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ADEOLA FADUMIYE is a writer, editor, and a project manager. She writes at the intersection of feminism, faith, culture, entrepreneurship, race, and inequality, and provides a range of manuscript editing services to African and Christian women authors. Her work has appeared in Radiant Health, Big Cartel and mater mea. AdeOla also has more than a decade experience in project and event management working with non-profit, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. She runs Crys & Tiana, and some of her clients are The Naturalista Expo, Little Things Borrowed, Grace and Ivory, and N Natural Hair Studio. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Mass Communication (Public Relations and Communication Studies) from the Winona State University, and her Master in Public Health from the George Washington University. She is a 2017 StartingBloc Fellow and a 2017 alumni of the THREAD at Yale: Storytelling in Modern Media program. She lives in the Washington DC metro area.

[REEVALUATE YOUR WHY] Here is to me throwing up my hands in surrender, and acknowledging that life never goes as I plan. Even when we start out with faith, huge dreams, and a carefully thought out plan, God has a way of “messing” things up. You don’t get the job. Death snatches your loved ones. You are not that great of a singer as much as you try. You can’t have kids. God will sit you in a waiting season where it seems like you are moving but going no where. Life and people will change on you. You will find out that even your dreams rebelled and changed on you. You will change on you.🤷🏾‍♀️
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When you are face with inevitables, I recommend that you stop often to re-evaluate your why. It is important to revisit where you believe God is leading you and the why behind your choice. You will need to re-learn your why in order to stand your ground even when no one believes, but especially when you don’t believe. [New on the blog (link in bio)- 11/11/19]
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[PROTECT YOUR DREAMS] So you are not like me. Hahaha! You have always believed furiously in your dreams and in the instructions God has laid on your heart. I applaud you! The only thing you are struggling with is the doubt, unspoken uncertainty and negativity of your loved ones. They are trampling over your dreams and belief.
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My dear, you don’t have to share with everyone (even in your closest circle.) There is a difference between wise counsel that speaks truth and rationality over your dreams versus voices that don’t speak life or affirm them. There is a difference even when they are saying the same thing, it can be a thin line to walk. Avoid the latter and seek out the former. Learning the difference can be hard, but make sure you learn the difference. [New on the blog (link in bio)- 11/8/19]
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[DO YOU BELIEVE?] One of biggest ah-ha moments I had in the midst of dealing with the doubts of friends and family was a statement God dropped on my heart. He said, “Here you are being mad and resentful of your friends while you are also carrying around doubt and fear about what I said.”
• Do you believe the promises God whispered in your ear and heart? Frankly, God gave them to you, and not to your friends or family. For me here I was fighting a dishonorable battle to get others to believe what wasn’t for them in the same breath I was fighting desperately to believe it myself. Truth is at one point in all our lives, we will struggle
with the push and pull between impatience and patience and between faith and the fear that we may be banking our lives on an unfaithful God or on what a faithful God did not say, promise or instruct.
• Why should anyone believe when you don’t? I had to decide to do the work I needed to do to clarify my own whys for believing regardless if others believed the vision or not. [New on the blog (Link in bio) - 11/6/19]
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[SOME TIMES] You don’t always know what you are doing, but putting one foot in front of the other is how you get clarity. So put one foot in front of the other and watch how moving makes a way where there seem to be no way. [10.31.19]
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[SOME FRIENDS] You are one of the best guy friends I have, and I feel immensely safe around. We may not see each other often...then we do and it is happy screams, awestruck gazes, hugs and kisses, and we pick up from exactly where we dropped off. With you, deep always calls out to deep, and there is very little hidden when we chat. You challenge me often and I deeply respect you. Honest. Kind. Intense. Compassionate. Confident. Integrity. Swag. Humorous. Charismatic. Vulnerable. Grounded. Joyful. Authentic. Godly. These are just a few words that come to mind when I think of you.
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You are a special person to have and know @odi_a and I’m truly bless to have you as a friend. Can we get back to being best friends? 😜 You also owe me dinner, and I mean dress up expensive dinner! LOL! 🤷🏾‍♀️ I don’t care...you are paying and I’m coming to collect.
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Happy birthday my dear and I wish you only the best that Christ has for you.
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PS: He is single, ladies and I am taking applications and bids (monetary in my inbox 😝)...so slide in. [10.27.19]
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[SOME FIRE] burn longer than others, and it sometimes makes it harder to believe that when God makes a promise, He comes through. There is no need to meet a legitimate need through illegitimate means or to manipulate a situation or person into what we want and need. The wait may be long, the external voices may be louder, but His Word is Truer.
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“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end— it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.” - Habakkuk 2:2-3
[10.16.19]
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[AS A BLACK WOMAN AND PERSON] I doubt if the world deserves us or our forgiveness. That is the crux at which I struggle. It seems and feels like we are always dishing out forgiveness. Let it be noted in the pages of history that I was mad when the judge hugged her. I can’t be mad at Brandt Botham, because this is going to be a lifelong journey for him and his family. Starting with forgiveness might make the journey easier. I don’t know!
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However, forgiveness does not always mean lack of consequences, so I am glad that she is going to jail for her actions, but ten (10) years though...
[10.03.19]
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[AS A HUMAN] I can’t or don’t know if can. You hurt my loved ones, and you are going down. I can’t even fathom hugging you, because my hugging hands might become the weapon that suffocates you and squeezes the life out of you. Don’t come near me!
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AS A BLACK WOMAN AND PERSON...
[10.03.19]
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[AS A CHRISTIAN] I have received forgiveness and grace many times over and I will continue to need forgiveness and grace, I know what I am instructed and called to do.
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AS A HUMAN...
[10.03.19]
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[TABOO] Excited to share that I have a feature article in the upcoming @radianthealthmag issue 13 dubbed #tabooissue. I interviewed African and Black women on their experience with eating disorder. Cover feature is television and movie star @annieilonzeh. Pick up a copy @barnesandnoble or online at radianthealthmag.com.
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[ESSENCE] This picture captures some of how I feel about me most days...FREE • UNINHIBITED • LOVED • POWERFUL • SEXY • IN MY ELEMENT • SENSUAL • ANCHORED • NO F$^KS GIVEN • SEEN • AN ASSET • CREATIVE • BOLD • UNTAMED • CONFIDENT • GROUNDED • ALPHA • BRUK OFF YUH BACK • SINGLE 😝🙄 • KNOWN • ALL WOMAN • RARE • 24 KARAT • LIONESS • BROWN SKIN GIRL • MISCHIEVOUS • WILD • THE SUN....
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[BIRTHDAY WEEKEND] Stepping into my birthday weekend like 🎉🎊💃🏾[07.26.19]
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