seen something under the saying that the
fastest runner is not always who won and
the strongest warrior is not always who
takes the battle and the wise sometimes
they go hungry
the brilliant don’t always gain wealth
and you know the educated are not always
successful time and chance happen to us
all I got that from the Bible and the
reason why I love that is because it
really applies to my life it applies to
Who I am and my story so you heard that
you know the shameful media company is
the company I founded in 2014 and Time
magazine named the 30 most influential
Forbes said that we revolutionized the
way people consume media and trendy news
so today when they said okay come here
and talk about momentum I was like you
know what I never really even broke down
momentum in my career it was something
that happened and I had to go back and
you know really look at what happened
for me to get momentum in that you know
and I realized that it was chance chance
met me when I was broke it met me when I
was first of all was a first-generation
Nigerian American so I heard somebody
say oh we got Nigerians here yeah I was
first generation Nigerian American I you
know grew up in foster care I went to
college yes but I got a 2.9 and I’m
rounding it up to a 2.9 and I graduated
and didn’t think I could get into grad
school or law school I took the LSAT
bombed it took the G took the GMAT got
the lowest score you could imagine and
then I was unemployed I was forced out
of my job and I was living in
this one-bedroom apartment thinking what
am I gonna do how am I gonna pay the
rent that’s when I that’s one chance and
I thought my door so you know basically
I was thinking about this momentum thing
and I said okay I know what happened
chance knocked on my door and I
responded to chance with momentum but
what is momentum because I looked at the
definition of momentum and I found that
it’s this there’s an equation and
momentum really means to move in a
specific direction it’s mass moving in a
specific direction so the P here because
there’s two M’s the P represents
momentum mass times velocity so I
thought the issue with this though like
giving you guys this equation is saying
that this is the key to momentum in your
life because this is a physics term and
there’s one little tweak that I wanted
to make to this equation it landed
nowhere let’s can you open it
can you turn it to the back what does
that say on the back of it it’s not deep
and why is it not deep because I just
threw trash at you but that is an
example of momentum
I took mass I use for us they’re not the
way that’s you and it came it went to a
specific direction and landed on the
floor so I said okay well let me figure
out how to use a better equation that
you can use in your life to get
something that you want because that
equation is only gonna tell you to move
we all move you know everybody moves in
fact I believe there are three states of
momentum right you’re either well first
let me go into the three state I decided
to add he hoped I went up so everybody
can see
I decided to add Q to the equation she
were in front of everything into the
equation
and I also decided to change the words
attached to the acronyms so this stands
for quality progress quality power
quality quality push which also equals
momentum but a quality momentum and this
stands for quality movement this dance
for a quality vision right and I’m gonna
show you how I found this to be a
slightly different from from that
equation you can hear you put your hands
out just make sure I don’t know I’m not
good you caught it can you open that for
me what’s in that there’s money in there
how much money twenty dollars okay so
the difference between that and that was
that I threw that into the audience I
know there’s the audience behind me but
I didn’t choose a specific person I just
do it there and you are gonna throw that
away after after this speech because you
uh that’s trash
this time I chose you I made sure you
were ready I said are you ready to catch
this so I made sure that what I was
giving you you want it and you were
ready for you got up and you caught it
you can you not gonna throw it away cuz
it’s valuable what I what I threw to you
was valuable and that’s the essence of
this this new that’s the whole point of
this new formula that I created was that
there was quality attached to it I just
I saw my consumer I made sure you were
ready for what I was giving you and then
I threw it to you then I took the force
and said okay
I’m gonna steady myself right here so
that you can catch it and that’s the
difference that’s how you gain momentum
in business and not just even in
business area of your life I started my
business on Instagram I literally
started an Instagram page at the time I
and so because of that I didn’t know how
to make a website so I said you know
what I’m gonna start a media company on
Instagram because I’m a consumer of
media and I typically get my news from
social media I know if I asked a lot of
you where do you get your news from
you’ll say oh somebody shared it on
social media
somebody tagged me in a post that was
the new thing but the web sites weren’t
seeing that they weren’t seeing the
vision they were like oh no there’s no
way that you can create a media company
on social media that’s stupid
don’t do it who does that but I saw I
saw an opportunity and a vision for my
company at 3,500 followers on Instagram
page you can imagine how crazy that is
because all of my friends were looking
at me like you’re on Instagram all day
what exactly are you doing you’re
unemployed how was the Biggest Loser the
Alumni Justin believe that okay but at
3,500 followers I saw this quality
vision and that’s that’s here and I
decided to make quality movement towards
that quality vision what was my quality
movement that I made towards this vision
well number one I was on that page 24/7
okay I had once from the time I had one
follower to the time I had a hundred
followers I still was treating them you
know as if they were gold that hundred
that I focused focused on I focused on
the people who are consuming my what I
had to give and I knew what they wanted
they wanted news 24/7 that didn’t exist
at the time they wanted to be able to
scroll through Instagram
or Facebook look at their friends page
and then get the new simultaneously they
didn’t want to click out they didn’t
want to go to WWE
I knew what kind of news they wanted so
i targeted the black community I’m a
black woman you know and so it’s black
media and I knew they wanted black news
so I focused on that giving them exactly
what they wanted
constantly consistently I did this for
eight months no money didn’t make a dime
I got my first check after eight months
of doing it and so that was my quality
movement towards my qualitative vision
which gave me momentum that’s why the
shave room gets sixty to a hundred
thousand new roommates I call them
roommates our readers cuz they live in
the shade room but that’s why they
that’s why we bring in that amount of
follower you know amount of followers
every week because we have that momentum
we don’t stop the shade one would never
close even on Christmas even on New
Year’s we’re posting consistently and if
we didn’t it would be like crazy people
like what happened you know because
we’re so consistent and so I would say
that that is an example of quality
movement so going back to three states
of momentum one state is moving is
quality movement towards your quality
vision which is momentum right there’s
momentum is the movement so you’re
either I wanna propose that we’re all in
one of these three states you’re either
moving towards your vision or moving
away from me there such thing as
momentum in the opposite direction and
the third state is that you’re staying
stagnant right so as I was doing this at
first I was just doing it for business I
was like oh I’m just gonna use this for
business and tell them how to use this
in business but I started to haunt me
like you know who as I’m thinking of
momentum and this topic that I have to
talk about I you know I’m starting to
see a pop up in every area of my life
and I’m like wait a minute
this can be applied to every area of my
life to give you an example health right
a lot of us have a life goal of being
really healthy you know we all have a
vision of what we want to look like what
we want to wear when we get to that
point how you know what we want to how
many miles we want to run on the
treadmill whatever you know we all have
a health not all of us but most of us
have a health vision for ourselves right
but I found that me for instance you
know I’ll eat a burger sometimes instead
of the salad I’ll stay instead of going
to the gym cuz I don’t like the gym
right but if you go if you if I go to
the gym and I’ll make that my movement
towards my quality vision and I know I
hate the gym then that’s not quality
movement that’s something I can’t
sustain that’s something I can’t
continue as we do you know so what would
probably movement look like me trying to
achieve a health goal well I like to do
adventurous stuff you know I like to
ride bikes didn’t go hiking okay well
that can be the quality movement that I
make tour is health
you know as far as exercise okay let me
do something that’s valuable to me I’m
looking at myself as the consumer you
know what am I going to be able to
consume what am I gonna be able to do
you know to get this vision of where I
want to be in health there are some
people I know if you’re if you’re
wanting love in your life can you do I
know it ain’t only I know if you want
love I’m talking about marriage
I’m looking at everybody okay yeah okay
who doesn’t win oh all right some of you
guys are moving in the opposite
direction of your vision of love I’m
gonna tell you how I know some friends
that stay in the house all day they
don’t like to go out they don’t want to
date but they’re like I want to get
married I want to find somebody
you’re being stagnant you know I know
and I know you guys know some people who
want to be a wife you know what the
perfect husband but they are making
inequality equality movements towards
their quality vision so they had this
vision of this love life that they want
but maybe they are you know wifey
material
you know I know you know some people
like that
be maybe they aren’t doing things that a
wife would do but they’re waiting for
the day that they can become a wife to
say that their wife right but we all
know that in order to become away
someone has to deem you worthy of being
a wife right
someone has to say who’s she somebody I
she’s somebody I would want to marry so
quality movements towards that quality
vision would be in the process while
you’re waiting on love
while you’re waiting on this special
person work on yourself so that you can
be the quality mate so that when chance
knocks on your door you’re ready you
know the scripture that I said in the
beginning means so much to me because
what it says is that chances for us all
chance we’ll have on every last one of
your doing it like it will you know but
the the question is how will you respond
to it
another example is family there are some
people who wish that they had a closer
family wish that their family was closer
together and that’s the vision that they
have for their lives but what are the
quality movements that you’re making
towards are you calling people to give
them together when your aunty calls are
you dodging her calls like I am okay you
know I mean what are you doing are you
planning family events what are you
doing to get closer to this vision of
family in your life another one could be
life in general we all have an idea of
the perfect life for ourselves but you
know we all want a beautiful life but a
beauty is subjective right what was a
beautiful life to me may not be a
beautiful life to you a beautifly to you
could be living on the farm somewhere
of course this that’s not my type of
life okay you know that wouldn’t be a
beautiful life to me but whatever your
vision is in life okay you you know
let’s say you want to be healthy you
want to be in love you know you want to
be successful these are all different
marathons in your life that you’re
running life is a long marathon and in
every area you’re either moving away
from your vision staying stagnant or
moving towards your vision
so what this taught me you know what I
was able to learn from this and take
back to you know to my life even though
I found success in business I’m like
what you know some areas you need to
work on you know and so I begin to look
at my life as a long marathon and and I
began to understand that chance happens
to us all so there will be a chance in
every area of my life to be a better
person to improve and the way that game
momentum is to respond with momentum
momentum is deep for sure it is deep
it’s real deep it’s like inside of you
you know how do you get a car to run you
got to turn on the engine inside of the
car you know mean and so this this
equation is basically telling you pay
attention to your inner engine because
we can create momentum in our lives in
every area and we can use that momentum
to take you know advantage of the
opportunities and the chance that
happens for us all to be elevated in
every area of life
ok so that’s what I wanted to share with you guys today