Postpartum depression affects 1 in 8 mothers and can linger for months, sometimes years without support. Women are out here building healing in community. Meanwhile, so many of us are still chasing validation from men who aren’t even trying to heal themselves.
I heard a billionaire was asked one question in a street interview: “What’s the best advice you’d give your younger self?” He didn't talk about money or hustle. He said, “If a bird lands on a branch, does the bird trust the branch… or does it trust its wings?” Jobs can disappear, people can leave, money can run out, and circumstances can change. The branch was never the point. Build your skills, your character, and your ability to adapt. Trust your wings.
Me telling you all for the 1000th time that if you want to snatch your waist, sculpt your arm, and grow those glutes workout.
You can’t sleep on the combo
life becomes so much more enjoyable when you start treating it like a game you’re actually allowed to play. think about that. you have free will, and far more choices than you probably realize. you can move somewhere new, learn something completely different, build something from nothing, change your environment, reinvent yourself, and become someone your current self wouldn’t even recognize.
a lot of the rules you think you have to follow were inherited from people who were also afraid to step outside them. you don’t have to spend your entire life playing by rules you never consciously chose.
dream bigger. want more for yourself. take the possibility of an extraordinary life seriously, even when it feels unrealistic.
because the life you keep imagining might not be as far away as you think. you may just have to stop asking for permission to go after it.
She hasn’t even had a moment to catch her breath, yet another life is already depending on her for nourishment and comfort.
Motherhood is truly something.
The older i get, the more i realize that someone making time for you is one of the clearest signs they care. Everyone is busy. Everyone has responsibilities and their own battles to fight. So when someone consistently chooses to spend their time with you, checks on you, and makes space for you in their life, it means something. time is one thing we can never get back, and people don't give it away lightly.
Meet Zakia Dowdy, the standout 2025 graduate from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta, Georgia — one of the most decorated and awarded students in the state! 👏🏽
This young queen showed up to graduation with a massive stack of over 50 honors, awards, cords, sashes, and medals and walked away with more than $1 MILLION in scholarships!
Zakia has been killing it, she’s a Multiple-time A & B Honor Roll and Principal’s List student, Dual Enrollment Scholar who earned college credits while in high school, a early graduate (December), she’s Active in JROTC, Chorus, National Dance Honor Society, Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and multiple leadership roles, a Community advocate and poetry slam participant.
Now she’s heading to Kennesaw State University majoring in Political Science with a minor in Public Relations. She’s already involved with NAACP apprenticeship, KSU Collegiate 100, Mayor’s Ambassador Council, and the Political Science Civic Leadership program.
Her big dream is to become the Governor of Georgia and we have no doubt she’s going to make it happen!
This is what Black excellence and hard work look like. Proud of Zakia and her family for celebrating this moment so beautifully. The sky is truly the limit! Keep shining, Queen! 👏🏽
At just 13 years old, Alena Analeigh McQuarter made history as the youngest Black student ever accepted into a U.S. medical school.
Now 17, this brilliant young queen has already graduated high school at 12, earned a Master’s degree, interned at NASA, founded The Brown STEM Girl to inspire other girls of color, and continues blazing trails in medicine and science.
Her journey is living proof that when purpose, discipline, and brilliance collide, nothing can hold you back not even age.
The future is in incredible hands! 👏🏽