Lillian Ahenkan (aka Flex Mami)

In essence, FlexMami gets paid to be herself. Recognised internationally as a digital and cultural icon, she creates and facilitates challenging, nourishing conversations, cultivates communities, and creates very good content. With a platform focused on intention, and reprioritising people, Flex’s superpower is in cultivating dialogue and encouraging her community to think critically about themselves and the world around them.

Flex has been active in the Australian music industry and nightlife scene since 2013. Self-taught through YouTube and the support of her peers, Flex has DJ’d nationally and internationally for artists like Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, SZA, Kaytranada, Tinashe, Goldlink, Masego, and more.

Since the early- 2010s, Flex has been an authority in news, entertainment, and music hosting. She has presented on MTV and hosted shows and segments on FBi, a local Sydney radio station. Her segment on Lucy Smith’s breakfast show “Up For It” was titled “Your Best Self” and defined itself as a “witty-as-fuck segment about self-betterment for 20-somethings,” a foreshadowing to her signature tenacious brand of critical conversation and self-accountability.

Since then, she’s co-hosted the popular podcast “Bobo & Flex” with Bobo Matjila and authored a bestselling book, The Success Experiment. A full-time conversationalist, Flex Mami has become a public figurehead and resident advisor on conversations about race and womanhood, leading these conversations well before they were popular in public discourse. Flex is currently the co-host of national flagship show Flex and Froomes on CADA.

Named Instagram Australia’s #YoungEntrepreneur 2020, Flex is the Founder and CEO of the conversation card game, ReFlex. Conceptualised and designed in house, ReFlex was initially created as merch for her brand, stemming from Flex’s penchant for deep, meaningful conversation.