Here’s why I started Flawed Masterpiece

Photo Credit: Nick Nelson, Brandprenuer

On March 14, 2020, I turned 40, and in the same breath, the entire world came to a halt. Here I was on this milestone birthday, and my world had quite literally stopped. At the time, I was still working at Morehouse College as part of the critical decision-making team, guiding policy on health and safety protocols, and it was absolute chaos. People were sick, people were scared, and in the midst of it all, I felt more at peace than I had ever been before.

That, to me, was the beginning of my spiritual awakening. I started reading and meditating again, and it really helped slow everything down for me. Not being constantly immersed in the energetic space of others at work, but now having my kids at home with me every day turned the volume up on everything that had gone unaddressed internally for far too long.

It became impossible to deny or repress all the things that needed to be unpacked.

It was time for me to turn inward and deal with the trauma that I had been running from.

In going through that journey, I realized that this was a story that needed to be shared. But I wanted to do it in a way that could be both profitable and profound.

In the end, creating Flawed Masterpiece was a way for me to put some intentional parameters around how I shared my story with the women I hoped to impact and create products and services that would be most supportive to them on their individual journeys.