Funmi Fatona Ayowole: From Struggle to Strength

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:00:03

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Welcome to the next episode of Empowered, My skin, the podcast and for YouTubers. I know you can see who I am about to interview, but for you listening, get ready. It's a good one.

Our guest today is a powerhouse of healing and strategy, blending soul deep coaching with sharp financial insight. A trailblazer in mental wellness, a builder of visionary leaders and a voice of strength for those really yearning to breathe again.

Community changer, faith driven, mentor and advocate for putting your oxygen back mask on first. Come on. We are in for a great treat. So put your hands and ears together for a gigantic podcast. Welcome for Fumi Fatona.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:01:42

A great job. Yes, yes, yes. Great job on the pronunciation. It's so good to be here.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:01:53

I better pronounce your name well. Yeah, yeah. Were you worried?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:01:58

Yeah. You tried. I mean, Fumi is the. You you know how to call for me, but the last name, you're like.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:02:05

I didn't get that right. What? I didn't get that right.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:02:12

Yes. Well, you did it. But it's fine. It's fine. You're.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:02:15

You. You want to shade me like. I didn't get it right. Say it again. Say it again. But it's an A.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:02:28

Yes.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:02:29

Yes.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:02:30

Yes. Yes.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:02:35

Ah, okay.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:02:36

Yes. Yes. There's all these tiny nuances, but it's not.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:02:40

I don't. I've never. I actually meant to ask you in the B roll in the BTS if we were supposed to say Fantono because it was here. But I usually. In my. In my.

She's. Oh, she's on my speed dial, y'. All. I don't have. I have only just saying. But. But also known affectionately of tfa. Right. Yes. Yes. I love it.

So let's get started. What was your most empowering thought that you've had of the day so far?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:03:11

That is such an amazing question.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:03:13

It's always the first question.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:03:15

Yeah, Well, I don't even. But my most empowering thought of the day would be that you have to fight for your peace.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:03:26

I agree with that.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:03:28

It's a discipline.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:03:29

Yeah, it is a discipline. I get it. You know, it's interesting because I'm in a season where my brain is like. And I hear it like, I. You are the.

Are you the thought or are you the thinker? You know? And so I'm trying to really sit in the position of thought.

And so I actually hear myself telling myself, nope, change to supernatural thinking. Change to supernatural thinking. That is a. That is a natural thought to change the supernatural. You're in the natural. Change the supernatural.

Like, I feel like I'm constantly conditioning myself to be like, okay, only God thoughts. Only God thoughts. Only God thoughts. What would God think about this? Right, yeah. So I hear you. Peace is absolutely a practice. I never really.

I like that. So what is your peaceful practice, then?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:04:14

For me, a peaceful practice is all around my daily routines. What I do to ground myself in the mornings, from the moment I wake up, how I sustain my peace even during the day.

The thoughts that I allow and the ways that I calm down and return to my center during the day. And then in the evening, how do I round off? How do I close? How do I reflect on things that happened in that day? How am I thinking about the next day?

What are my intentions?

So for me, at the very, very least, I have, like, three major anchoring moments in every single day to help me fight for my peace and keep it at all costs.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:05:02

I love that. I love that. Isn't it interesting?

I was just funny, as you were speaking, I was like, oh, look at all this growth from this girl that I met how many years ago? Like, just pre pandemic, right?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:05:12

Like, yes, pre pandemic.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:05:14

At least five years ago. Yeah. Yeah. And look at. Look at this. I'm in the interview seat, and I get to, like, pick your brain for a change. Isn't that nice? Nice. I love it.

I love it. So your story is both inspiring and absolutely raw. Right. Like, I remember. I remember when you actually shared it with me some time back.

And so it's a story of surviving personal trauma, navigating mental health struggles, and then rising into leadership service.

I'm going to say, identifying your gifting, you know, really elevating your voice and using it to really help others, and leaning in, in a really deep way. And so what was your turning point where you transitioned out of, like, this adverse, like, place of adversity into sort of.

I'M going to say like purpose.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:06:07

I wouldn't say that there is a single turning point. I think that it's like a series of quiet reawakenings. Almost like times when you're reminded and you're pulled back to yourself.

I think that I reached a point where the weight of pretending was heavier than the weight of vulnerability and.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:06:33

The way of pretending.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:06:34

Yes, yes. The weight of pretending is so much heavier than the weight of being vulnerable and healing in the process.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:06:42

So how does somebody know that they are? Because I think there's patterns that we as human beings get into just, you know, just life throws us into environments and then eventually you're.

You've settled into a pattern. But what does. If you had to put words to what the weight of pretending would sound like, can you articulate that further?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:07:09

I think it's not what it sounds like, it's what it feels like.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:07:13

Okay.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:07:15

Because on the outside, it may not be evident in sound to other people, but when you are in your own thoughts and when. Or if you are that self aware to evaluate what this is doing to you, you.

That there is an incongruence and so your inside is totally different or there. There are parts of you that are different from what is projected on the outside. That weight of pretending is like being full with your calendar.

Your calendar is scheduled back to back, but you are connected from your core. It's like performing for other people and behaving like everything is fine, but it's not. But it's not on the in. It's like you.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:08:12

So if I. So if I go back to what I. So I think it's feeling and potentially sound. Because it could be I'm fine. Right. I think, I think fine is such a.

It's such a. It's such a trigger. Like, I think it's such a widely.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:08:26

Used word that in our culture it's like, I'm good. Yeah.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:08:33

And you're not really fine. And so it's having that honest question, am I really fine? And in this moment, can I answer this person and say, you know, even if it's.

I don't want to talk about it. Acknowledging and say I'm not fine, but I'm not ready to talk about it either. Is somehow giving, like giving an opening for that thin.

Whatever it is to have space to move. I think what, for me, what I'm getting from you is like when you don't. It's locked up, it's tied up and it's. It has no. There's no.

It has no room for movement.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:09:07

Yes, yes. It's that self awareness, it's that honesty, it's that vulnerability.

And like you said, even if you're not ready to talk about it at the moment, but at least you are true to yourself and to the other person you're speaking to that you're not fine at that moment, but you're sharing your humanness.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:09:30

So double clicking a little bit more on the question that I asked.

What like what was the inflection point where you suddenly felt that, you know what, I've been, I've been doing the work and now I want to turn it to help others. Do you remember what that looked like for you?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:09:49

Yes, yes I do. So back maybe say nine, ten years ago, I experienced such a horrible physical tragedy in my, in my home in Nigeria where everything was flooded.

Like I woke up one morning and on a Saturday morning I put my feet down on the other side of the bed and it was knee deep in water. I was knee deep in water. I mean it had rained overnight, we didn't notice. And the structural foundations of the apartment was, was really damaged.

And so everything that we had, you can imagine the loss of property. And with that came a lot of financial loss. In Lagos, Nigeria, unlike the western world, you don't pay, you pay your rent on a yearly basis.

And the landlord. Yes, the landlord, even after his apartment was flooded and we had to move for rent. No, he refused to give us back our rent. Oh, he'd repay.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:11:01

Oh, I see, right. Because he paid all. Oh, right.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:11:05

And I, we, I think we had only just moved in there for two months.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:11:09

Yeah. Which could be understandable because he's probably gone and spent so I don't know. The landlord not trying to put him.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:11:16

On blast point was all of us, me and my, my husband and my, my then one year old had to go and move into my old apartment, my old room in house. And so you can maybe start to think about or imagine the, the chaos.

It was far away from all of the places that me and my husband lived and regularly and worked. There was a lot of financial instability. All living with my dad, it wasn't as pleasant.

You know, you think that, oh, you've like moved out of the house and everything is different and you're independent and you are the woman of your own house. Right. So totally different. And then it started to affect, for sure, it started to affect my, my marriage also.

And all of that caved in on me and I started very depressed and even suicidal. I know, I don't know, I don't want to discount. I would have said oh for someone else.

It may not be as serious, but serious to me at that point there were so many moving parts and not just not in a positive way. And so I was suicidal for some reason. I reached out to someone on the streets of Instagram, a mom called who was really just compassionate.

She realized that I didn't have any finances. I couldn't pay her for her services. She worked with me for six. She gave me a full scholarship. She worked with me one on one for six months.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:12:55

Wow.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:12:56

We excavated. There were times I was sitting on the bathroom floor at my own 2am because that was the time that was convenient for her.

She was actually living in Edmonton in Canada at the time. So 2am for me was her whatever in the evening. And that was the time that worked for her. And so when deep we went deep I will.

I would be crying, snot coming out of my nose, journaling, journaling, thinking, you know, just basically tearing apart everything I knew and I thought about myself. So I went through that whole process.

I think I came out on the other side just knowing that number one, a person cannot live without going through several renewal processes of healing. And then secondly, I would love to pay forward the help that I received.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:13:55

That's beautiful.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:13:57

And so thank you. Lots of.

I've done a couple of like certifications, coaching certifications, learning about human psychology, wellness mental health coaching and so on and so forth.

And when I got here to Canada, that this is now my seventh year in Canada, living in Canada, I started the company and I feel very much that by divine inspiration God was telling me that I can't be everywhere at once. I started to work with clients one on one, one. But how can we democratize this mental health support?

And that's where the Virtual Soul Clinic as a nonprofit organization was born.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:14:41

Beautiful. That's beautiful.

And I love, I always say we, you I, I say the gift is taking it more out of adversity than adversity takes out of you and realizing that what you went through was, is eventually to benefit others in the world. And so you've done it in a very good graceful way and really like the impetus for it.

So as part of the work that you do, you often I said it in your bio. Talk about put the oxygen mask on first. And so in practice, can you help with the listeners explain what that, what that is?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:15:16

You know, it's that cute metaphor that we all we, we know when if you're flying they say put on Your oxygen mask first.

Even if you have a companion, even if the companion is a child and can't help themselves, for you to, first of all, put on your own mask first, because you have to survive. If you are not breathing right, you can't help the other person to breathe, that you wouldn't have the strength.

You will not be able to see clearly in order to put the other person's oxygen mask. So for me, it starts with a daily check in. What do I need? Emotionally, spiritually, physically? Sometimes it's restricted. Other times it's boundaries.

Sometimes it's laughter. I just need around someone who will make me laugh from my belly.

And then for leaders or moms or people who are influential or those that are maybe mentoring others, it's about checking that you are not your output. Let me try and space that out. You are not your output. Your presence is the gift. So you have to be whole to give your give of your presence. Right.

And you can't offer clarity to anyone if you're just running on fumes.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:16:40

That's correct.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:16:41

So, you know, we say you can't give what you don't have. You have to fill your cup because you have to give from a place of fullness. Not fullness and overflow, not just scraps and whatever is left of you.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:16:58

There was. It's funny. I was actually. When you got to your presence, is that, no, you're not your output.

I. I had a question that sort of formed, and I was like, that. That mic drop just took that. Took that question all the way out. So I'm gonna. I'm gonna probably. I'm gonna go.

I was probably gonna do a little bit of a double click on there. I wish it would come back to me because. Because it's. I feel like it's right here, and it's about to. It's about to leave.

It's based on something that you said, but it's okay. So you wear many hats. You know, mother advisor, coaches. You're talking about faith, leader, creative. Constantly seems like you're traveling. I.

You talk. I'm. You say I'm. Got a full calendar. Yo, Bread. Like, I can. Like, every single moment. You're doing something, learning something.

No, no, no, no, no, no. So I just want to know, like, how do you stay connected to your. Your inner. Your inner voice across these shifting roles and spaces?

Because they all demand different things from you, right?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:17:57

Yes, they do. But I think down at my core is my sense of identity. My father's child, I'm representing him in any and every one of these roles or spaces.

The second thing is I also know that I have a voice the same way God created with his voice. I have the power to create with my voice.

So regardless of whether I am teaching or coaching or advising, I am very intentional about the things that I say and to make sure that they are coming from a place of kindness and love. Whether I'm a friend to you nk, or whether I'm a mother to my child, I want to make sure that I am. I'm coming from a place of love. And I.

And I speak in love. Speak the love. So that's. I would say that that's how I maintain my inner voice.

And I think it's clearest when I'm not trying to perform or prove anything. It's clearest when I'm just showing up as I am, moment by moment.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:19:17

So what does authenticity mean to you right now, in this day, in this moment?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:19:25

Yeah, authenticity, I think, is just being real.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:19:31

So authenticity gets a real buzz. Road. So.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:19:38

He is. Hey, I just arrived from New Jersey today, and I started and I picked up my son from where an auntie of mine was. Was taking care of him.

I got into the house, I pulled off my wig. I told my husband, hey, I need a nap. Please can you take care of Andre for the next one hour? I need a nap. I didn't do anything else.

I didn't get into the kitchen. I didn't check my email. I didn't answer any and everyone who needed me, I needed a nap. And I got it. I needed it, and I got it.

Authenticity is that freedom to be who you are. And I said it moment by moment because there's a time where you are in the boardroom. You are powerful, you're doing your stuff.

But there are other times when you are tired and you just need space.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:20:37

It takes me back to a moment that I had when in the organization I'm in now in the early days. So I started leading at a higher level when I joined this organization and in a new space.

And I remember there was a day, and I am not saying it wasn't my boss, but I had anxiety and I. I'm. I don't know that I. I don't know why, you know, but I felt very anxious coming out of.

I think I was probably anxious through the session with my boss. Definitely anxious coming out of the session with my boss. New boss, new organization. And then I had to join another meeting with all of my leaders.

And so I had no. I. There Was like left one meeting into the other in this virtual world. It's, it's like instantaneous, like you're on to the next thing right away.

And so I had no time to catch my breath. But so I. In that moment, I don't know why, but I just.

As the Hollywood Squares started to pop up and the team came online, I said to them, you know, I am. Right now I have anxiety and I don't know why. And I would say that, you know, you all still are very fairly new to me.

I'm in a new role, new organization. So I've never this, this cocktail of circumstances, never. I've never navigated it.

And so I'm asking for grace because I don't know who I'm going to be through this moment, but I do. I need, I need grace. Yeah. And hearts. I think some hearts went up in this. Any other.

And anyway, what I would say to you is I actually then after I release that don't know when the anxiety actually left, but somewhere in that meeting it left. You know, and then I was just, I was just there. I was in it. I was going. But remarkably what, what happened transpired after is when my.

Because I work in a predominantly male environment, so the most of the Hollywood Squares were male. And. And when I was having a conversation with my leaders, I think it was like a day or so later he told me that he had.

He was talking with his partner and he said never once in his career has he ever had like an executive, you know, sort of come on a call and just openly declare that they're working through anxiety in that moment and need support and grace from the team to help them navigate it. Right. And, and so I like, I've always talked about authenticity. I think in hearing that back from him, that became for me the, the.

The anchor of authenticity that I was capable of living in safely without any fear of anything. Like that's what I would say. It's. It's this base where you.

There's nothing to pretend, nothing to protect, nothing to defend, nothing to hide, nothing to prove.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:23:29

I mean it's not.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:23:30

Yeah, you're just all. You're all in. And if you don't, if you don't, this is it. And if you don't like it, like it's. It is, it's it, it's it.

And because I think sometimes you gotta keep it real. And then next thing you know, the person cuss off people's. I'm like, I don't know if that's. That that's pain. That's not authenticity. Yeah.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:23:53

I think authenticity has to flow with grace.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:23:55

Oh yeah. I love that.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:23:58

By grace.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:23:58

I love that. I love that. Grace is a powerful thing. Love it.

So we talked about you, you, you've talked about how you sort of came across to or came into the soul clinic, the virtual soul clinic.

So really built on, I don't know if you, you talked about it, but in our research we know that, you know, foundation, it's built on the idea that healing doesn't happen in isolation. So, you know, from that vantage point, what role has community, especially like being an immigrant. You carry deep faith.

You're my, you're my soul sister that way. You're my faith sister, my prayer warrior. And often you're playing in the spaces with women.

You know, how is this played in your own healing and becoming? And how would you advise us to show up with each other?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:24:49

Okay. I think community saved me for me. I have been held up by women who didn't need me to be strong all the time. I was healed in prayer circles.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:25:03

You knew that like you were in that kind of safe.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:25:05

Yes, yes.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:25:07

That's beautiful. Not everybody has that. That's why I'm.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:25:11

Yes, there are people that I have carefully curated and in fact, I was speaking with a big brother of mine who is a mentor that happened to be here in Canada from the UK last week. And it was our first time of meeting each other in person after maybe four years.

And he was really reassuring me and reminding me that yes, there will be a whole big community of people that maybe know you and your acquaintances. But then there is just like I am faith based and so anyone listening to me may understand this.

There is the outer court in the temple, there is the inner court and then there is the holy of holies. So let me remove it from religiosity. But there is a part where everyone, people know you, there's acquaintances and so on.

Then there is the inner court of people who are rooting for you genuinely and authentically and you can be safe with them.

And over time they have proven that they, they really love you without the fluff and can be so committed to them and to your friendship and your relationship with them. So you have to be very careful about curating those kind of people.

And so those are the people within which I was healed in prayer circles and WhatsApp voice notes and check ins these sisters for me and a. This big brother I'm talking about that they, they are people that walked with me. They didn't walk over me.

They didn't walk me just, oh, I'm going through this. And they didn't just say, okay, you'll be fine, or I'll pray for you. No. They actually called me up and, and prayed for me.

They actually asked me how I was doing and offered to help in ways that money can buy or money cannot buy. So, yes, healing does not happen in isolation.

I mean, I described a time way back, eight, nine years ago, but I'm talking about things that happen in my present, current time, maybe a year ago, two years ago, whether in my family, my marriage, in my, with my work and career. These people have held me down and I, I will not, I, I cannot say that I'm where I am without these people.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:27:42

Yeah.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:27:43

So my advice would be don't wait till people ask for help. Reach out, check in with them, hold space for them and remind them that they are not a burden. And you can do that in your facial expressions.

You can do that in the emojis. You can do that in just being so open to the people that you have decided that you have committed to in terms of your friendship and relationship.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:28:14

That's right.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:28:16

Never know who's just holding it together by just a thin.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:28:22

Yeah, I love that. God, it's been so awesome. I. Girl.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:28:28

It'S good to be on this podcast.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:28:31

It is absolutely awesome to be in the seat of. So for everyone that knows if you, if you study the math. She said she's been here for seven years.

So I was, I met her two years into her journey and I met her through and empowered myself skin group mentoring program.

And I, I've always felt like I've been in the seat of mentor, you know, and so I just feel like this really just proud friend, community, support, faith, sister, sister, friend like of yours, that's just. You've really blossomed into just so much strength and I've always seen it in you.

So just really, really proud of everything you've accomplished and all that you're doing.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:29:16

Thank you.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:29:16

I'm very blessed to have you in my life. So I'm going to take you through some rapid thrivers. When you think of someone who inspires you, who comes first to mind.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:29:27

It would be. Her name is Debala Deji Kurumi. She is a mentor and coach and I was just with her yesterday.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:29:33

Okay, nice. What is a daily activity that helps you with your thrive?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:29:39

My workout routines. I'm, I'm there for 40 minutes doing hit exercises or boxing, weight training. I really love it.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:29:48

What is a book that helps seriously thrive.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:29:53

Relationship IQ by Darius Daniels.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:29:57

Okay, Okay. I don't think we've had that one.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:29:59

It is powerful. It is a powerful book.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:30:02

Okay, I. There's. There's a book. I think I. I think I just bought it. It's like under, like learning people something about. It's like relationships.

It's about learning. Learning. I have it here. I want to know if you've read it. That's why I'm trying to look for it. It's called.

It's another good relationship learning book. Anyway, I'm not finding it right now, but we might have to have a B roll conversation where I share it with you. But it's like. Okay.

Anyway, that's enough time spent on that. So I'll write it after. What is an app that helps you with your thrive?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:30:48

Oh, I love chat GPT nowadays. Right.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:30:52

I think you are. Let me just tell you that you are the first person and even me I have not. You're the first person in 330. What. What episode are you on now? 334.

That has ever said this. So.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:31:09

Yes.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:31:10

Okay.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:31:10

Yeah.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:31:11

If you're not using. If you are not using chat GBT or co pilot every single day. Come on. You're missing it. You're missing it. You're missing it, y'. All. Yeah.

So thank you for mentioning it. Thank you. Thank you. After my technology love. I love that.

And so what is one misconception that people have of you when they see you, you know, in sort of the seat of coach, mentor, mother, advocate, Like I mentioned all of these great things to do. What is the misconception that they have of you?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:31:42

I think people think that I'm everywhere.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:31:47

I don't know that they're wrong.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:31:50

Yeah. But I think correct that misconception. I'm targeted. So there are days that you will.

That I didn't say peep or I didn't come out into the world, but my social media scheduling things are doing things, you know?

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:32:07

Okay. It's the queue. The queue. The Q's been activated. The Q's been activated. I love that. So where do we find more of you, Madam Beautiful?

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:32:19

You can find more of me on ww.the fumiiowoli.com. you can also find me on socials, Fumi Iowoli on Instagram, Facebook. And I would love to encourage you to please check out the Virtual Soul Clinic.

We have certain resources, free and discounted resources to help you through any of your mental and emotional health challenges. Thank you.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:32:48

You're welcome. And I don't think you said your last name that much different than I said it earlier. Just saying I sounded like the way I said it.

But anyway, that's just what I think. So as a parting. In parting, finish this sentence. I feel most empowered in my skin when.

Funmi Fatona Ayowole: 00:33:09

When I have just helped another human.

Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson: 00:33:16

It's beautiful, simple, it's different and I love it. So thank you. Thank you for me.

It has been such a pleasure, pleasure to sit here and pick your brain and I'm very, very grateful that you, you said yes to being on the podcast. And so to everyone that's listening, I gather you are feeling more empowered in your skin. And so this is sadly where I have to say we're out. Bye bye.

There you have it. I trust that you are feeling more empowered in your skin. As the late Dr. Maya Angelou said, when you get, you give, when you learn, you teach.

So it would mean so much for us at Empower to My Skin, Inc.

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