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Empowered

Empowered

Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose

Summary

'Dynamic and transformative... a roadmap for following your dreams.' Malala Yousafzai

Live your goals in 2025 with Vee Kativhu's thoughtful and considered guidance.

From leaving her home country of Zimbabwe for the UK, to attending disruptive state schools and working long hours to support herself and her mother, Vee Kativhu has faced much adversity.

But through personal hardship, she has triumphed, attaining a bachelor's degree from Oxford and a Master's from Harvard Now she is using her experience to help people from all over the world recognise their own talent and achieve their goals. Vee has spread her message of education, equal access and opportunity and empowerment to a global audience of over 300,000, and her incredible journey has inspired young people around the world in need of a boost of confidence, motivation and practical life advice.

In Empowered, Vee draws from her own journey to teach you how to:

1. Set your life goals, career aspirations and actually achieve them
2. Stay motivated in the face of rejection and hardship
3. Learn from your mistakes
4.Take chances, live your best life and don't let hardship define you
5. Cultivate feelings of self-love and self-empowerment

This book will inspire you how to live a more fulfilled, motivated and empowered life in everything you do.

'Touching, deeply inspiring and thought-provoking,'Jack Edwards, YouTuber and author of The Uni-Verse: The Ultimate University Survival Guide

Reviews

  • Empowered... provides plenty of inspiration for setting life and career goals, ranging from staying motivated in the face of rejection and cultivating self-love
    Caroline Saunderson, Sunday Express

About the author

Vee Kativhu

Vee Kativhu is a YouTube visionary, education activist and founder of the initiative, Empowered by Vee. She uses her platform to share tips and advice to help underprivileged and underrepresented people from across the world recognise their own talent and potential.

An Oxford and Harvard graduate, Vee has been named a Rare Rising Star, Future Leader, Diversity Champion and LinkedIn Changemaker. She has also been a BBC Teach presenter, TEDx speaker and a University, Empowerment and Academia Content Creator for YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn, achieving many other accolades in the process.

With a following of over 300,000 across her channels and her Empowered by Vee community, Vee is an inspiration to anyone who has faced adversity and made it through.
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