Elizabeth Bananuka’s Post

This is the second of my third posts about #MakeCommsGreatAgain: I’m calling this one ‘A Shoutout to Some Great Humans Whose Kindness Meant a Lot’. When you’re a one-person business spinning a lot of plates and having to deal with health dramas - I’m good now, thanks 😊 🙏🏿 - throwing spanners in the works, it really is the kindness of others that helps you dig deep and keep on keeping on. Thank you, thank you, thank you to… - My incredible, generous, lovely advisors and rocks who’ve been on this conference journey with me since the early summer: Claire Quansah; Daljit Bhurji, Kristian Hoareau Foged 💭 (loved Big Manny? Thank Kristian for the suggestion 🥰); Adrian Ma and Julian Obubo 🙏🏿💕 - To my incredible crew of talented and lovely creatives and also rocks: Simba Zvobgo (branding); Karl Allen (web design) and Efe Otokiti (editor) 🙏🏿💕 - The wonderful humans in the companies who backed this idea (without a programme or speaker on board) and made it possible for the event to happen: Tim Chatwin; Jen Jamie, Nik Govier; Valerie Holloway; Anna Terrell; Jo Carr; Nicola Hepke; Suzanne Morris; Kate Clover and Kristian Hoareau Foged. 🙏🏿💕 - The wonderful humans who came to my rescue at moments of crisis and went above their JDs: Nyree Connell; Henry Rowling; Nik Govier; Doyel Maitra; Matt Brown; Armand David, Avril Lee, Karen Tippett-Lehane and Ben Bailey 🙏🏿💕 - To wonderful humans who showed support and went above and beyond: Ete Davies; Abbie Sampson and Ebony Gayle MCIPR dip CIPR 🙏🏿💕 - To strangers on the internet who I’ve never met or worked with who bowled me over with their kind messages: Andrew Bloch; Laura Peters; Lee Andrews; Esther Kuku Chart.PR (MCIPR); Simon Redfern; Nicola Peckett; Ginny Paton and Sophie Raine 🙏🏿💕 - To not-strangers on the internet (🥰) who sent me lovely messages with kind words I didn’t realise I needed to hear (or read 🤔 🙃): Rachel Allison; Harriet Morgan; Gemma Juma and Sebastian Gordon 🙏🏿💕 I’ve always said BME PR Pros is like a pyramid scheme of goodness and working on this conference was a reminder of that. I’m a Black, African, immigrant woman and a one-person business at that. I don’t have much money and not many resources and I’m trying to diversify an industry that is nearly 90% white. The #MakeCommsGreatAgain conference only happened because of the kindness of many. So, thank you all (and the many people LinkedIn’s limit wouldn’t allow me to tag). 🙏🏿 💕 Whether you advised, funded, posted, created, supported or cheered me on, it meant something to me. Thank you. 🙏🏿💕 [PS Sorry for the mass tagging. 😬🙏🏿] [PPS I have had lots of lovely messages and comments which have given me all the feels in the last 24-48 hours (🥹🥰) that I haven’t had a chance to respond to. Please bear with. 🙏🏿❤️💕]