You have to be Stubborn about your Destiny!

The Worst You Will Get Is a No... A conversation with Joyful Adenike

I sat down with the incredible Joyful Adenike for the latest episode of Dear Christian Girl podcast and if you don’t know Joyful, let me introduce her properly.

She’s a filmmaker, director, and producer known for creating compelling stories. She is the creative mind behind films like Summer Rain and Chemistry and she’s currently working on her newest film, Tele x Zikora. Beyond film, she’s an author, content creator, wife, mum and she’s a woman who wears many hats beautifully.

Joyful has gotten to where she is today by building audacity, and it’s something she circles back to throughout this conversation. If you want to go far in life, she says,

“you have to build audacity”

“You have to be stubborn about your destiny.”

Not stubborn in a way that rejects wisdom or correction, but stubborn enough to refuse to give up on what God has spoken over your life, even when the timing doesn’t look anything like you expected.

The audacity to ask, the audacity to show up, the audacity to push past every reason it feels hard, difficult, and uncomfortable.

She also shared that audacity isn’t always found in the big, dramatic moments. Sometimes it’s doing the small things nobody applauds.

For her, it meant cutting off the hair she’d been growing since secondary school as part of starting over. It meant getting on social media and openly admitting she was in debt and driving Uber to pay it off, even though she knew people would judge her, especially in a world where so many people measure success by appearances.

She further shared that building audacity comes at a cost. It means being willing to be misunderstood, and being that person who does the thing everyone else is too afraid to attempt.

If you are reading this now, this is your sign to build audacity. Audacity to send that message, audacity to apply for that opportunity, audacity to start that business, audacity to have the hard conversation.

Episode 4 with Joyful Adenike is out now on all podcast platforms.

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With love,

Mo