Alma Evuna Somiyah Braggs interview on track and real estate

In the Alma Evuna Somiyah Braggs interview, Evuna said she hopes to compete professionally for about two more years before turning more of her attention to real estate investing. The former University of Pittsburgh athlete now works full-time in commercial real estate while competing for Garden State Club. She also told Braggs, her former teammate, that she hopes to represent her family’s country at the Olympic Games.

How is Alma Evuna transitioning from college to professional track?

Alma Evuna said the hardest part of moving from college athletics to professional track has been providing her own structure. At the University of Pittsburgh, coaches and teammates helped set the rhythm of training. Now she has to organize workouts, lifting and recovery around a full-time job, often without a coach beside her.

Life without the college schedule

As a student-athlete, Evuna said, much of what she needed was provided. The change is not simply a matter of having fewer hours in the day: she must decide for herself when to train and arrange the support that used to be close at hand. Her workplace has a different form of accountability, too. She described getting the work done and being paid as a different kind of motivation from teammates urging her through a session.

Evuna said the adjustment to working full-time has felt fairly normal in practical terms, but mentally it can be difficult. College gave her a team that was invested in her progress. Professional competition requires her to keep that purpose in view even when no one else is setting the day’s schedule.

Training after work

After finishing work, Evuna has to get to the track, plan a workout and determine where she will lift. She also has to think about whom to use for recovery support. A coach’s presence once pushed her to complete a session even when motivation was low; without that immediate oversight, she said, the push has to come from within.

She believes she has the discipline and a clear reason to continue. Still, Evuna acknowledged that motivation can slip when training feels like something she is doing by herself. That tension shapes her current routine more than any change in her understanding of how to train.

What does Alma Evuna do in commercial real estate?

In commercial real estate, Alma Evuna works as an analyst for a client account, focusing on leases and renewals. She tracks when leases are due to expire, contacts landlords and helps make sure the client’s locations remain settled through the lease term. It is her full-time job alongside competing for Garden State Club.

Lease renewals and landlord contact

Evuna described the work as keeping watch over the client’s existing leases rather than selling properties. When a renewal approaches, her role includes following its timing and contacting the landlord. She wants to make sure the client has stability at its locations and that the necessary arrangements are in place.

The job gives her direct experience with commercial property, although it is not the role she ultimately wants. Evuna said she hopes to move into producing or selling within commercial real estate. For now, she is building her career as an analyst while fitting professional training around office hours.

Finance at the University of Pittsburgh

When Braggs asked about her work, she recalled Evuna’s studies as possibly being in marketing. Evuna clarified that she majored in finance at the University of Pittsburgh. That distinction matters to her career path: the job she described centers on leases and client accounts, while her longer-term ambitions involve brokerage and property investing.

What are Alma Evuna’s real estate and future goals?

Evuna wants to become a commercial real estate broker, invest in property and build wealth. She also hopes to start a family. Her plan is to continue track for about two more years, then put more attention toward investing and owning properties rather than treating professional competition as an indefinite commitment.

Brokerage and investing

In describing the next step in her career, Evuna said she would like to sell buildings and other properties as a broker. She did not present that move as something she has already made: her current position remains an analyst role. Brokerage is a goal she hopes to reach as she develops beyond the lease work she handles now.

Evuna said she and her partner are also focused on how to grow wealth. She wants to invest her money and eventually get into the business of investing in properties. Those plans are connected in her mind to a future in commercial real estate, but she did not name a property purchase or a timetable for becoming a broker.

A family and a two-year track plan

Looking five to ten years ahead, Evuna said she hopes to have a family, become a mother and have several children. She spoke about those hopes alongside her financial goals rather than as an alternative to them. For track, she set a shorter horizon: her goal is to compete for two years and then shift more of her focus toward business and investing.

Why does Alma Evuna hope to compete for her family’s country?

Alma Evuna hopes to represent the country her family is from because she wants to make her relatives proud, and she would also like to reach the Olympic Games. She said representing the United States is difficult given the depth of its athlete pool. She did not name her family’s country in the conversation.

Family and the Olympic Games

Evuna named her mother, father, grandmother, grandfather and uncle among the people she wants to make proud. She said her whole family is from the country she hopes to represent. For her, competing under that country’s designation would make her performances meaningful to relatives who share that connection.

Her Olympic ambition was a hope, not an announcement of selection. Evuna linked it to the broader goal of representing her family’s country and improving its records. She did not give a qualifying mark, an event entry or a date for a planned international appearance.

Records and athletic designation

Evuna said she believes she already has the marks for that country’s records, but they are not listed under her name as she wants because she is designated as American in athletics. She said that designation needs to be corrected before the records can appear as hers. She did not specify which events or record marks she meant.

What advice does Alma Evuna have for college track athletes?

Alma Evuna advises athletes entering college to trust the process, work through difficult training and avoid transferring solely because things are hard. She said her own progress at the University of Pittsburgh took years: she struggled as a freshman, then felt she reached her potential during her senior year.

Four years to find her potential

Evuna remembered feeling that she was not good enough when she first began her college track career. She described herself as the slowest on the team and questioned whether she would improve. Rather than measuring herself only against teammates, she began asking how to become the best version of herself.

Evuna put her early experience plainly:

I was the slowest in the team

She said it took about three years to find herself in track and field, with the change becoming clear in her senior year. That experience is why she tells incoming athletes not to give up on their school simply because training is demanding. She allowed that a genuinely bad situation could warrant leaving, but said difficulty alone is not that reason. Her advice was to keep working and trust a coach.

Somiyah Braggs on Evuna’s leadership

Braggs saw that progression as Evuna’s teammate. She recalled the two training together and becoming competitive with one another in practice. Braggs also described a disagreement when Evuna pressed her about goals she had shared. Looking back, Braggs said Evuna was holding her accountable, even when that was not comfortable to hear.

According to Braggs, their coach made Evuna a team leader during her senior year, and she took that responsibility seriously with teammates as well as friends. It is a concrete example of the team support Evuna now misses: at Pittsburgh, she could push others while they helped push her.