Business women enjoin others to create enduring wealth
By Esenvosa Izah
Some women in the business environment have called on other women to build wealth that can endure for generations.
The women made the call at a symposium — “The Winning Woman, organised by GText Suites” — a real estate company, with the theme “Building Transgenerational Wealth” on Saturday in Lagos.
Speaking, a business and executive life coach, Ms Abiola Adediran, said that a woman needed to be intentional and purposeful to build wealth that could transcend generations.
Adediran said, therefore, that it was important for a woman to build confidence, be knowledgeable and translating that knowledge into action.
“Women need to rise and begin to build wealth intentionally; we need to become capital allocators.
“Also, build wealth that will allow us to allocate capital in the areas of interest and courses that we believe in.
“We want to be able to build wealth that allows us to champion courses that are important to us, “ Adediran said.
Also, the Chief Executive Officer, GText Suites, Mrs Bisola Akintayo, said that “every woman is a winner in every area or career they found themselves including the agricultural, education sectors and politics, among others.
Akintayo, therefore, urged women to stand up and believe strongly in themselves.
“So, whatever has been said to or about any woman negatively, she should never allow such to define her.
“Believe in and detoxify your thoughts away from every negativity and believe you can achieve whatever you wet your mind on,” she said.
She said the idea behind the theme, “Building Transgenerational Wealth” was to encourage the woman to build, deposit and invest in people.
Akintayo said: “We want women to begin to leave tangible asset and build their children as well as who will manage the asset and multiply it.
“We see more men than women who have been doing this.”
In her remarks, the wife of a former Vice-President of Nigeria, Dr Helen Boyo-Ekwueme, said that a winning woman ought to be multifaceted, including playing the role of a mother and wife.
Boyo-Ekwueme urged women to be assured that they could play many roles.
“Women should have their goals, be objective and pursue them doggedly; educate yourself and learn all the time.
“Be a mentor; help others and make yourself available to people around you; have ambitions; be steadfast and focused,” she said. NAN
