2025, Retrospectively

At the last and I mean dying minute of the year, I decided to finally let go and publish a podcast I released at the end of the year and this made me think about how I had the capacity to hit publish but didn’t, why?

Anyway, there are lot of things I enjoyed actually doing this year

Let’s go over it!

1. Hitting my revenue goal

At the middle of the year, I was feeling burnt out and paid for coaching for the first time and the conversation changed my life, not because of what she shared but who she was about to lead me to. One thing about me is that I’m not scared to reach out to anyone, I might panic for a second but I would push forward.

Ps: God gave me this factory setting since I was a little girl.

I hit my revenue goal within months and the domino effect hit me when I made double of that in the first month of 2026.

2. Partnerships and opportunities for our jewelry brand, De Charma

I started an entire series called entrepreneur diaries on YouTube (it’s not even finished yet).

It’s dreamy to share that We have 2 stockists located Online and Physically - Ananse Africa and Gather House.

With Ananse Africa, there is free shipping with DHL to anywhere in the world that you’re located while with Gather House, It’s the most beautiful concept store in Lagos and perfect for anyone that would love to hold our pieces in person, first.

In this video, I shared that I’ve learnt to enjoy the joys of executing and I can’t say I did any of this alone, God has intentionally surrounded me consistently with a family and friends that believe in me, effortlessly.

Hosting our First sip and bead with The Finer Life and Jameson Nigeria was a dream that I had thought through so many times and to be honest, smiled so widely when it finally happened ( you can see in the picture at the right end corner).

There’s so much more which I’ll be sharing on YouTube soon.

3. Worked out consistently

I have always been a Chloe Ting workout lover but adding an Apple watch has gamified the process of working out so much for me.

2025 in workouts

Also, I added a food diary to my stack in the middle of the year and that was interesting to see my eating patterns and definitely have opinions on the need for accurate calorie measurements for Nigerian meals, Fitness Pal is nice but there needs to be more.

4. Reading the Word

This year was for reading of the Old Testament with the Bible Project and to be honest, I still have 30 + days to go but one thing, I know is that I never physically or mentally left God on my up and down days. There was a love that I felt in the atmosphere at church that kept me coming back each time!

I would be sharing some career retrospectives on my LinkedIn but genuinely want to share more here on substack.

The future

There are a lot of financial knowledge that I have and don’t want to hoard anymore because it is really changing my life to be fair.

Let me know what you think in the polls!