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In today's ever-changing world, the game of survival has become exhausting. Many are seeking alternatives to the typical 9 to 5 job grind, turning to entrepreneurship as a possibility. But there's a twist: a new breed of entrepreneur is emerging, one that blends business savvy with spiritual depth. These spiritual entrepreneurs challenge not only the norms of business but also the traditional values of organized religion.

In Book 3: Double Lives, MeeMa, the family's wise matriarch, takes center stage in this installment, revealing her deep spiritual gifts and the secret practices she weaves into her Pentecostal faith. Set against New Orleans mysticism and modern-day tensions, MeeMa bridges ancient traditions and the restrictive church. The novel explores her powers as she uncovers hidden truths about the family, including the secrets of her grandson, Jr., and his fiancée, Nicole.

Book 2: Beneath the Holy Veil plunges you into a devout Pentecostal family's crisis, focusing on Bishop Lenny and Carol Bradford as they confront the crumbling façade of their seemingly perfect religious life. As their son Jonah hovers between life and death after a traumatic event, secrets hidden beneath their holy veil unravel, exposing lies, guilt, and a forbidden affair that threatens to tear their family and ministry apart.

Jonah’s journey comes full circle in Book 4: Eternal Wisdom of the Outsider, the final installment, as his memory returns, unlocking family revelations he couldn’t process before. Now, with clarity and insight, Jonah faces the weight of his family’s secrets, including their spiritual and personal entanglements. Brent, his close friend and confidant, is pivotal in helping Jonah understand his role in this complex tapestry. Together, they unravel the deeper truths about identity, love, and forgiveness.

In this thought-provoking essay, Life Coach and Author Joseff McKenneth Goodwin, explores how modern civilization, shaped by a “colonized dream,” manipulates our beliefs, relationships, and overall existence. Through a reflective journey, the essay challenges listeners to examine the hidden forces that influence their desires, values, and pursuit of success. Blending philosophical insights with spiritual perspectives, it uncovers how societal conditioning has trapped us in cycles of self-sacrifice, emotional disconnection, and constant striving for external validation.

A captivating journey awaits Jonah, a young Black man whose brush with the unknown leaves him grappling with the pieces of a life he can no longer remember. When he awakens to a world that feels intimately familiar and unsettlingly distant, Jonah must connect the scattered dots of his existence, guided by a mysterious presence whose intentions are as cryptic as the shifting realities around him.

Our most active beliefs have the ability to heal or not to heal; empower or disempower us. In addition, they can compromise the safety we are meant to feel within our physical bodies. When we feel safe, we invite healing to burn away what no longer serves and refine what does. This allows us to, then, hold space individually for expansive amounts of arousal, peace, joy, love, happiness, and abundance in multiple areas of our lives.

Based on actual events in the author’s life, this compelling coming-of-age journey follows DJ Thompson as he navigates an unusual path of self-discovery. Struggling with both his sexuality and spirituality in a strict southern evangelical black Christian household, he leaves for the Big Apple right after high school to gain clarity and to pursue his dreams of becoming a famous music star.

Based on actual events in the author’s life, this compelling coming-of-age journey follows DJ Thompson as he navigates an unusual path of self-discovery. Struggling with both his sexuality and spirituality in a strict southern evangelical black Christian household, he leaves for the Big Apple right after high school to gain clarity and to pursue his dreams of becoming a famous music star. However, at the tail-end of his twenties living in the Big Apple, the trajectory of his music star dream transforms into mental health advocacy.

In a society that has many of us operating in survival mode, to be “gentle” with ourselves is often scoffed at as a sign of weakness.