RECONNECT & REENGAGE:
Coming together to be encouraged, inspired and empowered at this year's Orlando Women's Conference — both live and virtual — attendees will hear from dozens of well-respected community leaders with a focus of getting back on track. Three of the keynote presenters include survivor, thriver and advocate RANIA ARWANI, accomplished author and life coach DR. KEITA JOY, and motivated visionary BARBARA POMA. PHOTOS: JIM HOBART, MACBETH STUDIO
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RETHINK: DEFINE SUCCESS ON YOUR TERMS Orlando Women’s Conference Luncheon Keynote Speaker DR. KEITA JOY, Life Coach and Consultant, CEO, Success Uncensored®️ Coaching
ORANGE APPEAL: What’s the most important lesson you have learned in your lifetime? DR. KEITA JOY: I’ve learned the power of crazy faith to believe
colorism, discrimination and lack of empathy. I am dedicated to
despite the obstacles that are in your life, that better days are still
women.
being a part of the conversation and strategy to provide equitable health services, financial services and career services for Black
ahead. The audacity to hope has been my lifeline. With the passfreshman in college to obtaining my doctorate while working full-
OA: What is the best advice you have given? DKJ: Live by the Success Uncensored® Coaching’s formula for suc-
time and raising children, I always had a ridiculous belief in God
cess is: Do YOU + Do it Well + Do it Consistently. This formula has
and in my inner strength that gave me the will to conquer and live
helped Facebook employees and partners, NFL and NBA players,
with joy and success! Lesson: miracles manifest first in the mind.
stay-at-home mothers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and now you!
OA: What’s the most important lesson you have learned in the past year and a half? DKJ: Authenticity wins every time. Being a double minority
selves and unleash their greatest potential with clarity, discipline
ing of my father suddenly at a young age to sexual assault as a
The hardest thing for people to do is to define success for themand joy. Challenges such as people pleasing, insecurities, fears and trauma make it difficult to live a fulfilled life.
(African American and a woman), I’ve always felt compelled to
Here’s what you can do to increase your peace and profit:
water down my brilliance to appease the insecurities of men or
Do YOU — be authentic; know your values and belief system.
quiet my rich Black culture to comply with corporate culture that
Have a clear understanding of your personal and professional
oftentimes is very white and male. As I began to fully show up in
goals and desires. Know your strengths, talents and skills, and the
my brilliance in all spaces, my coaching and consulting business
best ways to apply them. Explore your purpose.
increased in revenue. Companies, teams and leaders desire real change and gravitate toward authentic living, because authentic living correlates with real solutions.
Do it Well — all things in excellence. Measuring tools to identify what excellence looks like in every area of your life. Do it Consistently — How to remain resilient and motivated. Develop discipline.
OA: What single issue means the most to you? DKJ: Equity and empathy for Black women. I was fortunate in Talk. The topic was Mental Health is Declining and Black Women
OA: How do you stay positive and motivated when the going gets tough? DKJ: I remember what I thought I couldn’t see myself getting
are Hit the Hardest. As a Black woman I’ve experienced racism,
through in the past, and how eventually I did, which is my evidence
2020, during the height of the pandemic, to release my first TED
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