Excellent Reflections 🎯 Not everyone has a great relationship with their parent as they get older, and I feel like, as I have gotten older, that is something I have seen how blessed and lucky I am to have that relationship with my parent - 05:18 🎯It is a privilege to have someone so close to you that you can look up to and be motivated – 06:00 🎯Life is hard, you get to learn different things, and having someone who is in your corner who will always fight for you is such an u...

Bola Matel-Okoh, is an award-winning attorney and executive leader with a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Recognized as the “Super Achiever” Peak Performing Woman of the Year 2023, she is honored to be listed among Leading Ladies Africa’s 100 Most Inspiring Women 2024 and ABCD Africa’s 100 Most Impactful Voices 2024. In 2015, she was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Wema Bank PLC, where she continues to exhibit skills in corporate governance, risk management, and ad...

Episode 34 Accelerating Action Excellently Oluwatoyin Bakare is a seasoned entrepreneur, A Certified Fellow Chartered Accountant, and an alumnus of several renowned business schools. She is the COO and executive director of SAS Textiles Ltd, a second-generation family business that is Nigeria's home of exquisite world-class fabrics and textiles. As Executive Director (Finance) of SAS Textiles, she oversaw the business's growth from a one-room shop to one of Nigeria's leading textile retail st...

Episode 33 Kicking Off your Year Excellently 🎯Reflecting on the past year is a crucial step in setting the tone for this year. It helps you identify what worked well, what didn't, and what you want to carry forward. - 01:53 🎯Celebrating wins is key to building momentum. 02:09 🎯Challenges and setbacks are inevitable but often provide the most valuable lessons. 02:58 🎯Reflecting with a growth mindset, helps you identify changes in approach that could have made a difference. 03:32 🎯Sometime...

Episode 32 Excelling in Marriage 🎯 Love is not just a feeling, it is a commitment - 4:05 🎯 It is more important to be happy than being right - 5:23 🎯 There is no perfect marriage - 6:53 🎯 Marriage is sustained by friendship - 8:12 🎯 Love and Romance sometimes require effort, but true friendship is effortless - 9:07 🎯 Forgiveness is a vital ingredient for a healthy marriage - 9:19 🎯 Your mindset is key to excelling in marriage - 10:57 🎯 A united front is key in marriage - 12:40...

Pastor Toluwani Odukoya is a multifaceted individual, serving as a pastor, mother, worship leader, recording artist, and marketing professional. Pastor Toluwani received her ordination in June 2016 at The Fountain of Life Church, mentored by her late parents, Pastors Taiwo and Bimbo Odukoya. In 2018, she was appointed as the Music Director at The Fountain of Life Church. Her passionate worship, spirit-filled teachings, and dedication to the Gospel have garnered a widespread follo...

Izehi Anuge is an exceptional values educator and transformative leader dedicated to instilling and reintegrating values into young minds and society as a whole. Her decade-long journey has been focused on developing values-based resources and frameworks that empower current and future leaders and learners to align their character development goals with global participation, 21st Century Skills, and SDG Goals. As the visionary founder and managing director of Shape A Child, Izehi plays an in...

Topic: Legacy of Excellence 🎯 Legacy is the mark you leave on the wall when you die - 2:54 🎯 The concept of legacy is much larger than the value of the estate you leave behind, it is about the richness of the life you lived, what you accomplished and the impact you had on people and places - 3:06 🎯The story of your life reflects your individual legacy - 3:22 🎯 Your legacy of accomplishment is not just about winning awards and coming out ahead, it includes things like successfully overco...

Combine a Marketing, Branding, and Communications Expert, a Feminine Leadership Coach, and an Author, and you have the Extraordinary Visionary that is Lady Bodam Taiwo. During her impressive career spanning 15+ years, she has been instrumental in starting new businesses across Africa and building Luxury and Premium Brands across Western Africa. She has also managed the operations and performance of sales teams in the Fast- Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Industry. She currently serves as the Hea...

Making Excellent Career Choices 🎯 It’s really important that what you do, you thoroughly enjoy it - 6:32 🎯 If you don’t like what you do, you’ll do it in a less than excellent way - 6:39 🎯 Where you are may not be where you want to be but once you are able to articulate where you want to be, it would give you the fuel, energy, and passion to run with that place you don’t really like in terms of “I know where I am going, this is just for a certain amount of time” - 9:02 🎯 Whatever it is you fi...

Episode 26 Excelling Being Your Best Self 🎯 The word best means to be of the highest quality, excellence, or standard - 1:15 🎯 Your best is the greatest effort or highest achievement or standard that you are capable of - 1:20 🎯 It is striving to reach your full potential in everything you do. Being your best involves setting the highest of standards for yourself, continually improving upon them, and working towards personal growth and development - 1:30 🎯 It's not about being perfect, ...

🎯 Pause and Reflect when the unexpected happens and things do not seem to pan out the way we want them to - 3:56 🎯 Turn a situation into a bitter-sweet success with the right mindset - 5:45 🎯 As a Christian, pausing and reflecting is more than just thinking for a while about how things are going, and what to do next - 6:11 🎯 Pausing to reflect helps you to make a conscious decision to stop, take stock, and reflect on what is happening - 6:32 🎯 It allows you to see more clearly what really is...

Excellence in Service 🎯 The quality of our service (the excellence in the way we serve) is equal to the kind of doors that will open to us - 8:39 🎯 The harvest that comes back is the function of the quality of the service - 10:03 🎯 The work is doing it, discipline is doing it every day, diligence is doing it well every day - 10:18 🎯 It is not just about showing up every day, it is about showing up excellently every day - 10:35 🎯 People who have a mindset of excellence are driven n...

CELEBRATING A TRULY EXCELLENT LIFE IN THIS SPECIAL EPISODE OF THE EXCELLENT LIFE PODCAST, I PAY TRIBUTE TO MY BELOVED MOM WHO PASSED AWAY EARLIER THIS YEAR. BELOW IS THE A-Z OF THE TRULY EXCELLENT LIFE SHE LIVED. A- SHE WAS AMAZING, AUTHENTIC, AND TOTALLY TRUE TO HERSELF B. SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE BUT EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL INSIDE C. SHE WAS CONSIDERATE TO ALL, REGARDLESS OF AGE OR POSITION D. SHE WAS DEPENDABLE AND TOTALLY DEVOTED TO HER HUSBAND OF 63 YEARS AND HER FAMILY ...

GIVING THANKS EXCELLENTLY 🎯 When you live a life of excellent Thanksgiving, you recognize that every day is a gift and wake up each day determined to see a reason to give thanks - 2:29 🎯 You may not be able to change the situation you find yourself in, but very often, your attitude will be the difference maker in navigating the challenges that life brings - 3:13 🎯 Serenity Prayer: God grants me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, a...

COURAGE TO EXCEL IN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER 🎯 The one person you will take with you on your journey in life is you - 5:34 🎯 If everything around you keeps going wrong, you may want to check yourself. It might just be you - 5:54 🎯 Sometimes we disqualify ourselves from living our best life, we tiptoe through life like we are trying not to wake anyone up when in fact it is us who are sleeping - 6:23 🎯 If you feel that there has got to be more to life than what they are doing, chances are…the...

Abolanle Matel-Okoh is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and Pastor. An attorney with over 30 years of experience in Nigeria and the United States of America, she is a member of the Nigerian Bar as well as the New York State Bar. With experience in diverse areas of judicial science encompassing legal research, investigation, and adjudication among others, she started her career at The United Commercial Bank as a Legal Officer in 1992. Over the next 20 years, she gained relevant experience in legal prac...

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH CONSISTENCY. 🎯If you let your feelings rule you, your results will be up and down. - 8:15 🎯The challenge of excellence is consistency and not repetition”. - 14:13 🎯It is a very subtle line, but you need repetition to build consistency. - 14:37 🎯Consistency is doing, doing, applying yourself, and seeing if there is an opportunity to improve in that. - 15:15 🎯Consistency is meant to make you a master in your territory. - 16:08 🎯You build your competence,...

The Greatness of Excellence 🎯 “Greatness and Excellence are inseparable, it’s almost unbelievable to see the grandeur of greatness unveiled by the excellence of the systems working precisely together” - 3:14 🎯 Excellence demands preparation, as put by Aristotle, “excellence is never an accident, it is the result of high intention, sincere efforts, and intelligent execution” - 3:48 🎯 If you seek to attain the highest level of excellence in any particular area of life, the fi...

EPISODE 17EXCELLENT MONEY MATTERS🎯� Financial planning means the process of planning your finances with a long-term view in order to achieve your financial goals. 5:10🎯� Nothing guarantees a good future like a correct picture. 6:45🎯 Plan your finances in a way that will afford you the opportunity to enjoy yourself. 8:52🎯� Personal finance when taken literally is just personal finance. 13:13🎯� A budget is like a navigator, that shows you what is coming as income and must necessarily come...