Flourish!

Yours truly was awarded the "2015 Flourish Entrepreneur of the Year Award"

This past week I was honored by Dr. Rachel Talton, Founder of Flourish Conference for Women in Leadership. Flourish means to prosper, thrive, bloom or be in health - all the things I desire to exude. This award was a TOTAL surprise!!! I was completely clueless until they called my name and started reading my bio. The amazing part is that September 30th marks the first year of full entrepreneurship for me and it has been an eye-opener to say the least.  

Remember last year this time when I blogged about my Leap of Faith? I have received numerous awards but this one touched me for a number of reasons. To be sitting in a room full of fantastic women and be honored set my heart on fire and rekindled my desire to soar!!!  

When I look at the award there are two things that come to mind:

A tear drop and a raindrop!!!

I heard God say "For each Tear you cried and every moment you wanted to quit I took notice of you and bottled it up. And for your perseverance I am rewarding you for they that sow in tears reap in joy!"

Then my attention was brought to the raindrop and how each drop creates a ripple effect in a body of water. God was showing me how effective my one drop of purpose in the earth creates a ripple for me and others to live their fullest lives ever! Now that's thriving.

Thank you, Dr. Rachel Talton for noting my work!!!!!! And thank you to every person who takes time to read my posts, blogs and books! Our movement forward helps the world change into a better place.  

From this point forward I vow to flourish in every area of my life! Are you with me?

My Juicy Journey

Oh how I missed blogging with you all.  So many wonderful things have been happening to me the past few weeks.  

A friend recently asked me what has been going on.  He noticed a change in the way I "showed up" in the wold. I had to tell him, "It's the afterglow of my juicy journey. hahahaha"

A few years ago I joined a group of women who called themselves Juicy Butterflies.  Our lead butterly, LaTonia encouraged us to live life to the fullest and from that point I decided to LIVE!!
  
Traveling along this enlightened journey helped me get a new perspective on LIVING. As a black woman I was trained to:
Be TWICE as good as anyone else.
CONSIDER everyone but myself.
WORK HARD for what I want.
FIGHT for what I need.
EARN a good living through BLOOD, SWEAT and TEARS.
Yes, that was the theme of the day everyday for many black women:


 "Be a strong, Black, independent woman!!"

What a crock pot full of slow cooked  death.  No thank, you. I'll pass on that meal!

It wasn't until I embarked upon this Juicy Spirit journey (the name of the class) that I was rebirthed into a world of pleasure, bliss and joy along with the other butterflies!  I'll gladly take "seconds" on a meal like this!!

For once in my life as a black woman I was given permission to

LAUGH often (and REST in the JOY)...
PLAY harder...
LOVE  fiercely...
EXPLORE the world...
And my biggest lesson of them all has been the Art of Allowing. 

Allow relationships
Allow healing
Allow abundance
Allow passion

Find my BLISS place and set up house there...  
I encourage you to experience a new journey to your bliss place.  Be on the lookout for my upcoming announcement!  Here's a hint: Coming to a city near you!!

Until next we meet I'll be preparing my plate for more yumminess to come!!  
Here's to heart warming smiles, sweet kisses and deep belly laughter from my world to yours!!!  Stay tuned I have a surprise gift for you all at my website: www.drjeridyson.com



Dr. Jeri
President, CEO
Dyson Consultants Worldwide, LLC
"Helping Others Passionately Pursue Purpose one global citizen at a time."

An Intimacy Expert?!

Get this. The other day my father came to me while editing my business cards and said, "You may not want to tell people you're an intimacy expert?  When I was at the Washington Post they did a feature on sex experts who would go around having sex with people to show them how it's done."

You can not begin to imagine the look on my face when he said that to me.  I wanted to bust out laughing in his face but he was so serious.  ("Bless his heart," I thought to myself.)

Instead of laughing I decided to educate.  "Daddy, what do you think of when I say intimacy expert?"

"That's the person who has sex with people and shows them how to do it.  Right?" he responded.

By now my chocolate face is completely red and all I could say was, "Daddy, are you kidding me right now!!!  Did you just meet me?!!!"  

As time passed I thought about others who may be confused on the subject of intimacy and it's TRUE meaning.  The best description I found is from Matthew Kelly.

Having intimacy means exposing our secrets. Being intimate means sharing the secrets of our hearts, minds, and souls with another fragile and imperfect human being. Intimacy requires that we allow another person to discover what moves us, what inspires us, what drives us, what eats at us, what we are running toward, what we are running from, what silent self-destructive enemies lie within us, and what wild and wonderful dreams we hold in our hearts.  This is the greatest gift we can give to another human being: to allow him or her to simply see us for who we are, with our strengths and weaknesses, faults, failings, flaws, defects, talents, abilities, achievements, and potential.Intimacy requires that we allow another person into our heart, mind, body, and soul. In its purest form, it is a complete and unrestrained sharing of self. Not all relationships are worthy of such a complete intimacy, but our primary relationship should be.

The funniest part about intimacy is that most humans desire to be liked/loved for "who they are" but fail to fully open themselves to another person for fear of rejection?

Think about it.  Most people will say they are fine when in fact they are hurting on the inside.  So many people go through life putting on airs and fronts for so long that they themselves begin to believe the lies they tell.

Be honest. Most people think of sex when they hear the word intimacy.  In fact if you were to google the word intimacy you would land on more sites about sex than intimacy.  

Until we fully understand it's true meaning we can never have the type of love we say we want ~ (And I'm not only speaking in terms of romance.)  In order to truly LIVE you must be bold enough to be your TRUE self - the good, the bad, the ugly, the smelly, the funny, the angry, the fullness of you.

That is why I am here:  to help people unveil the true them and be alright with themselves first before they expect others to be alright with them.


Remember intimacy requires one to share every aspect of themselves with another.  That's a bold kinda living and loving!

Until next time!

P.S. ~
Happy Father's Day to my one and only Dad who thinks his daughter is a sex trainer.  (Gotta love him.  It's too late to send him back for a refund!!!)

Working, Dreaming and In betweening

In my last post (Reignite Your Dreams) I encouraged my blog family to DREAM.  Dreaming is wonderful exercise for the imagination.  The more you dream the more you allow great things to come into your life.  My only concern is the dreamer who fails to implement the steps necessary to make the dream a reality.

I've noticed in life there are three types of people:
1. Dreamers (those whose ideas or projects are considered audacious or highly speculative; one living in a world of fantasy.)
2. Workers (those concerned with ordinary activities, business or work)
3. Those with a nice combination of 1 and 2.

I found the picture below on a site I love to visit The flip flop CEO.  It shows you the perfect combination of dream, work and play.

Not to oversimplify things but I often see dreamers who don't want to do the work and workers who lack vision.  A healthy dose of both is what you need to manifest your desires.  One thing I know for certain is that we can dream all day but when we don't make plans towards accomplishing our goals the dreaming is in vain.

Let me give you an example.  I have two former colleagues both Pediatricians.


One dreamed of becoming a body builder and the other dreamed of becoming an actor.   They didn't just sit around imagining themselves doing what they wanted.  They got up and began to take the necessary training to make their dreams a reality.  One sought out a licensed trainer known for creating champion bodies and the other began taking acting lessons and auditioning for tv and film.

Neither was fully convinced that these journeys would be easy. In fact they both found themselves working even harder to accomplish these new dreams.

You may be asking, "What does any of this have to do with me?"

It's just my long-winded way of telling you:

"Any dream you desire to manifest will require some commitment, elbow grease and work to make it a reality." 

Next time you get to the point where you find yourself crippled with dreaming get yourself in gear and get it going.  Keep Moving towards your dreams.

Until next time!