The recent release of her lifestyle blog (www.neffiwalker.com) went viral with over 20,000 views in just a matter of one month and has garnered attention globally. Neffi is also the fashion editor for The Fashion Addicts.
With 15 years in marketing and an extensive knowledge of public relations, Neffi started her career in the events field focusing on sports and entertainment, working with brands including Adidas, Nike, Everglo, and Verizon. Neffi’s thirst and love for design, fashion, art and all things beautiful, has made each endeavor she partakes in seem almost effortless.
Last year, alongside her partner Tamara Jones, she launched Averil Elin, a clutch bag line designed with colorful Ankara patterns. They sold out of every item in a matter of two months.
Neffi also designs Transparency93, a clothing line based on her own personal aesthetic, which is set to launch in May 2014.
Neffi is also principle and CEO of Kennedi Price Baby, a luxurious natural skincare line created while she was pregnant with her fourth child, Nile Kennedi. In April 2014, Neffi will introduce Kennedi Price Baby to the masses at a star studded event in Soho, NYC. Neffi believes that your life and interests do not halt due to motherhood, it enhances them! Every win and loss that Neffi encounters is authored on her self-titled site Neffi Walker, giving a fresh and truthful light inside the life of a mother, and the mind of a creative and entrepreneur.
This busy lady took the time to sit down and chat with us recently, we think you’ll love getting to know Neffi as much as we did:
What did you dream of being when you were a little girl?
When I was a young girl I always wanted to be a fashion designer, a hair stylist, a writer… something creative where I had control over the visual ending result of a project. Of course my parents wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer and to be honest I contemplated it for a while but my heart kept traveling back towards creative fields.
Oh… my mom… you know when people say: “My mother was really an amazing mother/woman” just to be nice? I can SAY IT AND MEAN IT. My mother lived a life of service, grace and complete compassion. She taught me to always cross my legs, a woman should never walk out of the house disheveled, to speak kindly even when I don’t want to because you never know what someone is currently going through and never to pity myself because God lives within me and will always see me through… and she was right. My mother was a prime example of what a woman should be which is what I try to impress upon my daughters currently.
Having six sisters with no brothers in sight, I have to say raising my sons was a complete learning process, yet an easy one. My son’s temperaments have always been calm, cool and collected, and never any examples of complete disobedience. They are also Cancer [sign] boys so the household was filled with plenty of emotions! The boys have taught me to be tactful in my approach which I use today with everyone I encounter. Now, those girls are going to drive me to drink! I don’t know how my parents survived the emotions, the mood swings, the boys… augh… Just thinking about it makes me want to bury my head. My eldest daughter just started her teenage years and I have to thank the heavens that she has two older brothers to help me watch over her. Society puts such a negative spin on what it means to be a woman nowadays, so raising the girls seems to be much harder than the boys, sadly.
This is the number one question I am asked. I watched my mother lose herself in her daughters–everything she did was for our benefit–therefore she didn’t have a sense of self that a person SHOULD own. I love my mother for my upbringing but I never wanted to take that route. I had my first son at the age of 19 and was married at 20, by the time I was 24 I had three children and something in me snapped because I saw myself getting into a routine which never really worked well with my spirit. I made sure they were on schedules when young, sleep at 6:30 every night, so I can slowly regain “me” time. Bath time, reading, catching up on the news, anything that didn’t involve children [laughs].I also took them with me to work, on vacation, to dinner… I integrated them into my interests and taught them to behave in public and be polite. These actions allowed me to keep them close while handling my professional or even personal endeavors. My children have attended many of “girl vacations” without an issue because everyone loved being around them anyway. Balance is needed… so this was my form of it.
