Women’s Empowerment / Health and Wellness

Women’s Empowerment / Health and Wellness

This month is all about Women’s Empowerment and Health and Wellness. We invite you to join us for these monthly workshops which are free of charge. If you’ve not yet participated in one of these workshops, this is a great time to get started. We invite you to share with others and attend as many as you can. These are sponsored and organized by Innate Success, Dress for Success Memphis, Joyce Kyles Consulting and Grow with Google.

Register here and join us from anywhere around the world: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/health-and-wellness-tickets-288243974487?fbclid=IwAR2ypahrrL7ZleDw7waAX8yjBTWNTkNgxcv6ktbQtbGtIfi1C_Ro3A8wAzE

Teen Dating Violence-Girl Talk with Houston High School

Teen Dating Violence-Girl Talk with Houston High School

It was indeed my privilege to return to Houston High School. This time, it was all about the young ladies. They have started a Beautifully Unique Girls Club. It gives them the opportunity to talk about important issues in a safe space for full transparency and self expression. February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness month. I had the opportunity to share statistics, knowing the signs of abuses, self worth, and my lived and professional experiences in this space. I appreciated their openness and desire to ensure that this topic was included in their monthly meetings.

THI Nursing Graduation

THI Nursing Graduation

What a great way to end 2021! I gave the Commencement Address for The Health Institute’s Fall Graduation for their Nursing and Phlebotomy graduates. It was indeed an honor to share my experiences, provide hope, encouragement and a call to action for not only the graduates, but those who attended in support of these amazing students. I am thankful to every single person who felt I was the best fit, and the energy and love I received are feelings I will forever treasure.

Someone told me in my teens that I would make a great nurse because I enjoyed working with people, community service, and they are paid well. I always knew that was something I’d never explore. I went through a period of constant illness in my teens and early adulthood. The sight of needles often made me feel physically ill and I was often nervous at the thought of yet another doctor’s appointment. While I experienced a few doctors and nurses who were not so kind and professional, most of them were great, knew what they were doing, and put my mind and body at ease. Nursing takes a combination of knowledge. professionalism, and compassion. I love people, but I am too nervous and terrified of needles for me AND the patient to be terrified when it comes to treatment!lol

 

 

The FBI Addresses Domestic Violence

The FBI Addresses Domestic Violence

One of my biggest honors this year was to serve as the Keynote Speaker the FBI’s Annual Domestic Violence Awareness program at their national headquarters in Washington, DC. The event was hosted dually in person as well as virtually so that their international employees would have the opportunity to participate. I also had the pleasure of conducting a special workshop with their EAP employees on a separate day.

To know me is to know that law enforcement and criminal justice are extremely important to me. As I shared during both opportunities, my initial plan was to become an attorney. I also had aspirations of pursuing a career in the military-the Air Force specifically. As life would have it, I would not do either in the ways I had originally planned. However, I continue to share my time and talents in both spaces, and for that, I consider myself fortunate and blessed.