POWERHOUSE GLOBAL MAGAZINE (PGMAG) INTERVIEW WITH: OBIOMA MARTIN (OM)

OMAX Institute allows me to educate and equip all those who are willing to make their best better though learning how to start their own business, strengthen their business through best practices, improve customer service,

PGMAG: Who is Obioma Martin?

OM: Daughter of the most high God

PGMAG: Obioma, you have a passion for equipping women with the tools they need to, not only survive, but prosper and live audaciously. Please share with readers how you are changing lives through your passion?

OM: Every day I get to serve, educate, pour, teach, mentor, coach, counsel and influence woman all over the globe through my daily podcast, workshops, events, online coaching programs, classes on college campuses, organization, small businesses, not for profit organizations, daily post and prayers on social media and just be authentically me.

PGMAG: Obioma, you are The CEO/Founder of OMAX Institute. Please tell readers more about your Institute and how they can support and get involved?

OM: OMAX Institute allows me to educate and equip all those who are willing to make their best better though learning how to start their own business, strengthen their business through best practices, improve customer service, establishing culture and climate through diversity training, workforce development and administration, professional development that includes developing who they are as a leader and working with their staff to increase employee morale, attract and retain quality and qualified staff, communication and synergy through the organization.

PGMAG: Obioma, you are The CEO/Founder of OMARTWomen Supporting Women a not for-profit. Please tell us more about your amazing organization?

OM: The vision and mission of OMART Women Supporting Women is to empower women

all over the globe to succeed above industry standards in the area of business, relationships, and parenting. I had my first child at 16, I moved out at 18 as soon as I graduated high school. I worked full time and was in school full time. I rented a room because I could not afford an apartment. My daughter father was a sperm donor. I failed out of college my first year because I was over whelmed. I made a promise to God and myself at 18 to help single moms and teen parents by providing them with affordable safe housing first and foremost and then skills that would help them in the workforce by going back to school obtaining their high school diploma or GED and then starting a career or preferably their own business.

PGMAG: What makes your services unique?

OM: I have always provided services rooted in what I needed. Once I learned how to navigate the welfare system, college system workforce system, political system, not for profit system and education system I said to myself I'm going to educate, equip, empower, and educate other woman. The struggle did not feel good and I'm committed to being the voice for the voiceless. My story may not be different from others but my journey and authenticity is what makes my services unique. I live, eat and breathe literally everything that I do and say.

PGMAG: Obioma, please tell readers about B.R.E.A.T.H.E.- Empowered to Live a StressFree Life, a Book and journal? OM: I journaled my way out of depression, heartbreak, suicide, captivity and despair. I was battered and abused, literally left for dead on many occasions throughout my life starting early in my childhood from molestation, to alcoholism, to being a mistress, to surviving an abusive and toxic marriage for 18 years to now being a single mom of 4 children who have had and has special needs requiring either an IEP or 504 plan to accommodate them in the classroom. All of this was stressful and on many occasions had me feeling like life was not worth living for www.powerhouseglobalmag.com

www.powerhouseglobalmag.com me or my children. On many occasions questioning my very existence and feeling like God why have you abandoned me? Why is this my life? Why I keep going in cycles? Why can't I get a break? Why can't I be in a relationship with a man or woman that loves me with the agape love of the Lord and have no agenda to destroy me, my family, my business, my children and my name?

PGMAG: Obioma, what can we expect from you in 2020?

OM: I'm committed to serving more people in 2020, I have transformed the lives of over 5000 woman since 2005 and counting. I am clear that I am called to help all those who are in captivity which includes trauma, abuse, toxic relationships, self harm, depression, brokenness etc.

I had so many why"s. I started reading, journaling, and praying. The more I read, my faith begin to increase, the more I journaled my feelings, I started seeing a change in me. I started changing as I began to renew my mind with the Word of God. The stress started to fade away because for the first time I started getting clarity and learning about who I was in Christ.

Proverbs 3:5-6 New International Version (NIV) says Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. My path became stress free because I stopped leaning to my own understanding and I started trusting in God. The areas of my focus are Education, and Empowerment. Readers can join me and my phenomenal sister friends in June 5-7 for my annual B.R.E.A.T.H.E Conference taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania tickets can be purchased at www. obiomaevents.com. For those who are ready to take a deeper dive in their own professional or personal development they can sign up to coach with me at www.omazingyou.com or take one of my courses.

PGMAG: Obioma, please tell readers how they can follow and connect with you on all social media platforms?

OM: FB@obiomamartin IG@iamobiomamartin Twitter@iamobiomamartin

OBIOMA MARTIN About

Obioma Martin is an international transformational speaker, B.R.E.A.T.H.E. accountability-coach, author, small business expert, childcare strategist and esteemed advocate for women’s empowerment. Martin’s passion for equipping women with the tools they need to, not only survive but, prosper and live audaciously, has launched her into a life of unparalleled servitude, wherein she continues to thrive by helping others. She is the founder of several organizations that serve the underserved in the community: Obioma Martin, LLC. is the umbrella company that provides coaching, mentoring, and speaking. OMAX Institute the center for leadership, entrepreneurship and child

development provides professional development, consulting, and coaching. OmazingYou is the publishing company and produces all informational products, events and apparel. OMART -Women Supporting Women is the Not for profit arm that focuses on providing battered women with children and teen parents with safe housing, workforce development, life after trauma and other supportive services and programming. We support survivors of domestic abuse and provide opportunities for them to start businesses and return to school. Martin has helped over 5000 women get off welfare and get the credentials required to complete and further their education. A life-long learner herself, Martin holds multiple degrees; associates in Early Childhood Education, Bachelor’s in Childcare Management, a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education and Leadership, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program alumni, certified biblical counselor, and ordained evangelist. Martin is the author of several accountability journals that guide, both men and women, through the process of getting unstuck in every area of their lives. In 2018 she released, B.R.E.A.T.H.E.- Empowered to Live a Stress-Free Life, a book and journal. Martin shares her stories of hardships, overcoming life’s obstacles and the thin line strong women often teeter between superhero and suicide. This

gripping composition walks readers through a journey of self-discovery and selfdevelopment and brings them out at the end elevated, empowered, and equipped to live their best lives. In 2019 Martin released her

www.powerhouseglobalmag.com 5’Ps to prosperity power planner, calender and journal. This bundle focuses on the importance of pausing so you can think about what you think about. Processing so that you can discern the truth based on the promises of God from the lies that are told to us by people. We must pray about everything so that we can plan after God has given us instructions on what to do next. Pausing, Processing, Praying, and Planning in this order positions us to Prosper. Martin show’s us how to do just that with these products. Martin host annual events that include her signature ladies night out event, spa day, and her transformational life changing conferences. Women travel from all over the globe to attend Martin events and to coach with her.

Contact Martin at obioma@ obiomamartin.com Follow her on FB@ obiomamartin.com, IG@ iamobiomamartin.com, twitter@ iamobiomamartin Podcast @anchor.fm/obiomamartin Website www.omazingyou.com