Nicole Muchai: I quit my job to focus on fashion

Fashion entreprenuer Nicole Muchai went from reselling thrift clothing in college to quitting her job to start design company Coloured Sugar

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Distractions and how to deal with them

It’s easy to get distracted by what people say when pursuing your entrepreneurship journey, how does one deal with naysayers and competitors without losing their head in the process? You must first name your distractions in order to deal with them.

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It’s time to make The Jump

In the movie Divergent (2014) there is a scene where the main character ‘Tris’ played by Shailene Woodley is forced to jump into a dark abyss. She hesitates, closes her eyes and takes a leap, after a seemingly endless fall, she lands on a net and her eyes snap open in relief.

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12 weeks of creativity: Rediscover

More often than not there was no room for the artsy child in Kenya’s school system and it’s always a wonder to me when I see someone survive it and making a living off it. As the saying goes, the creative adult is the one that survived.

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How I turned my blogging passion into a business — Wanjiku Nyoike-Mugo

What’s most impressive about Wanjiku Nyoike-Mugo, of course apart from how smart she is and I’m telling you she is smart, is how super organised and driven she is. In 2011, before starting her job at the UN, she had already written down the name of the store that dreamed of owning. It’s now 2017 and she is the owner of The Designers Studio, a fashion store in the newly opened Two Rivers Mall situated in Nairobi’s upmarket Gigiri neighbourhood

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