RISING STARS; INTERVIEW WITH TAIWO

Best Graduating Student of the Department of English Language Obafemi Awolowo University, 2016/2017 session, Best serving corps member of the NYSC scheme , Batch C2 Queens Schools, Ibadan, 2019, Recipient of the Excellent Graduate Student award Department of English, OAU,2017, Most Enterprising Female FSF OAU,2017 amongst others.

Fast rising media personality and talk show host, speech coach, writer, Event Host and MC.

Gloria Olufeko is everyone’s favorite. She has won the hearts of many with her talk show “Exposure with GLO”, a Youtube vlog geared out towards helping the Youth find the right answers and solve life’s issues through the right channel.

She is your favorite speech doctor as she aims to whip up your diction and flawless speaking abilities with her Monday skits “Sounding Right With Doc GLO”. This has earned her the popular name “Doctor GLO”.

Gloria has interviewed celebrities such as Anto Lecky of Big Brother, Juliana Olayode (Toyo baby of Jenifas Diary), Amanda Dara of TVC amongst others and she has hosted several conferences, award ceremonies, book launches which include: The Signature Summit, The FYB Conference, The Relationship and Life Conference, Adekunle Adedoyin’s book launch “In 48 hours”, Asowunmi’s store luncheon, just to mention a few.

She is the Convener of the Yearly Women Prayer Program “When Women Pray” which holds in November every year to celebrate her birthday and bring women together under one room to call upon the name of the Lord 

You just must love her as she is industrious and hard working, she bakes and makes dresses.

She is an orator per excellence, a motivational speaker and a strong  advocate for the fair treatment of the girl child.

She has the strong will to change and add positivity to the world through the power of the voice. Follow me as she is been interviewed.

Taiwo: Who are you?

Gloria: I am a regular hardworking girl, working hard to make ends meet and live a life of impact

I am Gloria Olufeko, an up and coming media personality.I am a talk show host, diction coach and a writer.

Taiwo: Where do you come from?

Gloria:

I hail from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State

I am

A typical Yoruba girl

Taiwo: Whats your take on excellence?

Gloria: Well Excellence will ask you “is that the best way to do it?” If your answer is NO, then it is not excellence 

Excellence will always find the best way to do things and I’ve always lived by that all through life.

Taiwo: What is my passion?

Gloria: Media is my passion, it’s something I can keep doing and never get tired or bored of doing 

Media in every form, I just know I have a strong message to pass across to the world and media helps me do that. It helps me change lives positively, one life at a time

Taiwo: What has kept you going in pursuing your passion ?

Gloria: First I’ll say God, He definitely is the reason I’m still here..Then friends and family, I must say God has strategically placed people in my life who constantly see to it that I don’t give up and I keep going. I won’t pretend like I have it all together and all planned out, in fact. It hasn't been easy, fulfilling passion when no one knows you is hard, but with these people constantly reminding me that they draw inspiration from me, I just can’t afford to give up or be discouraged.

Taiwo :What’s my purpose in life 

Gloria: My purpose in life is simple, propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ through my media career. Help the downtrodden and voiceless find hope, joy and be their voice all still pointing them towards Christ. Everyday this purpose keeps ringing in my head. That’s simply what I’m here to do on earth.

The most important thing to me in life

It’s quite a lot o 🤣 

Family is for now the most important 

I can give up anything for them

Taiwo: Your mentor?

Gloria:  have different mentors for the different aspects of my life, yes that’s just it, it might sound weird but that’s just how it is

Spiritual mentor is John Alphonsus

Career Mentor is Olive Emodi although not directly I’ll say indirectly

Taiwo: Your hobbies

Gloria: Trying our new things, traveling and meeting people

Taiwo: Your role model?

Gloria: They are many ooo ahhh very very many 

Oprah Winfrey

Michelle Obama

Tomike Adeoye (a brand influencer and TV personality

Amanda Dara ( Also a TV personality)

Taiwo: Who is Christ to me?

Gloria: Christ is different personality to me in the different aspects of my life

Health he is my healer

Finance he is my provider

Security he is my protector

Salvation he saved my soul

I can’t start talking, we won’t leave here today o

Taiwo: Your favorite food 

Gloria: Eba and Okro soup

Oh I can eat it morning, afternoon and night and I won’t be tired

As we are having this interview sef I feel like eating it.

Taiwo: Waoo smile!!!

Your favorite cloth?

 Gloria: I love formal outfits a lot 

Best colour?

Gloria: Color is Blue

What I will like men to remember me for 

A woman who loves without holding back 

One who is motherly and caring 

Most importantly one who impacts everyone she found in her space for the better 

Taiwo: A word for the youth and men ma

Gloria: Life is too short to waste it

Please make good use of the time you have here on earth 

Word hard and legitimate

Love freely and give yourself to men 

Above all, know God for yourself and have a beautiful relationship with Him.