My First Million is a Culture Custodian interview series that showcases how different industry leaders got started, manage their finances and ultimately remember spending the first million they earned from working.
I remember the first time I was cognizant of who Ayeni Adekunle was. As a teenager with an interest in media and the music industry, his columns in Punch and Thisday captured my interest and offered something to aspire to. Years later, I would make his acquaintance on Twitter, and he would prove a passive […]
2 years ago
Nigerian music has been one of the centrepieces of the current Nigerian cultural renaissance. It’s perhaps a sign of the growth of the industry that it’s increasingly common to find people pursue career paths within the industry. Record Producer, A&R, DJ and Architect, TMXO falls within this category so naturally, he made a good subject. […]
4 years ago
Unconventional career paths are very important, for me. They serve the purpose of recalibrating our minds on possibilities and their endlessness. They also offer a formula for what our future could be like. In a sense, that is part of the rationale for this series. It is important that people study the behavior of those […]
4 years ago
Over the course of conducting the interviews for this series, it has become a common occurrence to hear people refer to Piggy Vest as their preferred platform for saving. Consequently, Odun Eweniyi makes a great fit as our latest subject. Did you always think you would get to where you are? When did you make […]
5 years ago
I remember the first time I was cognizant of who Ayeni Adekunle was. As a teenager with an interest in media and the music industry, his columns in Punch and Thisday captured my interest and offered something to aspire to. Years later, I would make his acquaintance on Twitter, and he would prove a passive […]
2 years ago
Nigerian music has been one of the centrepieces of the current Nigerian cultural renaissance. It’s perhaps a sign of the growth of the industry that it’s increasingly common to find people pursue career paths within the industry. Record Producer, A&R, DJ and Architect, TMXO falls within this category so naturally, he made a good subject. […]
4 years ago
Unconventional career paths are very important, for me. They serve the purpose of recalibrating our minds on possibilities and their endlessness. They also offer a formula for what our future could be like. In a sense, that is part of the rationale for this series. It is important that people study the behavior of those […]
4 years ago
Over the course of conducting the interviews for this series, it has become a common occurrence to hear people refer to Piggy Vest as their preferred platform for saving. Consequently, Odun Eweniyi makes a great fit as our latest subject. Did you always think you would get to where you are? When did you make […]
5 years ago
Apologies for last week’s break-in transmission. This week, we return with the story of a true creative. Over the last couple of years, Logor has become a good friend. His depth of knowledge of the creative industry makes him a colorful raconteur. I remember meeting him for the first time at an exhibition of his […]
5 years ago
I can never forget the first time I heard Oyinkansola “Foza” Fawehinmi speak. It was at the 2017 Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) Section for Business Law conference. That day, she had the audience at Eko Hotel’s Convention Centre feeding on her every word as she spread the gospel of the creative industry upon which her […]
5 years ago
Afua Osei moved to Nigeria to take on a role in Consulting. In the years to follow, she’d go co-found a proudly feminist media business. I found this interview interesting because while it focuses less on the money, it offers a portrait into the go-getter mindset that we need to hear now and then as […]
5 years ago
