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These Confidence Affirmations From Badass Women Will Remind You Of Your Power

These Confidence Affirmations From Badass Women Will Remind You Of Your Power

Every time more often than not, we have moments that make us question our self-identity and our worth. Like when we didn’t get the invite to sit at the table, we longed for. When you work so hard to be heard, and your words bounce back at you. If the grass looks greener at every other site but yours. When thin tendrils of doubt creep at our heart, and you begin to believe the naysayers.

Girl,…

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5 Uber Reasons Why You Should Make The Switch To A Vegan Diet.

5 Uber Reasons Why You Should Make The Switch To A Vegan Diet.

Food! All I have done since I started research for this article is drool over 3D images of food on my laptop screen.

It’s not fair! Why does internet food have to look so gewd?

A few days ago, I was catching up with a friend of mine, and somewhere in the middle of our conversation, he mentioned that he was considering switching to a vegan diet. Right now, he is a pescatarian.

And just…

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A Woke Millenial's Guide To Smart Investments (Step 1: Start ASAP)

A Woke Millenial’s Guide To Smart Investments (Step 1: Start ASAP)

If you have not put much thought into making money and building an asset portfolio outside your paycheck, you need to flick your eyes to the title again. 

Tell yourself “I need to be ‘woke'”. Now say, “I need to be financially ‘woke’!” Say it as many times over until it sinks in.

A financially woke young womanis the woman who strives to have other sources of income(which could be through…

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Chekwube Uchea Talks Navigating The Professional Space for Woke Young Women & Her Top 6 Career Lessons

Chekwube Uchea Talks Navigating The Professional Space for Woke Young Women & Her Top 6 Career Lessons

Life as a young graduate is exciting times. Some of us have looked forward to this for years – finishing school and getting a job and being blessedly independent! We are excited for you too. But you know what, before you rush headfirst into the corporate world, we’ve got some sisterly advice we want to equip you with first. The answers to some salient questions you already have.

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An Open Letter To The Young People of 2020

An Open Letter To The Young People of 2020

Hey, young people: recent grads, soon-to-be grads, and young career professionals. Whether you still have your jobs or you lost them. Whether your life was going according to plan – or not.

And with the arrival of Covid-19 nothing seems assured anymore. Take a deep breath, and decide to confront life one day at a time.

Heads up and look sharp. You are an overcomer. Yes, babe, you are, “No,…

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Vagina Happy Foods That Will Keep You Feeling Healthy Down South

Vagina Happy Foods That Will Keep You Feeling Healthy Down South

13 foods guaranteed to keep your lady V happy and healthy down there! Cheers!

If you want to keep your vagina clean, don’t go douching. See our previous article on what douching is and why it is absolutely not doctor recommended.

Douching sounds cool, yeah? But don’t do it. The female vagina is perfectly capable of cleaning itself. There are foods you can take to regulate Vagina PH levels,…

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7 Ways to Boost Your Vitamin D Levels If You Are An Unrepentant Home-Body

7 Ways to Boost Your Vitamin D Levels If You Are An Unrepentant Home-Body

Effective ways to boost your Vitamin D levels.

Low Vitamin D intake is considered a major public health concern across the globe. In fact, Vitamin D deficiency is estimated to affect 13% of the world’s population. Considering that Vitamin D is easily produced by the body when in contact in sunlight, then no one ought to be deficient right? But with more and more young people spending time…

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11 Instagram Pages Building Positive Communities For Young Men

11 Instagram Pages Building Positive Communities For Young Men

Check out these positive Instagram pages for young men everywhere.

Cheers to all the outstanding men all over the world – We shall know them. May we marry them. May we raise them! HOHO

Father’s day whizzed by a few days ago, and social media was an ode to amazing dads all over the world. And all of us at alexilore, we will continue to doff our hats out to dads outchea doing marvellous jobs.

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Struggling to stay positive? Here are a few ideas to help you practice positivity

Struggling to stay positive? Here are a few ideas to help you practice positivity

You need to get into what we call, mindful positivity because, challenges are a constant – John 16:33

I know with all that is happening around the world, coupled with our personal issues, it is almost hard to stay positive. Somedays, it’s easier to withdraw into your headspace and let all the things that are going wrong, flood your mind and fill you with fear and worry.

Staying positive…

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19 Black-Owned Brands To Shop This Month

19 Black-Owned Brands To Shop This Month

Black-owned brands that cater to our needs like no one else

It’s a movement! #buyblack #shopblack #blackbusinesses. No, it’s not just an Instagram trend but a movement that we should actively sustain.

Do you remember using beauty products that never seemed to go well with your skin, especially when you were younger? You remember, right? If not for black-owned brands, we would still have to…

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11 Books That Will Make This Quarantine Worthwhile

11 Books That Will Make This Quarantine Worthwhile

If anything, it is more time to snuggle up with the books we love.

If you are a bookaholic, I’m sure you will agree that this quarantine has blown up your reading appetite into an addiction – a jolly good addiction, I must say.

Don’t ask what we’ve been reading, we’ve been reading a bit of this and a bit of that; vacation reads, power play, Oprah’s memoir – just know it’s everything good…

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Finance & Lifestyle Websites/Podcasts Perfect for Young Women

Finance & Lifestyle Websites/Podcasts Perfect for Young Women

You know what they never teach you in schools? Adulting. College only prepares you mentally and psychologically to get a job, advance in your career and earn a regular paycheck.

But the major lessons you really need, like how to have the best relationships, how to overcome a setback, how to ask for a raise. How to overcome gender inequality in the workplace, how to resign your 9-5 and start…

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5 TED Talks That Will Keep You Focused On Your Goals All Damn Week

5 TED Talks That Will Keep You Focused On Your Goals All Damn Week

It’s normal to be supercharged and bulldoze through your goals at the start of the year, but as the months go bye you just may find yourself in the “abeg-I-can-not-come-and-kill-myself-lane”.

This article is very much for me as it is for you because a lot of times I just get into that “zoned out” zone and I really don’t feel like doing anything again. Let’s not even add how this year has been…

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Why you are always the one who prepares a man for his wife…sis, what if it's you who's being prepared you for your man?

Why you are always the one who prepares a man for his wife…sis, what if it’s you who’s being prepared you for your man?

Plus, why broken relationships are not all that bad.

I read an article that inspired this piece; ‘Why you are always the one who prepares a man for his wife.’

Just listen to a girl rant about her Ex, and it’s going to be all fire and brimstone(for a majority of women, there was never anything good about him).

It’s the usual “I dated him for 7 years, and he upped and married a woman he…

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#Question: What's the best life advice you've ever received?

#Question: What’s the best life advice you’ve ever received?

We asked 5 guys “What’s the best life advice you’ve ever received, and they said…”

There was a time I was going through –personality or is it midlife crisis?- PERSONALITY crisis, and I was on my bed one day just reflecting when Kizz Daniel’s ‘Jaho’ filled my room.

The first few verses, “You dey do as dem dey do, you better know who you are” flooded me with life and light. My answer had come…

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The Best Pregnancy Apps For You and Your "belly" Bump

The Best Pregnancy Apps For You and Your “belly” Bump

Hey moms-to-be! First-time moms and old moms alike – anyone spotting a baby bump. As long as you are a woman, then this post is for you but if you are a man that has a bump-big belly- I can’t help you. Lol.

Pregnancy is such an incredible journey, and this journey is unique with every babyyou bring into the world. From the first Positive Pregnancy Test to the delightful Gender Reveal…

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One Thousand & One Reasons Why You Should Treasure Your Platonic Male Friendships

One Thousand & One Reasons Why You Should Treasure Your Platonic Male Friendships

Platonic male friends give the best advice – seriously.

From talking about other guys that I fancy, to drumming out all my life’s woes into their ears(like I’m the only one who carries the world’s problems on her shoulders), critiquing base television programs, mapping out where and when our next hangout is going to be and who’s going to be the one to pay “this time”, name-calling, talking…

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