Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity

Adversity Can Break You Or Make You A Record Breaker

Get ready for an inspiring journey where I'll share my story of triumph over trauma to the NFL, navigating five learning disabilities, and overcoming a stutter that persisted until college. Join me as I reveal how a rough upbringing fueled my determination to win, transforming suffering and pain into currency for personal growth. Through resilience and perseverance, I've embraced my uniqueness, turning adversity into strength. Tune in to discover how I've leveraged my experiences to not just survive, but thrive in life. Don't miss this powerful conversation about resilience, perseverance, and the limitless potential within us all.

ENCORE It Wasn’t Supposed To Be This!

“Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly. Will you surrender your plans and purposes into the greater known of God's unknown designs for your life?” - Priscilla Shirer What happens when life doesn’t look the way we planned? How do we navigate the detour? Where do we experience pitfalls that make us stall? How do we grieve the loss of the plan we planned for? Let’s Rewrite our perspective and regain from the loss …. No… It wasn’t suppose to be “this”. But even “this” can lead to possibility, opportunity, and a new life on the Flip Side of Adversity. Join CEO, leader, trainer, author, and speaker Uneeka Jay as she shares her own story of grief in the middle of an interruption and lean into her gift to ignite transformation with powerful, practical and refreshingly relevant tools to move forward. 
 

Encore Embracing Pieces of Me

So often people ask, What tip will help them move forward through hard seasons in life?
But there is no magic wand answer to that question. The real question and conviction becomes,
Are you willing to do the work, break up the broken thoughts, stand firm in emotional upheaval, and get grounded in truth when it feels like life is in pieces?
Join us for our conversation with gospel artist, Y’Anna Crawley. Her flip side story will challenge you embrace the pieces in life, accept what comes, move and change what you can, build and place your pieces where they should be to become open, transparent, honest and free.

Encore R.E.S.E.T.

So many times, we run ourselves into the ground going, doing, and living in ways that could be harmful to our bodies, minds, and hearts. But when we take the time to unplug from the world and plug into God, we’re able to hear clearly as He continues to order or steps. We’re able to align our hearts and minds with the plans He has for our lives and what He wants us to do in this season. Join us for a talk about R.E.S.E.T. (Releasing Every Situation Encourages Transformation) and the importance of taking time to allow yourself to breathe and hear from God.

Encore Happily Married Couples: Navigating Adversity Together

Join Jackie Bledsoe, bestselling author and marriage expert, as he transparently shares his marriage story and insights on how couples can thrive through adversity. In this special segment of Living Strong, Jackie explores the flip side of challenges in marriage, revealing the hidden opportunities for growth, connection, and lasting love. Discover practical tips, real-life experiences, and the power of a Christ-centered foundation in building and sustaining happily married couples. Get ready to transform your relationship and conquer life's storms together.

Encore Live Forward With Revenue Generating Activities

Jevon Wooden is a business and mindset coach, speaker, author, and veteran of the US Army and the tech industry. He specializes in empowering motivated people to build the life of their dreams, professionally and personally. Wooden felt called to this line of work after navigating his fair share of adversity and emerging from it stronger, wiser, and committed to uplifting others.
Wooden learned the power of taking inspired action, investing whole-heartedly in relationships, embracing his authentic self, and genuinely connecting with others from a place of understanding and transparency. These experiences taught him the importance of mindset when facing what seemed like impossible odds. They also showed him that you could do more with less, but not without a solid strategy and a commitment to maintaining good mental health.
Wooden is passionate about sharing his unique mix of mindset and business coaching to help business leaders and entrepreneurs do more and be more without losing themselves in the process.

Be ReZilient

No matter who she serves, Denise believes it is essential to open the door of communication through trust, empathy, and compassion—meeting people where they are and allowing them to be unapologetically themselves. She continues to grow into her life's purpose by merging her gifts to inspire and open the doors for healing and self-discovery for others through the power of therapeutic art resilience coaching. Thus Be ReZilient was born.
Through creative arts wellness educational programs and inclusive community-building that empowers, cultivates and heighten resilience, Be ReZilient's mission is to reprint the narrative surrounding mental wellness by providing resources to support individuals and communities, while actively addressing intergenerational disparities and trauma within the community that affect mental health.
Denise is a relatable and transparent coach and motivational speaker. She creates a safe space to provoke thought and change. Join us for a Flip Side Conversation that will transform, heal, and bring out the creative energy in you.

Encore All Things Can Turn Around

??Is it possible to turn around the difficult things we face in life? Rapper and speaker Legin thinks so. In fact, that’s what his name means, Nigel (first name) spelled backwards is “Legin” and means Christ turned his life around.
He’s overcome abandonment by his father due to drugs and alcohol, and all of the thoughts of “not being good enough” that come with it. In spite of that he’s become a successful husband and father while being a full time Christian rap artist and speaker for 10 years. He has released several projects, promoted tours, has traveled across the US, UK and Africa to perform and speak, and has founded organizations fighting sex trafficking and injustice.
Legin takes the message of turnaround with him wherever he goes, whether schools, prisons, churches or conferences, because he believes “every life and every story matters,” and no matter where you are, God can turn things around.

“A Father’s Message” & “A Father’s Love”

Gerald L. Jackson is a local author from Philadelphia, who grew up in the West Philadelphia section of the city. Growing up in a single parent home wasn’t easy for him. Watching his mother struggle trying to raise two boys was frustrating. Dealing with an absent father who was battling with drugs left a lot of questions unanswered. But Gerald was able to turn his pain into a praise and he is looking forward to sharing his story with our Flip Side of Adversity listeners.
Gerald’s latest book is titled “A Father’s Love” geared for children between the ages of 2 and 8 years old. From a father’s perspective, Gerald gives a heartfelt message with the intent to steer children in a positive direction, addressing a good work ethic, education, self-care, and much more. Encouraging every reader they are loved beyond the pages.

Come-Back Behavior, Possibility Thinking & Faith

Life feels like it’s all about what is happening at the moment. Instead, it’s about how you respond to and assign value to what’s happening.
Once we understand we are valued, safe, and surrounded by love, we can face anything. Marnie’s history includes fires, floods, a tornado, car wrecks, business set-backs, a burglary, lightning strike, sudden death in the family, and more.
During this conversation you’ll discover the foundational mindsets you can adopt now to prepare for future storms.