The Rocky Road to Success with Yinka Daramola

We spend time with Lola Awoniyi-Oteri PhD on this Episode. Lola is a Stanford-educated Wireless Communications Technology Specialist with hundreds of filed patents for inventions that have impacted our everyday lives. On her Rocky Road to Success, she shares some insights and experiences. Enjoy the episode. Like and subscribe to our channel to help keep the content coming.

Omogbenga Omolokun is currently the Managing Director of VBank. He shares some life lessons on his own rocky but on-going road to success in this episode. Gbenga is also Executive Director and co-founder of VFD Group (vfdgroup.com). VFD Group is a consortium that owns and operates a portfolio of banking, insurance, real-estate, healthcare, and technology companies. For perspective, VFD Group had total assets of N88 billion ($176 million) and Net Income of N7.3 billion ($14.6 million) in the year 2021. VFD stock is traded over the counter at NASD for around N361.82/unit if you are interested in becoming a shareholder.

The road to success will present you with formidable obstacles and reasons to falter, give up, or compromise. You must stand firm- but hold on to what you do have- while you steer your course to the finish line.  Dr. Olayemi shares life lessons on how you are responsible for chasing outcomes that will provide the highest return for the efforts invested. Invest your time and resources in the acquisition of highly valued skills and nurture your talent in areas that are highly compensated.

The road to success favors the brave, disciplined, bold, and persistent. The right kind of education can also draw out the dormant analytical mindset that enables you to draw on your skills to create solutions that align with your passions. In this episode with Grace E. Togun-Olugbodi PhD. MSc., we learn through her life's work how we can all become inventors and impact the world around us sustainably.

The road to success favors the brave, disciplined, bold, and persistent. The right kind of education can also draw out the dormant analytical mindset that enables you to draw on your skills to create solutions that align with your passions. In this episode with Grace E. Togun-Olugbodi PhD. MSc., we learn through her life's work how we can all become inventors and impact the world around us sustainably.

The road to success will present you with formidable obstacles and reasons to falter, give up, or compromise. You must stand firm- but hold on to what you do have- while you steer your course to the finish line. Dr. Olayemi shares life lessons on how you are responsible for chasing outcomes that will provide the highest return for the efforts invested. Invest your time and resources in the acquisition of highly valued skills and nurture your talent in areas that are highly compensated. 

In this episode with Dr. Friday Moses, the Head of Credit & Marketing, Zenith Bank Plc, we dig deep into why you should take charge of your own success trajectory. There are no shortcuts to success, and you should definitely not leave yours to chance. Understand your role in determining and enforcing your success. Embrace the fundamental principles of good stewardship of your time and resources. Continuous learning to stay relevant and indispensable to others is important for sustained growth.

There is no shortcut to success. There is a lot of misinformation out there about education. The truth is, if you make the right choices in what you study, your education can make you a fortune. Don't believe the hogwash that is being sold out there that education is not worth it. Only a tiny portion of those who drop out of school become rich. Enjoy this master-class type  interview with someone who has walked the walk of a traditional education and still made a success of it.