To be of service to women is my heart work. Every time I was down, loss, or struggling just to live it was always women who lifted me back up. Women have had the most impact on my life as I traveled through this journey and for that reason I have vowed to always pay it forward to us, by us. We all have a story worth telling and I believe it is my gift to hold that space to have your story shared. We’re all sister’s here.
Let’s get into my why: I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts to a 17 year old mother and a 19 year father. My ethnic background is french, puerto rican, and bahamian. I became the eldest of for children and got the gift of doing life with my older sister who shares a different mother from us. At a young age, school was my escape. I loved being in plays, reading books [Goosebumps forever], and playing sports. My town was not multi cultural, often times we were the only minority resulting in my father always got pulled over. We grew up on WIC and food stamps, living check to check with my mother and father working day and nights. My father encouraged us to excel in sports so we could go to college, so, I did. I worked my ass off, I was not a natural talent but i did get a full athletic scholarship to go to Eckerd College.
I had the time of my life in college. Finally, i felt free. We danced our nights away and trained hard. College was a journey and it opened my eyes to the power of being a beautiful woman. I started to hate basketball, my first love, I did not like the coach at all. After graduating college, with a business and communications degree, I was scouted by a modeling agency, and off to Miami to model.
GIRL! MIAMI! Miami was a TIIIIIME -listen to the podcast to here more. I traveled the world modeling, partied a lot, got into a couple of unhealthy relationships, flew on private jets, started a business, ended up in pyschotherapy, moved a bunch and learned the hard way that everything i was seeking was is within me!
To keep this short, I’ve lived many lives. I have lost myself, I have been deeply depressed, abused, successful, suicidal, joyful, voiceless, shining, all the feels. I have done a lot of work to come back to myself. And I am still a work in progress. A masterpiece I am painting daily. I’m here to let you know, no matter what it looks like on the outside, we are more alike than you think.
I see you. I am a reflection of you. I got you!
Girl, We Got This!
Here’s to extraordinary women. May we know them. Let us be them. May we raise them.
