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Book: Walk Through Fire by Sheila Johnson

Happy Women’s History Month! This month is an extension of Black History Month for me - we continue celebrating the lives, legacies, contributions, and stories of Black women. In this special episode, I’m sharing lessons I took from Sheila Johnson’s memoir Walk Through Fire - the story of America’s first Black female billionaire and co-founder of BET.

This isn’t a typical episode, but I wanted stay in your ear and share some powerful insights from a Black woman’s story. Sheila Johnson’s journey - from a traumatic 35-year marriage to building a new life as a hospitality industry titan - offers so much wisdom about healing, identity-making, and becoming.

Key Lessons Shared:
1.The power of a measured response - How to respond to provocations and insecurities without losing your dignity

2.Use your single years wisely - Single seasons are for exploring your childhood stories, clarifying your identity and needs, and learning to love your own company - not just healing from the last relationship

3.Be discerning about whose advice you take - Some people will advise you out of their own spiritual deficit and unhealed experiences

4.Honor your journey, even as you take it - Accept your story for what it is, own it, but also recognize when “I’m not ready” becomes the thing keeping you stuck in trauma

5.Life is sometimes a matter of inches - Celebrate your process and growth as it happens, don’t despise small steps and small wins

6.The power of creating something - How creation becomes part of healing and identity-making. We don’t have to wait on God to perform miracles when the revelation is in what we create one step at a time

Plus: Updates on upcoming events including the Skylark documentary screening with Dr. Yanique Redwood (March 22, Atlanta), Seven Last Words service at Ebenezer Baptist Church (Good Friday), and the Greater Allen Cathedral Women’s Conference (April 9-11, Brooklyn).

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