Wednesday, January 23, 2013

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!




In all my life I have never met a Queen, so lets meet one now!

Meet Nekisha-Michelle Bakre, the 

“Life Redesign Queen”

At the tender age of 14, Nekisha-Michelle became a mother. Though scorned, and verbally battered by family for her situation, she rose well above expectations! By the time she was 24; Nekisha had a Master's Degree in Social Work, and later became the author of “Breaking Invisible Chains, Gaining the Confidence to Redesign Your Life”. As a life coach, she has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine, Empowering Women Magazine, and has also appeared as a Guest Relationship Expert on KTLA-5 news Los Angeles. Nekisha-Michelle is known as the "Life Redesign Queen" by celebrities, and everyday people. She's a Media Personality, Non-Profit Innovator, And International Speaker. Her mission is “Getting YOUR Soul to Happy!”

How much research did you do before you made your move?

 Every exceptional coach has an exceptional coach which makes all the difference in a successful practice.  I found out about life coaching through a business consultant who was helping me develop my motivational speaking business. Being introduced into this new profession I found myself researching everything I could find on the internet about the industry.  In my research there was a common theme and that was to be effective as a life coach it is important to hire a life coach to mentor you through the process.  This helped me experience the benefits, structure and discipline of the life coach profession and build a viable and thriving practice.

What did your friends say when you told them about your dream?

My passion was fueled by a few good friends. It was my close circle of friends who benefited greatly from years of my wisdom, opinion and often direct spoken approach to guiding them toward the best and most healthy prospective and choice for their life.  The challenge with growing into a professional young coach was charging for my services the value knew I was able to provide.  My friends became disgruntled when I started charging for the advice they once got for free. Imagine my phone rang less and there were many conversations that went like this: “Friend, you know I have to create boundaries because this is my livelihood now.  The first 15 minutes I will be your girlfriend and afterward I have to charge you to be your coach.”So, all my conversations were 15 minute conversations to say the least. Lol

Did you have people who didn’t believe in you?

My risk taken often inspires others.  Starting my business as a life coach didn’t startle anyone they were excited for me.  However, there were many naysayers called “family” who thought it was foolish to leave a thriving career as a management level Social Worker to be in business for myself and hope my phone would ring with clients to sustain my lifestyle.  In addition, my family knew I was not the best money manager…yikes!

Describe a life defining moment of change.

I had to super-size my happiness.  I was coaching from a place of boredom, fear, unhappiness and my life was in shambles.  My marriage was in intensive care unit, I didn’t like the image I saw reflected back at me in the mirror, I was uninspired by my environment and I had become very critical and negative.  I knew that my soul was dying and in order to instruct others how to redesign their life, I needed to desperately perform CPR on my life. In 2009, I decided to close down my practice, divorce my husband, and relocate to my dream destination of Los Angeles, CA with only $1500.00.  But I was determined to be the next big Life Coach Media Personality and create a life that made me happy and would inspire others. Within, 8 months of my move to California I appeared on top rated KTLA-5 morning news as the relationship expert.

Did you have moments of doubt about what you wanted to do, and how did you overcome it?

I had friends who believed in me on my behalf.  I have learned to starve my doubts by rehearsing all the times the God in me have overcome odds and achieved great victories. I have to pop my own collar and know that anyone who has a baby at 14 years old, takes her baby to college, graduate with honor, pledge a sorority , work 3 jobs and get’s a masters degree by the time she’s 24 – cannot be easily defeated!  I contended with the dark nights of my soul by learning to keep a gratitude journal that I still write in every night. I took vitamins and St. Johns Wort to increase my positive moods. It was necessary to be vulnerable and surround myself with friends in the Hollywood industry that truly reminded me that I am worth having my dreams in this life time with consistent diligent work.

What did you do to stay motivated during this process?

I finally learned to be the CEO of my life! I learned that without a vision a plan and discipline you will find yourself working for someone who has one.  I had to do my self-actualization work and that’s when my life’s mission was magnified “getting your soul to happy”.  I found that my new clients were mirrors of me.  They weren’t happy because they had mastered being successful in many areas of their life except for LOVE! My clients like myself didn’t feel worthy of healthy, fulfilling and passionate love. Finding the answer to this problem fueled my motivation and keeps me excited to- date. Each time a new testimony comes into my office of a woman that I helped in some way learn to give and receive healthy lasting love in every area of her life keeps my sexy juices flowing. I am motivated by my own brand NO LOVE DRAMA…no more fussing and fighting with love.  I am motivated by LOVE and healing broken relationships and teaching what most women don’t know about it!

What advice or motivation would you like to leave the readers about giving yourself permission to succeed?

Success is your birthright! The universal law of cosmic good is always working in our lives.  However, pain will push you until the higher vision of yourself pulls you into the place of your destiny.  The choice is yours …to be bullied by pain or pulled, motivated or exalted by the vision of the best you that you can possibly be.  Choose today to reveal the highest and best within in you and know that you are called to be a rich and mighty blessing on this planet in this lifetime.  Success is your birthright let nothing keep you from claiming it!

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