Finding A Balance: Part 2
“Before you do anything, put your trust totally in God and not in yourself. Then every plan you make will succeed.”
Proverbs 16:3 TPT
We're back with Part 2, and this time, I brought someone with me.
In Part 1, I talked about my own journey with finding a balance,the overwhelm, the juggling, the learning to navigate life as a student. This episode is the continuation I promised, and it comes with a guest who has lived a version of the balance story that I think a lot of us will recognise.
Meet Sapphire Ogbonna — academic scholar, multi-hyphenate, and someone who has genuinely figured out how to hold a lot of things at once without dropping the ones that matter most. But what makes her story worth listening to isn't the part where she has it together. It's the part before that.
Sapphire went from 2nd position in primary school to 14th. She changed schools in senior secondary and her grades dropped again. She sat for WAEC, didn't get what she needed, stayed home, wrote NECO, combined results, and that's how she got into university. On paper, it looked like a winding road. But she walked into university not with a notion of failure, but with clarity: a course she loved, a standard she set for herself, and an understanding of what deserved her attention and what didn't.
In this conversation, Sapphire shares:
Her academic journey — the dips, the recovery, and what she learned from each one,
How she found her footing in university after a complicated secondary school experience,
What it actually looks like to set the tone for your own life rather than letting life set it for you,
How she juggles multiple roles and activities without losing herself in the process and,
Why the Holy Spirit is not a passive presence in the business of finding balance.
This one is for every student, every young person holding more than they think they can carry, and everyone who has had a detour and is wondering if it disqualifies them from a good destination.
It doesn't. Sapphire is proof.
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Instagram: @typical_graysha
Medium: Sapphire Ogbonna
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