In this powerful episode of The Flip Side of Adversity, Ayana Fernandes Pilgrim and I explore “A Great Quaking”—a deep, internal shaking beneath work, identity, and purpose that many are experiencing right now, particularly Black women. Our guest shares how this quaking unfolded through layered loss: grieving loved ones, leaving a DEI role she once loved, and ending a 27-year marriage—an intimate Gethsemane moment where surrender became unavoidable and what once sustained her could no longer hold her.
But the flip side of the quaking wasn’t collapse—it was clarity. Through acceptance, release, and radical imagination, she let go of old identities and limiting beliefs around people-pleasing, perfectionism, respectability, and urgency. In their place, she built a new blueprint rooted in faith, values, and truth—launching a new business and living with deeper integrity and purpose.
This conversation invites listeners to renew their minds, strengthen self-leadership, and become willing to birth a new version of themselves in this season of shifting.
