Nana Agyemang: Working at The New York Times. I went to Columbia journalism faculty, they usually had been the primary firm to rent me after commencement. I assumed I used to be going to be poor sleeping on somebody’s sofa. So after I bought that job, it was surreal as a result of that was such a vision-board firm for me. They had been transitioning from print to pushing their “Style” part on-line. So they’d me redirecting and rebranding their digital voice on Twitter and a bit bit on Instagram Stories. Having that neighborhood was important as a result of an editor I met [there] helped me get my subsequent job at Refinery 29.
Was there a second whenever you realized, “Okay, I simply may be good at what I do.” Or do you even really feel you have reached that second?
The second that was a bit surreal for me was promoting a thousand tickets as a result of I used to be all the time afraid of the hundreds. I used to be like, “Are that many individuals going to indicate up? Is the demand actually there as a result of it’s for girls of coloration in inventive industries? Is it too small of a inhabitants?” So many issues are going by my thoughts. I believe within the first week we offered 500 tickets and it was so fast that I bear in mind calling my mother and telling her this quantity and he or she was like, ”You need to screenshot this. I do not consider it.”
What’s your typical morning routine?
I wish to be that individual that’s like, ‘I meditate’. But no, I seize that telephone with a quickness as a result of my job is my telephone. I’m additionally a content material creator, and a CEO and founder. So I’m responding to my group instantly within the morning. I try this for about half-hour, after which I learn The New York Times. I learn the DealBook, which is wonderful and will get me updated on the world of enterprise.
What are your key office necessities?
My largest work important is my journal. I can not perform with out it. Every morning, I make a to-do checklist. I cross it out, I discuss with it. I really feel so bare with out my journal, with out my to-do checklist. Another factor can be my telephone wipe. I all the time wipe the again of my telephone. I do not go anyplace with out it as a result of I by no means know when I’ve to shoot a second. That’s me pondering, advertising and marketing, pondering content material. Then, a water bottle as a result of if I’m not hydrated, I can not be productive. I by no means was the lady to all the time carry her water bottle in all places, however now I do. And then, I by no means go away the home until I’m snug so I’m all the time in athleisure. That’s sort of my factor. I must be prepared to maneuver.
What’s subsequent?
My objective in life is for each Black and Brown lady to have heard of Sip N’ Slay. To have had a dialog with it, to have the ability to really feel it, expertise it, examine it, moved by it. I wish to give as many ladies entry globally to expertise this convention as potential and to know that you’re seen, you’re liked and also you’re succesful. The feeling it provides you whenever you go away [the event] is incomparable. It’s one thing you have by no means had earlier than.
