Media personality Nana Ama McBrown has revealed how she handles aspects of her work with her husband.
She explained that despite consulting her husband, who also serves as her manager, she chooses the contracts to sign, the brands to collaborate with, the payment terms, and other such matters.
Speaking to KNUST students about marriage and career management, McBrown asserted that making these choices on her own does not make her a haughty or disrespectful wife.
According to her, she personally sets a fee for business transactions because the majority of them involve a significant commitment and stress.
McBrown said because she does the work, she feels the pain of being stressed out by the companies more.
“My husband is the head of the family and I don’t make decisions without him, but I also determine what to work with. I reject certain contracts. This whole thing is different from marriage. It is my career. I differentiate work from family life. I speak to my husband about work and we make certain decisions together but I select the brands I work with.
“If a company brings an offer to the table for me to become a brand ambassador, and I tell my husband we should take one cedi, even when he takes 99.9, I won’t go through with the offer. It’s different from being a husband because, at that time, he was representing the company as a manager. I tell him that with the stress involved and I won’t settle for less because I am the one doing the work. When I do that, I don’t insult his intelligence or disrespect him.
Despite the fact that marriage is a good thing, McBrown also argued that women should be successful before entering the marriage market.
She said the best decision she ever made was to make a name for herself before heading into marriage.
“Don’t make marriage your first call. I have been with my husband for twelve years and I’ll say that before I met him, I was very mature. One of the things that got me comfortable is that I found myself before I met my husband. I was a woman of my own. I got my first house before I married, so it is safe to say I didn’t need a man,” she stated.