Latest news with #adversity
Bloomberg
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Outspoken South Korea Leftist Survived Stabbing on Path to Power
Lee Jae-myung, the tenacious left-leaning maverick on the brink of becoming South Korea's next president, has spent a lifetime picking himself off the canvas to fight again. Lying on a hospital bed in intensive care after an assailant stabbed him in the jugular in early 2024, Lee was battling for his life. For many politicians that might have been the right time to throw in the towel on a career of public service, but these are the moments of adversity that fire Lee up.
Telegraph
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Choose to have fortitude: life lessons from Andi and Miquita Oliver
Anita Rani is finding out how you can live your best life on her new podcast, Bright Ideas with Anita Rani, in partnership with EE. In the latest episode she gets double the life hacks with mother and daughter duo Andi and Miquita Oliver. Andi is a top TV chef, best known for her appearances on Great British Menu, now in its 20th series, while Miquita was a household name on T4 and Popworld in her teenage years, and has gone from strength to strength ever since. More recently, they have been winning over audiences with their podcasts Stirring It Up and Miss Me?, the latter of which Miquita hosts with childhood best friend and singer Lily Allen. Sitting down with Anita, the pair explore what it takes to be happy during and after periods of adversity. Drawing on her experiences as a single mother, Andi discusses some of the toughest moments in her life and what got her through them – 'You have to choose to have fortitude and step towards the light' – while they both reflect on their journey rediscovering their Caribbean heritage with their show The Caribbean with Andi and Miquita: 'They were having a drumming circle ceremony, and we got out the van and they all said, 'Welcome home.' I couldn't stop crying.' They also talk about the importance of a holistic approach to life, surrounding themselves with good people, the challenges of staying organised – and which apps can help – and why they are each others' best friends. For all their chat, laughter and advice, enjoy the full episode with Andi and Miquita Oliver Bright Ideas with Anita Rani wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more tips, life hacks, insights and stories, listen to Bright Ideas with Anita Rani on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Snoop Dogg says ‘adversity is like the gym for your soul' and offers 3 pieces of advice for USC business school grads
The hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and investor spoke at the commencement ceremony for the USC Marshall School of Business on Monday. Snoop Dogg gave the graduates three pieces of advice and hailed the virtues of overcoming obstacles. 'See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts. It's heavy, but it builds you up.' Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.—better known as Snoop Dogg—spoke at the commencement ceremony for the USC Marshall School of Business on Monday and passed on some advice for graduates. The hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and investor also hailed the virtues of overcoming obstacles, saying he has been an underdog his whole life. 'But guess what, I didn't let none of that stop me,' he said. 'I stayed true to myself. I stayed focused on the vision, and I turned them no's into yes's. See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts. It's heavy, but it builds you up.' Speaking at the LA Memorial Coliseum—not that far from where he grew up in Long Beach—Snoop Dogg also said graduation is more than just getting a diploma: 'It's about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching.' The underdog has 'the realest story,' he added, because when you come from nothing, 'you appreciate everything, you hustle different, you love different, and you lead different.' That set up his advice for the graduates, telling them to do three things. 'Stay humble: never forget where you came from. Stay hungry: keep that fire in your soul. And stay true: always be real with yourself and the world, because the world don't need no more copies. It need originals. And trust me, ain't nobody else can do what you do like you do,' he said. Snoop told graduates to keep believing in themself and keep pushing, reminding them that, 'It's always the underdogs who end up running the game. Trust me, that's why I'm running the game.' After becoming a hip-hip superstar in the 1990s, Snoop Dogg has become an entertainment icon, famously teaming up with Maratha Stewart, appearing on TV shows like NBC's The Voice, and stealing the show at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He has also been building a lucrative empire of his own. In addition to his numerous endorsements, he has launched a line of ice cream, a coffee brand, and a breakfast cereal, to name just a few ventures. Snoop also cofounded Casa Verde Capital, an investment firm focused on the cannabis industry, while also investing in companies like Klarna, Reddit and Robinhood. 'I'm trying to be one of those examples of someone who creates his own everything, owns his own everything, and has a brand strong enough to compete with Levi's and Miller and Kraft and all of these other brands that have been around for hundreds of years,' he said in a 2021 interview with the New York Times. This story was originally featured on
BBC News
24-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'The worst moment I've ever had in football'
Midfielder Callum McGregor tells BBC Scotland: "The worst. The worst moment I've ever had in football. It was a real sore one."I just need to go away and try and go over it. And come back next year and be stronger. We didn't do enough in the game to deserve it."And then when you get to penalties, it's a bit of a let down. In the last few times, we've come out on the right side of it and today we didn't. It's a real sore way to finish the season."Up until this point, it's been an amazing season. We just didn't do enough today to cap it off."Well, obviously, it's a tough moment. I've had tough moments before."Probably this is the toughest one when you take everything into consideration. So, listen, I've bounced back from difficult situations before. And like I said, it'll take me a while to get over it."But once the new season starts, then that's up to me to show everyone that you've got a bit of steel."Yeah, I think we're so used to winning that when you don't, then you feel it ten times more."You feel it. Like I said, it's probably the worst moment I've had on the football pitch. And for sure, there'll be learning in that."It's so raw at the minute. But for sure, the group can learn from it, can be better for it, because sometimes you have to go through a wee bit of adversity to grow and get better. "And like I said, we're so used to winning that maybe the last couple of times we've turned up and we've managed to get over the line with it, really deserving it."
CBC
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
How basketball prepared this Grammy-nominated N.S. musician for the biggest stages
Musician Laura Roy has performed in front of crowds of as many as tens of thousands of people, but it's the hardwood basketball courts of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley that helped ready her for those moments. Roy, who grew up in Canning, N.S., said her first love was sports, not music. The five-foot-two former point guard won a Division 2 provincial basketball title at Northeast Kings Education Centre. She said sports helped teach her to battle adversity, something that's been common in her music career. Situations like driving to the hoop with seconds remaining with the game on the line, only to be fouled and then have a chance to win it at the free throw line have all been good lessons for her. "Am I gonna trust that all the practice I've put in is going to work in my benefit now?" said Roy. "Do I believe I'm going to make the shot?" Last year, Roy provided backing vocals for pop star Sabrina Carpenter at Wembley Stadium in London. She did it without a rehearsal or proper sound check. Other highlights from last year include backing up Carpenter for a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge performance, as well as a Live Lounge performance with pop star Dua Lipa, in addition to doing a world tour with British musician JP Cooper. After years of making a name for herself backing other musicians, Roy is again looking to be centre stage. "I think after doing a lot of that work last year, it's definitely allowed me to come back to myself and say, 'OK, I'm really ready to be seen now and be heard," said Roy, who recently won the East Coast Music Award for Vocal Release of the Year for her song Lucy. Roy, whose music is classified as alternative R&B, has previously released three EPs. Musician Nicole Ariana has been friends with Roy since they first crossed paths studying music at Nova Scotia Community College more than a decade ago. She said it would be easy for Roy to just focus on being a backing vocalist. "But she's most passionate about her artist stuff, which I think is incredible because she could make a whole career just travelling the world with celebrities and I really admire that she wants to focus on her art because that's what she really believes in," said Ariana. Roy was recently home in Nova Scotia recording a new album with local musicians. The album is finished and no release date has been established. Roy's journey to where she is today has included living in Halifax, Toronto and London, and countless hospitality jobs, paired with her budding music career. Roy remembers working at a restaurant in the Halifax casino where one night, she had to beg her manager to let her off early because she had a gig backing Asia & NuGruv in another part of the casino. Her restaurant uniform was formal, including wearing a dress shirt and dress pants. Once off work, she changed into some high heels and a dress and strutted over to the performance room for the show. Roy moved to Toronto in 2014 to further her music career, but said she didn't feel fulfilled creatively or personally, so she moved to London in 2017. "There was such an energy that I hadn't experienced before," she said. "And it just quite quickly felt like, 'OK, this is where I'm meant to be.'" Roy said through open mic night and jam nights, she met people in the music community who have become lifelong friends and collaborators, which led to doing session vocalist work. "It ended up kind of pulling me out of that hospitality, minimum wage world where … you're kind of working to live and then you're so tired it's hard to put energy into your creativity, into yourself, so that struggle is very difficult to balance," she said. Pandemic pause to music career After a European tour with artist Anne-Marie in early 2020, the plan was to then tour the world, but the COVID-19 pandemic put an end to that. Lockdowns shut down live music, so Roy returned to hospitality, working at a café. "It's a little setback, but I'll get back to where I was," she said. "And eventually, eventually I did." It was while working at this café that Roy learned she'd received two Grammy nominations for her contributions to artist Doja Cat's 2021 album Planet Her. "I like to always kind of maintain my perspective on things because I just know how quickly the opportunities can come and go," she said.
