‘We cannot fully step into our magnificence until we activate that which is lying dormant within us’

Spend time with someone who is filled with joy and self-belief and you can’t help but catch some of it for yourself. Enter Kageni, an infectious woman and profound thinker who assists women in living a life that is aligned and magnificent.

This episode explores Kageni’s tenacity right from her early years through to migrant life in Australia. She shares about her time at university and navigating her career as an Electrical Engineer before embarking on a transformational journey that would see her ask, ’Lord why am I here?’ 

Today Kageni is the Creator of Magnificent Woman, Founder of School of Magnificence, a Soul Coach, Author and Award-Winning Speaker but her story begins in Kenya where she was born and placed into her grandmother’s loving arms to be raised. 

At age 5, Kageni would be adopted by her Aunt and Uncle who already had 10 children.

On adoption Kageni said, ‘I am in a house of ten and I feel invisible… The hardest thing when you’re adopted is you’ll always have other people reminding you, you are adopted…. It’s as if life was preparing me to be a migrant.’

From the beginning of her migrant journey in Australia, Kageni questioned the status quo. As a university student she was told she could work as a cleaner or a factory worker but rejected that idea, instead training to become a barista and working in the university café. 

With the odds stacked against migrants, Kageni successfully broke through job interview barriers faced by migrant women of colour and shared her greatest tips- 

•   Believe in yourself and prepare for your interview.

• Show up at the level you want to be, not the level you are. If you have to borrow a suit to wear to an interview then do it.

• You want to be a millionaire? Look like a millionaire. It doesn’t matter what is in the bank account. You really have to start embodying a millionaire.

• Walk in there as if you belong. If you show up with doubt you’ve already lost.

On saying goodbye to electrical engineering, Kageni experienced a moment of awakening which led her to explore soul coaching. She defines soul coaching as, ‘life coaching including wisdom from the past’.

Soul coaching, she says, ‘Gives her the ability to talk to her hidden gifts’. And she believes we all have gifts, ‘We have parts of ourselves that are so dormant just waiting for us to fully realise them….we cannot fully step into our magnificence until we activate that which is lying dormant within us.”

During this episode Kageni also dropped three steps to begin living a life of magnificence:

1. Realise magnificence is your divine self-worth – It’s who you are. It’s not something you become. You already are it. It’s been covered with layers such as self-limiting beliefs or external limitations. Accept that you are magnificent.

2. Use Affirmation- Ask yourself these questions –

   • Is this serving my magnificence? 

   • What is it that is costing my soul? 

   • How am I holding myself back? 

   • How are my thoughts serving my magnificence?

3. Turn Negatives to Positives- Once you start putting yourself down you’ve already lost the war before it begins.

Kageni shared the ‘Magnificence Prayer’ she teaches the women she works with: 

‘I am magnificent, I was born magnificent, I carry the love and the light of the creator within me. This is my power’. 

Say it until you believe it.

Connect with Kageni

Website- www.schoolofmagnificence.com 

Facebook- School of magnificence

Instagram- @schoolofmagnificence  

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With Love,

Annie

  

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