I remember being so grateful to be on Food stamps
In 2007, I was newly divorced, raising my son, working full time, and on food stamps. After graduating with my Bachelor's degree, I got a job making $8.50 an hour with a bonus of $100 a week. Whooo-hooo $1,000 a month with a child! I remember being so grateful to be on food stamps while also thinking, “This is not gonna work.”
I was determined to live a life I loved, even if I was a single mother, young, and broke. So I started a business at 27 years old, that launched a global natural hair movement and I’ve never had a “traditional” job since.
I started my natural hair salon in the kitchen of my low-income apartment (where I also created a bomb-ass hair and body moisturizer). My salon catered to and gave home to some of the brightest and most powerful women in the Atlanta metro area. Essence Magazine has called. Former Georgia State Representative Stacy Abrams has called. Hundreds of professors, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives with top-ranking jobs at the CDC, Spelman College, and Equifax, just to name a few, were ringing my line. I loved transforming their hair and infusing their life with inspiration, motivation, and a sense of home. My salon HoneeComb became a lifestyle, and its success was guided 100% by Spirit.
But after a decade in the salon, like most successful entrepreneurs who grind and hustle to no end, I was hit with extreme burnout. My lowest point was sitting alone in a plastic chair in Little Haiti in Miami, looking at train tracks and saying to myself, “There is no room left in my brain. If I could just get some space in my brain.” I can't describe the loneliness and weight that I felt in those days—caring and giving and working and giving some more. I had lost any sense of Spiritual direction and purpose.
My life changed in 2017.
I found a way to ground myself, get rest, and reawaken energized so I could move forward in my business with a clear mind and an open heart.
I invite you to start on a journey of finding and grounding your purpose so you can fly.