171: Get Your Foot Off My Neck with Ola Muhammed

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ola Muhammed's life was set up to fail. Her father died two months before she was born. Because of a skin condition she was forced to leave Nigeria as a young girl to live with an aunt she never met. She endured abuse, neglect, racism (within her own race none the less) and had no support or love in her life.

But Ola had a gift…the gift of BELIEF that she was WORTHY. She believed her mom loved her. She BELIEVED in something better for herself. And she BELIEVED her dad was somehow looking out for her.

This belief served her WELL and blocked out the noise of naysayers…

Like when she was told that her dream of becoming an architect was not suited for a black woman. Like when People tried to step on her neck on the way up the success latter.

Ola took the disbelief from others as a challenge and became a highly successful architect living in the most affluent neighborhood in Illinois.

Ola learned that what holds people back the most from achieving their dreams is not racism but self hate.

Today, Ola is the founder and creative director of Ijorere designs and has worked with some major celebrities NBA superstar player: Lebron James, recording music artist: J. Cole, Louis Carr of BET, and David Tutera. She also travels the world inspiring women of color to stand tall and walk with integrity.

Her book “Get your foot off my neck” is an eye opening to memoir exposing the disheartening discovery that bias and racism not only comes from the outside but from within her own race.

Join in today and learn EXACTLY how Ola Muhamed Leveled up and created everything from nothing

In this episode, you will learn:

What is takes to have a belief in yourself
Why we need to be aware of our strengths
Why prejudice won't keep you down if you don't let it

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned high performance coach.
0:07.2	When odds are stacked against us, how do we shift and create everything from nothing?
0:11.0	How do we level up when we aren't feeling it yet or we've had a big setback?
0:15.2	On this podcast, I'll be talking to some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on this planet who, at their
0:20.9	worst, learned how to achieve success greater than they ever dreamed possible, leveling up
0:26.6	and creating everything from nothing.
0:32.4	Ola Muhammad, her life was set up for anything other than success. Her father died two months before she was born,
0:39.9	forcing her young mother to move back to Nigeria. And then because of a skin condition,
0:44.2	she was forced to leave her mom and Nigeria as a young girl to go live with an aunt she never met.
0:50.0	She endured abuse, neglect, racism within her own race nonetheless, and had absolutely no support
0:58.1	or love in her life in her environment. But Ola, she had a gift, the gift of belief. She believed
1:04.8	that she was worthy. She believed that her mom loved her. She believed in something better for
1:09.4	herself. And she believed her dad was somehow looking out for her. She believed in something better for herself, and she believed her dad was
1:11.4	somehow looking out for her. This belief, it served her well, and it helped her to block out the
1:17.8	noise of any negativity and naysayers, like when she was told that her dream of becoming an architect
1:23.0	was not suited for black women. Or like when people tried to step on her neck on the way up the
1:29.0	success ladder. Ola took the disbelief from others as a challenge and became a highly successful
1:34.6	architect living in the most affluent neighborhood of Illinois. Ola learned that what holds people
1:41.0	back the most from achieving their dreams is not racism, but self-hate.
1:46.6	Today, Ola is the founder and creative director of a design company and has worked with some
1:51.5	major celebrities, NBA superstar player LeBron James, recording music artist Jay Cole,
1:57.9	Lewis Carr, and David Tutera. She also travels a world inspiring women of color to stand
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