Issue No. 47 · Sunday Letters · 2026
Becoming the woman I was always meant to be, out loud
Honest writing on motherhood, identity, faith, autism, and the quiet reinventions women make in midlife. Read by 74,000+ women across the diaspora.
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About Folu
Hello, I’m Folu. I’m a senior technology leader by trade , twenty-plus years in financial services and AI governance and a writer by calling.
I’m also the mother of three sons, including one beautiful boy on the autism spectrum, the founder of a charity, the daughter of immigrants, and the woman in the family who never quite fit any one shape.
I write here for women like me. Women who’ve achieved more than they ever expected, and somehow find themselves at midlife asking, Who am I now? What was all of this for? What comes next?
If that’s you , welcome. You’re in the right place.
- Letter I — On the day you stopped pretending
- Letter II — The grief that has no name
- Letter III — The friends who can’t come with you
- Letter IV — The lies we were told about money
- Letter V — Motherhood, when you’re also becoming
- Letter VI — Faith when life stops making sense
- Letter VII — Who you are becoming
The 7 Letters — for women quietly becoming someone new.
Seven Sunday letters from me to you. On the things no one else is saying out loud, and the woman walking toward you from the other side.
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