Your Fellow Human

What makes someone worth listening to?

Today I want to introduce you to Olumide, and while I could say he’s worth listening to because he’s an olympian, because he’s experienced grief and learned how to grow through it, or because he comes from a culture that maybe you have never heard of or one that maybe your history connects to….

I could say those things make him worth listening to, but they aren’t…

Olumide is someone that isn’t chasing, not chasing the most popular person in the room, not chasing a title, but someone who is simply, human; and in our world today this is a quality that in my opinion is what makes him worth listening to

We chat about what it was like being the youngest sibling in a Nigerian family, the rich culture and the loss part of that family at a young age. We talk about what it’s like to grow up and realize it’s ok to not be ok, and that those that love us need us to be human not strong

He shares what realizing his dream as an Olympian felt like, where that dream started, and how the loss of his dad marked healing in what it means to not hide from what it is to feel

Olumide shares so much of what has made him who he is, he shares lessons his journey has taught him that I know will not only impact you as you hear them, but in so many ways allow you to be remained, or maybe even hear for the first time, that it’s ok to be you, to be proud of you, and to accept the greatness and the good that makes up who you are

So tune in today and meet Olumide, a human, and one that I am so excited to share with you

And to you Olumide thank you, thank you for being someone who can sit in a crowd and connect with a single individual, for sharing your journey, your culture, for the way you so genuinely value the person sitting in front of you, I’m so grateful to have met you and even more to have gained a friend