Episode 11

Blessing is a mother of four with children ages 2, 4, 6, and 15. I am married to my husband Bisi and we shuttle between Lagos, Houston, and New York.

Blessing is  mother of four with a background in Chemical Engineering, Energy & Sustainability, and Business. She has spent more than 15 years working for five Fortune 100 companies - BASF, DuPont, PepsiCo, Cargill, Total Petroleum - leading operations and managing energy infrastructures across the United States and EMEA region.

15 years ago, she walked into Corporate America as a black woman, immigrant, single and breastfeeding mother in a predominantly male profession - manufacturing. Her experiences as a young mother piecing together various care solutions for her children and aging parents shaped my approach to caregiving and work, and she started Mother Honestly (MH) back in 2018 in the heart of Detroit, Michigan as a place for parents, caregivers, and workplaces to find resources and solutions for caregiving, work and life. Today MH reaches over 25 million parents, caregivers, employers, and employees of all kinds globally via various social platforms.

She is a global expert on care serving as the Executive Director of WorkLife Equity and WorkLife Africa, sit on the board of Famtech.Org with over 250+ innovators delivering solutions to power and transform the care economy. She hosts “The Care Gap” podcast with over 1M+ downloads and is also the convener of the largest workplace care gathering, the Care At Work Summit, Caring Workplaces and Caring Leadership Award. She co-founded the CareForce and Chamber Of Mothers in the height of the pandemic, supporting hundreds of workplaces, 500,000+ mothers, and has spoken at TechCrunch, FastCompany, Amazon, AdWeek, Fortune, NASA, SAP, Google, American Bankers Association, and more.

What I didn't expect is that I would be here: 

Pushing and advocating for care and women for economic growth. I'm grateful to my nearly 16 year old for shining the light on this for me. 

What she would tell her best friend before having kids:

Ask questions, never make assumptions. A lot of problems I see in parenting are because we're making assumputions. Ask your company, ask your partner, ask your Congress person how they're going to support you.