What I've Learnt - Ayuol Manyok

Her striking face, sky-high cheekbones, deep dimples, and full lips plastered across banners on trains, town halls, and adorning Melbourne Fashion Festivals venues across the city, Kenyan Chadwick model Ayuol has embraced the opportunities life has offered since starting her life in Australia as a young girl.One of five siblings who arrived with her single mother from war-torn Africa when she was barely 5, Ayuol has no illusions about work, survival, and the importance of finding her voice.An avid reader and educator as well as an in-demand model for some of the biggest names in the business from Maticevski to Sass and Bide she is articulate, informed, and equipped to follow her path and carve out her destiny with passion, persistence, and the power of youth, beauty and fierce intelligence.“Reading has helped me heal. Reading is incredible. Reading helps you understand and helps you reinvent yourself.”“I think it’s pivotal to record the scenarios, the stories, the events so you don’t have other people misrepresent your story.”“Intergenerational trauma is a lot of what the South Sudanese in the diaspora experience. I learned something today about inter-generational trauma - with the Holocaust they discovered three generations later they could link trauma back to that event.”She reflects on her community, the blessing and at times curse of being A black African woman in the heartland of Australia, and the importance of leadership for her community to evolve and adapt while still respecting and honoring their history and tradition.Her mother her greatest mentor - a survivor in many wars, Ayuol is brave, beautiful, and bold and at 22 has only just begun .. so watch this face .. there’s a lot more to come ...Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBkBuzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850