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Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh - FECAite

When 2022 National Leadership Retreat came to the session where FECAites were asked to join one of the training classes as organised by Etinosa Israel, the National External Coordinator, I went to join the class of Content Writers. There were many other classes that were divided all across the entire Convention ground, such as the Photography Class,the social media class, the Video and animation editing class, the Fashion design class, the Graphic Design class, and plenty other classes. But the class that received the most audience was the class that was handled by Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh. I have never met her before until the second day of the convention, in Abia 2022. From what she said to FECAites that very day, I was able to understand that Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh, is a Content writer who has a Medium account where she writes about self-development and how to be the best version of yourself.

Background of Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh

Well, Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh is a Nigerian lady from Patani. She has been a FECAite for...many years, and will always be because as the saying goes, once a FECAite, always a FECAite. She attended Excel Secondary School, in Benin City, and went further to study Physiology in the University of Benin (UNIBEN). According to Timi, on the day of her graduation, she posted a review about her journey as an undergraduate in UINBEN, saying that, "it is such a big dream for me because this was my father's greatest dream - that I get an edducation! I'm sad he isn't here in person to see me as a graduate right now. I did this for you..."

In her own words o the day of her graduation, Timi said that "the journey has been the most intriguing. From not getting into the University early, to losing my dad in my second year, battling with my mental health so much that it affected my academics and having the most difficult final year experience where I thought I'd die but pulled through and then having an extra year and the lock-down in 2020.

"I suffered terrible anxiety attacks when I had to return to school to write my exams and after the exams, just immediately my mum passed, I remember going to bed with the thought of 'What if you don't pass?' only for me to wake up the next morning to a message that read, 'Debbie You graduated' and the results met my target."

Describing herself, Timi explained that she is a girl who evolved from timid and unsure to a lady of unwavering conviction in God's goodness. This is true because she has served as an Outreach Coordinator and as Vice president in Edo Zone.

Timi Debbie Ekpebimoh talks on Content Creation

During the National Leadership Retreat in Abia, 2022, she talked about Content creation and in content creation there are different types of content to create. Some of them include:

Creating contents on blogs
Audio Contents like podcasts example is the True Talk with Tina Podcast
Audio-visual contents like slide presentation, where there will be pictures and a voice in the background
YouTube

One is meant to do the following to be able to really cause an emotional response from his reader:

Choose a niche
Let your niche solve a problem or plenty of problems
Discover your unique selling point
Search for people in your niche and learn from them
You must have an audience
Develop your style of writing
Register on Medium because you get to reach more audience
Use hashtags to reach out to a wider audience
Engage story-telling
Listen to your audience
Share relevant, consistent and quality content
Be easy to find on social media platforms
Ask your family and friends to share, and retweet your articles

According to Timi, some of the challenges that one can find when he or she embarks on a journey to creating quality content include:

Inconsistency: This can be solved by using a content calendar.
Mental Block: This follows with the law of inertia where you might not feel like writing anything when you set out to write, but if you can overcome that instinct and force yourself to write, in no time, you will just be writing and you would have overcome the tiredness or mental block that you experienced some minutes ago. You can also solve mental block by resting first. Secondly, know the time of the day that you are more productive and when you get the most inspiration. It could be at night, or in the early morning hours, or evening time. Just know and work by that time.
Impostor Syndrome: This means doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It is when you don't feel like you deserve the accolades that are coming your way because of the content that you just created. And this can be solved by quickly changing your mindset by believing that you deserve all the accolades that are coming your way because you are a genius. Always create contents that for the audience of one! And let the foundation be for the glory of God.
Give yourself the chance to make mistakes and learn quickly from the mistakes.
Be very bold about your skills and always show up.

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