From NHS Night Shifts to building real products.

Hey sis.

Let me start with the truth.

I am writing this from the same sofa where I sit between my NHS shifts. My twin girls are upstairs, nine years old, growing fast. There is a cup of tea next to me that has gone cold twice. And I am about to tell you the real story of how Smart Money Move Academy came to be.

Not the polished version. The real one.

Where I come from.

I am originally from Edo State, in the south of Nigeria. Born there. Raised there. Came to the UK through my dad, went to college, then went to Manchester Metropolitan University and studied Nutritional Science.

We were not a wealthy family. We had a lovely home, but we did not have a lot. That is the polite way to say it. And that shaped me in a way that I think a lot of African women reading this will understand.

I have always wanted to make more. I have always been the kind of person who does not want to depend on anyone. I want to pave my own way. I love trying new things. I love learning.

That part of me is Edo. We do not give up on things. Once we start, we finish.

The shift that changed everything.

When I first started working in the NHS, I was doing forty hour weeks. Four days a week. Long shifts. The kind that finish at 7am and you come home and your kids need to be at school by 8:30am.

So that was my day. School run. Try to sleep. Wake up. Eat something. Get the girls. Make dinner. Get ready for the next shift. Repeat.

And at the end of the month, the money was peanuts. You cannot live on it. Not really. Not the way you want to live, with choices.

So I started looking online for ways to make extra income.

You know the rest. Everyone on social media was talking about side hustles. "Do this. Do that. Make £5,000 a month in your sleep." Loud voices everywhere. None of them telling you the actual steps.

I am not the type to lose money. I am trying to save money. So I was cautious. But I needed something.

The £2,000 lesson I will never forget.

I met a lady online who was teaching dropshipping. She was confident. She was making it look easy. I paid for her class. I went all in.

What I did not know was that she was teaching how to import products into a different country. Not the UK. I did not realise this mattered. I assumed import is import.

It is not.

I spent over £2,000 on stock. I shipped it to the UK using DDP. I did not have the right documentation. Some of the products got seized at customs. The ones that arrived were the wrong quality for the UK market. Cheap. Broken. Not what UK buyers want.

I had a garage full of stock I could not sell. My money was trapped. I had nothing to show for it. And I had a husband. I have girls to feed. I have an NHS shift to get to.

That was the moment.

I learned that lesson the expensive way. So now I teach it the cheap way. That is why China Import Navigator exists. Because no UK woman should pay £2,000 to learn what I learned.

How I started building for real.

After the dropshipping disaster, I went back to the drawing board. I did my own research. I paid for courses from people who actually import to the UK. I learned the real steps. The HMRC bits. The customs codes. The shipping methods that work for small UK sellers.

And slowly, I started winning.

I reduced my NHS hours from forty to twenty two. I had more time to learn. More time to build. More time to be with my girls without falling asleep at the kitchen table.

But the real moment for me was not when the money started coming in. It was when I realised I could build things.

Not just sell things. Build things. With my own ideas.

Why I built Soften.

I am a mum of twin girls. They are nine. They are everything to me. And as their mum, I have learned that the world has a lot of support for children with extra needs. There are apps for the kids. Tools for the kids. Therapy for the kids. Plans for the kids.

But almost nothing for the parents.

The mums especially. We are expected to be strong. To carry everything. To advocate, to translate, to soothe, to manage. And then to do it all again tomorrow.

I joined parent support groups. Loads of them. And the only thing we talk about is the children.

What about our feelings? What about our stress? What about the bond between mum and child that takes a beating because we are too tired to be present?

I have a friend who is going through it too. I see the stress on her face every single day. And I thought, somebody needs to build something for us.

So I built it.

That is how Soften App was born. A calm support tool for parents of children with additional needs. Voice-guided breathing. Mood tracking. A child mode for the little ones. Nothing flashy. Just something that helps you breathe at the end of a hard day.

I tried to build it the first time and it was not right. I had to go back. Carry out proper research. Look at the gaps in the market. Find what was missing.

Then I found Claude.

The AI moment that changed my life.

I want to say this clearly because so many women think AI is for tech people.

I am not a coder. I am not a developer. I went to uni for Nutritional Science. I work in the NHS. I am a mum.

What I am is somebody with ideas. With problems I want to solve. With people I want to help.

When I learned how to prompt Claude properly, everything opened up. I would describe my idea in my own words, and Claude would help me build it. I built apps. I built tools. I built things I never thought I could build.

I did not need to learn to code. I needed to learn to think clearly and explain my idea well. That is a skill. That is the skill.

That is also why I built Smart Prompt Builder. Because most people have great ideas but they cannot get the AI to understand them. SPB takes your messy thoughts and turns them into clean prompts that AI actually understands. It changed my workflow completely.

What my week actually looks like.

People ask me how I do this with kids, with NHS shifts, with everything else. So here is the truth.

Monday is my teaching day. I have 25 plus students right now. Some learning dropshipping. Some learning to build with AI. Two hour sessions, one to one. I split each course over a month, two hours every Monday, so students can grab a piece, go practice, and come back the next week.

Tuesday is content day. TikTok. AI avatars. Captions. Whatever needs to go out that week. I batch it in one focused block.

Wednesday is build day. The deep work. New products. New features. Writing my book. Whatever big thing I am moving forward.

Thursday is rest. Because I have a night shift coming.

Friday and Saturday nights are NHS shifts. 7pm to 7:45am. I come home in the morning, sleep until around 2pm. Then I take an hour or two before the school run to check my eBay store, check my TikTok store, do quick research, plan the next task.

And before all of this, every single morning, I pray. God first. Always.

One thing I have learned that I want you to take with you. One task a day. Just one. That is all you need. If you do one thing every day, in a month you have done thirty things. In a year you have built a business.

What I stand for.

I want to say something to my fellow NHS workers. To the healthcare assistants. The carers. The nurses. The cleaners. The kitchen staff. All of you who work the shifts that keep this country running.

You are not stuck.

The skills you have are not your only skills. You can learn AI. You can build something. You can earn extra income that lets you breathe. I am not promising millions. I am promising something real. Something that lets you spend more time with your family. Something that gives you a choice.

And to my African sisters in the UK, especially Nigerian women, I see you. You came here to build a better life. You work harder than most people will ever understand. And you deserve to know that you can build a brand and a business with your name on it.

Build your own name. Build your own brand. Let people see you. Let them know what you do. The more visible you are, the more your business grows.

I am Jorrellys. Jorrellys is a brand. That is intentional.

If you are reading this on your break, this is for you.

You do not have to know it all. You do not have to understand everything in one go.

Start messy.

Start small.

Take each day as it comes. Build around your kids. Build between your shifts. One hour a day is enough. I started messy. Most of the time I did not know what to do. I felt like I was being left out. Like everybody else was ahead. Like I was too late.

Do not feel that way. You are not too late.

Put yourself out there. Let people see you build messy. That is how it starts. Then with time, you look back, and you say, "Wow. I have come a long way." Because you have.

You are a powerful mum. You are a strong woman. I am a single mum, and I pulled through. You can pull through too.

Keep winning sis.