Popular Inooro FM drive show (Cua Cua) presenter Waithira Muithirania has narrated the other side of her before the big name and fame which affirms that indeed there is no victory without history.
Waithira who made a comeback on the airwaves last month two years after she dumped radio for politics, says that she did not become a radio presenter by accident as it is something she had always wanted to do while growing up at a remote village in Murang'a County.
"There are these tracks that come to the countryside to promote various products and whenever they came to home area I always keen to listen to how the promoters of those products were advertising them to us."
"Every time I encountered with them, I had this feeling that they weren't doing enough and if it was me doing it, I would do better," Muithirania told Jeff Kuria TV during a recent interview.
It is this passion for wanting to tell a story in a more coherent, persuasive and unique manner that would see her defeat all odds, she notes, to secure a radio presenter job when in 2001 the State broadcaster, KBC, launched its 24-hour Kikuyu radio station, Coro FM.
Two years later, Waithira would be among the bunch of top radio presenters poached enmasse from Kameme FM and Coro FM to go and help found Royal Media Services' Inooro FM, the third Kikuyu radio station to hit the airwaves.
While here, Muithirania would host the mid-morning show (Thiririka) up to 2006 when she was moved to co-host the breakfast show (Hagaria) alongside Njogu Wa Njoroge who had just joined the station from Kameme FM in a similar capacity.
It is in this show that she hosted uninterruptedly for over 10 years alongside Njogu and later Kamau Wa Kang'ethe where she would become a household name in many Kikuyu homes.
Her undying passion in voicing the plight of farmers would earn her the title 'Barothi Wa Urimi' (Farming Ambassador) which would later morph into a Head of State Commendation (HSC).
While she appreciates her celebrity status, Waithira says that it was never among her goals but rather to see her impact on people's lives positively through the microphone.
"I am that kind of person who prefers the backseat because I do not want to be the one talking but the one listening. As such, I have never allowed fame to intoxicate my mind. Changing other people's lives has always been my focus and any other things that come along it, I consider it a bonus," she adds.
Waithira had resigned from Inooro FM in the run-up to 2017 general elections to go and vie for Murang'a Woman Representative seat where she lost with a whisker to then, incumbent and current Woman Representative Sabina Chege.