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Business, Communication, Life Lessons November 15, 2022

By Rose Odengo

Here’s How to Manage Expectations

I invited the carpenter, Frank, to my house. About six years earlier, he made a couch for me, which I loved. I donated the couch to someone else because I wanted a new design. I offered him tea, caught up a bit and then discussed the new project. Frank carried…

Business, Life Lessons November 8, 2022

By Rose Odengo

How to Survive as a Consultant

The Crisis A few weeks ago, I had a call with a distraught friend. She seemed agitated and was talking very fast on the phone. I asked her to take a deep breath. She did and continued with her tale of desperation. My friend, Hannah, had received a call from…

Life, Life Lessons November 1, 2022

By Rose Odengo

Conflict is a Compass

When I was three years old, my biggest frustration was my nine-year-old brother taking my toys or disrupting my ten-minute TV cartoon episode after school. It may seem fickle now, but when you are three-year-old, this is earth-shattering. I was a snitch, so I would run to my mother to…

Grief, Life, Life Lessons August 22, 2022

By Rose Odengo

Kenya, We Need to Talk!

I haven’t been feeling well, mostly fatigue which eventually manifests in illness. My mind just needed a shutdown, so engaging it in thought and reflection has been a bit of a fight the past two weeks. I am still on the mend, but my mind has rebooted (slightly), giving me…

Kenya, Life, Life Lessons August 10, 2022

By Rose Odengo

Lessons from the 2022 Kenyan Election

Yesterday was interesting. This was the third time I have voted in a national election. The mood was very glum for the first time, and apathy lingered thick in the air. It was the culmination of two successive years of corruption scandals, a skidding economy and hardships, a pandemic and…

Business, Communication, Life Lessons July 25, 2022

By Rose Odengo

You Aren’t Always the Smartest One in the Room

“Why are you being emotional? This is a fact! That [omitted] African country is poor and in constant conflict because most of its population is illiterate!” This is the edited, more palatable statement a classmate blurted belligerently during a class. I won’t name the African nation he mortifyingly castigated. Still,…

Life, Life Lessons July 11, 2022

By Rose Odengo

How Do We Fix It?

A friend of mine is an environmental journalist extremely passionate about climate change reporting. Throughout the year they have been seeing a steady growing tension and hostility towards them. Just last year when visiting the same areas, there was no hostility they experienced. People were open and were more interested…

Life, Life Lessons, Odengo Living July 4, 2022

By Rose Odengo

Investing in Myself

As the years go by and I continue to iterate, I realise there reached a point where Google searches and articles aren’t enough. There comes the point where what I do daily beyond work and proposal writing and pitching doesn’t cut. It is a constant ebb and flow, times of…

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