Discovering YOU Magazine August 2021 Issue | Page 11

Feature Article

In 2016, I started my first nonprofit called DIVAS, Diamonds Inspiring Virtue and Success. What inspired me to start this nonprofit was to give women a place and space to be free. I was coming out of a hurtful relationship when God told me to do a conference. I didn’t understand why, how, when, and where, but He told me to do it. After that first empowerment, God showed me that women needed this. I have had nine empowerments and I am getting ready for the tenth one coming this November 2021. I help women to know their work their worth; I believe that

test and I had to pay someone to teach me how to do real estate. So, I didn’t pursue it again until January 2014 where I joined the Jay Morrison Academy. I graduated in December of 2014, and I have been doing real estate part-time ever since. I have helped and closed over 80 deals in the last seven years. I am a mentor as well.

women are Diamonds and they should shine. DIVAS goes out into the community every month to serve, feeding the homeless, providing for the unsheltered battered women, women housing, lupus, cancer, kid drives, and so much more. Our mission is to connect opportunities to be a blessing in the communities. I know it feels like you are by yourself, and I always felt that everyone may not be as strong