The Life You Built Is Beautiful. But Is It Still Yours? Hello Reader, Happy Friday, I hope you had a great week and stayed hydrated. I will tell you now, this is a long one, you will most likely have to read twice. But it is time to shake the table. How have you bet on yourself? I am asking because many of us have spent years betting on everybody and everything else with a kind of loyalty that rarely gets named. We bet on the job because it gave us stability. We bet on the family because love…
HAPPY FRIDAY Hello Reader, Happy Friday. I hope you found a moment of joy this week and, as always, stayed hydrated. As we move into the weekend, I want to offer a gentle reminder to take a breath and notice what is still good. I know life can be challenging. Bills do not stop billing. People do not stop people-ing. The world keeps doing what the world does. But even in the middle of all that, there are still moments of grace tucked inside the day if we slow down long enough to see them. A…
Embracing The Power Of Our Story Happy Friday, Reader, I hope you found a moment of joy this week and, as always, stayed hydrated. First, I want to thank everyone who filled out the survey. If you have not had the opportunity to, please take a moment. It is really helpful in shaping this community and how we move forward. Check your inbox. It takes no longer than 7 minutes to complete. This week, I have been thinking a lot about the next chapter of life, especially after reading some of the…
By Monica Wisdom, Founder, Black Women Amplified Mindset work is powerful, but it is not always the first place healing begins. Before a thought becomes language in the mind, something is often already happening in the body. The heart, the nervous system, the gut, the breath, and the memories we carry all communicate with the […]
Just for the email tribe I would love your thoughts Dear Reader, I hope you are finding a moment of joy and staying hydrated. I’m working on the next evolution of Black Women Amplified, and I would love your thoughts. As this platform continues to grow, I am being very intentional about the resources, classes, and experiences we create next. I do not want to build on assumptions. I want to build from real insight, real needs, and the honest conversations women are having with themselves in…
With Love Hello Reader, I must say how deeply I admire mothers. It is no easy task, yet somehow it is carried with love, hope, sacrifice, and an endless stream of dreams for the people you nurture. Whether your baby is two or forty-two, you have shown up in ways big and small to guide, protect, encourage, and love. Motherhood is not simply a title. It is a living expression of care. You carry family traditions forward while creating new memories and rituals of your own, and somewhere along…
Hello Reader, We say it all the time. I got this. And honestly, we do. Independent. Strong. Educated. Capable. All of it is true. But you know what else is true? We are exhausted. Not the kind of tired that a vacation fixes. The kind that lives underneath everything. The kind that makes it hard to get out of bed some mornings even though from the outside it looks like life is going great. And it is. That is the part nobody talks about. Life can be good and you can still feel like you are…
Mindset, Mason Jars, and Hip Hop Hello Reader, Happy Friday. I hope you found some joy this week and stayed hydrated. Now I have to be honest, the hydration part was hard for me this week, but not for the reason you think. I bought one of those fancy water bottles, thinking I was about to become one of those polished wellness women on TikTok, and baby, it was a struggle. I like what I like, so I am officially going back to my mason jar. I am a small-town girl at heart, and apparently, that…
Hello Reader, I want to talk to you about something that does not get said enough. Every action you take in life has a genesis. Every single one. From road rage to the partners you choose to the way you shrink in certain rooms, even though you are the most qualified person there. None of that is random. There is a root to all of it. I think of them like computer programs. Installed in us by society, by our families, by our peers, by experiences we had before we even had the language to…
Dearest Reader, Many of us are moving into our next chapter. From retirement to starting a business. And in the midst of it all, there is a time period that we have to release that old identity. I spent the weekend doing something I do not do enough of. I slowed down. I did my own inner work. And honestly, it was overdue. In the middle of that, I got really clear about something I have been sitting on, and I need to share it with you. I have been doing a deep dive into my core programs,…