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AGS Lightbox - Owning Your Power
Dear Tribers,
Hope you’re doing great.
This week, we are hosting an amazing woman who is very close to our community and has supported us from day one. I call this woman the ‘Oprah of Africa’. Her work is known and studied globally. She has built such a huge and strong company globally and made a huge killing on her journey. She will be teaching us how she has been able to start, build and grow a billion dollar company and how she’s been able to become one of Africa’s most powerful women.
She will be facilitating a session titled ‘Owning your power’.
We will be discussing everything from being an entrepreneur to modern media to building a personal and business brand to grad school especially for mid career professionals to getting a fully funded scholarship (over $100k) to being part of several Fellowships - TED Fellow, Ash Center Fellow at Harvard to her personal life’s mission everyday to also having money as a woman!
It is going to be an unusual session and we honestly cannot wait for all the learnings that will happen on Thursday 28th Jan, 2021.
If you know anyone who this session will be useful for, please ask them to download our AGS Tribe app on the iOS or Android store, then upgrade to either the Silver (N5,000 monthly or Gold (N50,000 yearly) membership to participate in our weekly capacity building sessions, AGS Lightbox.
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday by 8pm.
Warm regards,
Ife Durosinmi-Etti.
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AGS Quote of the day
“Your resilience will soon bring rewards.” - Michel Orlando Forlini
About AGS Tribe
The AGS Tribe is a Pan African community built to inspire, connect and build the capacity of young entrepreneurs and professionals. The main purpose of the AGS Tribe is to build a community of strong leaders (Entrepreneurs or Professionals) who will create more job opportunities that will ultimately reduce unemployment in Africa.
The Platform has 3 focus areas which are:
Promoting youth entrepreneurship as a tool to reduce youth unemployment and promote economic growth
Women Empowerment through our AGS Impact Fund and AGS Enterprise Challenge
Capacity building for entrepreneurs and nonprofits
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