Editor’s Letter
Dear Ladies,
Welcome to August!
I don’t know about you, but I enjoyed July, every
single moment of it. One of the highlights of the
month for me was going to see the movie Ocean’s
Eight with a friend. I loved it and as usual, picked
up a few lessons which I am just itching to share
with you. Now if you haven’t seen the movie, it won’t
make much sense to you, but if you have seen the
movie, then we’re on the same page. This movie is
about how one woman upon her release from
jail assembled a team of eight women to
steal a Cartier diamond necklace worth
$150,000,000. They stole the diamond
and covered their tracks, so they were
not discovered by the police. How
did this woman pull it off? Was it
because she was such a genius? No,
but because first of all, she recognised
that although she owned the idea she
couldn’t pull it off on her own, she
needed women who were experts at
what they did to come on board and help
her. According to Helen Keller, alone
we can do so little; together we can do so
much, and John Maxwell has said, “one is
too small a number to achieve significance.”
She also recognised that to get everyone interested
she would have to split the money equally between
every member of the team. She picked people who
were desperately in need of money as such she was
able to transfer the vision to them, and it became
their vision, and they wanted it to succeed just as
much as she did, maybe even more. She was a good
listener and was teachable allowing members of the
team to take the lead and determine
how last minute unforeseen
challenges should be
resolved because
she knew each member of the team was an expert
in her field of endeavour and besides she did not
know it all. No one does. There are countless
lessons which one can learn from this movie, and
I encourage you to watch it (even if you’ve already
seen it) and learn what you can. It’s brilliant for any
woman who is thinking of taking her vision from
the drawing board to the implementation stage.
You need a team, learn from this movie how to pick
and lead a winning team.
This is DOZ Issue 34, August 2018,
and it is loaded with inspirational
articles and stories to uplift you in
your purpose walk. I hope that you
enjoyed the last issue and that
the stories inspired you to dream
again. DOZ Magazine continues
to make the transition into an
inspirational magazine.
Our DOZ That Inspire You, for
this issue is, Victoria Ibe. She is
an amazing woman, and it gives
me immense pleasure to bring you
her story. When her first child was
born with Down Syndrome about a
decade ago, like most people do when
faced with challenges, she asked, why me?
And needless to say, she was initially distraught,
but she reached past her pain and helped others
(that’s what great women do). She set up a non-
profit organisation, Lovely Heritage, which
promotes inclusion not only for children with
Down Syndrome but all children. Please read her
interview and be inspired by this wonderful woman
and her journey.
“DOZ Chronicles: Nneka” continues in this issue
and will be concluded in the next. We hope you
have enjoyed it thus far.
I look forward to seeing you same time next month.
Blessings!
DOZ Magazine August 2018
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