Ebunoluwa Okusanya
Temmy Balogun is a Nigerian media Entrepreneur and Founder of Espact, a Pan African digital firm, promoting African Brands globally through digital storytelling, focusing on entrepreneurs, talents and innovations.
Temmy founded her firm in 2016, which initially started off as ‘Temmy Balogun’, but as her enthusiasm and passion for impacting lives of youths grew, she rebranded the firm in January 2019 into what is called Espact today in order to spark creativity and portray its slogan, ‘Outside the box’.
Espact creates digital contents to tell stories of entrepreneurs across the continents, brands, talents, innovations and achievements. These contents are often derived from researches and exclusive interviews on and with entrepreneurs, start-ups, and individuals with innovative ideas, achievements, entrepreneurial journeys, or success stories.
These stories are compiled and presented on digital platforms like social media pages and the company website. Espact tells these entrepreneurial stories in an intriguing and inspiring manner in order to incite and drive the empathy of Espact audience who read the story from across 20 countries across the world.
The platform reaches over 2million audience in Nigeria, United States, Ireland, Dubai, United Kingdom and 15 more countries. The stories which goes viral on the Espact platform drives the attention of potential investors, customers, supports and many more to the entrepreneurs and their brands which in turn help them grow their business and its media presence.
The ever vibrant media entrepreneur, writer and publisher attributes her drive for entrepreneurial motivations to the inspirations she gets from people who make real impacts in their chosen fields.
Temmy Balogun enjoys surfing the internet in search of Africans who are doing well in their chosen fields and also impacting the continent positively with their ideas.
Through Digital storytelling and insights on entrepreneur journeys and also motivational contents shared on Espact platforms, Temmy Balogun has been able to touch lives of many youths and young entrepreneurs and start-ups across all known Espact’s social media platforms.
Temmy Balogun who was once interviewed by the founder of Women of Rubies, Esther Ijewere on Guardian Woman, shared with her audience what inspired her to establish Espact. She shared how she grew up with the zeal to touch, enrich and motivate people in the best way she can.
Temmy Balogun has had face-to-face interviews with top brands, entrepreneurs and media personalities in order to share their entrepreneur stories and motivate entrepreneurs who aim to achieve great entrepreneur success as them.
Amongst these entrepreneurs and celebrated personalities includes, Wole Soyinka (Nigeria’s number one Nobel Laureate), Honourable Desmond Elliot, Debo Adedayo (Mr. Macaroni), Seyi Awolowo, Timilehin Bello (Big Timi), Yomi Casual, Yomi Casual ( Fashion Designer), Linda Ikeji, Uti Nwachukwu, DO2tun and many others.
Through Espact platform where insights about entrepreneurs, career tips and practical entrepreneurship knowledge are shared by men and women of African descent who are leading lights in their fields. The initiative has in no little way helped a lot of youths and young entrepreneurs.
