Tinuke Awe
I write about the reality of raising kids, building businesses and everything else in between not from the shiny start or glossy end, but from the honest middle of it all.
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Who gets to be excellent? (opens the original)
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It’s taken me a few days to sit down and write this, because so much has happened in such a short space of time and I’ve been trying to protect my peace as someone who is pregnant, while also being deeply concerned about the way everything has unfolded. Professor Jason Arday is dead. In the run up to his death he said the press were “hounding me to death,” and even after he resigned, saying it was more than anyone could endure, they didn’t stop.I was first fascinated by his rise as someone who i
"Mummy, I thought the baby in your belly was white". (opens the original)
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If you are coming over from my IG, thank you, glad to see you here and if you are not already please do subscribe so these essays land in your inbox every week.If you are coming in fresh, heres the background behind this weeks very full on title. As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments.Last week, my six year old daughter Eden turned to me and said, “Mummy, I thought the baby in your belly was white.”For a second I was completely confused. But after a few more questions, I realised w
This summer I'm teaching my kids about AI, coding and money. (opens the original)
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I am 34 years old and I am just getting to a point where I am learning about stocks, shares, ETFs and investing. You see, most of my life I have considered myself to be quite good with money. I knew from 15 years old when I got my first weekend job how to earn it, save it and of course spend it. But honestly, that’s about where it ended. It wasn’t until recently that I started thinking about what ELSE I can do with my money, and started seeing the girlies online speaking openly about how much th
Speak It Out Loud: My Third Baby Testimony (opens the original)
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Whenever people asked me, “Are you ready to have another child? When’s the next one?” I would always say, “Oh, I’m good. I’ve already got a boy and a girl. They’re already a handful. I’m more than okay.”Deep down inside, I always knew I wanted a third. But it just wasn’t happening. And it was easier for me to say, “No, I don’t want one, I’m fine.”So before I go any further, let me be honest, because this is the honest middle after all. You would have noticed I haven’t posted in a f
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