Jamila Musayeva

Jamila Musayeva is an etiquette trainer and a popular YouTuber.

She has 896K subscribers on her eponymous YouTube channel.

Jamila is also an author and entrepreneur.

Introduction-

Jamila Musayeva was born on 19 July 1991 in Azerbaijan.

She hails from Baku, Azerbaijan; she grew up in Azerbaijan.

Jamila has a brother.

Since a young age, she loved studying and teaching.

Jamila was a nerd at school.

Education-

In 2008, at 16, she travelled from Azerbaijan to the United States to study for a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Relations and Affairs from The George Washington University.

Jamila has double minors in Sociology and History.

She graduated in June 2012 with a Summa Cum Laude grade.

Then, Jamila travelled to Europe to study for a master’s degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

She graduated in 2013; she did her Master’s in French and English languages.

Love for etiquette; career-

As Jamila travelled a lot, she got exposed to different cultures, traditions, and ways of behaviour and some etiquette and diplomatic rules.

She became interested in learning about various cultures, traditions, languages, and etiquette rules and how they vary from country to country.

While studying in Europe, Jamila travelled around Europe and met many influential people in the European Union and met many VIP guests at the university and had lunch and dinner with them.

These things trained her to behave in a proper way around certain members of the society.

From June 2016 to September 2017, Jamila worked as an EU expert at the Center of Excellence in EU Studies, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) University, Baku, Azerbaijan.

While working here, she decided to introduce etiquette to the younger generation.

Jamila started teaching courses involving soft skills, presentation skills, public speaking, and drinking etiquette and decided to become a certified etiquette teacher.

So, she did a certification course at an etiquette school, International Etiquette And Protocol Academy, London.

In September 2017, Jamila followed her passion for etiquette and became an International Etiquette Consultant in Baku.

She does private online classes teaching etiquette and used to do international workshops teaching etiquette and speaking skills.

Jamila also worked as a part-time Etiquette and Business Foundation teacher at Oxbridge Academy, Baku.

Before teaching etiquette, she taught personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) at school.

In February 2017, Jamila co-founded ‘Gymbala,’ a toddler and child fitness gym in Baku, Azerbaijan.

An accidental YouTuber-

She used to teach etiquette in schools and do international workshops.

As a part of the course, Jamila used to take her students out to a restaurant or teahouse to have afternoon tea and practise table manners.

But around November 2019, the COVID-19 started occurring; so, she couldn’t take her students out to the restaurants to show them table manners.

So, Jamila decided to shoot a video and share them with her students, so that they could watch it from the comfort of their home.

So, on 5 November 2019, she started her eponymous YouTube channel.

And on the same day, Jamila published her first video, ‘Afternoon Tea Etiquette | Jamila Musayeva.’

This video was shot at Four Seasons Hotel, Baku.

Jamila didn’t upload her second video until May 2020; she uploaded her second video as she believed that online mode of teaching wouldn’t end soon.

As she continued publishing videos, she was inspired to see more and more people liking and commenting under her videos and subscribing to her YouTube channel.

So, Jamila started working part-time on her YouTube channel along with her part-time consulting work.

As of October 2023, she has 897K subscribers on her YouTube channel and 56.6K followers on Instagram.

Jamila earns from a variety of sources like advertisements on her YouTube videos, affiliate marketing, selling her courses, and books; she also accepts donations on Patreon.

She has a team to help her out with her YouTube channel.

Her books-

Jamila sells a couple of books through her website, namely- ‘Afternoon Tea Etiquette,’ and ‘Etiquette: the least you need to know.’

She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and Phi Beta Kappa.

Personal life-

After completing her master’s in Belgium, Jamila returned to Azerbaijan and got married.

Much like her, her husband is also an Azerbaijani.

He is four years elder to Jamila and was her family’s friend.

This couple has a daughter and a son.

Jamila lives in Azerbaijan and is tall at 173cm.

Some interesting facts about Jamila-

• She is a polyglot as she knows Azerbaijani (her primary language), Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Turkish.
• Jamila loves reading books, and her favourite books are ‘The Psychology of Money’ and ‘Everything is Figureoutable.’
• She loves belly dancing and listening to reggaeton music.
• Jamila suffers from agoraphobia, fear of crowded places and claustrophobia, fear of confined spaces.
• Her hobbies are baking, doodling, and dancing.
• Jamila’s zodiac sign is cancer; her favourite colour is black and favourite food is sushi.
• She got featured in ‘She’s Mercedes.’
• Audrey Hepburn, a British actress, is her role model.
• Jamila loves watching documentaries about successful people and reading their biographies.
• She loves travelling and her favourite places are Baku, Washington DC, and Paris.

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