Beardfluence speaks to Lekan, maverick Management Consultant and Co-Founder of Capital Moments on all things personal finance, dealing with your debt and getting into a City career. What is Management Consulting in Capital Markets and how did you make this your career? Management Consulting in Capital Markets essentially involves provide consulting & advisory services for financial service firms operating within the capital markets, including but not limited to investment banks, commercial banks, asset managers and financial infrastructure firms. At a high level, you're involved in projects and transformation exercises to increase a firm's revenue or reduce their costs and as such impact positively on their profitability. At a more tactically level, my role is more focussed on large scale...
Critically acclaimed London based writer, JJ Bola, speaks on all things Men's mental health, self-care and gives an insight into his life as a writer. Who is JJ Bola? Writer & Poet You stated in your January 2020 Guardian article that we need to 'redefine manhood' and that 'our warped ideas regarding masculinity are causing a mental health crisis', - what in your view are those warped ideas around masculinity and how can we get away from them? Ideas such as men are strong, men don’t cry, etc. These notions that limit our expression as men or try to sexualise affection between men as “gay” or soft. These notions cause a disconnect among us; it forces us to disconnect from our emotions, which...
Why isn't my beard growing? For the large part it could likely be just genetics, which (unless you are a super smart genetic scientist!) unfortunately we can't change. What we can change for the better however is our routine and regime for caring for our facial hair. Here are our top tips: 1. Exfoliation Dead skin and trapped hair may be hindering your growth and trapping the hair shaft from flourishing. We highly recommend using an exfoliator without microbeads. 2. Let it grow out Give at least 4-6 weeks of constant growth to allow your beard to grow as evenly as possible, this will allow you to see what your full beard should look like. 3. Supplements Zinc is useful...
