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Don’t Allow Anyone To Place You Inside Of A Box

Don’t Allow Anyone To Place You Inside Of A Box

Join The FLY Girl Effect Group Coaching: https://browngirlfromboston.leadpages.co/findingyourflyness/

What Is Your Personal Brand? Are You Being The Best Version of Yourself?

#FLYFriday: What Is Your Personal Brand? Are You Being The Best Version of Yourself?

Enroll in The FLY Girl Effect Group Coaching: https://browngirlfromboston.leadpages.co/findingyourflyness/

Need 1 on 1 Personal Branding and Image Coaching? Startup Business Strategy? Self-Esteem, Confidence Building or Next Step Goal Setting consult? Sign up for your 30-minute complimentary coaching session: bit.ly/coachingwithbrowngirl

The FLY Girl Effect: Finding Your FLYness: 30 Days of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Personal Development & Growth

Are you ready to Find Your FLYness?

Discover your FLYness through Self-Love, Self-Care, and Personal Development and Growth for 30 Days! 

The FLY Girl Effect: 30 Days of Finding Your FLYness, 

Journey to Self-Love, Self-Care, and Personal Development & 

Growth

FLYness is your birthright...

• Have you ever asked yourself what is my life passion and purpose? Why was I created?
• I am on the verge of personal career, professional and overall burnout.
• I need to turn my life around, I need some direction in my life!
• Why do I put everyone's needs first and forget all about needs and I am angry about that?

If you answered "yes" to 1 or more of these questions, it is 

time to "Find Your FLYness"

The FLY Girl Effect: 30 Days of Finding your FLYness: 

Personal Development Course will start on June 1st!

This 30 day group coaching will include:

• Daily lessons and growth work on self-love, self-care, and personal development
• Daily affirmations specially focus on self-love, self-healing, self-care, and growth
• Four 15 minute live group coaching calls with me along with recordings
• Private Facebook group to access lessons, growth work, networking, and coaching
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GET THE GROUP COACHING PROGRAM FOR ONLY $27

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Manifest Your New Year

           Learn how to truly invest, committed, and manifest (getting clear) on the life you deserve! 

Is this you?

Is this you? You're are a driven woman who works hard to make a decent living, a difference in the world but you still don't feel great about yourself? You know you have a gift to share, kind of know your purpose and understand what you are passionate about, but still second-guess yourself and your greatness. People always tell you that your life is well put together but deep down, you are a hot mess and you don't want to expose your imperfections and insecurities but you continue to suffer in silence because day in and day out. You are the one who supports people's dreams and goals. You are the one who inspire others. You are the one who suppose to have it together but don't. You are afraid of asking for help because you are the strong one. The one that everyone leans on, the rock. You can't go another minute, another hour, another day, another month or another year living like this. Now is the time to start creating and manifesting the life you want and deserve to live. 

Register for Manifest Your New Year 

You keep asking yourself: 

• What happened to my life?
• I didn't picture my life to be this way at my age.
• Why can't I stick to achieving my goals and dreams? 
• Why am I still holding onto certain people who don't want the best for me?
• My house is a mess and my life is even a hot mess! Why?
• I want to invest and commit to my inner FLYness to manifest greatness, but I don't think I can or know how to!

We have asked ourselves these questions countless times and remain stuck because we are not truly ready to invest and commit to our manifestation. We are lacking motivation. We are lacking willpower. We are lacking accountability. We are lacking energy. We are borderline hopeless and helpless. Today, the pity party is canceled. 

Today, we are going to say Yes to  Manifesting Our New Year (Register)

How It Works?

1. For four weeks, Andrea (Brown Girl From Boston) will host a live group coaching webinar every Wednesday evening.
2. These sessions are live, allowing you to ask questions and coach with Andrea in a group coaching setting.
3. If you can't make it to the live session, no worries! You'll be able to access the assignments and recorded sessions and complete the course at your own pace!

What You Will Learn

• How to manifest the life you want to live
• How to let go of toxic people who help keep you living a mediocre life?
• Reconnect with your wiser and authentic part of yourself that loves you unconditionally
• Silence your inner critic, recreate your inner story, and limit self-doubt, self-limiting, and self-sabotaging behaviors
• Cultivate unconditional self-acceptance, happiness, and FLYness
• Get clear, concise, and direct with what you want and need for your and your life
• Create a supportive tribe that will celebrate you, nurture you, love you for your true and authentic self
• How to self-forgive and forgive others and develop a forgiveness practice?
• Manifest your year and life via creating a vision board or writing a vision statement to manifest 

What You Will Get

• Access to all recorded sessions
• Access to Andrea in Real-Time
• Growth Work (Homework) and Assignments
• Exclusive invite to the Manifest Your New Year Facebook Group
• A copy of "Manifesting Your Greatness: Goal Setting" ebook

Dates and Time of Classes

• February 10, 2016: 7:30PM EST
• February 17, 2016: 7:30 PM EST
• February 24, 2016: 7:30 PM EST
• March 2, 2016:        7:30 PM EST

Register: Manifest Your New Year

                                                           TESTIMONIALS

"I learned to narrow my focus and go after that what I'm passionate about." -Dr. Dee

I learned to not be so hard on myself and accept myself for where I am in my life right now." -Markita D. 

                   Participants from "Manifest Your New Year" Group Coaching Program

                                                         PRICING PLANS

Self-Study ($97) includes:

• Access to recordings and Growth Work
• Copy of Manifesting Your Greatness: Goal Setting ebook

Live Group Coaching ($147) includes: 

• Access to Recordings
• Copy of Manifesting Your Greatness: Goal Setting ebook
• Access to live coaching with Andrea
• Access to Private Facebook group

Manifest Your New Year

Andrea Has Appeared On

Blavity (http://blavity.com/the-idea-of-beautiful-a-brown-girls-struggle-with-beauty-and-health/)

Black and Married With Kids (https://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2014/09/how-to-help-an-unemployed-spouse-not-give-up/)

The Lady Project (http://ladyprojectorg.com/blog/learn-to-welcome-failure/)

TLC Bling It On Show(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuqrTVUHV2I)

Are You Ready to Manifest Your New Year?

We are 36 days away from 2016!!

You are cordially invited to Brown Girl From Boston,  "Manifest Your New Year" group coaching program starting on December 9th, 2015 . Brown Girl From Boston is going to keep the momentum going from the “Holistic FLYness” tele-class monthly series. We are going to say “No” to setting short term and short lived New Years Resolution and say “Yes” to Manifesting our 2016.

The four-week group coaching program is an interactive course designed to teach you how to manifest your ideal life with confidence, FLYness, and your vision as your guiding force. During the group coaching program you’ll learn practical tools for manifesting your vision into your reality.

For only $75, you will learn:

• How to create a manifesting mindset through expressive art such as 
• How to create daily affirmations and mantras to manifest your New Year
• How to increase self-worth and confidence How to release Fear, negative self-talk, negative people, and self sabotaging behavior
• How to life the FLY Life (Fearlessly Loving Yourself) while being unapologetic about it. 
• How to forgive yourself and forgive others in order to move forward with an unstoppable and unapologetic New Year!

Here’s what you Get:

4 live 60-minute classes 

Each week there will be a 60-minute interactive call with me. All calls will be held on Wednesdays at 7pm EDT. You will receive all recordings via email to ensure your learning and progress continues.

4 Weekly modules with growth work & activities :

Each week you will receive specific manifestation homework & activities to ensure that you are making progress toward your vision.

Access to Private Facebook Manifest Your New Year Group: 

During the course, you will have access to the Facebook Manifest Your New Year private group where you can ask me questions directly and connect with the other Manifest Your New Year tribe participating in the group coaching. 

Register by Wednesday, November 30th and pay only $75. After November 30th, the investment is $95. Sign up for Manifest Your New Year

Since you all are part of the Brown Girl Tribe: You will receive $10 off of your group coaching program! Please enter coupon code Boston

Look forward to helping you manifest your 2016!

Love and Light,
Drea

Are You Ready to Start Your Startup?

Hey FLYness,

Happy Sunday. I hope you are truly enjoying your Sunday. I have thoroughly enjoyed my Sunday. I have run in my third 5k marathon this year. Today, I ran in the Color Run 5k and it was fun, colorful and happy. They call it the happiest 5k and all I witnessed was happy people in the place to be. I was extremely happy to witness my hometown football team, The New England Patriots put a whopping on the Jacksonville Jaguars (51-17)! Sorry to all my Jaguars fans!

I hope you did something amazing and out of the box this weekend. 

I know so many are dreading that it is Sunday evening knowing that Monday is a few hours away. I understand that many people are living for the weekend because they absolutely despise their jobs, despise their supervisor, despite being the only Black person, despite not getting paid the salary you deserve while you are building someone else's empires and goals. You despise being treated unfairly and take the emotional and psychological abuse because you have the paid the bills and have a livelihood to maintain. Did you know that workplace abuse is more common than ever and people don't report it? Did you know that internalizing that abuse and mistreatment at the workplace cause more havoc on your health then being unemployed?

You have to ask yourself why are you tolerating living life in a bubble? Why are you not maximizing your full potential? When are you going to say goodbye to your 9 to 5? How long are you going to moan, groan, do the ugly cry every Sunday evening because Monday is right around the corner and you have to deal with that abusive environment? Stop settling for a JOB (Just Over Broke) and start saying goodbye to your 9 to 5 by starting your startup.

Instead of daydreaming and wishing for financial independence and career independence, let's get you set up for your dream job of running your own business. Start Your Startup is a five-week group coaching program that will jumpstart or restructure your existing startup. 

Are you ready to Start Your Startup? 


Have a peaceful and restful Sunday and an amazing week, FLYness!

Be FLY, Love Yourself, Love Others and be the light!

Love and Light,
Drea
The FLYness Coach

P.S. I want to gift you with my goal setting workbook: Manifesting Your Greatness. This goal setting book is for those who are looking to set achievable goals. The worksheets are already prepared for your daily, weekly and monthly use. All you have to do is download the workbook, take your vision and break it down to action steps, deadlines and do the work. Make sure you share the link to the workbook with your community of people. We all have goals that we want and need to commit to. If you have any further questions about the workbook, email me at drea@browngirlfromboston.com

Manifesting Your Greatness

Make Your Hot Mess, Your Hot Message!

                          "Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks." -Oprah

At 31 years young, I am learning that there is a time and place in which we should take off our mask and show another side to us. At times, you become tired of holding it together and want to fall apart only to pick up the pieces. Currently, I am in a vulnerable place in which I want to share a piece of my story to depict my journey from turning my mess into a message, my trial into a triumph and going from being a victim into a victor. 

In 2010, I found myself residing in Chicago, in the valley, on the verge of a divorce and at a pinnacle of my life. I was a HOT MESS! Day in and day out, I was having an out of body experience and living life on autopilot because it felt like my life was crashing down all around me. Yes, I lived in a nice neighborhood, in a decent, new renovated but expensive apartment within the Hyde Park neighborhood only a few blocks away from The Obamas residence and Jessie Jackson's PUSH Coalition, Headquarters but I was feeling less than Presidential? Because I was feeling broken, hopeless and angry. I asked myself 'Why' so many days and nights. I had plenty of ugly crying sessions, praying sessions and pity parties. 

One day while sitting in my Downtown Chicago cubicle, one of my coworker who I appreciate dearly and helped me to discovered my strength through the muck and mess that I was in. She looked at me while I was on the verge of a breakdown and kindly but firmly said to me, 'Andrea, you are such an amazing and talented woman, you are wasting your time and talents in Chicago.' Go home to your family because you need them.  At first, I was highly upset because she called me out on my ish! Honestly, I thought I had myself together because I was thriving at work but dying on the inside because I was going through it! I had to accept and take ownership that I was a temporary hot mess. How did she realize that I was a hot mess? I thought I had my stuff together but I was entirely wrong! 

During this process of being a mess and in the valley, I rediscovered a few things about myself:

1. There are authentic people who genuinely care about your well-being.

2. Divorces are tough but it make you a much more humble, tougher and loving person.

3. Crying cleanses the soul

4. I love myself and I refuse to compromise who I am

5. I learned that I am not a victim but a victor

Here are five ways to overcome a 'Hot Mess' Situation:

1. Don't beat yourself up, beating yourself will only make you feel worst. Stop trying to be strong all the time. Stop overanalyzing the situation because it is done. Just stop, be still and show an attitude of gratitude. Things can be a lot worst.

2. Never isolate yourself from people who are willing to support you. If you have family, friends or coworkers that are authentic and willing to love you within your hot mess situation, that's a beautiful thing. Let them love up on you. 

3. Cry! Some people have a difficult crying because of past remarks of crying equates to weakness. Crying is apart of our healing process. Crying is a healing agent. It help us to cleanse our essence and clear out the negative energy. It also help us to release the pain. Stop suppressing the negative emotions and just cry.

4. Serve others. I started mentoring before my divorce, in the midst of my divorce and after my divorce. Mentoring helped me to serve others who were facing difficulties. Mentoring helped me to realize my unknown strength. Serving others during a difficult time, is a humbling experience because you are providing a selfless act of serving. 

5. Celebrate your FLYness! Recognize and celebrate your greatness because you are an amazing and beautiful being. Go sightseeing, go to the spa, shopping, plan a trip, do something wonderful to celebrate you. For example, after my divorce was finalized, I celebrated by attending a Erykah Badu concert all by my lonesome. It was such a liberating experience because I felt like a caged butterfly waiting to be free. 

I wanted to share my story to someone who is going through some kind of struggle. You may be in a hot mess situation, with a bunch of hot mess kind of people but this too shall pass. It took me four years to openly turn my mess into my message because I was ashamed and afraid of the unknown. As, I look back at my hot mess situation, I am thankful that I went through the situation because I can triumph over my trials and tribulations, it helped me to fall in love with myself all over again, helped me to become a better wife for my loving and caring husband and the higher being brought me out of the darkness into recognize my light.  Never rush your hot mess moments or situations because it is developing your growth, strength, character and message. 

My Question to you this week: 

What message is being offered in your current 'hot mess' situation? How can you turn that mess into your message? 

Leave your comments, I'd love to hear how you will make your hot mess into your message. 

XOXO,

Andrea 

Brown Girl From Boston

Quick Recap: The Pursuit of Passion and Purpose Group Coaching Workshop

On July 19, 2014, Brown Girl From Boston hosted it's very first group coaching workshop entitled, "The Pursuit of Passion and Purpose: How to rediscover your passion and purpose and create the life you love" in Providence, RI. It was a great intimate environment because I was able to provide laser coaching, affirm the participants, mindfully listen and personalize their intention.

We had participants from all walks of life, various personalities and professions but with a lot in common such as living out loud, maximizing their full potential, breaking free from limiting beliefs about their passion, purpose and self-doubt. We were able to celebrate one another's greatness in a safe and non-judgement zone.

We started the workshop with a cool ice breaker to set the intention of togetherness and inclusion because many times, when we attend workshops, we often want to stay in our comfort zone, receive the information and go home. I like to break the ice by having ice breaker because you never know the commonality of the people within the room. After the ice breaker, as a group we set ground rules. Ground rules are great to set within the group because that creates trust, rapport and help with the flow of the workshop. As a facilitator and coach, I like to have the group come up with rules because it is not about me, it is about the group and their comfort level of having the group flow.

Here is when we come into the the nitty gritty lol. The purpose of the workshop was to get out of our own way and rediscover the passion and purpose within. This part of the workshop, I thoroughly enjoyed because each participants got out of their own way, received affirmation and confirmation from others and was validated! As, I am typing this, I got chills and goosebumps because breakthroughs and aha moments did occur. When I heard everyone's story, I was just in awe because the strengths, talents, and gifts in one was overwhelming and I was in the midst of greatness. Just seeing everyone collaborate, share, respect one another and admire one another's courage to be in attendance was powerful.

You can live your ideal life! As you need to have is a vision and once you have a vision, you have to take the necessary steps to whether it is in the dark or light to accomplish your dreams and hopes. Having a positive support system is key to living your ideal life because we have a lot of naysayers who will try to distract, deflect and inflate your vision and dreams. You have to release them with love and love them from afar and replace them with people who are like-minded that will help you achieve and being actualization to your vision.

If you missed out on this workshop or live outside of the New England area, you have the opportunity to rediscover your passion and purpose with me on August 21. The workshop will take place online with others. Here is the link for the registration of the event.

Thanks for reading Brown Girl From Boston!

For Brown Girls: Sisterhood is Powerful

"Show me your friends and I will show you what kind of person you are." -Annie Mae Dailey-Gulley/Josie Mae Gulley-Jacobs

Annie Mae (my grandmother) and Josie Mae (my mother) was not lying in regard to the quote above. You can tell a lot about a person, their character, and lifestyle by evaluating their friends. The people you spend time with are usually your biggest influencers and supporters whether it is a triumph or tragedy. Some of your "so-called" sister-friends are your biggest "Debbie Downers", "Nagging Nancy" or "Hannah the Hater". If you are not cautious these characteristics will rub off on you.

I decided to blog about sisterhood because I am discovering a reoccurring theme not only in my circle of sisterhood but in various circle of sisterhoods. Many sister-friends are often being taken advantage of, outgrowing their sister-friends and holding onto sisterhoods that no longer serve them purpose. If you find yourself in any of the unfortunate circumstances, don't panic, realize that you are not alone, and start doing the work and start healing.

We are going to discuss the dysfunctional sisterhood and healthy and functional sisterhood:

1. Nonreciprocal Relationship/Creating a healthy friendship. Around this time last year, I found myself in an one sided association with someone who wasn't interested in being apart of my sisterhood. I listened and trusted my intuition and ran to the nearest exit. Unfortunately, you have people who are only out for self. They usually can sniff out someone who is giving and vulnerable. When establishing new sister-friends, listen to your intuition, associate with those who are calling you higher and maximize your potential, and create a healthy boundary with you and your new found sister-friend.
2. When To Let Go/Freely and Lovingly Set Your Former Sister-Friend Free. In an ideal world, we would love to have everyone in our life to mature, evolve, and grow every step of the way. In reality, life doesn't work that way and we have to respect that sister-friend's life journey. When you discover that you and a sister-friend aren't in sync or friendship is stuck, that's when you have to reevaluate, be transparent and have an open conversation about your sisterhood. However, if you find yourself outgrowing your friendship while your sister-friend is comfortable with being stuck, it is the time to freely and lovingly set your sister-friend free. You can love your sister-friend afar but at this point in your life, you are looking to live life to the fullest, discover your innermost passion and purpose in life. In life, you outgrow people, friendships and relationships and it is okay to love from afar. No love lost!
3. When your sister-friend only communicates with you via social media/group message/ignores you. When you go from communicating with your sister-friend weekly to virtually never communicating with your sister-friend that's when you need to let them go freely. Life is too short to chase after someone'e love, life to too short for the wishy washy attitude, friendship or attention when they clearly don't want nor value your sisterhood no longer. Liking a photo on Facebook, not responding back to missed calls or voicemails or receiving a mass text message when a relative of the sister-friend in question dies doesn't equate to a sisterhood, it basically says "Hey, you are no longer apart of my sisterhood and I passively moved forward without informing you." That's so hurtful because you valued, respected, and love your sister-friend but obviously she no longer feel that way about you. Sister-friends should be honest and open about the obvious dysfunction or lack of communication. If a fellow sister-friend offended you, instead of being passive-aggressive, lovingly and assertively discuss the issues because that sister-friend is probably in the dark about the offense or underlying conflict/issue.

I value, respect and love my circle of sisterhood. Sisterhood is powerful because we are all interconnected, have similar stories, tragedies and triumphs. When I evaluate those who are in my sacred circle of sisterhood, I am proud because my sister-friends are amazing, strong, educated, diverse and different. I am able to be transparent, vulnerable and authentic with them. My sister-friends deal with my business side, my cray cray side, silly side, and the Brown Girl From Boston side. I appreciate them and love them very dearly. I am also able to celebrate, cry, coach and call out my sister-friends when needed.

I also learn how to love my former sister-friends from afar and release them with love. It is never easy to release nor love a close/best sister-friend from afar. When a sister-friend is constantly negative, stuck in life, doesn't communicate and don't respect the circle of sisterhood, they no longer serve you purpose.

I am going to end this post with a powerful song lyric from a strong sisterhood, TLC from one of their early hits, "What About Your Friends"

What about your friends
Will they stand their ground
Will they let you down again
What about your friends are they gonna be low down
Will they ever be around or will they turn their backs on you

Question to our readers: Do your circle of sisterhood empowers you or drain your energy? Let's talk about it. 

Thank you for reading Brown Girl From Boston blog! We appreciate all the love and supporter from our dedicated fans and readers. Remember, we love you and thank you for your time reading this blog.

XOXO,
Drea
#iamthatgirl #FLYmovement #browngirlfromboston