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SHE'S ON A MISSION TO CREATE SOVEREIGN MILLIONAIRES.
Shifting generational and cultural identity and wealth at scale.
are a culmination of past, future, present. Future comes before present because it is vision resting on the pain and celebrations of the past that shapes our present.
My story began when in the 1870s,
my great great grandfather born a slave had the courage and vision to move from being a slave in the fields of Seneca, South Carolina to claim his freedom as the first entrepreneur by becoming a sharecropper and he passed that down to his son my great grandfather.
This planted a seed
that would evolve into both my grandmother and mother being serial entrepreneurs as hair salon owners and various other businesses. My grandfather (on my mother's side) who also founded the first black-owned business in Burbank California before he sold it. It's hard to throw a rock in my family and not find someone running a business. Those who were not entrepreneurs were community leaders, ordained ministers, and pastors.
As a girl, growing up, these stories taught me that the path to breaking the bondages that keep us from experiencing true freedom can be found in deep connection to the Divine (God) and the ability to take control of your own destiny through entrepreneurship.
Reading this, you may say I was destined for greatness
Shameca, you’re special. No matter how special you may believe me to be, that did not save me from facing the shadows. I've known my fair share of struggles, failures, setbacks and disappointments.
Growing up, you could say I was something of a child prodigy. Let’s just say, there was nothing “Normal” about me. Yet, I became a teenage mom and was spiraling into a vicious cycle that had broken the chain of establishing generational wealth in my family legacy. The truth is, having a family legacy of entrepreneurs was no guarantee of an easy life of wealth or happiness.Â
“But I am a warrior and always I knew deep down the only way out was up. In one of my darkest hours, I tapped into my SOVEREIGNTY.”
An inner knowing that ignited a fire in me and a journey of building a 25+ year career in sales, and my first company in the real estate industry which was a multi six-figure success until the economic crash of 2008. -
Another setback. I felt deep shame carrying a well armored mask so that others would not see the failure I felt inside.
Pretending I was still running a business when everything was crashing.Â
I was shrinking, hiding. Trying not to be too different. Not to rock the boat.
But something in me would not give up the fight. The giant inside me was wrestling to be released. I had to continue.
Desperate to find a way to attend a $97 business event that I knew would change my life, I remember begging someone for a free ticket and eventually found a way to scrape up the $97 and arranged to stay on my cousin’s couch.
I drove up to the valet in my jelappi dark blue Cadillac, again faced with the money obstacle, wondering how I would even pay the $23 a day parking. That first day at the event the guy leading it said go implement whatever comes to mind.
I did exactly what he said and made $4000 that same weekend.
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This was a major shift and breakthrough
that cemented the powerful lesson...
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Success does not take time.
It takes COURAGE.
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I eventually ended up taking a job working
the backend of a million-dollar business.
This allowed me to see that selling and
sales was more about mindset and how
you show up and lead the sale.
How you see you.
Today, I have built a multimillion-dollar
business and global brand helping giants
who are out there trying to act normal
become the PHENOM they are meant to be.
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I now know that every challenge and setback
was not due to bad luck or fate but old
generational and cultural codes running
silently in the background, shaping every
decision, every ceiling, every moment of
sophisticated self-sabotage. The work of my
life has been rewriting those codes. And now,
I help others do the same.
My mission is to shift the widely help beliefs that quietly stifle our bigness, like, it takes years to make a lot of money or you have to work 10 times as hard just to be on a level playing field. and I want you to know that that the most powerful thing you will ever do is decide who you are.
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POWER AND SUCCESS COME FROM MANY PLACES- EVEN THE PLACES THAT HOLD THE MOST SHAME.
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The things we struggle with most are often what we are destined to use to set others free. Whatever your struggle — it did not come to break you. It came to reveal the fullness of who you are. It is the very struggles in my life around money, shame, and self-worth that became the foundation of this work.
We all carry codes we didn't write. Passed down through family, lineage, culture, and the rooms we were allowed into — and the ones we weren't. Some of us coded ourselves for survival. Others for approval. Others for just enough.
My work, and my life, has been about one thing: recoding what was never sovereign to begin with.
That is the work I now do with leaders who are ready to stop living inside someone else's version of what's possible for them.
It is why sovereign is a word that I lead with and a code I live by.
