Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity

The Power of Resilience & TikTok Marketing

How do you rewrite your message after life’s interruptions? TikTok guru and content creator, Keenya Kelly will share her story of set backs, disappointments, and detours which all landed her in a place of new adventure and business success.
Keenya is the CEO of If You brand It, a marketing and consulting firm in San Diego, CA where she strategically helps business owners develop video marketing strategies
Keenya decided to learn about the TikTok platform as a way to market her business
during the pandemic. In just 12 short months Keenya has grown her account to over 470,000 followers and has helped clients reach millions of followers as well.
Join our conversation with Keenya Kelly and draw on ways to master your message, Reach your audience, and influence others.

50th Episode Celebration

We are celebrating our 50th Episode with Grammy Award Winning Producer and Flipside of Adversity Engineer, Keith Pelzer.
Sometimes new tasks can become the most important part of our lives. But we have to take the risk first, in order to achieve new things. In March of 2020, Living Strong Consulting had to create a huge pivot in order to survive and; often, choosing the person to bring your vulnerable ideas to can catapult or crush your confidence to succeed. We have had success beyond anything I could have imagined over the last two years, and people often ask … How do you keep growing against rollercoaster odds?
Well… “The reward is in the risk. No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.” There have been three key components to our climb during the pandemic: Faith, Friendship, and Flipside stories. And the first step was connecting with a like-minded partner in crime willing to climb, dream, and create right along side of my adventure. Pastor, Producer, and Creative Keith Pelzer has been that person. It all started with a “YES” and possibility grew from there.
What are you hesitating to say yes to because you can not be certain of the outcome?
How are you allowing growth to remain on pause because you are afraid of risk?
Are you playing safe and sabotaging your plan?
Log into my conversation with the thought partner behind our radical shift, innovative changes, and traction for growth. We will share strategies, mindset, and technical tips to continuing to innovate in a season of change. We are not looking to bounce back to anything. Our bounce is forward with a momentum of an up and down climb with risks and learned lessons at each twist and turn. But we are not turning back. Join us on 4/28 @5pm EST for a lot of laughs and practical tips for your Flip!

Overcoming Yourself is a Leadership Requirement

Being a great leader means setting the emotional tone & example – in good times and perhaps more importantly in bad.
Inevitably, we face change every day of our lives which can have a different impact on the quality and effectiveness of our leadership. How we make sense of change will affect how we process change and our ability to respond in innovative and creative ways. Leaders who gain a greater insight in dealing with personal and organizational change can increase personal margin and manage toxic stress in order to take better care of themselves and find ways to translate perspectives about change into their leadership and environments. Our mindset of endurance as leaders directly connects to our potential for growth in change and success.

Loved Not Labeled

Becoming a victim of abuse at an early age caused Nateshe Williams to have an unhealthy view and understanding of love. For years she carried unidentified cargo... weight... labels. Her faith and Heavenly Father reshaped her baggage and what defined her value. Now, as a life coach, she has a desire to inspire and a passion to serve. Her flip side story and life coaching tools will provide insight on building confidence, goals, and a fresh perspective for breaking down self imposed limitations.

Use Pain as a Paintbrush

The moment of saying, “Yes” to pain can be the first of many moments where pain becomes a paintbrush to create something unimaginable. The last two years of the pandemic have been a tremendous source of pain in so many ways, join our conversation for strategies to transform loss, grief, hurt, and uncertainty into meaningful purpose. Activist, Counselor, Innovator, Minister, Laurene Williams, is known for her ability to give voice to the deepest expressions of Spirit and connect them to the daily experiences of living. Reverend Laurene Williams delights in creating spaces in which people can express love, experience connection, demonstrate responsibility and empower community.

Facing Fear

Fear was something that took over my life for many years. I was afraid of everything. Afraid of failure, afraid of what people thought of me, afraid of success, afraid of being seen, afraid of messing things up, and afraid of being what God has called me to be, just to name a few. It dictated everything in my life. When I looked up and saw that I was moving but standing still, I knew it was time to overcome it. Fear had crept up on me without my permission. Today I stand ready and willing to face the fear that has tried to control my life. I once heard someone say, the only way to overcome fear is to do whatever it is that you are afraid of. I’m so excited to share that in this season of my life, I am doing everything that fear told me I couldn’t do.

Trauma and PTSD of People Of Color:Fight Against Racism & Bigotry

This show will bring to light historical context on racism and bigotry, and how it is still impacting people of color today. Systemic racism has led us to where we are today, and the continued presence of racism has led to increases in hate crimes. Join us as we unpack…
What conditions exist that are potentially contributing to increased hate crimes?
How do you think marginalized groups can work together to fight systemic racism?
What can we do to influence long-term change in the fight against racism and hate?
It’s a Flipside conversation about healing, collaboration, and change.

Metamorphosis: Finding Your Passion

God’s interruptions are often invitations to something more significant. Don’t miss out on the blessing of participating in God’s plan because it doesn’t look like what you planned.
Sooooo, last night with 30 seconds to go I had to decide “Do I take the easy out and cancel or Do I step into an interruption and test out what God has put in me for such a time as this.”
I chose to step - terrified but determined. Why would you do something so scary????? Because I NEVER want to walk away from a moment saying, “What if”?
Life threw me curve ball and the Girlfriend Gathering Crew said “Batter Up!” and we hit a home run!!!

Who I Choose to be, is the New Me!

Rick Warren has a quote, “We are the product of our past but we don’t have to be a prisoner to it.” Regardless of what has happened to us we don’t have to be shackled to it and allow it to define us. But let’s be honest life can be overwhelming; and even when we are confident and competent in our abilities and skills to achieve success with joy and gratitude, we can still attest to the reality that sometimes, life still gets hard. And if we don’t stay alert to what we believe to be true, we can become chained to lies, tricks, and skeems designed to distort our value and worth in the middle of our story- sabotaging the potential for our ending.
Letting go of our chains (thoughts/hurts/ lies/ narratives) is essential to becoming everything God has called us to be. Sometimes, letting go is difficult because we don’t physically see the chains, so we deny them or ignore them because they are too difficult to acknowledge or confront.
In the title for our show Zohnette Sligh shares an expression “who I choose to be”...choice denotes that there are alternatives for our paths. Join us for a conversation of how creativity, adventure and vulnerability can unlock chains and open doorways to purpose and true identity.

It’s Time to Learn About the Metaverse

How a chance opportunity at work led to creating a business around a new skill, a platform to keep people connected, and an entirely new way to do event planning in the Metaverse. Meta...What??? Yes, the metaverse - the internet’s next frontier and seen as a significant business and financial opportunity for the tech industry and other sectors. Brickrose Exchange owner, Bianca Jackson, brings people together, one gathering at a time. All while sharing innovative approaches to save struggling minority- owned businesses through innovation, cutting edge technology, and a virtual reality.
Meta (formerly known as Facebook): Investing $10 Billion to transition from a social media company to a Metaverse company. Dominating SEO with a name change and endless Metaverse content. Opportunity, accelerated business, and growth is not limited to the big companies.
What would it feel like to have your business explode with new sales? If this pandemic has taught us anything, it has been to approach the ordinary with innovation, and Bianca Jackson educates entrepreneurs, business owners, and vendors about massive opportunity for their business. BE THE 1ST IN YOUR INDUSTRY IN THE METAVERSE!!!