are a vaccine skeptic, not realizing that, not taking that vaccine could
[21:30] lead to death is what breaks my heart the most.
[21:34] My hope is that I love that I'm talking to you about this because this is the diary
[21:40] of a Niger girl.
[21:41] We hustle, we work hard, we're girly, we're smart, we're ready to go that thousand miles
[21:50] like my sister.
[21:51] We're ready to start over, we're ready to go back to school, do another degree, only
[21:56] to die because of one thing that we didn't do.
[22:04] My sister was a good girl, she was good and I don't know, you may be a vaccine skeptic,
[22:15] you may be listening to me today, if you have a 13-year-old, a 12-year-old, a 20-year-old,
[22:25] please get them vaccinated.
[22:27] HPV.
[22:28] For Nigeria, the vaccine is free from when you're 9 to 14.
[22:33] After 14, you have to pay for it, but I mean, there are many people who are watching us
[22:39] right now that can spread the news so that you don't have to pay for it, you don't have
[22:43] to waste your 15, and then it's complete or there's no money, whatever, you can take
[22:48] it, your child can take it from 9 to 14, and if you're over that age, please also get
[22:54] the screening and take it, right, but after having heard this experience about your sister,
[23:05] I keep thinking how we don't enjoy, many people work so hard, and that's all they do,
[23:15] and I really want this to be a learning curve here that you need to, no matter how busy
[23:21] you are, fine time, fine time, fine time, teachers, enjoy life, I mean, I just came up
[23:29] from my kitchen, you know, and me and my husband, at least three to four times a year, just
[23:35] take a break, because if we die today, somebody else will own all of this, just take a pause,
[23:42] and every week, we're just unplugged, and see, we're taking our child somewhere, just
[23:50] us, because, you know, anywhere can I go, do you, have you taken the vaccine, as well,
[23:59] what age did you take it, I took it right after my sister died, I think I was maybe 29,
[24:10] yeah, because I had that, there was, there's no points if you're already sexually active,
[24:18] whether, there was point or no point, you had to take it, I'm taking it, I can understand that,
[24:25] after my sister died, I spoke to my gynecologist, we did pap smear, and she advised me to take it,
[24:33] so my suggestion would be if you're older, if you're less than 45, I think you should go talk to
[24:40] your gynecologist about this, about Savaco Cancer, about pap smear test, and about the
[24:47] possibility to take the vaccine. Now, this is crucial, because here in the US, a black woman
[24:56] has 41% chance of getting Savaco Cancer, but over 70% chance of dying from it, more black women
[25:07] are dying from this cancer than are actually getting it. There are a lot of women in Nigeria as well,
[25:11] it's not in the US, in Nigeria, many, many women dying, and that's even on record, because a
[25:17] lot of them don't go to the hospital, so they don't even work here, yes, so I'm sure they are more,
[25:25] like, oh, she just had stomach ache, and she died, oh, she was complaining of this, and she died,
[25:30] so my case, yes, and then she died, but there was no proper check to know what that was,
[25:38] based on the statistics that I saw from Nigeria, over 10,000 cases, and that is reported cases,
[25:45] that's what I'm saying, reported, recorded, they could be more. I'm just here to tell you that
[25:53] if you can buy a new dress, you can go and see a gynecologist, if you hold a phone in your hand,
[26:02] and you're watching this, if you can afford internet, that you can actually go visit a clinic about this,
[26:09] yes, no, there's no excuse for not doing this, because this can kill, literally, my sister is
[26:18] on, you know, by the time we found out, it has gone everywhere, it wasn't very difficult,
[26:26] it cannot be said, it was a time frame, between when she found out and when she passed,
[26:32] about eight months, what, because we had, my uncle was a very renowned surgeon at that point,
[26:41] I think he had reached higher, but he had the connections, so they were literally given my sister
[26:48] the best care anybody could get, that's why she could stay for eight, that's why she could even stay
[26:54] for eight months, yeah, and when she was tired of my uncle spending money, she said I want to go
[27:00] on a diet, because she knew my uncle would do anything to make her stay, but she felt like I
[27:08] will do that, did it tell her that, yeah, they will tell you, they told her that it's the way,
[27:15] there's nothing we can do, so just go and rest, yeah, but my uncle said I'm going to fight,
[27:22] and he knows people, he had resources, and he knows different doctors, and then they keep
[27:27] keeping her, but at some point, she just felt like you know what, I can just peacefully go and
[27:33] die my father's hands, when I read this tweet, you tweeted this in 2021 or 2020, when was it,
[27:41] when did it, 2020, 2020, I read the tweet, I mean it was all over the internet at the time,
[27:47] and I just started, like read it, because trust me, I will find out, like what's exactly,
[27:53] because I would take my pap's mare, do all of those things, insurance, we had insurance, we'll do it,
[27:59] only for me to also find out, that you don't even have to be physically sexually active,
[28:07] to get the HPV virus, almost every woman needs to go and get tested for it, every woman,
[28:15] every woman, if you're a woman, you should be tested, yeah, you should be tested,
[28:21] what's your conscious, what's your conscious decision you made when your sister passed,
[28:26] like as soon as she passed, or at the time, you were able to breathe, or go through the
[28:31] algorithm process, what conscious decision did you made because of her passing? If you,
[28:38] number one, number four, I was doing a PhD, she went into academia,
[28:45] after she passed, that was it, no, I have to be an entrepreneur, I have to, I have to win in life,
[28:53] I have to win for two people, number two, was that I was going to take my health series,
[29:04] that it's not going to be in the back, I'm not going to feel and headache and say,
[29:08] oh, I'm just going to apologize to you, no, because at that point, I realized that if I die,
[29:15] my parents will die, like, who's going to take care of them? So I knew that
[29:22] being a life became a priority, so when it comes to fighting, or no, I just wanted to take it easy,
[29:32] because I know now a lot of people need me, so you would find me excluding myself from
[29:36] danger, from issues, from anything more careful, yes, because my sister was everybody's sweetheart,
[29:45] my parents love her, my brothers, if anything happens, we'll go to her, she's the mother,
[29:52] and then when she wasn't there anymore, I had to step in, I was the baby, I was the one that
[29:58] everybody looked after, so I become the mother, so I knew I had to protect myself because I have
[30:04] a family to look after, my health became a priority, number two was, it was important for me to know
[30:11] that living life was a professor, and just doing small things wasn't for me anymore, I'm now
[30:16] living for two people, and I'm living for this family, number three is I want it to leave an
[30:24] urgent life, at that point, and what that meant is that I'm not going to wait for life to happen,
[30:32] I'm going to go take it, yeah, and that's why you see me moving, doing things because
[30:39] after she passed, I realized, yeah, so yes, that's passing for your audacity, did, yeah,
[30:49] and since all of that decision was made, or the toughest decision that you have made when it comes
[30:56] to being an entrepreneur, that has also, you know, turned out good for you,
[31:02] a toughest decision, also live night to five, was it a tough decision? It was tough, it was tough
[31:10] because I was celebrated, at awards, I was, yeah, it was always a big stage, like I had the audience
[31:20] of my industry, and in 3D printing, I was, you know, one of the top 500 technologists that people
[31:28] had hunt me and fight companies, and let me fight one another over me, and when I became an entrepreneur,
[31:37] it felt like all the claps went away, so my first year, so did you feel it like a withdrawal?
[31:46] Yeah, it just felt like the old stand innovation, speaking on stages, conferences,
[31:52] it wasn't anymore, the news, everything was, and I had to bury my head and believe in myself
[32:01] every day that what I'm building is buildable, was it anytime you said, should I go back?
[32:07] Never, because I'm modacious, I know, I'm a Ristica, and I'm very calculated,
[32:15] there are two reasons, right, the first one is, I thought this true, I didn't just withdraw from
[32:21] corporate, I was already making more money than what I was making in corporate, from finance or
[32:25] print-out, so I knew that I could power through this, but I want to build this better and bigger,
[32:31] secondly, I have a good man, and I have to always acknowledge that, when I quit night to five,
[32:41] I just had a baby at that time, I just had moly, and three months after I had it, that's where I
[32:45] started going back to work, I just said, my husband said, you're not going to pay bills or anything in
[32:52] this house for one year, go be an entrepreneur, so just having someone who believed that I would win
[33:00] and collapse for me, supported me, didn't bother me about anything, was a blessing, and it's still a
[33:10] blessing, yeah, I think there was no time, because I wasn't paying before a year, and after a year I said,
[33:17] this morning I just went to the bathroom, it's time, I don't want to do that, thank you, thank you morning, yes,
[33:24] I hate it when I'm talking to women who are successful in their field, not me, when people are having
[33:30] conversations with women who are successful in their field, and you're hearing, how do you balance
[33:35] marriage and career, do you cook for your house band, do you see, nothing gives me my green on
[33:44] the other side of my head, this is because when a man, a man, when a man supports you, that question
[33:51] is irrelevant, especially for a woman who is a go, go, go, go, go, and a go getter, it's very, very
[33:58] irrelevant, so my own question, because I always feel it, is how as your husband, how as marriage
[34:07] benefited your career as a business woman, good, when I met my husband, and he's on a
[34:17] constant, so after talking to him three times, he asked me how much she would make, I told him he
[34:22] said, if you were in the US, you'd be making times three, so my, like, just even dating him,
[34:29] he started telling me, started looking for a job in the US, they want you here, and you know,
[34:33] I just went to LinkedIn and told him my, you know, I'm available, I got head hunted, I
[34:38] tripled my income, I moved here, company brought me here, I went there were negotiating, give me
[34:45] some of that, I was my son, you deserve more, go on, ask my say, this man, he had gone, he's on a
[34:51] copter, he got money, my rage is my sounding board, my husband is my, he would, when I have
[35:03] ideas, he would look at it, I would say, yeah, this is great, but let's now polish it a little
[35:09] bit, it's back to you, go ahead, execute, I'm one of the many, I don't want to say few, because I
[35:17] know many, many, many men who are enjoying their marriage, I'm one of the many women who, God
[35:22] gave men who are not intimidated, who truly are there supporting them while they also win,
[35:31] so my rage has benefited my career, when I spent two years in my first company, my husband was
[35:36] still in me, was type to move, so this man was just pushing, very, he believed that I'm
[35:44] more than I am, sometimes it's crazy, like, do you think I should go ahead and do this crazy
[35:50] stuff, but he believed that there was a lot inside of me that needs to be sent by the world,
[35:56] and he kept pushing me to do those things till date, and that pretty much, I would say in a lot of
[36:02] ways, having a man who believes in me more than I believe myself only made me fly, who went
[36:09] high and downed him myself, and number two is, it's not just believing, it's participating,
[36:16] it's so important, in my house, there's no task that my husband cannot do, only wants to party,
[36:23] it's there, wants to cook, only his heart, so I love that, it's not just saying do it, it's there,
[36:33] participating, because there's no balance in this whole thing, if you don't have that support
[36:40] system, it's just going to be that, just struggling there, our point does, all this audacity that
[36:47] you've had in career, business, our point do you, are you tempted to bring it to the home,
[36:54] you know, without you, I'm an independent woman, right, our point do you, are you tempted to
[37:02] be that independent woman, even in your marriage, so when I met my husband, and I asked him,
[37:10] what are you looking for, he said a partner, and a partner, he got, the one would have
[37:18] a voice, yeah, all the, all the, you speak your mind, yes, and how does it, I'm a wife,
[37:27] yeah, I'm a partner, yeah, but I, it loves that I have my voice, and he wants my voice, and he's
[37:35] always being like that, but I'm not his boss, no, we hold, we own businesses together,
[37:46] and because it feels the love that a woman, yeah, is a woman-led business, my husband will say,
[37:57] go forward, yeah, but it doesn't change the fact that he's the head, that God makes it, yeah, and
[38:05] is the accountant, well right, I love our partnership because for us, I'm not able to just be a boss
[38:16] at home, I have a man who has his voice, he's happy, who knows what he's doing, who is strategic,
[38:25] everything's just a win-win for you, yeah, this has been such an amazing conversation, of course,
[38:30] always behind the camera, we always have like longer conversations, just, just on the phone for
[38:35] hours, you know, about life and everything in between, and that's why I brought her first,
[38:40] because there is such deep, deep story that I know that many women will be able to relate to,
[38:47] from Hawking, Pepe, to moving to Finland, to moving to Canada, from there to moving to America,
[38:54] not even sure of, you know, where the future leads, but knowing, though, that she's capable of making
[39:01] our own future for herself, so every single step of the way, making it auditiously,
[39:06] as brought it to where you are today, you know, I was going in my millionaire friend,
[39:10] and man, it's not, it's not even, it is what it is, it is what it is, and I'm so proud of where you
[39:18] are today, and I know that there's going to be bigger, there's bigger things ahead of you,
[39:23] I know. You know, right? I know. And we're going to be here to celebrate it.
[39:26] Hey, man, thank you so much. Now, ahead of you, you know what?
[39:30] I had a view. I had a view. I had of me. There are bigger things. Oh, I know.
[39:34] Yeah, of course, I was going to roll through it together by God's grace. Well done for everything
[39:41] that you've done. We hope that one day when we have our class of what this shows women in this
[39:46] broadcast, you will be able to come back and, you know, tell us more stories about how far you
[39:51] have come from the last time we spoke to, you know, to that time. Amen to that. Thank you, everybody.
[39:57] See you later.

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