Topic: CONVERTING PAIN TO GAIN

Guest: AUGUSTINE AYODELE JOSEPH

Hello, my name is Augustine Ayodele Joseph. I would rather prefer to be called "Delz (the customer guy)." My Golden Rubbish experience for the year 2022 is an awesome one. This year was full of lots of ups and downs, down moments at low points that I felt oh it was the end, I will not be able to bounce back. But one thing I experienced is that throughout all of these times that I was at this low point, one way or another, God as a way of bringing me back and this is why I'm sharing this experience with Golden Rubbish for this year because starting from the 5th of January 2022 I had like this very terrible called about my older brothers and the battles we are going around at this time, I was also trying to really find my feet in the professional space, like in the area of customer success, I had just been moved to the department in the officer. Well, unfortunately, I lost my brother on February 14th, and I was like, "Oh, so this can actually happen to me." I've always heard people talk about it, but I've never suffered the loss of a loved one. So after the loss of my brother, I felt there was nothing else to live for. So life should just go, yes I contemplated maybe just do something crazy, stop work.

No, there's no point working again, just enjoy your life, just be you, no longer serious. But one way or another, there's this thing that I just felt in my spirit and as against doing this terrible thing, you know, I'll just dump everything here because there's no point working. I then discovered that there was actually a reason to walk. I turned my pain into passion, right? And at that point I began to walk and walk was working 24 hours a day. I was walking around like 24 hours around the clock every time my colleagues abroad, anybody that is in the US, in Estonia in Philippines in that’s in Asia, it looks like I'm living all of these times and I'm learning and paying attention to all of these people all at once and instead of three months I discovered that I have grown, I became better...

When you take on responsibility, you become scared and think to yourself, "I can't do this." But while we are another, if that challenge will come by 2:00am today, By 8:00pm yesterday God as a way of making providence and these things will just come in one way or another and you'll be able to move it. That's basically my Golden Rubbish experience for the year 2022. And now, in January 2023, I can say with certainty that the year 2022 was a very great year. I suffered not suffering but like this is good suffering. I mean, we're talking about Golden Rubbish. Yes, it looks like rubbish, all of the dirt that life throws at me, rather than just letting it pull me down. I was able to storm the weather and I became better and I can say for a fact categorically that this is just the beginning. I am here now. I have learnt that suffering challenges is part of human experience. Every suffering that comes away is just a way of making us better. Because God will never let a man go through a challenge that he or she cannot surmount, right before God allows the challenge to come, he has already provided the strength; his grace is sufficient to pull us through. Thank you very much. That's by my time.

I am Delz (the customer guy), and I have a wonderful 2023 ahead.