May 5, 2025 • 35 mins
In this powerful episode of The Uzazi Podcast, host Nabifo sits down with Joweria Nabuuma, the inspiring Founder and CEO of Kiara Events and the mastermind behind the Baby and Kids Expo. Joweria opens up about her personal journey through motherhood, including her five-year battle with infertility and the challenges of raising a colicky baby. Discover how Joweria transformed her experiences into a thriving event that's now gearing up for its third edition. Learn about the inception of the Baby and Kids Expo and how it has grown to become a must-attend event for African parents.This episode is packed with insights on:
• Overcoming infertility and the emotional rollercoaster it brings
• Navigating the difficulties of caring for a baby with colic
• Turning personal challenges into entrepreneurial opportunities
• The evolution of the Baby and Kids Expo from idea to successful reality
• Essential benefits for parents attending this three-day extravaganzaJoin us for an inspiring conversation that proves how determination and resilience can turn life's hurdles into stepping stones for success. Whether you're a working mother, an aspiring entrepreneur, or simply seeking inspiration, this episode of The Uzazi Podcast is not to be missed!
• Overcoming infertility and the emotional rollercoaster it brings
• Navigating the difficulties of caring for a baby with colic
• Turning personal challenges into entrepreneurial opportunities
• The evolution of the Baby and Kids Expo from idea to successful reality
• Essential benefits for parents attending this three-day extravaganzaJoin us for an inspiring conversation that proves how determination and resilience can turn life's hurdles into stepping stones for success. Whether you're a working mother, an aspiring entrepreneur, or simply seeking inspiration, this episode of The Uzazi Podcast is not to be missed!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Baby, mother mother. The second bone was tough. I left
Vision group and then I didn't have a job. I
still thinking what am I going to do next? Then
a baby comes. I didn't work for an entire year,
(00:20):
and the baby was a cry baby, not just click
you know collick Yeah, some collick was colleaking. Yeah, and
then she caught.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You after collic, I'm like, it's passed through by still crying.
Why I'm still crying?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So I at least I had time for her, because
I imagined if I wasn't at home, this baby cries like
this for over six months, she was crying every other day,
what would people have done when the mother is not around?
So I was also grateful even if I wasn't working
at the time, But I was grateful the mother of
the child of crying baby was there.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Pretty and let me see you to.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Call them miss celebrate, you celebrate.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm Navifo wa Munga and this is the Uzazihab podcast
where motherhood meets business. In this episode, we are meeting
Joeia Nabooma, who is the founder, the Vision Bearer, the
I don't even know how to describe her of the
baby and kids, expot which happens every year. She's an
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events guru. She's been in the event space for over
fifteen years. She did eleven of those years in the
events department of the Vision Group. A lot of these
events that you have seen on TV in the newspapers,
she's one of the prominent people behind them. She has
an events company called Kiara Event and she's a mom
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doing business and that's why she's here. Please welcome Jury
and a boomer.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm happy to be here and I can't wait to
dig into the details of motherhood and events planning and
the baby and kids explot Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You're very, very welcome, And so tell me. Let's go
back to the beginning. Where did motherhood find you? Did
it find you in the corporate world? Did it find you,
you know, in school? Like where did it find you?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Lucky for me, it found me in the corporate world.
Done with school, done with university. Started working when I
was started working second Yar campus at Observer, so somehow
ended up Advision Group as a pea to the chief
operations by then and then led me to events management.
(03:03):
So motherhood found me there when I was in that
space of organizing events. So the job was very, very demanding.
I can't tell you how demanding that job was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I used to.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Move from Kampala to Guru to sorot It little person regard.
I was there because we had properties there, we had
radios there, we had newspapers all over, TVs everywhere, so
I was everywhere. So a baby comes and I'm like,
oh my god, where am I going to start? So
(03:40):
because of that demanding job and the baby's here, now
I have to shop. I have no idea the first
thing about babies, the first thing about motherhood, and I'm like, okay,
where am I going to start?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's just like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That's where I can go and find all the information
about babies or the products for babies and everything to
do with motherhood. And that gave birth to the baby
and kids events.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wow, that is that is amazing. You know. But we
had a conversation or we've had conversations prior to this,
and you told me becoming a mom was not just
you know, when we are younger, our parents threaten us.
They're like, if you come home with a baby, your
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dad you know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So you HAVEE is over.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, so you have this thing in your head that
the moment I try to be instant and then when
you start trying, that's when the rude awakening, you know,
comes it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So was it instant for you or I really doubt
it was instant for me? But we tried and tried
until the baby came. But I didn't even think us
trying then. The first baby, I didn't even think I
was trying. But the second who was real trying. It
was real trying. So it did come easy. But we
(05:06):
tried and tried. So one of the specialists are very
good gynecologists that HK who gave us ideas on how
to get pregnant, and they checked me thoroughly to find out, Okay,
for you, it is not easy. This is what you
are supposed to do to get pregnant. And that helped
a lot because many of us we don't know what
is happening and we keep it to ourselves. Everyone thought
(05:27):
us on maybe family planning. I have never used family
planning in my entire life. I don't even know what
they use. I don't even know what they use. I'm like, no,
I've never taken any of those things. I don't even
know them. So it is not as easy as we
thought that you just get pregnant just like that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So when the second baby became.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Five years after the other one, five years, five years
after the other one, and it's after we're like, maybe
there's a problem, but you don't even think it's a
problem because you have a first bone. So we take
long to know, oh, there is actually a problem. Now
you should consult experts. So yeah, the one that the
second one came after five years, but yeah, she.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Finally got here. She finally.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
A long waited but she got here. And worrying about
my first baby. For me, it was a doll dress up,
take pictures.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was smooth.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was really smooth for the first one. But the
second one, oh yeah, twala speed this speed, speed in
your It was not easier at all. But with all
the challenges and everything that we went through as a couple,
they gave me these ideas on how to make it
easier for mothers out there, and this pushed the baby
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and kids explain my head, I need to do this,
I need to do this, I need to sort this
for others. Others should have it so easy.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I now see that the origin and so with let
me just take you back a bit during that during
that struggle trying to have the second baby, did it
take a toll on your on your marriage, on your
on your relationship it If it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Did, I think my other my other one was strong.
If it did, I didn't notice, at least not from him.
I didn't notice, maybe from me and then my mom
and then friends asking what is happening i' music If
you don't, If you don't, you know that kind of talk,
Maybe there is a problem. But I kept saying, but
(07:34):
I gave birth already, so it should be easy. But
it's not that it's not that easy.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So maybe maybe did.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But he tried to support as much as possible, and
eventually when the baby came, were waiting he got to
have that baby. Yeah, and I think it was also
a miscarriage at some point before this one came o.
Can even this one is gone, and for most of us,
we don't know what causes these things. Maybe the stress
that the work was so stressing. I can't tell you
(08:03):
how stressing that job was. It was so stressing. Took
told me probably I couldn't get pregnantive and maybe you
take a one year off. I'm like, hey, I can't
sit that home for Yeah, I can't. I can said
at home one you're without working. So eventually you said
you know it will come. When we visited they told
us what to do. Then it is this app called Flow.
(08:25):
I went to Flow to track by oodulation. So ah,
God answered our prayers and was Soper excited?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So before you thought about the baby and kids expo,
had you tried to like find all these different service
providers for yourself and had a challenge and then also
the products you don't like take us through your thought process.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Actually I didn't. I just kept thinking, you just go
to US market and buy you just I didn't even
try to meet service providers and even try.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's when you get a challenge and then you're like,
how do I use this?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
M I see how many spoons of porage do I
put in these?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Blah blah blah. Some have instructions, some don't.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Or maybe you have you have overdosed the child, or
maybe you have over done it, or maybe you have
overcooked it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My God, with babies, it's different.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So all these things gave me this idea of you
know what, we should talk to service providers. We should
talk to people who have these products. They know best
how we can use these things. They know best how
we can gain value from these things. So I really did,
I did. I just sat there and I'm like, so
where do I start to just go read the instructions
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on the box.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
If they don't help, You're done. You're done yet. We
should we should be better than that. Yeah, should be
better than that. Very true for me.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I must say when I discovered the Baby and Kids
Expose last year promotional material for the Baby and Kids exponent,
actually before I discovered it, your marketeers are relentless. Oh
my god, I got attacked from from each angle. I
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think it was like five different people.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Because you have such a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Every moth that needs it, every parent, by the way,
was you saw us? I mean the other day my
friend wanted so probably just go to the order and
they would delivered your doorsteps.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's such a brilliant product. We must have.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Who if you don't have it's like a one has Junior,
Why don't you have with your phone or one of
your apps has something you go to to sort you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Out with all your baby issues. It will suit you. Wow.
So that's why that's why we look for you? We
had had.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We heard it for you, well said, now I know
who to pay the next time I need someone to
talk about two. Yeah, but it was it was crazy
because I got five different people telling me why aren't
you part of the Baby and Kids expo? And then
when I finally had the conversation with you, it was
(11:25):
a no brainer. You know. I immediately got the concept
and the idea, and I looked back at my own
story when I was becoming a mom. I mean, I
think that the background idea is kind of the same.
You're looking for things you don't know where to start
when you I first saw a breast pump when I
had challenges for you know, breastfeeding. I'd never heard of
(11:49):
a breast pump before in my life, you know. And
some of these products you don't hear about them until
you have that issue. Yes, you just have that actual
then you seek the specialist. Then the specialist tells you
about this thing, and you're like, what is that? You know,
and then you know. Then it's like a backward thing.
(12:12):
So if we have this space where all these it's
like a behind the scenes with some of these manufacturers,
some of these you know, different service providers where you
can ask all the one million questions that you have.
It was a no brainer. It was a no brainer
for me. And we attended last year and it was amazing.
(12:37):
It was amazing. I got to have my still jobs moment,
you know, launching and.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It was really great.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And I must say, I don't even know how to
put this into words. The faith and the trust that
you had in me.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Was we did because we were like, you know what
everyone should leave when you have this up. There are
so many times you can't reach that shop. Yeah, there
are so many times you don't have that time. Maybe
you're out of town. People at home may these things
they will deliver. I mean, like you said, it's no.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So as a disclaimers is a sponsor, Yes it is,
but it's but it's from the whole. Honestly, we're really
passionate about this. And when you were when you are working, mom,
how did you how did you juggle? You know, like
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you're working, you have to go. You have a very
demanding job. You have this idea, you know, this brainchild,
and you're looking at how can I interact with all
these different people? But you have a job, you have
a partner. You have kids, So how did the idea
get out of your head onto? Did you first put
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it on paper? Did you first talk to people?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Actually I remember how so I had the idea.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But you know, we never start.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Right down things, but we never start so one of
that I don't know if it's a training. I had
to do. A vision group sent me to keep Town
to see the bridal expot there. So I get there
and I'm like, oh my god. So I sit down
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with the organizer. So I'm talking to him like, I
have this idea I need to do. Why haven't you
done it? Mm hmm, why haven't you done it?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You see, just do it.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
This is the organized organized of the other ones.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She told me, baby stuff, there's no limit to it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It would be a big event. I'm like, you know,
I don't most of us we don't have money. I
don't have I don't have that edge to me, you see.
She's like, just start, even if you start small.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So I come back to you literally the next week,
I sit down and start writing the proposal.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So I send her a message I started. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
She doesn't even know. Now this is the third edition
pro never know. Maybe I should send her message she's
just start. We all have these ideas, but we never start.
So she really encouraged me to start. And of course
I have the best support system around me, my friends,
my family. I don't I meet you, Oh my god,
(15:42):
I agree less the supports have the best friends in
the world, have the best family in the world. And
then I meet the exhibitor. It has become the event,
during our event, during our event.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So we are blessed. We are blessed. We are blessed
to have each.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
One of all the exhibitors, the friends, the staff, oh
the stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It was one of the most professional events I have
ever attended. I mean, like, I recommend you with confidence.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That team Bambi.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
They did everything to see this idea come back to
life because we had launched in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And of course there's something like that this event is expensive,
Will we manage? Will we manage?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And then that gap that you create with thinking that
maybe you're not good enough, maybe you're a small brand.
People will not trust you with their brands. You know
what I said, don't trust me, trust me. I'm coming back.
I came back. We relaunched during census. When we're thinking
no one is going to show up. They turned up
and we were so humbled. Okay, and we gave.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It our second, the best best, and this year.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I may when I say where no, I love you
have this other element of professionalism that is very rare
and I really commend you on that. If I was
like a quarter percent sold, the way you executed was
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like out of this world. How do you maintain your
work ethic? How do you maintain your professionalism? Because I
was with you for a lot of the behind the sceneo.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Your holding.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Because it was a trying time outside of that, but
you maintained the professionalism. You maintained the how can I
put it? You had this demeanor and even the way
your staff was executing. Is that something that you learned?
Like did you do leadership skills? Did you do how
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did How are you able to maintain because some of
those times were really yeah, stuff is the word and
a lot of disappointment, a lot of rejection. But had
stayed up?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Did you do a course?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know I get that a lot. How do you
manage people?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yes, people?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Management is that part?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Had it is really hard and I'll say it's I
think it's a natural. I've never done a course. I
don't know any of those courses or any of those
but in my own way somehow, I don't know if
it's natural, but it comes off like you just respect
each other.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I am not going to take you for granted.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Ben, If you're a staff for my friend, I'm never
going to take you for granted. Just respect each other.
Do what you're supposed to do, and I do. I
have to act as a leader. If I am going
to do something, I do it to the best of
my knowledge. I don't know how to do basics. I
don't know how to do to do something because both
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are to me Simlar boss. I want to do something
to the best of my knowledge and tell my guest
gang on me. So I do it to the best.
And some people do this. Caan is watching Casta, Novan
is doing this. I don't have that. When you give
me a job, I'll do it to the best of
my knowledge. So when I get a sponsor on board
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and I said I'm going to give you eleven benefits,
I even take each one of them to make sure
that my sponsor is happy, because if they're not happy,
they're not going to come back. If I promise the exhibitors, David,
I'm not going to do one or two. I am
going to do everything I promised. I am a woman
of my word, and my word is everything to me.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I vouch my word is everything to me. I never
ever want.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
To break my I feel so bad when I go
back on my word, and I'll call you and I
explain to you a thousand times, and I apologize, and
I make it right if I can, unless it's really
out of my but I will always make it right.
So that respect for each other, respect for someone's business.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Gets me here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It gets me to doing everything that I'm supposed to do,
not losing my call. Because if you lose your cool,
now you're disorganizing the whole team. Many are the lead,
and now you're disorganized, everyone will be disorganized. And I
keep telling people evens have no second chances. You can't
say the event them next week to them. It only
has one chairs, it only.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Has one chance. So at the back of my mind,
I know we have one chance to do this. There
is no.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Room for mistakes, for regrets. So that is I don't
know how I got there. I I've never done any courses.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
But somehow I manage I think you need I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know how, but I think it comes with
the thing of I have to deliver.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I promised and I have to.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, because the people management was it was, it was,
it was tick, and you know, I kept, you know,
picking behind. I could see you had the organization, you
had the WhatsApp groups, you had that. You know, it
was all sports. And I had good partners. Oh my god,
my partners were very good.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Let me tell you, I don't know. God chose that team.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm telling you God chose that team because everyone was
into this and you can tell positive energyournal do like people,
we have to we will do it, will do it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So it was.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
It was a huge, huge success despite the census because
the only thing we had was the Census being on
the same day. The proper can around.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You can't go out. You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
If you go out, this will happen. But we still
registered over oney five hundred people. We still do do
register that, so expect more and more times times times
the numbers we've got last year. More exhibitors. Most of
them are saying, first, do this one. We don't know
this brands, but some no jewelry and Nabum, but they
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don't know the name of company. So those who know
Jury and my mother, she's the best events organizer, but
those who don't know you. So I had to do
a lot of face to face Oh joeyry Oh, it's you.
So yeah, we had those challenges, but we pray that
this year is even going to be bigger.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
No, it's definitely going to be bigger and better because
now there's some sort of brand, brand awareness, and I
can see your starting early. I mean you started last year.
I'm preparing for five months, you know. So it's it's
really remarkable. One of the reasons why I really wanted
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to have this moment with you on the podcast, outside
of being a sponsor of the Baby and Kids Explore,
outside of being passionate about what the expo stands for,
is to showcase, you know, to showcase the behind the
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scenes of Joe Area. Now, because I met this wonderful
human being, you know, who has such positive energy around her,
how do you maintain that positive energy around you? And
are you just a magnet who attracts positive positive people?
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Do you meditate? Like, how do you how do you
stay home when things are when things are tough. How
do you stay? You know, because you will have the
exhibitors upset about this thing, you will have the service
providers upset about this thing. You'll have this thing not
going right, but somehow you maintain the composure and you
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have really good people around you. So is it something
that you're intentional about?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Is it? Like I think?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Also, I think it also starts with her I was
born hm hmm. I can't say I'm a dull person.
There's no dull moment around me, with my family.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
My friends.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ever I go, that's how I am. And then also
I don't like sad moments. I don't like us being there.
We're not going to do my no.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'm a happy person, always happy, hyper like.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But you don't require your You're you're high on sort.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're high inside. I'm like, no, guys, we need to
be happy even when we are working. You find me joking.
Think I was born like that. There's really I'm not intentional.
If you phone me really stressed, it won't even last
thirty minutes and I'm back to my normal self. Something
will tress me a bit. Think what am I going
to do? Papa, Papa, and I'm out of it now,
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let's move and like things dragging me down. So there's
really no magic around it. I was born like that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
That is so, that is such a that is such
a blessing. It is a blessing if you look back
at that time, you know, when you were struggling to
have kids, immediately after you had your second bone, specifically
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those tough nights, those tough days.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now the second bone was tough. I had left vision
group and then I didn't have a job, but still
thinking what am I going to do next?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Then a baby comes.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I didn't work for an entire year, and the baby
was a cry baby, not.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Just collick, you know collick, Yeah, not to some colleague
was colleaging.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, and then she continued after collage, I'm like, it's
passed through.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Why I still crying?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Why I'm still crying?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So I at least I had time for her, because
I imagined if I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
At home and this baby cries like this for over.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Six months, she was crying every other day, what would
people have done when the mother is not around. So
I was also grateful even if I wasn't working at
the time. But I was grateful the mother of the child.
A crying baby was there. I was there to attend
to her. It was very stressing. I got into some
kind of mini depression, got myself out of it, started
(26:55):
to work again, and work makes me up. Started to
work again and I'm like, okay, something to distract me
from Brian crying crying, crying, And yeah, I was glad
I had that time with her for that long because
she was not easy. She was falling sick. Because the
first baby, like I said, I was like, people.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Exaggerate motherhood is the best.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm here enjoying life, my baby, my toy, my doll
I walk around with.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The second was like, no, actually it is hard. It
is hard to add both. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So yeah, somehow I managed because I had the time.
I had a holier with her.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So immediately after that, when you got back into work,
is that when you created CREA Events It No.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Cre Events was created in twenty sixteen, well, while still
at Vision Group, but I was doing weddings, quangular planning, weddings, planning, introductions,
planning showers, planning birthdays, planning small, small, small events. Now
to blow out was we did the We first watched
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the baby and kids explo in twenty sixteen. Then after
that we took some time without doing it now to
blow out full fledged car events was recently twenty twenty,
I think twenty twenty. Then COVID came. Then we will
took a break. The immediately the president said events are
back on. We went all out. We went all out.
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But the good thing is people already knew the face,
people already near the name, so they can't trust some reason,
for some reason, anyone wants to do an exhibition, they
will always recommend me. So I've done so many exhibitions
for others as well. So they want an exhibition jee area?
What an exhibition?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Jee area?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So we've done so many exhibitions. One of the best
expressions I've done. Yeah, well after COVID.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah yeah no.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So what what words would you give either a mom
who's transitioning into let me say, a working woman transitioning
into motherhood or a mom who's in the thick of
it those ali those early days. Any one two three
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tips that you would give I remember, other than coming
to the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And kids, I remember what also helped me.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
There's this this website called BabyCenter.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yes, yes, oh.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A lot of babys and all the time when a
baby's two much what they're supposed to be eating, their behavior,
how are you I supposed to fit them, I was
supposed to treat them, and what they're likely to have
and their understanding. So I consulted a lot on babycent
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I used to read a lot of babies and I
would get a reminder of your baby is now, remanks,
this is what they're going to be doing, your babies now.
So I consulted a lot because it was my first time,
especial when you first time mother. There are so many
things that you don't know. So I consulted it a lot.
Consulted it a lot, and then take each day as
it comes. We want to plan for threeman see you,
(30:13):
you're already looking for you looking actually natary schools, the university. Again,
take each day as it comes, and ask a.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There are so many people out there who know I'm
glad my mother is still here, but I think God
every day my mother is still here. We can ask
as many questions as possible and don't take anything for
even if it's a people here, it can become something.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So with babies, you have to ask. Leave the WhatsApp group,
stop asking people to questions to people. I do it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I do it like this. This is what I use.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
This cartot is different from the other, so you have
to ask as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
So if I wanted to know more, because this conversation
I feel like could go on forever. Where do I
find Joelry and Nabooma? Where do I find you?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So Joery and Abuma is the SEEO Care Events Limited.
We organize all kinds of events from carton to the
biggest I mean biggest, like the President is coming. What
do I do? We have ambassadors coming?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Where doing that?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
We organize all kinds of from a shower to our
wedding to everything. And we have all these social media pages.
Some are called care events limits care Events. Then others
are called Baby and Kids Export. If you want to
know everything about the baby and kids explore. We'll tell
you who should exhibit. If you deal in products for babies,
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services for babies that is food, clothing, health education shown.
You are all welcome and g os government government resettles that.
We'll talk about the health things and our theme this
year is healthy mom, healthy baby, what a healthy man?
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And a healthy baby. Yeah, so take care more and
that baby is okay. So everything to do with mother's expectant,
mother's products for all of them. You're welcome to the
Baby and Kids Export is going to be this May
from ninth to eleventh at Marshall Grounds. You're all welcome.
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Please come find us book your stalls. Store were already
booking stores.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know. We already have over twenty stores booked in January.
Very encouraging.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Last time we had last minute, but it's better we
book Alice, so we plan for you as an exhibitor
as a partner. We also give you strategies on how
to milk this event properly. How do you benefit from this?
How do you get people to come to your store.
I'm excited I'm going to that the stall because we
have told them prior to the event that these are
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the things that he has. So the person comes to
your stall with Q and A only questions because they
already know you have this. You have the word, do
I find this out? Do I get the app? All
those things, so it is very important we book now.
And because you have a very good marketing team, they
also give us our clients free tips on how to
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get their products out there.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So if you're expecting, if you're thinking of expecting, if
you have a young baby, you didn't even talk about
the fun activities.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Fun activities there.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I still get. I still get messages of the painting. Yes,
first painting, first painting, but also the painting. We had
these where kids sat and painted their own pictures and
then they made their own books and colored them. They
were so exit had so much. I still get comments
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up today. Oh my god, that was the most organized event.
We are so glad you had all these different activities
for the children, not just the bouncing ca so it's
not just the swimming, but they lant. Then the event
only has children's entertainment. We're never going to have an
adult harmon and sing on that stage.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
If you're so old.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They may be fifteen years, maybe fifteen years, which wall
give and allowed, but it is.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
A children's stage.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So even that entertainment, all the entertainment is for children.
That's why you had the Gettle kids performed for three years.
So we are trying to see who is going to
come on board this year. We're going to surprise you.
I don't know if you had about Valentino and the
kids dancing sousa. Oh yeah, wait and say sneak pick.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Might have Valentino this year coming on board.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So we are really thinking on giving the best entertainment
but also kids land, even sports because there are so
many parents who are who don't know where to take
their children for sports here.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, so we could talk own, but I guess we'll
have another another one closer to the to the events,
you know, because the best thing about you is your
professionalism and I think we can all learn something from
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from that. So with that being said, we've unfortunately ran
out of time, but next time. There will be next time.
And to all the awesome moms out there, you're doing
a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You are.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You are, I see you.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You're doing a great job. So it's not leave us
a comment like subscribe. See you on the next one
when you can.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
A baby mom almost your number.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You're getting again?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Google came, who kid is a gun?
Baby, mother mother. The second bone was tough. I left
Vision group and then I didn't have a job. I
still thinking what am I going to do next? Then
a baby comes. I didn't work for an entire year,
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and the baby was a cry baby, not just click
you know collick Yeah, some collick was colleaking. Yeah, and
then she caught.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You after collic, I'm like, it's passed through by still crying.
Why I'm still crying?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So I at least I had time for her, because
I imagined if I wasn't at home, this baby cries like
this for over six months, she was crying every other day,
what would people have done when the mother is not around?
So I was also grateful even if I wasn't working
at the time, But I was grateful the mother of
the child of crying baby was there.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Pretty and let me see you to.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Call them miss celebrate, you celebrate.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm Navifo wa Munga and this is the Uzazihab podcast
where motherhood meets business. In this episode, we are meeting
Joeia Nabooma, who is the founder, the Vision Bearer, the
I don't even know how to describe her of the
baby and kids, expot which happens every year. She's an
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events guru. She's been in the event space for over
fifteen years. She did eleven of those years in the
events department of the Vision Group. A lot of these
events that you have seen on TV in the newspapers,
she's one of the prominent people behind them. She has
an events company called Kiara Event and she's a mom
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doing business and that's why she's here. Please welcome Jury
and a boomer.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm happy to be here and I can't wait to
dig into the details of motherhood and events planning and
the baby and kids explot Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You're very, very welcome, And so tell me. Let's go
back to the beginning. Where did motherhood find you? Did
it find you in the corporate world? Did it find you,
you know, in school? Like where did it find you?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Lucky for me, it found me in the corporate world.
Done with school, done with university. Started working when I
was started working second Yar campus at Observer, so somehow
ended up Advision Group as a pea to the chief
operations by then and then led me to events management.
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So motherhood found me there when I was in that
space of organizing events. So the job was very, very demanding.
I can't tell you how demanding that job was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I used to.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Move from Kampala to Guru to sorot It little person regard.
I was there because we had properties there, we had
radios there, we had newspapers all over, TVs everywhere, so
I was everywhere. So a baby comes and I'm like,
oh my god, where am I going to start? So
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because of that demanding job and the baby's here, now
I have to shop. I have no idea the first
thing about babies, the first thing about motherhood, and I'm like, okay,
where am I going to start?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's just like.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That's where I can go and find all the information
about babies or the products for babies and everything to
do with motherhood. And that gave birth to the baby
and kids events.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wow, that is that is amazing. You know. But we
had a conversation or we've had conversations prior to this,
and you told me becoming a mom was not just
you know, when we are younger, our parents threaten us.
They're like, if you come home with a baby, your
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dad you know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So you HAVEE is over.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, so you have this thing in your head that
the moment I try to be instant and then when
you start trying, that's when the rude awakening, you know,
comes it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So was it instant for you or I really doubt
it was instant for me? But we tried and tried
until the baby came. But I didn't even think us
trying then. The first baby, I didn't even think I
was trying. But the second who was real trying. It
was real trying. So it did come easy. But we
(05:06):
tried and tried. So one of the specialists are very
good gynecologists that HK who gave us ideas on how
to get pregnant, and they checked me thoroughly to find out, Okay,
for you, it is not easy. This is what you
are supposed to do to get pregnant. And that helped
a lot because many of us we don't know what
is happening and we keep it to ourselves. Everyone thought
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us on maybe family planning. I have never used family
planning in my entire life. I don't even know what
they use. I don't even know what they use. I'm like, no,
I've never taken any of those things. I don't even
know them. So it is not as easy as we
thought that you just get pregnant just like that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So when the second baby became.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Five years after the other one, five years, five years
after the other one, and it's after we're like, maybe
there's a problem, but you don't even think it's a
problem because you have a first bone. So we take
long to know, oh, there is actually a problem. Now
you should consult experts. So yeah, the one that the
second one came after five years, but yeah, she.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Finally got here. She finally.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
A long waited but she got here. And worrying about
my first baby. For me, it was a doll dress up,
take pictures.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It was smooth.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was really smooth for the first one. But the
second one, oh yeah, twala speed this speed, speed in
your It was not easier at all. But with all
the challenges and everything that we went through as a couple,
they gave me these ideas on how to make it
easier for mothers out there, and this pushed the baby
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and kids explain my head, I need to do this,
I need to do this, I need to sort this
for others. Others should have it so easy.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I now see that the origin and so with let
me just take you back a bit during that during
that struggle trying to have the second baby, did it
take a toll on your on your marriage, on your
on your relationship it If it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Did, I think my other my other one was strong.
If it did, I didn't notice, at least not from him.
I didn't notice, maybe from me and then my mom
and then friends asking what is happening i' music If
you don't, If you don't, you know that kind of talk,
Maybe there is a problem. But I kept saying, but
(07:34):
I gave birth already, so it should be easy. But
it's not that it's not that easy.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So maybe maybe did.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But he tried to support as much as possible, and
eventually when the baby came, were waiting he got to
have that baby. Yeah, and I think it was also
a miscarriage at some point before this one came o.
Can even this one is gone, and for most of us,
we don't know what causes these things. Maybe the stress
that the work was so stressing. I can't tell you
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how stressing that job was. It was so stressing. Took
told me probably I couldn't get pregnantive and maybe you
take a one year off. I'm like, hey, I can't
sit that home for Yeah, I can't. I can said
at home one you're without working. So eventually you said
you know it will come. When we visited they told
us what to do. Then it is this app called Flow.
(08:25):
I went to Flow to track by oodulation. So ah,
God answered our prayers and was Soper excited?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So before you thought about the baby and kids expo,
had you tried to like find all these different service
providers for yourself and had a challenge and then also
the products you don't like take us through your thought process.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Actually I didn't. I just kept thinking, you just go
to US market and buy you just I didn't even
try to meet service providers and even try.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's when you get a challenge and then you're like,
how do I use this?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
M I see how many spoons of porage do I
put in these?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Blah blah blah. Some have instructions, some don't.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Or maybe you have you have overdosed the child, or
maybe you have over done it, or maybe you have
overcooked it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
My God, with babies, it's different.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So all these things gave me this idea of you
know what, we should talk to service providers. We should
talk to people who have these products. They know best
how we can use these things. They know best how
we can gain value from these things. So I really did,
I did. I just sat there and I'm like, so
where do I start to just go read the instructions
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on the box.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
If they don't help, You're done. You're done yet. We
should we should be better than that. Yeah, should be
better than that. Very true for me.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I must say when I discovered the Baby and Kids
Expose last year promotional material for the Baby and Kids exponent,
actually before I discovered it, your marketeers are relentless. Oh
my god, I got attacked from from each angle. I
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think it was like five different people.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Because you have such a brilliant idea.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Every moth that needs it, every parent, by the way,
was you saw us? I mean the other day my
friend wanted so probably just go to the order and
they would delivered your doorsteps.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's such a brilliant product. We must have.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Who if you don't have it's like a one has Junior,
Why don't you have with your phone or one of
your apps has something you go to to sort you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Out with all your baby issues. It will suit you. Wow.
So that's why that's why we look for you? We
had had.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We heard it for you, well said, now I know
who to pay the next time I need someone to
talk about two. Yeah, but it was it was crazy
because I got five different people telling me why aren't
you part of the Baby and Kids expo? And then
when I finally had the conversation with you, it was
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a no brainer. You know. I immediately got the concept
and the idea, and I looked back at my own
story when I was becoming a mom. I mean, I
think that the background idea is kind of the same.
You're looking for things you don't know where to start
when you I first saw a breast pump when I
had challenges for you know, breastfeeding. I'd never heard of
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a breast pump before in my life, you know. And
some of these products you don't hear about them until
you have that issue. Yes, you just have that actual
then you seek the specialist. Then the specialist tells you
about this thing, and you're like, what is that? You know,
and then you know. Then it's like a backward thing.
(12:12):
So if we have this space where all these it's
like a behind the scenes with some of these manufacturers,
some of these you know, different service providers where you
can ask all the one million questions that you have.
It was a no brainer. It was a no brainer
for me. And we attended last year and it was amazing.
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It was amazing. I got to have my still jobs moment,
you know, launching and.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It was really great.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And I must say, I don't even know how to
put this into words. The faith and the trust that
you had in me.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Was we did because we were like, you know what
everyone should leave when you have this up. There are
so many times you can't reach that shop. Yeah, there
are so many times you don't have that time. Maybe
you're out of town. People at home may these things
they will deliver. I mean, like you said, it's no.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So as a disclaimers is a sponsor, Yes it is,
but it's but it's from the whole. Honestly, we're really
passionate about this. And when you were when you are working, mom,
how did you how did you juggle? You know, like
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you're working, you have to go. You have a very
demanding job. You have this idea, you know, this brainchild,
and you're looking at how can I interact with all
these different people? But you have a job, you have
a partner. You have kids, So how did the idea
get out of your head onto? Did you first put
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it on paper? Did you first talk to people?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Actually I remember how so I had the idea.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But you know, we never start.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Right down things, but we never start so one of
that I don't know if it's a training. I had
to do. A vision group sent me to keep Town
to see the bridal expot there. So I get there
and I'm like, oh my god. So I sit down
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with the organizer. So I'm talking to him like, I
have this idea I need to do. Why haven't you
done it? Mm hmm, why haven't you done it?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You see, just do it.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
This is the organized organized of the other ones.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
She told me, baby stuff, there's no limit to it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It would be a big event. I'm like, you know,
I don't most of us we don't have money. I
don't have I don't have that edge to me, you see.
She's like, just start, even if you start small.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So I come back to you literally the next week,
I sit down and start writing the proposal.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So I send her a message I started. Good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
She doesn't even know. Now this is the third edition
pro never know. Maybe I should send her message she's
just start. We all have these ideas, but we never start.
So she really encouraged me to start. And of course
I have the best support system around me, my friends,
my family. I don't I meet you, Oh my god,
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I agree less the supports have the best friends in
the world, have the best family in the world. And
then I meet the exhibitor. It has become the event,
during our event, during our event.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So we are blessed. We are blessed. We are blessed
to have each.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
One of all the exhibitors, the friends, the staff, oh
the stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It was one of the most professional events I have
ever attended. I mean, like, I recommend you with confidence.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That team Bambi.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
They did everything to see this idea come back to
life because we had launched in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And of course there's something like that this event is expensive,
Will we manage? Will we manage?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And then that gap that you create with thinking that
maybe you're not good enough, maybe you're a small brand.
People will not trust you with their brands. You know
what I said, don't trust me, trust me. I'm coming back.
I came back. We relaunched during census. When we're thinking
no one is going to show up. They turned up
and we were so humbled. Okay, and we gave.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
It our second, the best best, and this year.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I may when I say where no, I love you
have this other element of professionalism that is very rare
and I really commend you on that. If I was
like a quarter percent sold, the way you executed was
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like out of this world. How do you maintain your
work ethic? How do you maintain your professionalism? Because I
was with you for a lot of the behind the sceneo.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Your holding.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Because it was a trying time outside of that, but
you maintained the professionalism. You maintained the how can I
put it? You had this demeanor and even the way
your staff was executing. Is that something that you learned?
Like did you do leadership skills? Did you do how
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did How are you able to maintain because some of
those times were really yeah, stuff is the word and
a lot of disappointment, a lot of rejection. But had
stayed up?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Did you do a course?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know I get that a lot. How do you
manage people?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yes, people?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Management is that part?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Had it is really hard and I'll say it's I
think it's a natural. I've never done a course. I
don't know any of those courses or any of those
but in my own way somehow, I don't know if
it's natural, but it comes off like you just respect
each other.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I am not going to take you for granted.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Ben, If you're a staff for my friend, I'm never
going to take you for granted. Just respect each other.
Do what you're supposed to do, and I do. I
have to act as a leader. If I am going
to do something, I do it to the best of
my knowledge. I don't know how to do basics. I
don't know how to do to do something because both
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are to me Simlar boss. I want to do something
to the best of my knowledge and tell my guest
gang on me. So I do it to the best.
And some people do this. Caan is watching Casta, Novan
is doing this. I don't have that. When you give
me a job, I'll do it to the best of
my knowledge. So when I get a sponsor on board
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and I said I'm going to give you eleven benefits,
I even take each one of them to make sure
that my sponsor is happy, because if they're not happy,
they're not going to come back. If I promise the exhibitors, David,
I'm not going to do one or two. I am
going to do everything I promised. I am a woman
of my word, and my word is everything to me.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I vouch my word is everything to me. I never
ever want.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
To break my I feel so bad when I go
back on my word, and I'll call you and I
explain to you a thousand times, and I apologize, and
I make it right if I can, unless it's really
out of my but I will always make it right.
So that respect for each other, respect for someone's business.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Gets me here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It gets me to doing everything that I'm supposed to do,
not losing my call. Because if you lose your cool,
now you're disorganizing the whole team. Many are the lead,
and now you're disorganized, everyone will be disorganized. And I
keep telling people evens have no second chances. You can't
say the event them next week to them. It only
has one chairs, it only.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Has one chance. So at the back of my mind,
I know we have one chance to do this. There
is no.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Room for mistakes, for regrets. So that is I don't
know how I got there. I I've never done any courses.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
But somehow I manage I think you need I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I don't know how, but I think it comes with
the thing of I have to deliver.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I promised and I have to.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, because the people management was it was, it was,
it was tick, and you know, I kept, you know,
picking behind. I could see you had the organization, you
had the WhatsApp groups, you had that. You know, it
was all sports. And I had good partners. Oh my god,
my partners were very good.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Let me tell you, I don't know. God chose that team.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm telling you God chose that team because everyone was
into this and you can tell positive energyournal do like people,
we have to we will do it, will do it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So it was.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
It was a huge, huge success despite the census because
the only thing we had was the Census being on
the same day. The proper can around.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You can't go out. You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
If you go out, this will happen. But we still
registered over oney five hundred people. We still do do
register that, so expect more and more times times times
the numbers we've got last year. More exhibitors. Most of
them are saying, first, do this one. We don't know
this brands, but some no jewelry and Nabum, but they
(22:16):
don't know the name of company. So those who know
Jury and my mother, she's the best events organizer, but
those who don't know you. So I had to do
a lot of face to face Oh joeyry Oh, it's you.
So yeah, we had those challenges, but we pray that
this year is even going to be bigger.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
No, it's definitely going to be bigger and better because
now there's some sort of brand, brand awareness, and I
can see your starting early. I mean you started last year.
I'm preparing for five months, you know. So it's it's
really remarkable. One of the reasons why I really wanted
(23:00):
to have this moment with you on the podcast, outside
of being a sponsor of the Baby and Kids Explore,
outside of being passionate about what the expo stands for,
is to showcase, you know, to showcase the behind the
(23:22):
scenes of Joe Area. Now, because I met this wonderful
human being, you know, who has such positive energy around her,
how do you maintain that positive energy around you? And
are you just a magnet who attracts positive positive people?
(23:47):
Do you meditate? Like, how do you how do you
stay home when things are when things are tough. How
do you stay? You know, because you will have the
exhibitors upset about this thing, you will have the service
providers upset about this thing. You'll have this thing not
going right, but somehow you maintain the composure and you
(24:11):
have really good people around you. So is it something
that you're intentional about?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Is it? Like I think?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Also, I think it also starts with her I was
born hm hmm. I can't say I'm a dull person.
There's no dull moment around me, with my family.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
My friends.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Ever I go, that's how I am. And then also
I don't like sad moments. I don't like us being there.
We're not going to do my no.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'm a happy person, always happy, hyper like.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
But you don't require your You're you're high on sort.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're high inside. I'm like, no, guys, we need to
be happy even when we are working. You find me joking.
Think I was born like that. There's really I'm not intentional.
If you phone me really stressed, it won't even last
thirty minutes and I'm back to my normal self. Something
will tress me a bit. Think what am I going
to do? Papa, Papa, and I'm out of it now,
(25:14):
let's move and like things dragging me down. So there's
really no magic around it. I was born like that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
That is so, that is such a that is such
a blessing. It is a blessing if you look back
at that time, you know, when you were struggling to
have kids, immediately after you had your second bone, specifically
(25:45):
those tough nights, those tough days.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now the second bone was tough. I had left vision
group and then I didn't have a job, but still
thinking what am I going to do next?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Then a baby comes.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I didn't work for an entire year, and the baby
was a cry baby, not.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Just collick, you know collick, Yeah, not to some colleague
was colleaging.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, and then she continued after collage, I'm like, it's
passed through.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Why I still crying?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Why I'm still crying?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So I at least I had time for her, because
I imagined if I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
At home and this baby cries like this for over.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Six months, she was crying every other day, what would
people have done when the mother is not around. So
I was also grateful even if I wasn't working at
the time. But I was grateful the mother of the child.
A crying baby was there. I was there to attend
to her. It was very stressing. I got into some
kind of mini depression, got myself out of it, started
(26:55):
to work again, and work makes me up. Started to
work again and I'm like, okay, something to distract me
from Brian crying crying, crying, And yeah, I was glad
I had that time with her for that long because
she was not easy. She was falling sick. Because the
first baby, like I said, I was like, people.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Exaggerate motherhood is the best.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm here enjoying life, my baby, my toy, my doll
I walk around with.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The second was like, no, actually it is hard. It
is hard to add both. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So yeah, somehow I managed because I had the time.
I had a holier with her.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So immediately after that, when you got back into work,
is that when you created CREA Events It No.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Cre Events was created in twenty sixteen, well, while still
at Vision Group, but I was doing weddings, quangular planning, weddings, planning, introductions,
planning showers, planning birthdays, planning small, small, small events. Now
to blow out was we did the We first watched
(28:04):
the baby and kids explo in twenty sixteen. Then after
that we took some time without doing it now to
blow out full fledged car events was recently twenty twenty,
I think twenty twenty. Then COVID came. Then we will
took a break. The immediately the president said events are
back on. We went all out. We went all out.
(28:28):
But the good thing is people already knew the face,
people already near the name, so they can't trust some reason,
for some reason, anyone wants to do an exhibition, they
will always recommend me. So I've done so many exhibitions
for others as well. So they want an exhibition jee area?
What an exhibition?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Jee area?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So we've done so many exhibitions. One of the best
expressions I've done. Yeah, well after COVID.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah yeah no.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So what what words would you give either a mom
who's transitioning into let me say, a working woman transitioning
into motherhood or a mom who's in the thick of
it those ali those early days. Any one two three
(29:18):
tips that you would give I remember, other than coming
to the baby.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And kids, I remember what also helped me.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
There's this this website called BabyCenter.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yes, yes, oh.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A lot of babys and all the time when a
baby's two much what they're supposed to be eating, their behavior,
how are you I supposed to fit them, I was
supposed to treat them, and what they're likely to have
and their understanding. So I consulted a lot on babycent
(29:51):
I used to read a lot of babies and I
would get a reminder of your baby is now, remanks,
this is what they're going to be doing, your babies now.
So I consulted a lot because it was my first time,
especial when you first time mother. There are so many
things that you don't know. So I consulted it a lot.
Consulted it a lot, and then take each day as
it comes. We want to plan for threeman see you,
(30:13):
you're already looking for you looking actually natary schools, the university. Again,
take each day as it comes, and ask a.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There are so many people out there who know I'm
glad my mother is still here, but I think God
every day my mother is still here. We can ask
as many questions as possible and don't take anything for
even if it's a people here, it can become something.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So with babies, you have to ask. Leave the WhatsApp group,
stop asking people to questions to people. I do it.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I do it like this. This is what I use.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
This cartot is different from the other, so you have
to ask as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
So if I wanted to know more, because this conversation
I feel like could go on forever. Where do I
find Joelry and Nabooma? Where do I find you?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So Joery and Abuma is the SEEO Care Events Limited.
We organize all kinds of events from carton to the
biggest I mean biggest, like the President is coming. What
do I do? We have ambassadors coming?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Where doing that?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
We organize all kinds of from a shower to our
wedding to everything. And we have all these social media pages.
Some are called care events limits care Events. Then others
are called Baby and Kids Export. If you want to
know everything about the baby and kids explore. We'll tell
you who should exhibit. If you deal in products for babies,
(31:51):
services for babies that is food, clothing, health education shown.
You are all welcome and g os government government resettles that.
We'll talk about the health things and our theme this
year is healthy mom, healthy baby, what a healthy man?
(32:13):
And a healthy baby. Yeah, so take care more and
that baby is okay. So everything to do with mother's expectant,
mother's products for all of them. You're welcome to the
Baby and Kids Export is going to be this May
from ninth to eleventh at Marshall Grounds. You're all welcome.
(32:33):
Please come find us book your stalls. Store were already
booking stores.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know. We already have over twenty stores booked in January.
Very encouraging.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Last time we had last minute, but it's better we
book Alice, so we plan for you as an exhibitor
as a partner. We also give you strategies on how
to milk this event properly. How do you benefit from this?
How do you get people to come to your store.
I'm excited I'm going to that the stall because we
have told them prior to the event that these are
(33:04):
the things that he has. So the person comes to
your stall with Q and A only questions because they
already know you have this. You have the word, do
I find this out? Do I get the app? All
those things, so it is very important we book now.
And because you have a very good marketing team, they
also give us our clients free tips on how to
(33:24):
get their products out there.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So if you're expecting, if you're thinking of expecting, if
you have a young baby, you didn't even talk about
the fun activities.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Fun activities there.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I still get. I still get messages of the painting. Yes,
first painting, first painting, but also the painting. We had
these where kids sat and painted their own pictures and
then they made their own books and colored them. They
were so exit had so much. I still get comments
(33:59):
up today. Oh my god, that was the most organized event.
We are so glad you had all these different activities
for the children, not just the bouncing ca so it's
not just the swimming, but they lant. Then the event
only has children's entertainment. We're never going to have an
adult harmon and sing on that stage.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
If you're so old.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They may be fifteen years, maybe fifteen years, which wall
give and allowed, but it is.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
A children's stage.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So even that entertainment, all the entertainment is for children.
That's why you had the Gettle kids performed for three years.
So we are trying to see who is going to
come on board this year. We're going to surprise you.
I don't know if you had about Valentino and the
kids dancing sousa. Oh yeah, wait and say sneak pick.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Might have Valentino this year coming on board.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So we are really thinking on giving the best entertainment
but also kids land, even sports because there are so
many parents who are who don't know where to take
their children for sports here.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, so we could talk own, but I guess we'll
have another another one closer to the to the events,
you know, because the best thing about you is your
professionalism and I think we can all learn something from
(35:19):
from that. So with that being said, we've unfortunately ran
out of time, but next time. There will be next time.
And to all the awesome moms out there, you're doing
a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You are.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You are, I see you.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You're doing a great job. So it's not leave us
a comment like subscribe. See you on the next one
when you can.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
A baby mom almost your number.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You're getting again?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Google came, who kid is a gun?
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