A CONVERSATION WITH NANA EKUA CLASSPETERS
Wow, we’ve been talking about the International Fabulous Women’s Conference for months and now it’s only a few days away! I am expectant that it’ll go exactly as God desires, be an impactful event and look forward to hosting you. For now, enjoy this beautiful conversation with Nana Ekua Classpeters who also happens to be leading the Adventure Tour on Day 4 of the conference.
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Ama Duncan (AD): Thank you for making time Nana Ekua. I know you as the class prefect of parties. Anytime I have seen you, you were happy, cheerful, dancing, and making everybody laugh. It’s so interesting that your business is called the Party Crew. How did you end up becoming the owner of the Party Crew?
NE: Wonderful question and I’m glad to be here. I’m here to mind my business too. Right from Senior High School, I had this dream of becoming an entrepreneur although I didn't know how and in which area. I wanted to do something that will make me work till I die – this is one of my dreams. Also, I want my children to start working by age fifteen (15). And I know no organization will give them that platform so I have to create my own business in order to give them that platform. I prayed about what to do for so long. Then one day during one of the Greater Works Conference, as the preacher was preaching I was also getting ideas including the business name and I wrote it down. Afterwards I told my friend Enyo and she was like ‘let’s do it! She took me to some places in the Volta Region and we started from there. The Party Crew started our first trip to Wli WaterFalls in 2013. Enyo really helped me. So this is how I became the CEO of the Party Crew. I call it divine orchestration.
AD: Fantastic and I love it. It’s such a beautiful story of how you got the inspiration and you run with it. God also gave you the resources to start. Tell us how the experience has been since you started.
NE: For me it has been wonderful, challenging and stretched me. It has made me realize some potentials that I have that I didn't know of. From 2014 up to 2017, I wanted to quit. I was frustrated. First I wanted to get my tourism license from the Tourism Authority and the process was very frustrating. Secondly, my target market when I got the vision was professionals living in Ghana. I started going to companies with proposals and all, no positive response. I also thought I had a big network, people knew me so even if the corporate people were not calling me I knew a lot of people I could just design a package for and reach out to them. However, this didn’t happen as I thought. These are the main reasons which got me frustrated and I decided to quit. Interestingly, the more I wanted to quit, the more I became restless. I even went into the gold business but this Party Crew will not let me rest. I thought of getting a partner - another tour company that had a license to partner with so that when I got clients I could run things with them. I got one and along the line things didn’t work out. I ended up organizing a trip without a partner in 2018. The feedback I got from the client made me start thinking… I realized that this is something God is calling me to do. Meanwhile, I still had the frustration of getting the tourism license. Then in 2019 I got another...Click to read the rest https://www.amaduncan.com/a-conversation-with-nana-ekua-classpeters/