about

Hello friends! My name is Zoe Azebe-Osime and I want to welcome you to zizzlyzo.com! This blog has been a dream of mine for a long time and I am so happy that it is finally a reality. My goal for this blog is to share my heart and hopefully inspire, encourage and empower someone along the way.

I believe words are powerful. Words are vehicles. They carry power. They create environments. They cause change.

There have been many times that I felt discouraged, uninspired or disheartened and like a sign from God, I would see a tweet or Instagram post or a blog post (wink, wink) and suddenly my spirit would be awakened. Those words, those collections of letters, at the right time was exactly what I needed in that moment. So with this platform, if I have the privilege to do that for just one person, I will consider it a job well done.

“A tongue with one spark, can set a forest to blaze.”

“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.”

“Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.”

I hope as you read the words on this blog that you are inspired, encouraged and empowered.

With love,

Zoe ♥️



WHY

Some people may be wondering — “why make a blog?” “why now” “what do you have to say that I haven’t heard before?”

These are questions that I have actually asked myself over the last year and a half. This is my answer. This is why.

Why a blog? — Like I said in the “About” section, words are very powerful. Experts say that written words have more impact than spoken words and I love to write. It has proven to be the only medium why I can fully articulate myself and present my ideas in a conducive manner.

Why now? — This is a funny question because I should have launched this blog a long time ago, but I always found excuses to why I delayed it. Maybe it was fear, maybe it was doubt or maybe insecurity. Truthfully, it was all of the above. But then I realized that I am doubting God and disobeying for every day I refuse to release what He has given me. For as long as I can remember, I always battled with feeling inadequate, with feeling like I was incomplete in a certain way, with feeling like I wasn’t enough, because I did not have the “talents” or “gifts” everyone else around me seemed to possess. Whether it was the ability to sing, dance, draw, athleticism, everyone else seemed to have been blessed in a visible way. Whenever someone asked me what I could do or what my talents were, I always replied “Nothing. I can’t do anything”. It wasn’t until March 2017 that I realized that my “talent” was my ability with words or rather my ability to talk. I talk a lot. Actually, I wouldn’t say I talk a lot, I just have a lot of my mind, I have a lot to say. So why now? Like in the story of the talents, it doesn’t matter if God gives you five talents, two talents or one talent, He expects you to use that talent to produce more. God blessed us so we can be a blessing to others. This blog is here now because I am done hiding what God has put in me; it is time to make it public.

What if I heard this all before? — There is nothing new under the sun. My words and thoughts aren’t going to be a new revelation to this world but my goal is to RE∙PREsent. To present it differently. My hope is that by adding my voice to the conversation I can help people who are in the same place I am, who have been in the same place I was and who are going in the same direction I am.

This blog is nothing new, nothing revolutionary. All it is doing is adding me to the pot. Adding a dash of Zoe to your life. And trust me, it is only going to make it better.

Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
— George Herbert