Choosing to Prosper Triumphing Over Adversity, Breaking Out of Comfort Zones, Achieving Your Life and Money Dreams

by Sokunbi, Bola

• ISBN13: 9781119827368
• ISBN10: 1119827361
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-07-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Overcome obstacles, achieve your life’s goals, and live your life on your own terms!

In Choosing to Prosper! Triumphing Over Adversity, Breaking Out of Comfort Zones, and Achieving Dreams, celebrated company founder and finance leader Bola Sokunbi delivers an uplifting and practical message of success and resilience in the face of formidable obstacles. The book challenges readers to examine their own financial and personal dreams and find the strength and resilience they need to achieve them. The author provides the tools readers need to build confidence, find their voice, and realize personal growth.

Imposter syndrome, mental health challenges, and common familial obstacles are all explored in the context of the author’s incredible and inspirational life experiences.

Readers will find:

• First-hand stories that highlight the challenges faced by women of color and proven ways to overcome them
• Expert and honest advice on how women can build a successful, career and/or a profitable, and flexible business depending on their chosen path
• Hands-on strategies for women to achieve their extraordinary goals and dreams

With a particular emphasis on the experiences of women of color as they seek to succeed in a world that seems stacked against them, Choosing to Prosper! is the perfect resource for women trying to navigate the challenges posed by modern life, career, and business.

Author Biography

BOLA SOKUNBI is a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI), investor, finance expert, speaker, podcaster, influencer, and the founder and CEO of Clever Girl Finance. She empowers women to achieve real wealth and live life on their own terms.

Table of Contents

• The prelude – You have to tell your story
  • Why did I feel it was important to write this book? What is its purpose? What do I want readers to walk away with? Feelings about how writing this book was premature, rethinking that roadblock to see how sharing my journey thus far could positively impact so many women.
• The beginning of who I am
  • My beginnings: My name, how I was raised, my parents, the place women in my family (education) and in my culture, what shaped me as a child, the value of education in my culture
  • LESSON: Reflecting on what has shaped you has power to help you craft your future
• Coming of age
  • College, the sacrifice my parents made, my partial scholarships, navigating college as the only black girl around rich college kids, building my confidence through experiences that shaped me: Navigating relationships and racism (Andreas, Christmas on the train), being questioned about where I come from
  • LESSON: Building grit, defining realizations and leveraging them for your personal growth
• My career path
  • From consulting to cable and telecom, not negotiating, earning less than my peers
  • Discovering the world of personal finance, sitting at my desk looking up finance blogs
  • Getting married and motherhood, reliving my mother’s story
  • Quitting my job
  • LESSON: Negotiating, prioritizing self, stepping into your own
• Choosing financial wellness
  • Why I chose personal finance, best-selling book for women written by white male, pursuing purpose and legacy as a new mother, focusing on a passion. LESSON: Why women should follow their gut and intuition about their life’s pursuits
• My infamous 100k story
  • Building up the courage to share how I saved 100k, the positive impact of my story trumping the trolls, how it helped catapult the brand.
  • LESSON: Why sharing your story can be incredible impactful no matter how small it is
• My rich husband
  • Addressing people attributing one’s success to her husband, intimidation of seeing a strong woman standing on her own, what a rich husband really is, why being a rich wife is even more important
  • LESSON: Not letting people’s opinions shape your relationship, why partnership in marriage is important but so is standing on your own two feet as woman
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• The crossroads - Choosing purpose over self
  • Techstars, raising capital, facing biases and prejudice, believing in myself, growing thick skin
  • LESSON: Stepping outside of your comfort zone is necessary to pursue purpose over self

 

• Imposter syndrome, mommy guilt and other personal challenges
  • The lies I told myself, work life balance does not exist, choosing my own balance, self care
  • LESSON: There’s no perfect blue print to be CEO mother and wife

 

• The year 2020
  • Coming into my own, pivoting to serve my purpose, racial injustices, impact of COVID, reiteration of purpose of self
  • LESSON: Building resilience, getting clear on purpose, using your voice

 

• Proudly black, female and successful
  • Not being ashamed of the privilege I have earned, using my privilege for good and to open doors and create impact
  • LESSON: Stepping into success on your own terms, sharing your success, doing good and leaving your naysayers in the dust

 

• What’s next? Closing
  • My goals and aspirations for myself and Clever Girl Finance