Helping you become the person God wants you to be
What things give you energy?
I love being around people, but I would consider myself an ambivert not an introvert not an extrovert but a little of both it depends on who I’m with. Also love creating a podcast and getting to talk to an audience. My dream is to take it a little bit more seriously and maybe take it on the road locally for now. I love being out and about and I love my alone time.
What’s your all-time favorite album?
I would be lying if I didn’t mention the Jersey Boys album I like the movie version better than the Broadway album even though my uncle introduced me to Jersey Boys and John Lloyd Young by suggesting that I check out the Broadway album. I also am in love with tapestry by Carole King. That came out when my mom was a freshman in high school and when she introduced it to me when I was little I didn’t get it because back then I wasn’t into what I termed old music but now I love that album and I grew to love it even more when I saw beautiful the musical which is another of my favorite albums that soundtrack is gorgeous.
Which topics would you like to be more informed about?
I’m simply interested in growing and seeing where God takes me. This week I start but I will study, and I’m starting with the new group rather than the previous group that I have been with for the last three semesters of Bible study. I am also going to start what I call boundless babe graduate school. The Boundless Babe Society has decided to let the graduates of the program back into the program and they are calling it BBs Graduate Connect. I have also decided to join a support group twice a month called Push Rim. It is a support group for people with disabilities to come together chat and share solutions to difficulties I’ve been a little sad in life lately but I’m hoping that God will use this to make me feel better and help me to grow.
What would your life be like without music?
My life without music would be absolutely devastating and horrible. I don’t know who I would be if I couldn’t sing or go to a concert or listen to the radio it has been part of my life ever since I was born
How do you celebrate holidays?
The one constant in our Christmas celebration is going to church although the times have changed for that too we used to have only one service at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve but now we have two services it will usually one at 4:00 and one at 6:00 and we could choose which one we wanted to go to. After church on Christmas Eve, we traditionally head to my grandmother’s house after a quick stop at our house to pick up the presents that we bought for our family then we would head to my mom’s mom’s house and stay there and visit with family until about 11:30 or midnight. Then on Christmas Day we would go to my other grandma’s house my dad’s mom’s house and hang out with family there this is when that side of the family was a lot closer. Now that most of our family has grown up and had their kids we have kind of spread apart and have moved on to doing our own thing. Church is still a constant on Christmas Eve although our church celebrates Christmas through music a few weeks before Christmas because many of our choir members are actually out of town before Christmas and for Christmas. So soon I will start choir rehearsals and get ready for the Christmas season at Eagle Rock Baptist Church and we will see what we do for Christmas because there have been changes in our family as well
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
This is a bit of a repeat from me. I wish I didn’t go through the dark time of having to learn to accept my disability but I’m happy that I did.
What are your favorite types of foods?
I love
Do you see yourself as a leader?
Yes I do see myself as a leader. I believe that it was something that God wanted to grow in me, and so I believe that that is part of the reason why he made me the way he made me because he knew that I would have to lean on him an advocate for the things I needed and trust him for the things I needed. Leadership in my life has had it’s fun Parts as well, I consider myself a leader in the disability community because I am now connected with Dynamic women in the Rolettes and the Boundless Babe Society. I feel like I’ve talked about them Ad nauseam at this point but it is because they have become so important in my life and taught me how to carrying myself with a good sense of pride not the look at me I’m the best in the world kind but a pride that says I’m comfortable with who I am and the equipment I use is simply a part of me even though some people might see it as a big deal. I have so much more to learn in being a leader in both of the communities that I serve in the community of my church family and my faith and the community of Sisterhood that is made up of the disability community.
What’s your favorite word?
What are you doing this evening?
It’s 107 in the morning and I just got into bed when I woke up in the morning and plan to get dressed have breakfast including coffee and then do the writing that I have intended to do in my notebook That way I can turn my full transformation story which is now called watch me: my full transformation story into a podcast episode/audiobook. I’ve always dreamed of writing a book but I don’t think that it will ever become a hard copy that’s why I love the fact that I have a podcast now. I also want to start writing down some of the questions that I have already gotten for my 4th-anniversary podcast episode, If you are reading this and you have questions that you want to ask please include them in the comments.
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