Usiere Uko

Biography

Usiere Uko is not your regular personal finance expert. He is a man on a mission - to inspire everyday folks to learn and rise above their circumstances and excuses and live life at their own terms. He loves comedy but prefers to use it to pass his message across with the hope that you will laugh and get it.

He calls himself a dreamer who lives next door to reality, and believes everyone owes it to himself to be what he was born t o be so that he can do what he was born to do.

Usiere is a teacher (not in the conventional classroom sense), columnist for Punch (AM Business) and Daily Trust (SME Business) Newspapers, He also writes Leadership & Lifestyle and Today’s Lifeline magazines.

Usiere is a rookie marathoner, got talked out of skydiving and believes in living life without limits. Usiere lives in Lagos Nigeria and is happily married with a lovely son and daughter.

Learn more at http://www.financialfreedominspiration.com/

Smashwords Interview

What makes you unique in your genre?
My voice, my experience, my journey. I don't have an accounting related degree nor worked in the financial services industry. I am from the opposite side of the tracks - and engineer who worked in the oil and gas industry.

I desired freedom to follow my passion and live my dreams. I want to give the voice back to others like me, who followed money and lost their way. I want them to know that if I who was one of them can make it, they too can.
What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Changing lives. I am almost reduced to tears each time I get a letter from a reading telling me what difference my writing has made in their lives. It makes it worthwhile, even if I get to do it for free
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Books

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