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Happy Black History Month! May this month be good to you 🖤

Walking into this new week like…

Cheers to the weekend 🥂

Cheers to year 27 🥳 26 was deconstruction. It completely shattered my ideas of who I was, what I wanted to do with my life, what was important to me, what I enjoy. I felt like I had to learn me all all over again. And I’m still learning. 27 is reconstruction and it’s personal. Here’s some advice I wish I had gotten in my early twenties. Your twenties are the infancy of your adulthood. You have lived eighteen years under the rule and protection of your parents. Your early twenties are like the trying to walk and falling stage of your adulthood. You literally have to learn who you are, outside of being with your parents. Explore that, don’t be in such a rush to grow up. It’s ghetto here 😂 You’re not “behind” if you’re not married by 30 and please punch people who say so. (You have my blessing 😂) Give yourself grace, no one expects a baby to start running marathons out the gate. You’re gonna make mistakes, learn from them. Fail early so you don’t have to make those same mistakes in your 30s and 40s. I don’t care what your gen X parents said, don’t stay at jobs you hate because they’re comfy. Don’t be afraid to experiment and sample things, this is the time for it. You’ll never know what you enjoy until you try it. It’s 2021, there are so many ways to create a life you love instead of a life you dread. Don’t ever settle, in relationships, careers, or your dreams. Thanks from coming to my birthday Ted Talk ✌🏾

I cannot believe it’s already been 3 years. When they say it zooms by, it zooms by! Thankful to be doing life with you! 3 years down, eternity to go ❤️ @rmillenium

I don’t know who needs to hear this but put some bass in your voice when you talk about your dreams. Cause every time some asks you about what you want to do with your life, your voice drops a few octaves and you start with the “I don’t knows” and the “maybe a small this…” stop it. You do know and it’s not a small anything. I’ve never met a premed student that didn’t state with full conviction that they were gonna be a doctor when asked. And I can hear you now, “well, being a doctor is way more realistic than my dreams of owning a business or being a full time creative.” Babe, have you ever seen the acceptance rate of medical schools? What is or isn’t realistic is relative to what you believe or don’t believe is possible. Neither one is impossible. Challenging? Yes! But possible? Also yes. So do us all a favor and stop disrespecting your dreams. Stop shrinking yourself and speak up, we can’t hear you 🙃 Am I speaking from experience? Very much so 😅 #speakingfromtheheart Satin set: @rebdolls (use code CATHERINE20 to save 20%)

Nothing that is worth having comes easy. As someone who was a gifted kid growing up, I’m used to things coming to me easily so whenever something didn’t come naturally to me or I feel like I failed at it, I chalked it up to it being ‘not for me’ instead of trying again. I know social media makes it seem like ‘it’ should be easy: marriage, entrepreneurship, parenthood, business, adulting. Whatever ‘it’ is for you. But the truth is that the truth sucks (sometimes). Beyond the highlight reels is struggle. It’s long nights, failed investments, tearful arguments. But the journey makes the destination that much sweeter. If you’re reading this, struggle does not equal failure. It’s the opposite, it means you’re trying. You haven’t lost and you’re not defeated. Keep running the race before you, you have everything you need to get through. Speak life over yourself and your ‘it’ because it gets better! I’m rooting for you!

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It’s been a whileeee since I’ve did an intro and there’s a lot of new faces around these parts! So here’s a few fun facts about me: 1. I’m a type 4 on the enneagram so my entire life is an existential crisis 😅 iykyk 2. I have watched Catfish, Seinfeld, and Law Order: SVU from beginning to end at least 10 times 3. I’m very introverted (my personality is a lot bigger online than IRL) 4. I love fashion, I see it as a method of communication and self expression. You can learn a lot about a decade in time thru the fashion of that time. 5. I started creating curvy style content bc fashion was therapeutic for me + I just wanted to share my journey 6. Barnes & Noble is like my favorite place. Books + coffee 😍 7. I’ve had 21 different jobs (+ realized Corporate America is not for me) 8. I watch Dr. Pimple Popper 🙈 9. I love me some Jesus 10. I’m on again/off again Psychology student. Love psychology, hate school 🙃 📸: @creativefamee 🎨: @prime.faces

my vibe right now is living life ✨

Here’s a list of ways to help those impacted by the Surfside Condo Collapse. All of these resources were shared by @local10news and the link in my bio directs you to the specified websites.

THIS ONE’S FOR THE GIRL BOSSES + DREAMERS... I was scrolling through my feed and I realized, I follow a lot of women who own businesses and I love to see it 😍 To my girl bosses and the fellas too, I just want you to know that I see you. If no else has told you, I’m proud of you. Whether you’ve made $10,000 or $10, you’ve started and that’s a revolutionary act. Building something is hard, it’s taxing but you did that. Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is rare. You pushed past the fear of failure and you stepped out and did the “crazy thing.” You are learning, evolving. Don’t give up. Whether it’s your full time gig or a part time you’re building to be your full time gig, don’t compare your journey to the next person’s. Run the race before you, at your pace. You didn’t just talk about it, you were about it and I just want to celebrate you for it! 👏🏾 your future self will thank you for the tears you cried, the money you lost, and the sweat you put in. Losses are lessons and failure is redirection. And you could take that to the bank.

I’m usually a neutral shawty. My closet is like 70% brown but the pastels are giving what needs to be gave! Dress: @rebdolls Use code CATHERINE20 to save

SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA BUY THE HANGAR... Here’s part two of my post from yesterday. A pastor told us a story about a man who was believing God was going to give him a plane. God told him, “you don’t really believe me. If you did, you would have bought a hangar to put the plane.” To make a long story short, as he prepared to receive the thing God had promised, God met him along the way. Peter had to first step out of the boat for Jesus to help him walk on water. For me buying the hangar looked like using some of the money that was supposed to pay my bills for a few months to buy upgraded packaging, supplies and inventory. So when the time came, I was ready. It doesn’t have to be super grand or lavish. It could be as simple as booking a tour to see that dream house, buying an outfit for the baby you’re believing God for, buying the domain and LLC of the business even if you don’t know how you’re gonna bring it to pass. Just dare to take a step out of the boat. Dress it up and make it real. You’re believing for it? Bet that and make room for it in your life.

IT WAS ALL GOOD JUST TWO WEEKS AGO... About two weeks ago, I was told I was being let go by my job cause they no longer had work for me to do. And honestly, I felt the weirdest peace about it and I didn’t feel compelled to look for another one. I decided to focus all my time and efforts into trying to grow my business. Literally right after I got let go, my second stimulus that I never got and the third one I never got, hit my account at the same time. It was enough to cover me for a few months while I work on building ceowithafro to replace my income. I used some of the money to upgrade my packaging and get the things I would need to go legit legit. And I was waking up early like I was still clocking in but working for myself, trying to research, learn, and create content because I just felt this thing in my heart! Anyways, I randomly decided to do a flash sale and posted a TikTok about it. And it TOOK OFF! I made what would have took me 2 months to make at my job in two days! And my husband and I have learned more about business and life through this experience than I could fit here. But I’ll wrap it all into these points. 1. God, He don’t miss! Ever! I had been crying and whining for months internally + externally about not receiving the stimulus bc I wanted to use it for my business. You know when it came? When I needed it the most! After I lost my job! He knew but I didn’t. And I would have never been able to handle the volume of orders that came in had I still been working. The timing was literally divine. 2. Stay in your lane. Earlier that day, before all these sales came in, I was feeling defeated. I was looking at all these orders that other people had. All the experts said Facebook Ads were the only way to grow and Facebook ugly self,disabled my ad account so that was dead. The irony... all of my orders except for two came from TikTok. It’s great to listen to the experts but also be open to how God wants to move in your life. Maybe it’ll look completely different. The point of this is not to brag because I’m not special and God is no respecter of persons. I’m no expert, I’m just a regular degular girl trying to figure it out and share alongtheway