The G.O.O.DLife Online radio show promotes a commitment to a lifestyle of resourcefulness. Hosts Adiagha and Shea provide a platform for "out of the box discourse" that compels their audience to confront life challenges in an innovative fashion. Guests will include a range of enterprising indiviuals who have turned setbacks into triumphs. This episode features poet, Jennifer Falu as the special guest host in Adiagha's absence.
JENNIFER FALU
Jennifer Falu’s passion for creative expression through poetry is the foundation of her professional and personal life. At age fourteen she wrote her first poem and began reciting her poetry at sixteen.
Falu recently wrote and starred in her own one-woman show; LOVE, Above All Things, which was an emotional journey through the first few days, of a three year custody battle. Falu won first place in NBC TV’s Amiri Baraka Poetry Slam and was ranked third internationally in the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2013. She is a celebrated performance artist throughout NYC and across the country and as a member of the 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014 Nuyorican Poets Café Slam Teams becoming the top female poet of the year in 2006, and ranked 3rd in both 2009 and 2012. She made history as a member of the 2014 slam team, as she was a part of the first All-Woman Slam Team in the Tri-State Area. As a performer, Falu has shared the stage with Jennifer Holliday, Carl Thomas and Patti LaBelle. She makes her film debut in the soon to be released movie, “Mania Days” alongside Katie Holmes.
In addition to being a dynamic and visceral poet, Falu is well known for her teaching, coaching and workshop leadership ability, working with Young Writer’s Academy, Boston Breadloaf, Sports & Arts In Schools Foundation and Achievement First-East New York, just to name a few. Falu is one third of what is known as “The Coaching Trinity”.