Product manager Seyi Jesuloluwa has reset herself again and again across gaming, fintech, and AI. She makes the case that being the newest person in the room is not just something to survive, but a vantage point worth using: you notice what everyone else stopped seeing, if you spend that short window well.
We spoke to Mirabelle Morah as part of our Day One series. Hers is a story about what happens when the door and opportunities you expected to walk through stays shut, and you decide to build a different one. This is how Mirabelle built Grohwie.
Your first 90 days are for orientation not audition. You are not there to prove you deserve the role. You already got it. You are there to learn how to do it well, in this specific context, people, and conditions.
For Favour Felix, Day One sometimes was the first day after leaving something stable. Sometimes it was the first day of trying to understand an industry he knows very little about, or simply the moment he notices a problem and thinks, “perhaps I can build something here”.
Content marketer, Oyinkansola Ogunyinka Edem, on treating yourself as a business, the fear that comes just before closing a client, and learning to front-load what each new start needs.
Imposter syndrome is not necessarily one thing. In fact it is five different things wearing the same cloak, and we're treating five different problems with one blanket answer.
Brand Designer, Asia Blessing Odeh describes her transition and first few weeks, into a Design and Communications role in a new industry, after 3 years in a previous role.
Day One is a Daysim series about the first days nobody prepares you for. Every edition, we sit down with someone whose work we admire and ask about their real beginnings, the nerves, the fumbles, and the lessons they carried forward.
Bridging the gap that exists in the loneliest part of a new job or role, especially as you navigate between being confident and being competent.
A confession on getting the dream job promotion and realising how unprepared we can be for it.
Before You're Ready is a series of field notes from the middle of figuring it out in career, life and the things inbetween.