I want to tell you something I have been holding close for a while now. And today, I finally feel ready to share it. When I was six years old, in foster care, my foster mother took my twin brother and me to a church in Bridgeport. Prayer Tabernacle. The Pastor was Bishop Kenneth Moales Sr. I was a little girl who had no idea what was happening in her life or why. I just knew we were at church. And at that church, my brother and I got baptized. I had no idea how intentional th

I have to start here, in the most honest place I can find, because this blog post deserves nothing less. There was a season where I did not like my daughter. Not where I didn't love her. I never stopped loving her. But love and like are two very different things, and if you have ever been in a broken relationship with someone you would die for, you know exactly what I mean. I loved Janai with everything in me. And for a long time, I could not stand to be in the same room with

Heyyy Friends, I have to tell ya'll something. We are closing our Unashamed Inc office. Not the organization. Not the work. The office. The actual brick and mortar in Middletown that has been Unashamed's home for the last 5 years. Come November 1st, we hand back the keys. And if I'm honest with you, for about a month I refused to hear that this was even happening. Let me back up. Unashamed started in 2018 with no plan. No five year strategy, no business model, nothing