Gikonyo Leah

Someone asked me recently what I do. Not in a formal way. Just casually. The way people ask at gatherings when they are trying to place you in a category they already understand. And I showed them this. A graphic on my phone. Blue background. Clean font. The simplest version of everything Blu.ke is trying to be. I guide solopreneurs and freelance creatives to build, lead, and uplift their…

Every time I start something new I come back to the same verse. Not because I have run out of scripture. Because this one keeps being true. Commit to the Lord whatever you do and He will establish your plans. Proverbs 16:3. It is the verse that closed every post during Planmas. It closes every Blu.ke blog post. It closes every personal post I write. It is the line I come back to when I do not…

The other day my daughter came home with a torn dress. And I opened my mouth to respond and heard my mother come out. Not a memory of my mother. Not a reference to her. Her. Her exact tone. Her exact energy. The thing she used to do when I was small and something went wrong that was not supposed to go wrong. I caught myself mid sentence and just stopped. Because in that moment I understood…

Let me be honest with you today in a way that most people building online never are. I have products on Selar. I have a blog with posts that people actually read. I have a TikTok with content that keeps pulling views long after I posted it. I have a WIDB eligibility form that women have filled in. The pieces exist. The system exists. And I am still in the season of waiting for it to convert…

Six weeks of anchoring to Proverbs 16:3. Here’s my honest check in imperfect, humbled, still choosing God. 🙏🏾 Six weeks ago I chose Proverbs 16:3 as my anchor verse for 2026. I didn’t fully know then how much I would need it. How often I would come back to it not as a closing line but as a question I’m still answering. 🌿 Commit to the Lord whatever you do and He will establish your plans. Am I…

The unfamiliar feeling of becoming someone you’ve never been before. Here’s what’s scary about who I’m becoming and why I’m choosing her anyway. I’ve been thinking about fear differently lately. Not fear as in terror. Fear as in the unfamiliar feeling of becoming someone you’ve never been before and not fully knowing how to be her yet. That’s the fear that’s been sitting with me. Because I’m…

One month of consistent blogging done. Here’s what actually changed not the numbers, the internal shift. And why I’m proud even when it was messy. 🌿 We did it. I say we because honestly this content calendar has been a whole journey and I didn’t always know if I was going to make it to the other side of it. There were weeks where data ran out. Weeks where life took me completely out. Weeks…

I keep saying life is what you make it lately. It’s become my thing. My current season’s phrase. But I want to be honest about what I actually mean when I say it because it’s not a motivational poster. It’s not toxic positivity. It’s something harder and realer than that. 🌿 What I mean is this: you have to keep moving. Someone said once that action alleviates anxiety. And I’ve been sitting with…

I picked up You Become What You Think by Shubham Singh recently and I’m only 14% in and it’s already doing something to me. 📖 That percentage sounds small. But some books don’t need to be finished to start working on you. Some books find you at exactly the right moment and the first few chapters are enough to sit with for days. This one landed on a chapter called Life’s Only Constant Is Change.…

Let me tell you what building online in Kenya actually costs. Not the motivational version. The real one. 🌿 This week the real cost was data. Again. It’s always data. You have a content calendar, you have the posts written, you have the energy to show up and then your data runs out and suddenly the whole plan is sitting in your drafts waiting for bundles you haven’t figured out how to pay for…

Yesterday afternoon my daughter fell off her bike. We were heading to shop with my cousin and her son from her place Milana on her bike, me walking alongside, on our way to get some matumbo for lunch. (If you’re not familiar, matumbo is a Kenyan delicacy we eat with ugali and sukuma wiki. Absolutely delish. 😋) She wobbled, lost balance, and went down on the street. And before I even thought…

I almost said yes to a job that would have cost me more than it paid. This week I found myself deep in a conversation about a job listing a marketing internship at a resort. On paper it touched my actual skill set. Social media, content strategy, the things I’ve spent years building. So part of me lit up. Maybe this is it. Then came the details. The location. The commute. The pay or lack of it,…

I launched my first digital product this week. 🌿 It’s called the 30 Day Biashara Content Starter Pack 30 content ideas for Kenyan small business owners who don’t know what to post. I built it, designed it, uploaded it to Selar, set the price, and pressed publish. And then I waited. And the silence after that? That’s where I’m sitting right now. That inbetween space where you’ve done the work…

I want to talk about what “one day at a time” actually looked like this week. Because it wasn’t cute. It wasn’t aesthetic. It was me standing in my kitchen calling another mum asking should we take them to school today or is it going to be another one of those days? 😳 If you’re in Kenya right now you know exactly what I mean. The Maandamano. The fuel prices. The streets. The Utumishi Girls High…

My period is in 2 days and my body has been sending me memos all week. 📩 Not asking. Sending. Very firmly. The memo says: slow down. clean the house. get the environment right. rest is coming and you need to prepare for it. And the version of me from a year ago would have ignored every single one of those memos and pushed through on coffee and willpower and the general chaos of life. The 2026…

The Honest One: What Pitching Actually Feels Like

Let me tell you what pitching online actually feels like from the inside because it does not always look like the confident thing you see on the feed #BuildingInPublic #IntentionalGrowth #RealEntrepreneurshipJourney #OnlineStrategy #BluConsultancyKenya

What 4AM – 5:25 AM-Ish Has Been Teaching Me And It’s Not What You Think | Gikonyo Leah I want to be honest about 4AM because I feel like the internet has made it into an aesthetic and it’s really not. 😅 4AM – 5:25 AM-Ish for me starts with resistance. Every single morning. My body doesn’t leap out of bed full of purpose and alignment. My body says why are we doing this again and pulls toward…