akumu fiona
Neurodiversity Nerd | Content Creator | Artist | Wordsmith | Podcaster
about
To most people, I'm a
pencil artist, wordsmith, content crafter, podcaster, social media marketing artist & scientist, graphics tinkerer, startup inventor, embryonic author, mental health-ivist, and non-fiction book obsessor.
To others, I'm a stunt traveller, anything is possible-ist, epic rebel, random hustler, nutcase teacher, lifelong student, inebriated dancer, coincidental leader, extreme overthinker, one-hit-wonder pageant/fashion model, esoteric comedian, some-kind-of hippie, introverted autodidact, introverted extrovert, extroverted introvert, self-confessed geek, occasional badass, neurodivergent mutant, Afro hair magician, self-accepting weirdo, and MacGyvering jeweller.
It has taken what seems like centuries to figure this out but I've finally realised why my mother (best mum in the world) had to "invent" me, care for me, nurture me, and then survive my antics over the years. It was so that I could live to see a day when all I do and want to do is create or put together art and content that entertains, inspires or educates.
My ideal day involves me creating.
During my scheduled free time, I'm either devouring a non-fiction book, listening to some geeky or self-help-y podcast, working on a new podcast episode, getting fit at a gym, exercising my shaky Spanish, creating a piece of art, editing a piece of jewellery, trying really hard not to write bad poetry, honing my entrepreneur skills, concocting YouTube videos or reels, formulating a blog post, studying anything interesting concerning the brain, or figuring out how to finally become a real techie.
During my not-so-free free time, I'm either practising the latest scrolling techniques on Instagram, falling into Youtube's and/or Netflix’s algorithmic trap or getting sucked into some Wikipedia rabbit hole.
Before developing an allergy to office settings i.e. becoming a freelancer and a remote worker (or digital nomad), I was a social media content creator and editor at Marketing & PR agencies in Kenya, an English teacher in Colombia and Venezuela, an expansion lead at a tech firm in Nigeria, an intern at a Marketing firm in Kenya, and the National President of AIESEC in Kenya.
14 years and
38 countries later,
there's a lot to look back on. Any kind of useful sanity (and insanity) projected by my personality pays ode to five major factors.
The genetic serendipity engineered by my right-place-right-time parents, my weird but fabulous neurodivergent brain, mind-blowing travel & intercultural experiences, the brain-washing concepts from hundreds of books, movies, TV shows and online media, and the earth-shattering lessons taught both by my modelling days as Miss Commonwealth/Global Kenya 2005-2006 and my AIESEC days up until I finished as National President of AIESEC in Kenya.
Yaddi yaddi yadda. If you're still reading this, down to this particular futile sentence, you're a rockstar. That means you might actually tolerate the harping on my blog. I really do appreciate you. For my foray into the world of audio, there's one cool creation I'd like you to check out: the latest podcast episodes resulting from some amazing Yes Challenges I do with Claire Baker in the name of ditching our comfort zones:
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ADHD brain, 00:00:02.
new world record for forgetting your name.
if yours is a common name, even better. ๐คญ๐ฅด๐คง and yes, i am speaking from experience.
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