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MEET OUR SPEED MENTORS | PART 1

One conversation can change your direction. One connection can open a new door.

We’re excited to introduce the incredible mentors joining us at the 2026 Lead-HER-Ship Summit!

Meet our first group of mentors:
Dennis Agbegha @dennis_agbegha
Jean Bruce Koua @jaybeeknows
Lauretta Pearse @pheyisethan
David Bradshaw
Kazir Coulibaly
Toyosi Amujoyegbe
Wati Rahmat

Through our Speed Mentorship session, participants will connect with an incredible range of professionals across generations and career paths, including diplomats, lawyers, executives, community leaders, entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, and more! They’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, gain insights from diverse journeys, and discover how every career path can connect to international relations, diplomacy, and global impact. 💜

🗓️Saturday, October 24, 2026
📍 YWCA Calgary
🎟️FREE to attend | Link in bio

Come ready to connect, learn, and lead!

✨Be Inspired. Be Challenged. Be Empowered✨

#LeadHERShip2026 #UboraWomensInitiative #SpeedMentorship #WomenInLeadership #YouthEmpowerment

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Take a chance you might grow!!

Join us for the 2nd Annual Lead-her-ship Summit on October 24th at YWCA Calgary!

Whether you're coming from Calgary or taking advantage of our FREE round-trip bus shuttle from Edmonton and Red Deer, we’ve made it easier than ever to be in the room.

Limited FREE spots available, link in bio to register.

#fyp #calgary #edmonton #reddeer #unitednations

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We have an update. Our Elev team is thankful for the stage, the community, and every person who’s believed in this before any of it was guaranteed. Onward, affordable home for students

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Come for the food, stay for the connection. 🤎

A few moments from the Creator Corner at @originaljerkandjollof 2026.

P.S. If we missed your tag, let us know! ✨

📷: @lebenemawutor

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What happens when you create a space specifically for creators? ❤️💛💚

While working on creator partnerships for Jerk & Jollof Festival, we wanted creators to have more than an invitation—they needed a space to connect, create, and enjoy together.

That became the Creator Corner.

We kept it simple: a dedicated table, comfortable seats, games like Ludo and Dominoes, and a space for creators to get food, sit, meet, and take a break from the festival. Watching the table fill with conversations, food, and laughter was the best part. 🥹

For us, creator partnerships aren’t only about attendance or posts; the experience matters too.
A look at the Creator Corner we brought to life for @originaljerkandjollof 2026. 💚💛❤️

🧠& 📹: @lebenemawutor
Assist: @fafali.mawu_
✂️: @kofigramm

P.S. We tried our best to tag everyone featured — if we missed you, let us know so we can tag you!

#creatorpartnerships #influencermarketing #eventexperience

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IT’S OFFICIAL — LEAD-HER-SHIP IS BACK! 💜✨

Following the incredible energy of our inaugural summit, we’re bringing Lead-HER-Ship Summit 2026 back, bigger, bolder, and bringing together young women and emerging leaders from across Alberta.

This year’s theme:

✨ Be Inspired - Be Challenged - Be Empowered ✨

Join us for a full day of leadership, mentorship, inspiring conversations, interactive workshops, networking, and connection designed to help young women build their confidence, expand their networks, and lead with purpose.

🗓️Saturday, October 24, 2026
📍YWCA Calgary
🚌 FREE shuttle available from Edmonton & Red Deer
🎟️ Registration is OPEN — Click link below!

Whether you’re from Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, or anywhere in between, we want you there.💜

Come ready to learn. Come ready to connect. Come ready to lead!

#foryourpage #fyp #calgary #alberta #women

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At FoundersOutlook, we’ve had the incredible opportunity to have meaningful conversations with some truly inspiring founders who opened up about their journeys, challenges, lessons, and the experiences behind their businesses.

From Chidera Ogueri, founder of @drinkzohbo , to @jaybeeknows , co-founder of @elevhomes ; Opeyemi Osuntokun, founder of @leiraeventandmedia Events; and Fashad Tajidin, founder of @thrivecitystudio

Each founder shared a different story, but one thing remained the same: building a business is a journey filled with lessons, challenges, growth, and courage.

We’re grateful to every founder who has trusted us with their story.

And this is only the beginning.

#Founders #Entrepreneurship #StartupJourney #BusinessGrowth #FounderStories

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Amazing food, beautiful people, great energy and such a good day @originaljerkandjollof 🌶️✨

From creator moments and on-site content to vendor stories and all the little moments in between, I loved capturing and supporting the JJF Creator Experience this year.

Thank you to everyone who came through, supported, created, shared, ate and connected. 🥹❤️

🎥 @lebenemawutor
✂️ @kofigramm

Creators: @eunyowusu
@reveebrown
@michelle0kere
@ohhitsnana
@_uelnsofor
@jaybeeknows
@winamsel
@dddemilade
@benose
@selectedbusinesses
@foodieedwin
@laizaking
@_queenteefah_
@mbsrun
@j.fernandes3
@jtfernandes30

Food/drink vendors:
@drksuyaalberta
@eventsbylush
@kaieteurkitchen
@honeytreats.ca
@treatedsweetlyca
@blackspice_canada
@deolasdelights
@enjoynribs
@thechopshq
@delysflavors
Island Flavaz
Mealie

Marketplace:
@hennabyashiyana
@tinaolbodycare
@kulturalkollection
@1nonlybeauty
@wear.cindee
@ydayoade
Cue Beige

Performances: @og.jonah @melafrique_ @jscopemusic @joyful_noise_entertainment DJ Darkk Drifter

If you spot someone I missed, tag them below so I can show them some love. ❤️

#JerkAndJollofFest #JJF2026 #CreatorExperience #Diaspora #foodandculturefestival

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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s August 28th in a few of them 💕

The Advice Constellation opened with a bingo icebreaker that had strangers introducing themselves before the program even started. From there, our panel of six community leaders dug into questions about risk, balance, and what leadership actually feels like day to day, no polished answers, just real ones. Then the room broke into small groups, each one paired with mentors from across the city, working through prompts about advice, trajectory, and what we wish someone had told us sooner.

Somewhere in the middle of the night, people wrote notes to their past, present, and future selves. Those notes stayed up on the walls until we closed the evening in one final circle, going around the room one more time before saying goodnight.

This is what reciprocity looks like when you build a room for it.

Swipe through for a look inside the night 💫

#ECHOFORMstories #ArtivismCohortYEG #TheAdviceConstellation #YEG #Mentorship

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"Storytelling makes us feel less alone" — Lily Yağmur Gosling, Edmonton Learners Collective.

That line stuck with us long after The Advice Constellation wrapped.

On August 28, our closing session for the 2026 Artivism Cohort brought together mentors, panelists and community members for a night that moved from a panel conversation into small-group roundtables, each one built around a shared thread.

We grouped our roundtables intentionally: reps from the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, iHuman and a talented creative around creative practice as a form of leadership. Albertan Parents Protecting Public Learning & Education, Edmonton Learners Collective, and Climate Justice Edmonton around advocacy and lived experience. Ujima Fellowship, the ELITE Program for Black Youth and Elev around leadership and opportunity. Aiya Collective and She Said around storytelling as a tool for memory and voice. And Alberta Mentoring Partnership with interVivos, two organizations built entirely around the practice of mentorship itself.

Mentorship isn't one-directional, and Friday proved it. Youth taught mentors as much as mentors taught youth, and every table left with something they didn't walk in with 💕

Our full reflection on the evening will be live on our Substack soon, link in bio: https://publishing.echoxform.org/

#ECHOFORMstories #ArtivismCohortYEG #TheAdviceConstellation #YEG #Mentorship

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"Take a risk. It's the most Edmonton thing you can do."

Moving to Alberta was a risk. Attending that event was a risk. But you know what happened at the end? I have found myself in a community who understands and supports my wildest dreams.

Thank you @echoxform for bringing us together, putting out a thoughtfully designed lab for all the incredible and (a little bit of crazy) dreamers who just show up on a Friday nite!

It's for sure that stories make us feel less lonely in this world. We need to hear and share more!

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Meet two more of the mentors joining us for The Advice Constellation 💕

Housing, education and everything in between, mentorship in this room isn’t sticking to one lane:
💫 Jean Bruce Koua — Co-Founder and COO of Elev Homes, an Edmonton-born student housing company that’s supported over 3,000 students through their housing journeys. Named one of Alberta’s Top 30 Under 30, Jean Bruce also mentors early-stage entrepreneurs through Edmonton Unlimited and NAIT, all grounded in one philosophy: leave the world better than you found it.
💫 Kennedy Daniels Peterson — founder of APPPLE (Albertan Parents Protecting Public Learning and Education), a grassroots project using photography, storytelling, and community engagement to advocate for public education in Alberta. A freelance photographer, writer, and mother of two, Kennedy brings both lived and professional experience to the table.

This is what The Advice Constellation is built on, people from completely different corners of the community, all showing up to be honest about what they’ve learned ✨

📍 Edmonton Public Library, Stanley A. Milner
🗓️ Aug 28, 2026 | 6:00-8:30 PM

Link to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-advice-constellation-a-mentorship-circle-in-edmonton-tickets-1993496448541

Learn About ECHOFORM: https://linktr.ee/echoxform

#ECHOFORMstories #ArtivismCohortYEG #TheAdviceConstellation #YEG #Mentorship

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