A Nigerian lady identified as Sandra Iheuwa has shared the inspiring story of how she became the owner of five companies. 

The lady owns a hair company, a jewelry company, a restaurant, a clothing store and a non-profit charity organisation. According to her, she started her business with only fifty dollars (N18,000) in 2012, as a single mother. Iheuwa noted that after five years of working sleepless nights she is able to afford whatever she wants with five companies to call her own. 


Nigerian lady Sandra shares inspiring story of how she became a CEO of 5 companies Photo Source: Facebook 

 She also shared photos of a car she bought in 2008 to compare with her new Mercedes Benz, 2017 model. Sandra shared photos of her cars 

Photo Source: Facebook Read below: "2008 OLD BAE VS 2017 NEW BAE......I know cars are not investments but this is a story worth sharing....I started my business in January 2012 with only $50, blood, sweat and tears and being a single mom didn't make it easy at all. I didnt get no help from no man whatsoever I mean no boyfriend, husband or sugar daddy this was all ME. After 5 years of hardwork and my businesses grew to the point I was able to afford most things so I decided to reward myself. I am a PROUD owner of a 2017 Mercedes Benz it was about time after buying my 2008 CX7 back in October 2008 and drove it for 9 years and people around me were like a whole CEO still driving this kind of car well it was worth it because I don't go about spending money unnecessary.

 To all the hardworking women out there especially single moms doing it all by yourselves your breakthrough is near just keep working hard and never give up. I would have never imagined my business I started with only $50 would get this BIG!!!! GOD IS GOOD!!!.....In btw who wants the old car? 

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“Got pregnant at the age of 19, was zero’d out, condemned, alone and lost
Became a mother & thought it best to make it official with my son’s dad attheageof 20
Got into unhealthy patterns in our relationship that led to emotional abuse and toxicity for the most part. Finally got the courage to separate at the age of 23 after going through an abortion and Sexually Transmitted Disease.
This started my downward spiral into involving myself in multiple toxic relationships between the ages of 24 – 27
Confused, lost, dark, toxic relationships was my drug of choice. Felt unworthy, self-esteem dragging on the floor begging to be picked up, had little or no confidence, gave up my power to define who I was to other people because I just hated the woman I had become. I constantly questioned why I was so different and abnormal.
My body defined my worth. I clearly had nothing to offer. My single motherhood didn’t even help. They said I couldn’t do any better because of my baggage. I agreed with them and gave them my power. It was their word over mine.
Finally got tired of engaging in this toxic cycle and decided to embrace my difference. At this point, I was tired! I was sick! I was done! I found my light towards the end of 2016.
Found the love I had been seeking the whole time in myself. Things started clicking. I found my purpose. I realized I had a story to tell and was determined to share. I was worthy and enough the whole time and didn’t even know it. I finally found my voice and I promised myself to speak my truth.
I promised God that if he took me out of my misery and showed me the way, I will spend the rest of my life serving.
Currently serving and growing a tribe of women who believe in their power to create their stories and would do anything to make it happen.”

The moment you agree to date a married man, you agree to be a second class woman, and every second class person is classified as a person of lower values. Now look at it this way.. If he is with you & his wife calls, he lies that he is still at the office or on an official assignment.You dare not interrupt his conversation or query him. But you can't call him when he is at home with family.....

My sisters, you be toy? He sneaks you from his car into his hotel room but gives his wife his entire home.....

My beloved sisters grow up, please! He visits you at home & you introduce him to friends & neighbours as your boyfriend thereby blocking your chances of getting a genuine suitor, yet
 you don't even know the name of the street where he lives.....

My sisters, how long will you continue to sacrifice your future? He takes you out & buys you assorted types of alcoholic drinks, yet he will never allow his wife taste even a drop of alcoholic drink. Common sense should tell you he is only doing that to get you drunk so he can truly destroy you in bed......

My dear sisters, na your body good pass for experiment? He gets you pregnant & gives you money for abortion, but when his wife gets pregnant he celebrates & gives her money for antenatal & baby things......

My sisters remember he is already raising his family. Oh just in case you don't know, he describes your emotions when he is with his friends but will never mention whatever happens between him & his wife. This makes all his friends see a lesser human in you......

My sisters, na your matter them take they drink beer ooo. He gives you a few cash & you're happy not knowing that whatever money he gives you is what he calls "Body no be firewood allowances" You have his picture on your phone & saved his number as "My Sweetheart" or whatever, yet your
 picture cannot be found on his phone & your number is saved on his phone as generator mechanic or refuse dispose........

My lovely sisters, you be learner? PLEASE let's give ourselves a proper re-evaluation today. Please help me to pass this message round to educate our ladies by tagging each & everyone on your page. Just a piece of advice.Thanks.

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Life can be unbelievably difficult at times. But, when tragedy strikes, it often becomes unbearable. We feel we just can’t go on and that the pain will never end. Reading the tragic stories of others, it can be hard to imagine how they survived and even went on to live happy lives again after the unthinkable things that happened either to them or their loved ones.
But, somehow they do go on and some even go on to create lives of tremendous transformation and beauty. Scarlett Lewis is one of those people.
One morning, Scarlett Lewis kissed her son goodbye as he left for school; never in her wildest dreams thinking it would be the last time she’d do this. Jesse wrote a message with his finger in the frost on his mother’s car, as he walked down the driveway. It said: ‘I love you.’ Just a few short hours later, he was gone. He was one of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, in Connecticut, in 2012.
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Just reading or hearing about another parent losing a precious child brings a physical reaction; that knot in the throat and feeling of being wounded in the heart and stomach. It’s unimaginable that your child should die before you and in such violent circumstances.

Jesse Lewis was one of 26 who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Scarlett Lewis’s solution to overcoming the intense pain of losing her six-year-old son was to get out there and help others. She found that by giving, she could heal her own pain. And today, she shares her transformative wisdom around the world and how she managed to get to this place of
love .

“ Service, doing for others, is the most powerful and profound trauma healing there is on the planet. It’s so powerful, it elongates our lives. When you do for others you have a 22% reduced risk of mortality. I remind myself that every day…Everything that you give, you get back. So all of the nurturing, healing and love that you give out, you get back. And there’s science behind all this too. This has been my experience, but it’s true.

Her Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement has helped thousands of people through school programs in the US, in prisons, hospitals, and soon, the business and corporate world and an online program. And it was born out of three words her son Jesse had written on a chalkboard at home, a few days before the tragedy, that now live on after his untimely death. These words were: ‘Nurturing. Healing. Love.’

While the spelling is not perfect, Jesse’s chalkboard message was clear to Scarlett.
She believes these final words were a calling from Jesse that said, “I have something for you to do for us. That’s to consciously change an angry thought into a loving one, because it is a choice.”
Scarlett worked with a professor from Western Connecticut State University, who helped her analyse Jesse’s message.

“ I came to realise that it was a profound formula for choosing love that I now live by. Nurturing means loving kindness and gratitude, healing literally means forgiveness and love is compassion in action. And when you have the courage to practice those three character values in that order… You’re choosing love.

Today, the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement is taught in schools in 44 states of America, and 13 countries from kindergarten to grade 12. It’s a free course, as Scarlett wanted it to have no barriers, and is a social and emotional learning program, teaching children how to choose love in any circumstance.

“ Choosing Love means having the courage to be grateful when life isn’t easy, to forgive when the person who hurt you is not sorry, and to step outside your own pain to help someone else…We want kids to know that they have a choice. That they are responsible for their thoughts and feelings and that they can always choose love. We are trying to cultivate resilient, connected and compassionate people. There’s strong evidence that children who develop these skills have less anxiety, lower rates of depression and mental illness, experience less bullying, violence and incarceration and even in later life, have lower rates of divorce.

Jesse lived with so much love, a legacy that continues to this day.

In the US, there are more suicides than murders. And Scarlett has seen, first hand, how her program has saved young people who were choosing death as their best option for the struggles in their lives. One of the Choose Love Movement’s most powerful proponents was an at-risk youth in a High School in Connecticut, who attempted suicide . When he returned to school, his teacher decided to teach him the formula for choosing love. And it saved his life. Today, he talks openly about his experience and shares that if he can do it, anyone can.
While Scarlett lives with the pain of losing her son every day, she says this pain is a great motivator.

“ It’s like losing a limb and having phantom pain in that limb. I have phantom pain all the time from losing my son. And I want to make sure no-one suffers the way I do.
Jesse, Scarlett and JT.
Scarlett says her only way forward is to use her time on Earth to make a change in the world.
“ Every day, all day long I feel so blessed to be doing this work, but I’m also aware that it all comes from my six-year-old son being shot in the forehead.
Her story and the Choose Love formula is something Scarlett lives by. She practices
forgiveness every day, actively choosing love and the courage to make a profound difference in the world.
And her son Jesse lived this too. After the shooting, Scarlett found out that her son had shown tremendous courage in the terrifying situation, and had in fact saved the lives of nine of his classmates. He stood up to the gunman and tried to protect his teacher. When she discovered this, she knew she could find the same courage within herself, to go on, to get up every day, and to help others.
“ We all have the courage that Jesse showed that day …the courage to be kind and gentle. The courage to create peace even in the face of terror. The courage to respond to fear with love. The courage to tell the truth, to show up and be present…
There’s no other solution. Legislators and politicians can’t do it. We are the most powerful proponents of it. I’ve learnt that when we choose love, we change the world around us.
PTSD is all consuming, but trauma can also be a catalyst for growth.
She says that choosing love is the most important choice we can make on a daily basis. And it was choosing love that helped her to undergo a profound journey of forgiveness for her son’s murder.
“ I felt he had a spiritual awareness that he was going to die and that it was a message of comfort and also information. And I knew that I would be spending the rest of my life spreading that message …I also knew that if the shooter, Adam Lanza had been able to give and receive nurturing, healing and love, that the tragedy would not have happened, and in this way, I was able to start feeling compassion for him and I began my journey of healing and forgiveness in that moment.
Life can wallop you, but you choose how you respond. We always have power over our actions. We always have the choice, even when we don’t feel like we do. It’s the difference between feeling like a victim or being empowered. It’s important to process our feelings, but by choosing to help others, our lives can be immeasurably enriched. Scarlett Lewis says it best:
“ I remind myself that I’m a courageous human being when I’m feeling low. And I experience that miraculous thing of being able to shift yourself from a lower energy into a higher level, by practising gratitude. Contemplating forgiveness for yourself and others, and understanding that forgiveness cuts the cord that attaches you to pain, doesn’t mean that you condone or forget. It doesn’t even mean that you can’t hold the person that hurt you accountable. It simply means cutting the cord that attaches you to pain. And then shifting your focus outward to others, and passing this along. Passing the message, the formula and awareness, on to others. That is how you can be part of the solution.

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Sometimes, a few short words can change your life...
Nayyirah Waheed is an African-American poet who has published two books of incandescent poetry, entitled Salt and Nejma . She began writing at the age of eleven, after being given an assignment to write a poem for a community newspaper by her English teacher. Since then, she has touched many with her published work and also gained a loyal following on Instagram.
“ Poems come as they will. They come as they want, when I’m waking, eating, exercising, chatting with someone. Sometimes they come to me as a whole, sometimes a line. I think it’s one of the ways my soul communicates with me, I do my best to sit down and listen.
She breaks the rules of poetry, with her signature three line poems and creative use of full stops. Nayyirah Waheed’s minimalistic poetry covers topics such as love, identity, race, and feminism ; and she burns through our ideas around these things with stark clarity.
Here are 11 of her captivating poems that touched us deeply:

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