Stormy Wellington - A Force Of Nature

Candice Bar: I love interviewing female powerhouses for the magazine, and clearly you’re a powerhouse. We are all about female empowerment, women doing big things in the world, and you’re one of them.

Stormy Wellington: I am so excited to be here, thank you for having me. It’s exciting to keep things fun!

CB: You’ve got to play hard; you’ve got to work hard. Clearly, you are a woman doing things and we love supporting female entrepreneurship, You have a great story, and I’d love for you to share with our readers where you came from.

SW: Well, my journey started when my mom was pregnant. My mom was on the way to have an abortion with me at 5 months pregnant. She was going to deliver me and I would be deceased. On that day my mom went to have an abortion, my dad stepped in and they had this big argument. My mom was told that she needed to be at the doctor at 12 noon on that Wednesday. If she did not get to the doctor for that very appointment, the doctor was not going to be able to perform the procedure. My mom was a big-time drug dealer, my dad was cheating on her; she just wasn’t happy with the relationship. It made her determined not to have me. Even before I was born, I came into a situation that I kind of felt like I had to fight; I wasn’t wanted. Faith stepped in, in the form of my dad. She ends up not being able to have that abortion, so she ends up giving birth to me. My mom did not name me for three days. For three days I had no name.

On the third day the nurse walks in and says, “I’m sorry miss, but you have to name this child.” My mom kissed her teeth and said, “Name her Stormy.” A lot of people don’t know that’s my real name, and where it came from. If you were to ask, my mom would tell you she had so much trauma and problems with my dad, that the best way to describe their love affair was stormy. My name was pain for my mom. I did have a lot of childhood trauma growing up. I had the best of both worlds - I call it “Rich dad, hustler mom”. What I mean when I say that - my mom was a hustler. Everything she did revolved around drugs; traffic drugs, cook drugs, use drugs - that’s the type of life that I came up seeing. I saw what a kilo of cocaine looked like at 8 years old. I knew when my mom was getting ready to go out of town. I saw all her drug dealer friends, the life they lived, and her hot girlfriends. I would hear them talking about the things they did. I heard and saw those type of things early on.

Then there were some summer breaks I would go visit my dad: rich dad. What do I mean by rich? Respect, Integrity, (Take) Care, Honor - that’s what I call R.I.C.H. My dad had this beautiful wife, and together they had a family. That’s how I was able to experience eating dinner at the dinner table with a family; dad getting up having to go to work, watching dad shovel the snow out the window. I saw both worlds and I decided at a really young age that I didn’t want either of the two. I made up my mind at a young age that I did not want to be like either of my parents. I grew up around a lot of fast things. I’ve been around drug dealers. I was a stripper at 13 years old.

My mom was in Jamaica doing what she does, and while she was gone the water got turned off. For weeks my brother and I were in the house with no water. All of this at 13 years old. One day my friend invited me to a strip club, and I looked very mature, so I went with him to the strip club, and I’ll never forget this day. I had on a black suede skirt, a black suede vest and a white top. They offered to give me $600 a man, if I lifted my skirt. At that time, I was like, “That is disgusting, I would never do that!” but then I thought about the water back home off. At 13 years old, I lifted my skirt up, and I got $600 to turn the water back on the next day. I learned at 13, if I do this, I’ll get this.

My friends turned into 15/16-year-old strippers, and I end up becoming one. I ended up having my first child, dropped out of high school, and I became a real stripper because I had to take care of my son. I’ve been living the fast life, the hustler’s life, for a long time. I’ve never went this deep before but, one of the things I tell people is that I learned not to be offended by rejection. I learned that in the strip club. You had to hustle in the strip club. I learned that women are always in competition with each other. I learned that one minute somebody could be your friend, and next minute they hate you.

I dropped out of school and what ended up happening to me was that I saw the best of both worlds. I knew that I didn’t want to be like either the two, but I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I knew it because that’s freedom, and I like that. There were no limitations to entrepreneurship, so I end up opening up a boutique at 18 years old. After that, I had my daughter at 19 and that’s when I decided that cannot strip anymore. I cannot let my daughter think that being a stripper is cool, so then I started to learn the retail industry. I opened a boutique where I used to sell clothes, right here in North Miami beach. I learned a lot of business acumen then.

My younger years were all about me trying to figure out how to survive, as a child and very young adult. I had to figure out how to survive.

CB: When you got older and became successful, did your mother ever acknowledge or apologize for having you see or be around certain things?

SW: See, where I’m from this is normal. Where I’m from, I did what I had to do. I did the best I could with the wisdom and the knowledge that I had. My environment with my family, where I come from, there was nothing to apologize for. You do what you have to do. Love is called providing, love is not spelled L-O-V-E. It’s spelled P-R-O-V-I-D-E. You love, you provide. That’s why I love the way I love because my mom taught me when somebody loves you, they are going to take care of you. No, my mom never apologized because there was nothing to apologize for. I’m 43 years old, and I still don’t believe my mom owes me an apology. I believe she did the best she could with the wisdom and the knowledge that she had. She showed me selling drugs, but I saw selling a product, so I still learned something, I just didn’t sell a product that was going to lead me to prison.

CB: I’ve always said there is a fine line between entrepreneurs and drug dealers. The mindset is pretty much the same except, one decided to sell a legal product, that’s the only difference.

SW: Drug dealers are some very smart people. They just don’t know that they can channel their energy somewhere else. They can clean it up and do big things, it’s just a mindset shift actually.

CB: So, you were 19, you had your own boutique, you stopped stripping, then what?

SW: I dated. You know where I’m from, you find a rich man, get married and have two kids with the white picket fence and y’all live happily ever after. After graduating college, I tried that, but it didn’t work out. The best thing that could have happened for me, is that it didn’t work out. I remember I was so devastated by that relationship not working out that it just encouraged me to move to Atlanta.

I moved to Atlanta, and by that time I had two kids. Everybody did something as an entrepreneur. I decided that I wanted to do something different so I moved to Atlanta. Atlanta for me was like the Black Mecca. I’d never seen that many black folks before, Atlanta changed my life. I got into a little real estate, did alright, but then the market crashed around 2005 if you remember that. With it, my life changed for the worse. That’s when I started to say things to myself like, “Oh my God everything is happening cycles. Every time something good goes for me, something bad happens. Every time it gets to me, it doesn’t work anymore.” I was playing the victim, and so I end up getting very broke and very depressed. I struggled for a while, and I ended up working as a bartender..

At one point, I started working at a call center. We used to get you to try to pay your cell phone bill. Long story short, I end up collecting over $1,000,000 in closed accounts. Later, I discovered that they had given me a bunch of closed accounts because they didn’t trust me with live accounts. That didn’t matter and I still made $1,000,000 on those accounts. Back home, my water was off, my car had just got repossessed, and only reason why my water was turned back on was because I learned how to turn my water back on with the pliers. The company told me they were going to give me a raise. They end up calling me into the office one day, and my raise was $0.25. The most important thing about that was, at that moment I made a decision. My decision was that I can’t keep allowing somebody else to hold a glass ceiling over my head, to hold a pen to my future, to dictate how far I’m going to go in life.I ended up praying, looking, and having an open mind. Doing so, I ended up getting into network marketing.

CB: How was that introduced to you? Who introduced that to you?

SW: One of my houses that I was able to keep, so I decided to rent it out. I found someone that was interested in renting the house. The guy came over, he’s loving house, he’s loving everything, but he said, “Listen, I’ll rent this house out from you, but you have to do one thing. You have to complete the basement.” In my mind, I thought I had to find the money do it. I called a contractor over, Robert Jackson; I will never forget his name. I had met him two weeks prior, and in the middle of him giving me an estimate, he looks down at me, and he says, “Let me ask you a question. Do you or anybody you know, want to lose 5 pounds in five days without diets, exercise, surgery or pills?” I looked at him and was like, “Are you trying to call me fat?” He said, “My wife just had a baby, and she looks better now than before she had the baby.” and it surprised me.

CB: This guy is a salesperson.

SW: Yes, he is, I didn’t know that at the time. In my mind I thought, “I do want to lose some weight, you found me.”

The next day he set up a meeting with him, me, and his wife. When I saw his wife, I looked at her and thought, “If this lady can do what she’s doing, so can I!” At the time she was making like $60,000 a month. I was thinking to myself, “There is no way somebody is making $60,000 a month. If half of what she said is the truth, I’m good.” I ended up joining that company. My first network marketing company. I literally got in that company with no belief. I looked at her, I was inspired that there’s a black woman with a big butt and small waist making money. I wrote a bad check to get started in that meeting I went to. It was me and my two broke girlfriends. My two broke girlfriends told me that I was making the biggest mistake in my life, and that day I went on my own faith, and to be honest with you, I’ve had some bumps in the road. Even so, since 2008 I’ve earned about $65 million in the network marketing profession.

CB: That is amazing! Well, first you bet on yourself and then you hit the ground running.

SW: Yeah, in this industry it blows my mind when I think about the type of money that I’ve been able to earn for myself.

CB: You’ve got to be the top earner.

SW: I am the top earner in my company. That company is long gone, so I got into another company. I’ve been in the network marketing industry now for 14 years, November makes 15 years.

There are so many different layers to me, I’m so many different people and not just one person. I don’t let anybody box me in.

CB: Many of us are so many different people yet we don’t express it. Some people don’t know how to express it, because humans tend to need things in boxes for it to make sense. That’s not who we are, that’s not how we run. We’re actually energetic beings and we happen to be in this skin suit, but we’re so much more than most of us know about ourselves. It takes a lot of strength to do what you’ve done. It takes a lot of vision, takes a lot of focus, determination, and perseverance. At any point in time, were there some bumps in the road that had you saying, “I don’t know if I can do this. I’m not sure who I am.”

SW: I mean I’ve had a lot of bumps in the road, but the first one that comes to my mind is my mom. My mom was a hustler. I understood hustle and love, and figure it out, and resilience. All of this and being a warrior, a woman king, from my mom. My mom was a single mother, she raised me and my three siblings, and none of us are the same. I turned out this way because of my mom. It’s the same thing – it’s all perspective.

CB: You can be a victim, or you can be victorious.

SW: My first bump in the road, I had to learn to overcome was when my mom went to prison. My mom went to prison at 57, that’s old. Watching my mom going to prison at 57 years old, and being helpless and wondering if she’s going to die in prison was a lot for me. While my mom was in prison, I was a normal person, I was still working a job. So just imagine. when somebody goes to prison, they still have the house and car and all this stuff. My mom went to prison, so that left me with the burden of trying to pay her bills. One of the things that that almost broke me is when my mom came home. Imagine it as her child, when my mom came home, she walked into the prison at 57, she rolled out at 60. The prison walls took her body down. She came home with 17 teeth in her mouth. Just imagine, she didn’t want to smile; and then the bed did something to her hips, so she had to use a wheelchair. When my mom came home, she came home to nothing, because we ended up putting her stuff in storage. Her storage bill was $600 a month, and we couldn’t even afford that.

All the things my mom had sold drugs for, all the prison time; all of it was gone. It’s almost like you live all these years for nothing. Every picture, every outfit, just imagine everything that you have acquired up until now, gone. Nothing. Just your shell of a body that is broken down. I share this story because my mom was my number one motivation. When she came home, remember I’m broke, I wasn’t in network marketing then. I’m just regular girl, so my mom comes home she’s embarrassed, she’s depressed, she’s not herself, she needed a wheelchair. I had to find a way to make money, that job making $13.25 an hour was not going to cut it.

When I got into network marketing I hustled because I had to. The bump in the road for me was either I’m going to do this for my mom or she’s going to die. I’m going to be able to have the dignity and pride, knowing that I did everything to take care my mom and I honored her. I’m big on honor. Everything is honor for me, so that was definitely my first bump in the road.

CB: Every entrepreneur I’ve ever interviewed have had mentors throughout their life. People to show us a different way, or see something inside of us that we may not see ourselves. Who was one of your first mentors to help shift you in a positive way?

SW: One of my first mentors was a woman named Erica McQueen. I was with her in network marketing and I would go to her home and I watched her be a wife, I watched her be a mother, I just watched her. She was working at the airport for Delta, but she was still writing business. One day I was even cleaning up her kitchen, because it would be an honor.

First of all, I don’t learn from people that I don’t admire. If I don’t see something in you that I desire, I don’t get on your list or take up space. If you want something that somebody has, I believe that you pay your way, you serve your way, or you earn your way into good relationships. When I was broke, I used this philosophy. She didn’t ask me to be a student, I watched her and decided that that’s the woman I want to learn from. I do believe it’s not what’s taught, it what’s caught. I watched her everything. I watched her mannerisms, I watched how she treated her husband and her children, I watched how she got up and went to work, I watched how she would talk to people, I watched how she would prospect and recruit. Being able to watch her, I was able to duplicate her. She was one of my very first mentors.

CB: As you were coming up, what was something you were able to get for yourself that you’ve always wanted?

SW: A Presidential Rolex watch. Every Rolex watch that I had was either purchased for me from a man, or it was something I got through some type of illegal activity, to say the least. When I was able to take my money and buy a $20,000 - $25,000 watch with my hard-earned income, it was everything. I bought a gold mother of pearl presidential watch, in 18 karat gold.

CB: Very nice! Now in 2023, you have quite the empire. Can you share how many people are underneath you in your network?

SW: In my network marketing organization I have personally enrolled 8,000 people myself. It’s about 1,000 people a year joining, and my organization is up to about 700,000 people.

CB: That’s amazing, wow! That sure is a lot. Do you travel internationally for training?

SW: I do. I have not been traveling like I used to this year, but I do have teams in Dominican Republic, Colombia, Paraguay, and Mexico – I have teams all over the world.

CB: Are the owners of the company shocked that anyone has gotten to the level that you have, but also the fact that anyone worked to the level that you are at, within the company?

SW: I wouldn’t say that they’re shocked, but I’m sure they’re happy. I would say this, when I first got in the company, it was doing about $10 million a year. The biggest year we’ve had is $490 million, I know I had a huge impact on that for sure.

CB: Absolutely! Now you have your own product’s; you have two skin care lines.

SW: Not really, although it does seem like I have two skin care lines. That’s because one of my skin care products comes from my CBD company. I have a community called Girl Hold My Hand.

CB: Let’s talk about that. Could you explain what it is, why you created it, who’s in it? I want all the details.

SW: Girl Hold My Hand was inspired by my mom. August 26th, 2011, my mom passed away as I was holding her hand. I didn’t know that she was dying, and I thought she was coming home that day. I thought she was just having an anxiety attack, but really, I watched my mom go through the entire dying process. I can never forget that. I held her hand up until the doctors came. From that moment, I went into a really bad depression. It’s like my whole life I found that men help me, and women did not help me. I had a lot of jealous women, intimidated women, women that act like they are helping me, but are not. They just were around and doing just enough to get by. Consciously I always wanted to do something to heal what I never got.

What really gave me that stamp was when I went to a women’s event, and I was a keynote speaker. I was about to start speaking and I asked the woman who actually hosted me for the event if she would mind if I share something. The room was very heavy, like all the women had just heavy energy. It didn’t really make sense to me because we’re at a woman’s empowerment conference, and I can feel everybody here seems to be angry for no reason.

The host gave me permission to grab the microphone and I said to everybody, “Look to the woman to the left of you, look to the woman to the right of you. Do you know that woman wants to be loved just like you do? You know that woman wants to be seen, adored, admired and respected just like you do? I just started going into this hole, and I said, “Put your purse down and hold the hand of the woman next to you, and I want you to look at her I want you to understand she’s you.” Everybody just started hugging and crying and in that moment; I felt inside me, “This is something.” I thought if girlholdmyhand.com is available, this needs to be my initiative. I went to girlholdmyhand.com and it was available, I bought the domain name and it started. Girl Hold My Hand is my community, it’s all about knowing yourself, loving yourself, and embracing yourself.

All in order to authentically connect, collaborate, and celebrate with other people. I believe that when you know yourself; you love yourself and you embrace yourself, whatever your personalities may be. You become, excuse my French, but I call it “unf*ckwithable.” It doesn’t matter, because I don’t care who likes me, I don’t care who hates me.

This community, we meet every weekday. I do special women’s retreats with them. We travel together, too. I have a conference every year called “The Awakening,” here in Miami. It’s a threeor-four day women’s ultimate experience. We do everything from talking about relationships, marriage, polygamy, bisexuality, divorce, to spirituality.

CB: Do you have other people come in and speak?

SW: Charlotte, Scarlett and Sabrina spoke. Both of The Cardone’s have spoken. Rick Ross, Alana Powell, and Natasha Mayne. We always bring out different speakers. We go through a manual, so you literally go home with a blueprint to your life. You go home with an understanding on what you are, what are your likes, what are your dislikes, and so on. It’s a whole experience that’s bigger than just emotionalism. It’s about writing down your life on paper for when you go through dark moments. So when you get back home, you can go through this book and remember what you wrote. It’s a great tool to stay in the flow.

CB: What’s next? You’ve done, and I would say in a short period of time, more than most in their entire life. You created different products, you have different things going on, you’re involved in a lot.

SW: It’s a lot of things, next. I believe that you should always be working on a project and on yourself, always - until you die. Staying stimulated and excited about something that you’re doing to help somebody else.

I have a couple of projects. I’m still in network marketing, I love network marketing. I think every person in the world should be in network marketing. I love how you grow and how you’re accountable, I love that it creates a systematic approach to life, so I’m still doing this.

CB: You have to have multiple things going on for income, and not just relying on one. Relying on one thing is ridiculous, it doesn’t make sense. Everyone has things going on and life is not going to stop. Well, here’s your moment. You have to create your moment. With network marketing, you must get with a product or service that you’re passionate about. Why are you passionate about this?

SW: This changed my life. I’m now 43. My daughter is 23. We go places together and people are like, “No way, that’s not your mom! That is not your mom, and that’s not your daughter.” I love the products I have. In my mind I’m not selling anything, I’m just telling you about some products that can change your life and they can help you. I can tell when I don’t take my products, and I can tell when I do take my products. I look better and I feel better, and I just want to help as many people as I can through this vehicle and the product.

CB: For people that are in network marketing, whatever company they are with; how do you get past the people saying, “No”?

SW: First of all, you must understand two things. This is a story that I had to tell myself. No means, “Not right now,” or no means they don’t know any better. How can I let someone discourage me from this vehicle that I’ve made $50 million in eight years?

CB: I love that you still have the passion for it because that’s hard to see. Sometimes we’re doing something for a long time, it gets lackluster.

SW: I believe this: live it or die. I live it, so I’m not forcing it. This is my lifestyle, so it’s easy to talk about what you love.

CB: I really want to ask you; your daughter saw all this. She saw you coming up, she saw different areas of your life. What are her thoughts on everything now?

SW: You know, one of the things I’m working on with my daughter is a podcast and based upon our perspectives. I’m glad you asked that question, because it makes me know that I’m on the right track. I have an idea what I think my daughter thinks. I believe my daughter respects and admires what I’ve created. However, I do think with the type of work that I put in, it did take a lot of time away.

CB: I do want to focus on that too, for people reading this. It does take a lot of work. It takes work, so if you’re afraid of the word, “work,” you’re not going to be successful.

SW: I worked. I made one million in my first 7 months from nothing, but I probably slept 5 days in a year. Even with that, I would do it all over again. I think my daughter probably thinks I work too much. I think that she probably thinks I need some more balance, but I also think she loves what I’ve created. Now I’m in a space where I’m being more open to a relationship. I’m not married. I was married, divorced, and I’m single now. I know what I want for real this time. I’m not forcing anything. Just letting it happen naturally.

CB: I like having this conversation. It seems to be one thing that I keep hearing repeatedly when you’re a successful female entrepreneur. It’s that it is hard to find a guy that can keep up, or support, or not feel intimidated. Usually, successful men are not with successful females because they need to have that control and that power. Let’s have this conversation.

SW: Yeah, and I agree. I think there’s people out there, I would never say all men, that’s generalizing too much, but I do believe that it’s slim pickings.

When you think about it, and I mean really think about it, I kind of feel sorry for some men. Number one, a man is supposed to be a hunter, a provider. So, let’s just take me, and I’m just trying to be very humble, but I just have to keep it real, right? Every month I probably spend $100,000. Picture a guy saying I’m going to pay all your bills and take care of you. When you say that you must be specific. Picture you’re going to pay all my bills and take care me, but I have no mortgage on my house, so you can pick a car to pay off? I just think that depending on the type of man, he could feel emasculated. I just believe that men need to date in their tax bracket and if it bothers you. For some men it won’t bother them because they know that they take care you in other ways. My new thing is –is it money that I really want from my new man, or do I want affection?

CB: I also think different females want different things.

SW: Right, but I’m finding that a lot of successful women like yourself or myself - it’s the same thing. The money box is checked off. If you can make me feel love, you can adore me, you can join me and we can have fun together. You don’t want my money, please don’t ask me to borrow any money! If you can hold your own and don’t need me for anything? God, I love it! I think we need to talk about that more. I think the men don’t know that. Yeah, I want a Birkin bag, but I’m going to buy my Birkin bag. I would love if you bought me some flowers, or some perfume out of the blue. Not on my birthday now, but if you did that on the regular day, it makes it so special.

CB: That’s exactly it!

SW: I feel the same! I’m not weird! It’s exactly it, and I think women are afraid to say that because the women are supposed to want a man for money. If a man doesn’t have any money, I don’t think the man could be completely broke. I think we’ve got our stuff covered, what do you want emotionally from a man? Let’s start talking about that.

CB: You take care of your stuff in your life; I’ll take care of my stuff in my life that I built. We’re coming together. Again, don’t ask me for anything, but if I want to give you something, I will. I think when you give a lot you receive a lot. You don’t do that for that reason, it just happens that way. I know that you are also an author; would you care to delve into that?

SW: I am an author! I have written four books. Every book represents different seasons of my life. I have a book called, “The 9 Laws” and these books will change your life. I think that success leaves clues, and when you are winning in life you must leave behind the clues, the tips, and strategies to how you did it. I’m always online, I’m always writing something, some type of book, out doing some type of event, because I’m proud. I’m happy and I’m proud of who I am, and happy for what I’ve created. I came from nothing, I had absolutely nothing. I don’t have a rich uncle that left me some money, I had to go build this from the zero ground. Now I feel like I’ve a sense of responsibility to help the community, whoever that may be. I want to help everybody, humanity. I want to continue to grow, to continue to serve. I really hope that people in this season, pay attention to all the fine writing. Don’t let it scare you, don’t think recession, don’t think depression, just think let’s go .

CB: Very powerful. What is something that people would be very surprised to know about you?

SW: I’m scared to say this but it’s the first thing that came to my mind. People would be surprised to know that I don’t think anybody loves me. I think everybody gains from me and love comes from what they’re getting. A love that is like a deep affinity, I don’t think as much. I just think that everybody is around for what they can get. I’m not I’m not a victim to it, I just feel like I have yet to see that love from someone who’s not getting something from me. Everybody that is around me, they get from me and that’s not a negative thing. I give an immense amount of love. One of my philosophies is you come bearing gifts, you came with gifts, you love getting gifts. I’m going to end up putting on that chain from time to time, and every time I put it on, I’m going to think of you. That’s beautiful, that’s smart. So now, you’re getting in my frequency, it’s like I’m wearing a gift from you. With it, I’m praying for you, I’m meditating for you, it’s beautiful. It will make me think of you each time I wear it. I’m always loving on people, but I don’t know or feel genuine love from people.

CB: Do you feel that you’re not allowing that love from people, or you just feel that people don’t give at the frequency of love that you’re giving out?

SW: It’s a double-edged sword. Let’s just imagine if everyone that you spoke to every day was either on your payroll, or living out one of your houses, or driving your cars. They benefited from you somewhere, somehow. Reciprocity is not necessary, is not necessarily mutual. Granted this is your job, or granted you’re my family, but can you be my family and not ask me for nothing? Don’t ask me for any money. Just call me and just see how I’m doing. When a person loves you, they provide. So, I love you I provide. What are you providing for me? I’m looking forward to the day when it’s somebody in my life that I’m not giving you anything but me.

CB: Moving on to talking about affirmations and positivity, there are books that most entrepreneurs have read to bring them to a different level. Is there an affirmation, or a scripture, that you keep in the forefront of your mind when you’re not having such a great day?

SW: I have a couple of those in my toolbox. One of my favourites is, “I will hear the voice of the Holy Spirit within. I would lead and I follow. I will create and not destroy. I am a force for good. I defy the odds. I set new standards. I am a leader. I am the head and not the tail. I am above and not beneath. I am the lender and not the borrower. I am loved by God. I am chosen by God. I’m protected by God. Nowhere before me and against me shall prosper. Nowhere before and against me, shall prosper. Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment shall be condemned. It’s my season. It’s my turn. I’m healthy. I’m happy. I’m humble. I’m wealthy. I’m strong. I am a champion. I will win. I will never be broke another day in my life, and I will live the fullness of life in all God has for me.”

That’s my thing, that’s my to go to that took me out of very dark places. That affirmation is a part of who I became from those affirmations. I was not those things that I speak when I first spoke of them.

CB: That is beautiful. What a great affirmation to use daily. Is there anything else you’d like to leave our readers with?

SW: I will say be yourself, learn who you are, grow in your authenticity. Be true to you, whoever doesn’t like it, that’s fine. That’s not your person, and just be brave enough to know that you could be, do, or have anything that you want. We live in a universe that is limitless. It’s always giving. Grow so that you can give, because if you give that means you are alive, I’m grateful that you had this interview with me, and I hope that you learned something, or felt something that is transformative to you, because I feel transformed!

CB: Be sure to follow Miss Stormy and reach out to her. Make sure you know what she’s doing because she’s doing big things. Thank you to all of our readers out there, and be ready for even more exciting interviews!