In our latest Instagram Live series Tuesday Talk we spoke to Patrice C. Washington about chasing our purpose, not money. After leaving college with $18,000 dollars in debt to becoming a successful businesswoman to then losing it all in the recession and now owning a seven figure business. Patrice shared with us her wisdom in the area of personal finance to teach us how we can be empowered in our finances and our purpose.

Against the landscape of a global pandemic and with many countries still in full or partial lockdowns, our world is being called to wake up and rise up against a history of injustices faced by the black community.

After reading an article about how we are wasting a third of the food that is produced globally and being outraged that no one was discussing this, Jenny Costa started the business Rubies in the Rubble where food that would otherwise be wasted are made into condiments. We first met Jenny in our first issue many years ago, and we recently caught up with her in our Female Founders Instagram Live to find out about her journey and all that she has been doing.

How much of our identity is rooted in our ambition? Do you see yourself as more valuable, important, worthy, impressive because of your achievements? Do you feel insignificant, unworthy, less confident when you haven’t quite reached your goals? Does your ambition validate your existence? Does it make you matter? Are you defined by it?

It can be all too easy to crave control, especially in times when we are not in it. The good news is, this craving can be satisfied, but not in the way you think it could, but in having the faith to let go of it all.

In this world it can be so easy to look at those around us and feel inadequate or that we aren’t achieving at the right pace. We need to remind ourselves that there is no right way to achieve something and that comparison is the biggest thief of our joy. Below are some verses that remind us of our purpose even when we don’t feel it.

Ife Durosinmi-Etti is the founder of AGSTribe, a platform that connects women and opportunities. But not only does she run this but she also runs other businesses as well as being a mother and a wife. We got to chat with her on our Female Founders Instagram Live all about how she balances it and how she deals with failure. Below are some of the key takeaways from the discussion.

For May our theme has been ‘Navigating rest, productivity and ambition’ and to start it off we hosted a week-long Instagram live series on Mind, Body & Soul. Every day we interviewed different women on how we can achieve this throughout different areas of our lives.

Peace is what we are all craving in this storm. And it’s possible, but it requires that we follow an ancient spiritual blueprint to get there.