The Passion Hub is the culmination of a six-year personal journey to discovering who I am.
I grew up used to compliments and awards. So without knowing it, my life began defining my worth by the awards I won, my performance at work, or how helpful I was to the people around me.
You couldn't talk down on my work, because I strived to always produce excellent work — no matter what it cost me. Little did I know that continuing in that behaviour made me start seeing myself only as the person who does excellent work.
So I'd have a serious problem with you if you talked down on my work. I was at every networking session I could hear about. I joined several competitions and won some, while I didn't progress in others. I tried social enterprises to help change the lives of rural youth.
What I do ought to be an expression of who I am — not the other way round. I was not my work, neither was I what others thought of me. I am who God made me to be.
So I started looking for the patterns that had been there since childhood — the things I gravitated toward without anyone teaching me. Then it started to take shape:
As the years went by, I found myself drawn to the same things over and over. Everywhere I worked, without being asked, I kept doing these things.
It came to a head last year, after the WASSCE results were released. I made a video asking students not to run straight to Nov/Dec resits, but to first find their strengths and build a plan to understand themselves before taking the next step.
It went viral. So many messages came in — but ultimately, people didn't understand what I meant, or know how to actually do it.
So over the past months, I brooded, and prayed, and studied. The Passion Hub is the fulfilment of a calling I had long ignored: to help young people make sense of the patterns in their lives and the gifts God has placed in them — so they're more likely to lean into their calling early, rather than find it the usual way and end up a confused, disgruntled adult in their 30s or 40s, crying over spilt milk they could have realigned from their youth.
I'm here to help make the choices around education and vocation make sense. But most importantly, to help as many young people as possible live a life of vision — making impact even from a young age.