Bukola Oriola

Author| Advocate| Mentor| Entrepreneur

Healing words of encouragement

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Healing words of encouragement from a poet has been the inspiration on Monday Motivation with Bukola this morning on Google Hangouts on Air Live broadcast.

Founder of Healing Words with Yvette, Yvette Toko said that you can use healing words in various circumstances beyond physical health, According to her, you can use your words for healing in other areas of life such as in your finances.

Toko emphasized the importance of “knowing your reason why” to be motivated to use positive words for healing on any area of your life or that of your loved ones.

Sharing a personal experience, Toko explained how positive profession was a tool she used to help revive her unconscious mother when her mother was on the hospital bed. Toko is a writer and a poet. She shared one of her short poetry, entitled Acceptance on the show.

Too high for the mountains

Too low for the valleys

I found solace in the arms of an invitation

You can connect with Toko through her literary works.

For the Love of Cameroon: A small book that gives a glimpse of culture, travel, destination, and my adventures in Cameroon central Africa.

Breath, Eyes, Memory in Me: A book of poems containing poetic expressions from the heart of the author inspired from life, love and a love of words.

Wedding Quotes of Inspiration: A wedding book filled with quotes to inspire married couples.

Yvette Toko is an author, a wife, mother, and teacher. You can watch a replay of the broadcast below.

Thanks for reading. I hope to talk to you again through my blogs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please, send me a note – fill out the contact form. I want to hear from you. You can also get my recent posts by signing up to receive updates.

Bye for now, until next time.

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Monday Motivation with Bukola Featuring Yvette

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Another edition of Monday Motivation with Bukola is only few hours away. To celebrate the 4th of July, I will be bringing Yvette Toko, founder of Healing Words with Yvette back Live on Google Hangouts on Air.

I hope you are all having a great 4th of July celebration. It’s fireworks night and it doesn’t seem like we will be getting much sleep as I can still hear the sound of fireworks in my neighborhood.

Yvette Toko is an author, a wife, mother, and teacher. Yvette is the founder of Healing words with Yvette and she will be talking about “How to use our words for healing” – healing in our health, money, relationship, business, winning during challenges or setbacks.

Yvette believes in the power of words to heal. She uses words in all forms to encourage, uplift and inspire herself and others. Her most important roles are being a wife, mother, teacher and writer.

Get Yvette’s book via this link http://www.lulu.com/shop/yvette-r-toko/for-the-love-of-cameroon/paperback/product-22533662.html

Monday Motivation with Bukola Featuring Yvette

You can join Live at 5:30 AM CST by clicking on the video below. You can also watch directly on Google Plus or YouTube.

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Monday Motivation with Bukola is an inspirational Live Broadcast on Google Hangouts on Air focusing on women empowerment, beauty, health, money, culture, entertainment, and advocacy. To be featured on the show as a guest or sponsor, send an email to info@bukolaoriola.com.

SMART goals for networking

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Networking guru, DeShondra Brown, founder of enRich Solo, has suggested the need to have SMART goals for networking. She made this declaration last night on Monday Motivation with Bukola during a Live broadcast on Google Hangouts on Air. According to Brown, 80 per cent of job opportunities are secured through network while only 20 per cent are secured through advertisements.

Brown emphasized the need to build specific, measurable and attainable networking goals to  be able to take advantage of various opportunities in our career, professional, and personal life. She noted that we need to building relationships that offers mutual benefits. In going into new relationships, the networking guru encouraged us to have something to offer in other to benefit from the relationships that we are going into. She frowns against just taking from relationships rather than giving and taking.

She also cautioned against taking a “no” response negatively. Rather, she encouraged us to accept a “no” response in a positive feedback that could result in our heart desire in the future. Sharing her personal experience, the double bachelor’s degree holder stated that she was recently hired as an adjunct professor at the same university where she had been previously rejected.

Set SMART goals for Networking: Work the Net

In providing strategies to building key relationships, Brown recently launched a digital Networking course called Work the Net. According to Brown, “the course to help you to Review, Reveal and Revive your Networking skills.” She added, “A key component to obtaining visions and goals is through building lucrative relationships and this course will help you to do just that once you have completed the course.”

An opportunity for survivors

As a survivor of human trafficking or domestic violence, you could use this skill as an opportunity for you to project yourself as a subject matter expert in your community. You might also use it as a way to find the right contacts to leverage your career opportunities in other fields of your choice.

You can enroll for the course on her website, Work the Net  or just click the link http://bit.ly/1UD7J2w or https://enrich-solo.thinkific.com/courses/work-the-net

You can also contact DeShondra Brown at enrichsolollc@gmail.com.

What the full video below.

Thanks for reading. I hope to talk to you again through my blogs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please, send me a note – fill out the contact form. I want to hear from you. You can also get my recent posts by signing up to receive updates.

Bye for now, until next time.

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How to start a popular blog

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How to start a popular blog does not have to be a difficult task. In fact, it can be a fun task if you focus on what you are passionate about. It can also be a way to share inspirational stories that may be helpful to someone else.

If you are already a writer or love to write, blogging will not be too tasking for you. In fact, you you are already on social media sites like Facebook, where you post regularly, then starting your own blog will be a smooth process. I have seen many posts on Facebook pages and thought, “this is a post for a website or blog site.

You can write 300 words and post with pictures that may end up becoming a popular blog. Remember, “picture speaks a thousand words.” Sometimes, it is the picture that will keep someone on your site. If you are a person that likes to take pictures, begin a blog or website to talk about your pictures. You can talk about why you took the picture. You might be surprised to see a local or national brand show interest in your picture. Vanessa Lambert of What would you Wear once had a picture used by a brand, according to a blog report on CNBC. She made her money out of it by asking the brand to pay her for using her image without her consent.

How to start a popular blog that makes money

Initially, you may feel that there is no way to make money from your blog, but bloggers like Lambert felt the same way at the initial stage of their blogging career. She said in a post by CNBC that, “When I first started, I didn’t even know you could make money,” said Lambert. “Now my blog is an actual business and my source of income.” The article by Hayley Phelan on the CNBC’s website, entitled, The Power of the Mid-Tier Blogger showed how Lambert and some other popular bloggers have been able to make steady stream of income using their blog platform.

An opportunity for survivors and new bloggers

Starting a blog can be a great opportunity for survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, or any other kinds of crime. This will give you an a chance to be on the driver’s seat of your story or experience. For example, it can be an avenue to share just what you want to share. It can also serve as an avenue to talk to members of your community, law makers, faith based organizations, NGOs and anybody interested in your cause.




It is also an opportunity to educate the public from your own perspective. You may be surprised by who your readers and followers will be when you open up such a platform to keep the public abreast of what is happening in your community, or what you want to see happen in your community.

As a community member, who is passionate about a cause, starting a blog can serve as a avenue to share your thoughts.

Starting your blog with $0 – Blogger vs. WordPress

If is interesting to learn that you can actually start your blog that looks like a professional website with $0.  Blogger is my number one choice. I have chosen blogger over WordPress because it is much easier to set up and also more friendly when you want to start earning from the site. With WordPress, you have to have a self hosted WordPress site to be able to apply for Google Adsense for example, which is kind of revenue opportunity for a beginner’s blog. However, if you choose Google Blogger, you will not need to worry about that because Blogger is a Google product. All you will need to focus on to get approved is producing content on your site.

You can create a website like one of the ones listed below with Blogger.

I have put together a course to show how to start your blog with $0. You can join others to learn how to start your own blog today without worrying about paying for templates or hosting your website or blog site here.



How to prevent human trafficking among immigrants

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In this post, I will focus on how to prevent human trafficking among immigrants in the United States. In a simple definition from my book, Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim, “Human trafficking is when a person is here in the United States as a result of fraud, force or coercion for the purpose of being subjected to involuntary servitude, forced labor, debt bondage, slavery, or commercial sex exploitation.”

I am writing this post in response to a reader’s question from one of my previous posts. Human trafficking as a result of fraud can take various forms. Some of the forms are promise of marriage, education, employment, or a better life. There are immigrants in colleges across the United States that are vulnerable or are already victims of human trafficking as a result of fraud. For example, some people have applied for student visa and are supposed to be in college but are not because they were not allowed to get enrolled by their traffickers, whom are known to them as friends, neighbors from home country, or family members. There are others who have been brought under the pretense of going to middle or high school but are kept as maid in the homes of their traffickers.

There are other category of victims who are married to their traffickers. Many in this category are working while their traffickers, whom they know as their spouses are garnishing their income or denying them access to the income that they have earned from work. Some are trafficked by people they know as their employers, where they are also working, but are not being paid, or are told that their income is being used to pay off the debt they owed for coming to the United States. Some are made to have sex with multiple partners while the money received went to the trafficker.

It takes continuous education and community awareness to prevent anyone from becoming a victim of human trafficking. One of the tactics of traffickers, whether it is the case of one victim or more, is isolation. Victims are isolated from known people like friends and families. Worse still, if a family member is the trafficker, the victim is made to believe that other family members or friends who may be helpful is a bad influence. It is very difficult to know that someone is a trafficker when the person is familiar. However, for a victim in the United States, there are various resources available to support a victim. The national human trafficking resource center has a hotline. The number is 1-888-373-7888. This is a number that I will recommend to an immigrant victim who doesn’t know who to contact or how to get help. My second recommendation is the nonprofit organization that I founded called The Enitan Story. If a victim has access to the computer, the email for The Enitan Story is info@enitan.org or call the number 763-433-9454.

I hope I have been able to answer this question in simplicity.

Thanks for reading. I hope to talk to you again through my blogs. If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please, send me a note – fill out the contact form. I want to hear from you. You can also get my recent posts by signing up to receive updates.

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Bye for now, until next time.

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