SPEAK-NOW with GENA "The Journey"

What a wonderful opportunity to share the Cordelia's perspective about life, travels, music and what it means to be groomed to become a broadcaster to follow in her dad's footsteps. 

From Nigeria to Fort Wayne and back to Nigeria

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you do with what happens to you. Holding onto a positive perspective regardless to whats going on around you will help you remember two things. 

1. Your vision is still relevant, right now. 

2. Isolation can create the focus you need to take advantage of what's in front of you.  

In August 2003, Robert experienced a tragedy of Biblical proportions when his precious wife and all four children died in a flash flood in Kansas late one Saturday night. After 8 years as a father, nearly 12 years as a husband, and 13 years as an electrical engineer, Roberts's life completely changed on their way home from a wedding in Wichita when a six-foot wall of water inundated their van, sweeping them off the highway in the darkness and into the deluge. 

Do you trust yourself to unlock you own power by planting a seed of confidence? This podcast is going to look at 3 steps to look at ways to build confidence. 

1. Know that competence builds confidence

2. Seeds of confidence can unlock your power to be brave, be bold and to blaze your own trail for others to follow. 

3. Plant a seed and don't dig it up. 

Fireside Chat/Interview with DeShawn Moore sharing the many hats she wears as wife, mother,  first lady, actress, radio personality and much more and doing it all with style, grace and first and foremost with God! 

Who in their 40's with two adult children both in college, walks away from a fully furnished home to live on a college campus to pursue a college degree? Not a graduate degree, not as a graduate student but in pursuit of a bachelors degree? "I Did" Not that was self-discipline. 

If you want to become the master of your craft, an expert in your area search out and pursue everything you can about your area of interest. That means obtaining knowledge, which requires self-discipline. After you see it! After you say it! After you write it! Commit to it! Being committed is developing self-discipline. 

Listen to her journey her vision!

Having a vision modifies sight but acting on a vision modifies behavior. Once you see it, say it, write it and act on it that is making a commitment to your vision. I read an article where Maya Angelo gave advice to youth saying, "you must see it and then go about the business of becoming it. Study it and bring all your energies to it." 

For 2018 Speak Now with Gena focused every Final Friday on living wellness, giving Voice-Support-Education at every level of mental wellness, mental health and mental illness to reduce the stigma.  Going into 2020 we're going to continue and expand the conversation and narratives around mental health. 

This weeks podcast is to introduce a new association  "The Society of Black Mental Health Professionals" in the midwest, they are a group of multi-cultural professionals coming together to inform, educate and empower others about mental health. 

I'm looking forward to watching this association grow and operate because they offer and bring to the community caring, educated, licensed, experienced professionals trained in mental health. 

In my opinion they bring something just as important "Cultural Competence"  

Listen I had to realize and did realize pretty quickly that wanting and needing validation from others was not what I needed at all. I came to  an understanding of the private process the internal, the public process the external, and the eternal process which is the spiritual journey which made and continues to with focus to make me unstoppable.