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!Order Breaking Invisible Chains NOW, click here
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