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Audreia Josephs is an Author, Life Coach, Intervention Strategist and Motivational Speaker who teaches the Art of Forgiveness as a way to live and as a journey of release and reconnection. With training in counselling and social work, her career has taken her across the United Kingdom where, as a workshop facilitator and coach, she…

Dr Ava Eagle Brown grew up in poor rural Jamaica and was determined not to become what she saw around her. She wanted more and realised that education was her access to more. But the odds were against her, she failed English and Maths, she had dyslexia, she had no money, and she missed classes…

Epiphanie Yohou is a Marketing and Planning Strategist and the Founder/CEO of Ayoka Candles Co. As a business leader, mentor, speaker, and entrepreneur, she partners with small businesses to create a vision for their start-ups and professional brands. For nearly a decade, her career has been focused on the pharmaceutical industry, spanning marketing, global planning,…

Angela Cudger is an award-winning international speaker and coach, a top wellness expert, and founder of Legacy Holistic Health Institute, the only accredited black-owned institute for health coaches in the United States of America. She has been styled the Queen of Wellness, and rightly so. Angela is a walking wealth of information and teaches women…

Ashley Little is a strong leader who is passionate about transforming lives through education. She has worked in the for-profit education field for over 13 years and occupied many different leadership positions, and loves being able to help students who might not have the opportunity to attend a four-year college. She is CEO/Founder of Ashley…

DiAnne Malone is a writer and the founder of Who’s That Lady Blog. She is also a published author, college professor, and administrator. DiAnne first fell in love with words at the age of three and became an avid reader from that point on. Writing for her came later, and she published her first poem…

Dr. Delene Musielak was born and raised in Guyana, South America, before migrating with her family to the United States at the age of six. As a child, she desired to be a doctor, and she pursued and attained that dream. After obtaining her medical degree, she not only went on to train in one…

Within days of discovering a lump in her breast, Bonita Parker moved from a stage two cancer diagnosis to a stage four cancer diagnosis. She had a triple-negative, the rarest and deadliest type of breast cancer. The diagnosis would wake her to the reality that none of us have time to waste in the pursuit…

Dr. Yolanda Jerry is a retired air force veteran, speaker, author, coach, and entrepreneur. She coaches inspires and empowers victims/survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and youth bullying. Yolanda shares her story as a sexual assault and domestic violence survivor and what it takes to no longer be a victim but a victor! She is…

Meg Nocero is an attorney, writer, speaker, and empowerment coach. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather, Congressman Alfred Santangelo, who was an American lawyer and politician, Meg served the United States as a Federal Attorney with the Department of Homeland Security for almost twenty years. In this role, she mentored hundreds of student interns…

As a young child, Helen Cummings Henry was left in her native country of Trinidad to care for her dying father while her mother lived and worked in the USA to provide a better life for the family. It was not easy for her as a child to watch her father die, but his illness…

King Ashley Ann is a phenomenal young woman. She is a talented and award-winning wedding and event designer and owner of Ashley Ann’s Events and several other businesses. She inspires creative detail, and modern, elegant atmospheres and has made a name for herself by offering beautiful, unique, professional designs and productions. She is currently one…

Dr. Marsie Ross is the CEO of EdLyn Enterprises, LLC. She has a doctorate in Pharmacy and is passionate about inspiring women to embrace self-care without guilt or apology! As a pharmacist, international speaker, author, and integrative nutrition health coach, Marsie loves to arm women with real-life strategies to help them renew, revive and redefine…

Kenise Etwaru is a recording artist, songwriter, worship leader, motivational speaker, executive HR coach and author of the book, The Good Wife and The Other Woman. She is a multi-talented woman who desires to use all her talents and abilities to bring glory to God’s name. Kenise shares with us her joys and frustrations of…

Nicole S. Mason is a businesswoman, an attorney, a speaker, an author, and a coach. Her business journey began in her grandmother’s dry-cleaning business where she served faithfully as the unofficial Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. But a burning desire to help the less fortunate gain access to justice caused her to leave…

Jessica Mosley is an author, publisher, award-winning journalist, PR professional, certified life and business coach and entrepreneur who went from jobless and homeless to becoming an investment banker, a vice president of the bank and later, founder of MizCEO Society for Coaches and CEO of J. Mosley Publishing. As a certified life and business coach,…

Omo Bello is a highly sought-after French Nigerian soprano opera singer who is passionate about singing and has entirely devoted herself to music. As a young child Omo thought she would become a doctor because this was the expectation of her parents but as she grew so did her love for music, and when the…

At 16 years of age, Philicia Baugh Pringle became a mother. She was shattered and embarrassed but resolved to care for her baby. She experienced a world that was mean and words that were unkind but rose with a decision to commit to being who she was, unapologetically. She shook the shame, shared her journey…

Leia Baez is a Public Information Officer at Douglas County Nebraska. A few years ago, she was in what she describes as the darkest place in her life. Her marriage had come to an end, and she had moved back to live with her parents and was once again sleeping in her childhood bedroom. Leia…

Katrina McCain is a former Fashion Model who has been on TV, graced the pages of best-selling magazines such as Vogue and Italia, and cat-walked on the runways of New York’s fashion A-list. She is the founder and president of Pearls of Hope Outreach, a women’s Bible study group that seeks to provide Godly and…

Ruva Ngundu is a highly anointed, authentic prophetic voice with a mandate to preach, teach and minister healing, wholeness, and deliverance to women, young girls, and single mothers. She is also a worshiper and author of the book, Beauty for Ashes. The book, which is at the core of her ministry is dedicated to every…

Victoria is a wife and mother of two beautiful children. Her first child was born with Down Syndrome almost a decade ago, and although she was initially distraught especially as he grew, and she observed that he was excluded from certain activities, Victoria did not remain distraught. She reached past her pain and helped others….

Cynthia Wilson James brings to life, Ecclesiastes 3:1, which says, to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: In her own words, “The key is never allowing another person’s season to determine where you should be in your season of life.” Cynthia also says that the Bible doesn’t…

Hope LeNoir lost her mother when she was only seven months old. As she grew up, she couldn’t fully comprehend the reason for the tragedy and frequently asked, “Why am I still here?” That question would lead to the discovery of her purpose and give her life meaning as she set out on a journey…

Betty Parker is a professional speaker, author, and trainer. She holds a degree in broadcast journalism from Louisiana State University which affords her the educational background to write and speak professionally. She is a communications expert with nearly 30 years’ experience. Betty began her career as a trainer in 1998 in the biotech industry after…

Adrienne Hicks-Everett is a wife and mother. In 2014 she was crowned Ms. US Continental. A man-made crown or proclamation wasn’t necessary though because God had made her queen from the onset. To Him, she had always been a queen, but like many women, she had forgotten who she was. Being crowned Ms. US Continental,…

Mary Alison Momoh is a gospel songwriter and singer, wife and mother of one amazing son. From the age of four, she was attracted to singing and fancied herself a singer. Her mother always sang as they did chores at home and when she went to church with her parents, there was some more singing….

Angela Lewis-Wright is a woman with a very inspiring story. At over sixty, she began a career as an actress and a model. And this was after retirement. Now, I do not know about you, but when I think of acting and especially of modelling I think of young women; women who are just starting…

The human trafficker sells your body, sells your soul they keep you under their control. to them, you are just a piece of meat for humanity to sit and eat.   the younger the victim, the easier to control by the time they’re teens- their spirit is cold. no longer do they have the will…