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Overcomers Approach
“The Overcomers Approach” podcast showcases stories of resilience, where individuals transcend challenges to achieve personal and professional success. With a focus on spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and financial growth, the podcast inspires listeners to embrace their potential and thrive in all areas of life. Join us to learn how overcoming adversity can lead to evolution, healing, and lasting success.
Overcomers Approach
The Power of Perseverance: Kay Bodude's Journey to Success.Kay reminds us change only happens when staying the same becomes more painful than changing.
Kay Bodude doesn't believe in being a statistic. Her transformative journey from teenage motherhood to becoming a successful healthcare entrepreneur, business owner, and community leader offers a masterclass in resilience and purposeful living.
As the daughter of a preacher and one of fourteen siblings, Kay's foundation in faith and service shaped her path to nursing—a career her hospital-housekeeper mother had envisioned for one of her children. Though Kay describes taking "the long road" through various healthcare roles before earning her MSN, her story powerfully demonstrates how determination overcomes obstacles. "It doesn't matter when you make it, as long as you make it," she shares with authentic conviction.
What truly distinguishes Kay's story is how she's balanced raising seven children while building four successful businesses and a nonprofit organization. Her entrepreneurial philosophy is refreshingly straightforward: "Do what you know." This practical wisdom guided her from selling nursing scrubs to developing healthcare enterprises that create both profit and community impact. Underpinning everything is her powerful motto: "Free: Finally Reaching Exponential Expectations," which embodies her belief that meaningful change happens when "the pain of staying the same becomes worse than the pain of change."
Kay's passion for financial literacy emerged as a central mission in her work. Through investment groups, credit union board service, and advocacy, she's dedicated to building generational wealth in minority communities. "Money is a tool that you use to assist whatever your purpose is," she explains, challenging listeners to consider how they're using their resources for meaningful impact.
Perhaps most inspiring is Kay's Women Empowerment initiative, which honors the "everyday woman"—the unsung heroes whose contributions often go unacknowledged. What started locally has expanded internationally, with events across multiple states and countries, including Ghana, where Kay describes finding the profoundly healing experience of simply "taking up space" without racial consciousness.
Ready to be inspired? Listen now and discover how divine guidance, determination, and a heart for service can transform obstacles into opportunities for extraordinary impact.
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Hello everyone. This is Nicole Ellis-McGregor, the founder of the Overcomers Approach podcast, where I meet with different people from different walks of life, different experiences and different journeys, but the overarching theme is we have the ability to overcome almost anything that comes to us in our lives and that's why I'm so happy to have Kay Badude here today. She's an MSN, bsn, rn. I'm going to tell you even more, but I feel like everybody's really going to be impacted by her story, her experiences. She's a leader in the community. She's doing international work. She's a philanthropist, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, someone that we can inspire to. She's so authentic and just, real and transparent, and that's what I love about her. She started over 10 years ago. She's a successful business in the healthcare business and still currently owns four businesses and also a nonprofit. Kay was able to accomplish all this even though she was busy raising her seven inspiring children and doting on her husband of 22 years Big accomplishment Kay has equipped with more than 30 years in the healthcare field.
Speaker 1:She has accolades through the International Society of Female Professionals. She's an author, a speaker, a business expert, a philanthropist, coach and consultant. She has assisted in establishing an investment group with the goal of building generational wealth in minority communities. She's a board member of a local credit union, a local activism group, in order to increase financial literacy and increase the power of the dollar in minority communities. What? Over 20 years as a serial entrepreneur, she firmly stands on the motto free, finally reaching exponential expectations, which means change won't occur until the pain of staying the same becomes worse than the pain of change. Boom, right there. I love it, kay. I don't even know where to start. I'm just really inspired by your story. And just tell me a little bit, how did you get here? Because I know there was a journey.
Speaker 2:Most definitely was a journey. I will tell you this this I grew up as a preacher's kid, so I was always busy and you know, back in those days you stayed in church and so I feel like, um, my calling or my passion grew from church, into me being a nurse, into me being a entrepreneur and to me being a entrepreneur. So that's pretty much how I got started and I love helping, I love honoring people. That's part of my calling, that's part of my passion.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would most definitely. I definitely see that and you know, when we've connected, I definitely feel that from you as well that you really have a heart to empower people and to really help and serve. That comes across and I do believe that which is great about the church is that it creates that great foundation for us Consistency of discipline, of serving, of empowering others. What inspired you to be an RN? How did you get?
Speaker 2:there. Oh my goodness. I love the story because I feel like it honors my mother. And I'm just going to be very authentic. My mom was a housekeeper in a hospital.
Speaker 2:She would go into different the lounges and some of the nurses would leave their paychecks and she was like one of my kids is going to be a nurse. One of my children is going to be a nurse. I was the lucky one. I was the lucky one, but I feel like it was in. She could see it in me. It was my nature Because I did, at the age of 14, take care of one of her um older friends. I would stay on the weekend and I would take care of her friend um during the weekend and um and so that it grew out of that. And then I just I tell people I took the long road, but it doesn't matter when you make it, as long as you make it. And so I did take the long road. I was a cna, I was a volunteer you make it, and so I did take the long road.
Speaker 2:I was a cna, I was a volunteer, I was a medical assistant and got my license practical nurse which is only take one year, yes, and you know I went back and and and, um, I got a couple of degrees, but then my passion was nursing and I got my bachelor's in nursing and then my master's. Yeah, so that a very short spiel of my presenting.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. I feel like people can definitely get it. I have a granddaughter who's doing this healthcare journey. She ultimately wants to be a nurse, but she's you know, she's from Latimer, she's a CNA, she's doing it in steps and I was like, don't feel bad about this. I was like this is all a part of your journey and that you're building and you're growing in the direction. And I love for people to hear that as well, because people might not feel as encouraged if they're not where they think they should be. But you know you're showing that.
Speaker 1:You know, ultimately that's where you ended up and it might've been the long road, but you were meant to. You were meant to take that journey for a reason to, I feel like, even more relate to people who maybe just didn't jump in and get their iron right away, that they. It was a part of the step, it was a part of the journey. So I, you know, I love it and, um, I'm a long hauler as well, you know, and I'm like Lord, I'm going to get this. So, um, yes, yes. And he has so much more and I like the fact you know that you really don't change until the pain of being stuck forces you to change. I know that as you're. How did you manage being a mother and a wife, pursuing all these goals Like, how do you? Because I know some people, some of it was easy. I don't know, maybe it was cake work.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe it was cake work, I don't know my biggest thing at growing up um I seen teenage mothers right and. I was a teenage mother, but I did not want to be a statistic that's right so that was one of my driving things.
Speaker 2:I did not want to be a. I have a hard time with that word, so do I, and so that was my driving force, because people see where I'm at now but they don't realize. At 17, I was a mother and so, by me forcing myself and recognizing that I have somebody else, I always tell people I had somebody else's mouth to feed before I went in my mouth. It made me work hard. It made me work hard. How did I end up with seven? Let me tell you this. Okay, as a child, I always said, because I was a preacher's kid, number seven was a good number in the Bible and I always said I want seven children. I didn't know what I was asking for.
Speaker 1:God called you for the seven and I know some of your children had an opportunity to meet them and the legacy that you're just building in each and every one of them that I meet, I mean it's just flourishing. So God knew that you were called to the seven. I was called to birth two and he goes. You know, there's all that I can handle, and I was a teen mom too. I was a teen mom at 15. And I, just like you, I just knew I didn't want to be a statistic and I had another mouth to feed. I definitely can understand and I love the fact especially.
Speaker 1:You know one thing I think we're really resilient as black women. You know we get out here. We could do what needs to be done. And I think you know your mom and, like my mom and grandma's, you know my grandma had 13 kids. My mom had five. You know they modeled that. Maybe life wasn't perfect, but if we look at it from a strengths based approach, they gave us. They gave us some good tools and ingredients to work from and I know it definitely worked for you. Now, how did you decide to get into your business, because I know you have a healthcare business and a nonprofit. How did you roll into that? Because you were a nurse. How did you go into that, like you know, cause you were a nurse and what? Just how did you go into that?
Speaker 2:You know, when I started thinking about business and I started trying to do business, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said do what you know. And so the first business I started was selling uniforms scrubs because I wore scrubs every day.
Speaker 2:I got so good at selling scrubs that I can look at a person and say, oh, you're extra large or you're 2X or you're small, Right, and that's where I started. And the entrepreneur bug. I believe the entrepreneur bug just had bit me when I was a teenager, when my dad was raising me. I would do things for him and for some of his minister friends, you know finding out stuff, researching things, start setting up banquets.
Speaker 2:Right, yep, you got the banquets on so it's just building on from a child up what the Bible says to raise, to train up a child. That's right. That's right right now, the tools that my father and my mom instilled in me at a young it is. It's making an income for me, because bible also say that your, your gifts will mess, make a way for you.
Speaker 1:That's right, they sure will. Yes, wow, how do you? Um, how, what would you say to other women who maybe they're working a nine to five or they are doing entrepreneurship? What do you? What do you think? Some of the tools that really kept you going, because I'm sure some days you're like, oh you know, it keeps you going, like, what keeps you motivated?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what keeps me motivated is that, um for the for, I would say I love to help people. That's one thing that keeps me motivated. I love to pour into people. Um, and biggest thing, seven children kept me motivated. So I wanted to make sure that my children had a foundation, not just of working for someone, but also knowing how to have their own business, to grow there. And I have ones that's graduating from college now they don't even want to work. Nine to five they're like no, we're just going to do our business Right. That was the biggest motivation. Like I say, in pouring into people, you can't be a philanthropist unless you have some philanthropy, you know, and so I knew that I had to work and make the money so that I could do the things that God wanted me to do.
Speaker 2:So I tell people never don't be embarrassed about hey, I'm trying to make this dollar, I'm trying to make this money because that is a tool. Money is a tool that you use to assist whatever God has. Your purpose is to assist with that, because if you don't have the tool, you can't do what you're supposed to be doing that's right.
Speaker 1:I love, I love the fact that you said what kept me motivated was your kids pouring into your kids, you know, having them to be able to do something, to carry on to do something else into the future. How do you manage being a wife?
Speaker 2:um, as you handle all this you know something I have the best husband and everybody. You know a lot of what I'm not saying. I, you know. People say, well, they have a perfect man. Oh, we don't. We don't have a perfect marriage, but we are stickers and he lets me be me, I let him be him, and then we balance it because my husband is a homebody, I am more of a social person and so I let him stay at home.
Speaker 2:But then there are certain times that I say, honey, I need you to come with me. Like if I do an event, like in Chicago, I have an event, come up, he knows he's going with me to Chicago. So that, so, just being just balancing out and just when you, I could say about a marriage, when you point your finger at the other person, most of the time it's you, and so I'm not saying all the time, you know a healthy relationship. I'm not talking about anything toxic, but most of the time when we were upset at our spouse, I look back and I'll be like that was me, and so then I had to go say you know, so that was me, yeah, so the balance balancing when I go on my, if I go, and I don't take my children with me, which my children are older now, but when they were younger I could just drop the hat and leave my children and go do what I need to do and then come back. And I said he probably does that because he don't want me to bother him.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. I love the fact that you said that you guys are stickers. I love that. I translate that into committed stickers join one accord, you know. And the fact that you said you know, no, and I could definitely identify with this.
Speaker 1:Nobody's marriage is perfect, but when you take, you do some self-reflection and you do some self-awareness and you know it's easy to be like you, you, you, but then sometimes you got to sit back and be like hold up, let me assess this, this was me, this was me. And then you know, just kind of sitting down and reflecting on that and then coming to like a consensus of like, you know, working it out. You know, some people don't know how to work through conflict and sometimes I think people were such a disposable society. But I really feel like marriage and community and family is the foundation of a very strong community and it's so much bigger than we people anticipate, you know, and I think if people have that awareness again and really understand it, it's very empowering and it's something and that's why marriage was created. I think sometimes people get away from that, you know, but I think you know just having God at the center, you know, when things are kind of woo, you know, we just go back to the center. We just go back to the center.
Speaker 2:I tell people sometimes the Holy Spirit seem like he hit me in the head and be like stop doing that. I'll be like okay okay, I'll stop.
Speaker 1:Exactly exactly, I love it. I love it. Tell me about the financial literacy piece, the one to empower minority communities. I think that's something that is really needed and we're in an environment right now where we need financial education. It is critical because I feel like we're moving towards a have and have nots and if we wanna create generational legacy, we have to be wise with our dollars, and I think we're big consumers in a way, but really knowing that the dollar has power, what? What led you to having that financial literacy component and wanting to empower other minority communities to do it?
Speaker 2:The reason? Because you know you pay more. Yes, your credit is not right.
Speaker 2:You can't do certain things if you don't have the money. So I took classes to help myself and help my children, because I see the stability in the financial education that they have, that they're doing things much different than what I did when I was their age. Yes, so one of the biggest things shout out to a financial piece with Dave Ramsey. I took that about 12 years ago. It probably, yeah, about 12, 15 years ago, something like that, before I left Kansas City.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And that really helped me out and so I've just been growing on that piece. Now I married a stickler. Okay, I married my husband. He was a banker. Now he's a nurse, but he was a banker and so that helped me too. So I just want people to understand that piece is that it doesn't matter how much money you make, it's how you use it, how you spend it, how you pay your 10% in. That's right. Well, you know tithing at church. Sometimes your tithes might be for something else.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You know, some days I go down the street and I'm just driving down and the Spirit is telling me, hey, give this person this amount of money. That's part of my tidings too, because you just never know who you're meeting. That God is telling you hey, I want you to help my child out right there. That's some of the financial literacy and what I've built on and what I try to pass on to people that I do consulting with, because you have got to. Money makes the world go round no matter how you say it, you know.
Speaker 2:they say money is the root of all evil. That's if you let it. That's right. Yeah, it makes the world go round and you have to have it in order to do things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I, in a lot of us have it in order to bless other people, in order to pour into other people, in order to, you know, on healthy ground.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's right. I definitely believe that. I love the fact that you said you know what we do with the 10% and I really paying it forward. You know really blessing other people, really you know empowering other people, because I feel like the more freely you release, it is coming back to you. You know, the more we hold on to it, you know the the that abundance doesn't come as much as if we just do our part, and so I definitely agree with that and I know me and my husband, we talk about that Part of the reason we want to build wealth and build financial literacy within our own family, because I believe it starts there.
Speaker 1:First, we want to be able to empower other people, to empower the community, and so when we're no longer here, the fruits of our labor will still be existing, they'll still be going on, and our kids might want to do different things. I like the fact that you said teaching your kids, because I know my two sons. They are so financially savvy and I was like man, I don't. And people are like how did they get this way? I said I don't know. I said because I was a late bloomer. I said and we was on a struggle bus, here and there. I said and I don't. I said but whatever these principles they have, they have mastered it and they got it and they are about their business, and so people are visual.
Speaker 2:I used to tell my son don't do as I do. And I'm telling you, my oldest son is such great with financial literacy and wealth. Yes, did he. I just did what I just say. Don't do what, I do as I say.
Speaker 1:Exactly. And, too, you know, as the late bloomer came through, like you said, don't do as I. You know, like you said, that was part of my philosophy too. And then, you know, as I learned, as I got older, then I got more disciplined and I, you know, built a micro. Then I purchased a house, but it was later than I wanted it to be. But the fact that you know that I finally got it is, you know, what counts. Like I said, when you stated in the beginning, you know you may not get there right now, but you will get there. If you're disciplined and you put the work in. It's going to come and I definitely do love that. I think it's so meaningful and purposeful and, like I said, it builds stronger families and we can make different choices. Because I know I relocated from Minnesota to Arizona. I couldn't have done that if I didn't make the right financial choices. And you said you relocated to Arizona from St Louis, missouri. Tell me what? What's, what triggered the move? I always like to ask people this question.
Speaker 2:Wanted, wanted aed, a different space. And let me tell you this I am 13 of 14 children and anybody know that in the Black community. It might be in other communities, but I'm in the Black community. You fall in line, no matter how old you get. So I had to move to Arizona so my family would let me grow up. I had seven children and still had to move to Arizona, so my family would let me grow up. I had seven children and still had to run things through my older sibling. So I was like I told my husband, let's move.
Speaker 2:And so I, um, we decided it's been almost 11 years, 11 years to move to Arizona and I have not wanted to move back to it's Kansas City Missouri. I have not wanted to move back to it's Kansas City Missouri. I have not wanted to move back to Kansas City Missouri. Okay, okay, but for nothing. I would go and visit, but I'm not moving back to I call it Egypt.
Speaker 1:I'm not moving back to Egypt yeah, I um, it was kind of similar for me me and my husband. It was just um with me. I was just ready, um, it was more like I'm like the oldest out of all my siblings, so they have children, and it was just like I wanted to. I needed a fresh start, I needed to create some boundaries, and and our kids are all mostly adults except for one. So we was like it's, we don't need to suffer through the snow and all this other stuff and tornadoes and all that, and I love Minnesota. I would never move back my either, like I would never move back but will visit you know, my, some of my family is there, so, but it's always nice to know, you know, because sometimes too, to grow to your next level, sometimes you just need a change of environment yeah, you know one thing I had said and my husband reminded me of that.
Speaker 2:I told because I have a family church in missouri in kansas, missouri, and I told him I they, my family, wanted to go to a different church and I said I just felt so obligated. I said I cannot go to another church unless I move out of town. Wow, and I said God must've heard that because in the next couple of years I'm like let's move.
Speaker 1:Yes, wow, I love it, I love it. And when you have a partner who's in agreement with you, it just, it makes it easier.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, it does yes.
Speaker 1:Do you feel like the landscape of Arizona has changed in the last as far as seeing more people black people like us, since you know? Ok, great.
Speaker 2:It has, because when I first came here I didn't think no Black people was here and then we drove 45 minutes to church, all the way down to South Mountain area in the Black church and just being transparent, and so we was attending that church Before then I didn't see any Black people. Okay, it's more of us moving out this way. It's more of us moving to the West side, because a lot of people come and they either move to Levine Levine is a big population of Black and then they move to East Valley and I, just when I read the history on Arizona, I don't understand that, because Buckeye was a black city Right. Even Eloy was a black city Girl. When I would drive to Tucson and see Eloy.
Speaker 2:I'd see black people in Eloy and I was like this was a black city, Wow.
Speaker 1:It's nice to know, wow, wow, this was a black city. Wow, it's nice, wow, wow. Well, I love this. So why? Because it lets me put it in context. You know, I've only, we've only been in arizona three years and, um, I'm starting to see more, uh, black businesses, black events, you know and, and you know black education, just and that's. I think. You know any culture you want to identify and connect with, with your people, but we can still be a part of other environments, as you know, especially you know just to, to grow as people in our worldview. We're going to connect with other cultures, but it's nice to be able to identify with, like any other culture, to be able to see your people and have a sense of community, and so I'm happy Arizona's having more of that.
Speaker 1:Speaking about that, your women's empowerment group. What triggered you? Because I've been to a few of them and I just love them. You know where you really elevate women in the community and acknowledge them and nurture them and other women who even come feel empowered. I mean, there's testimonies, there's stories, you have raffles. It's always super fun. We got food and there's business opportunities, vendors there, and I just I love it. What inspired you to start that?
Speaker 2:It was. The Holy Spirit told me that I needed to start that, and actually I started later because I was fighting. I was like I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that. He was like, nope, I'm not doing that. I said because you know, lord, how people use. But two years ago I started it. And I started it because we, as especially black women, we needed that. We needed for people to recognize us, to see us. Yes, that is the reason why I started women empowerment for the everyday woman, because Michelle Obama is gonna get recognized. You know, michelle Jackson, you know, yeah, you want to get recognized, but for the everyday woman and I know as a nurse, being my profession, that we nurses we rarely get recognized. Nobody say, hey, you're doing such a great job, and so that's what women empowerment. What I do is I reach out to other ladies in the community and they send me people that they think should be honored and recognized and that way that lady knows that she is on somebody's mind.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Nobody else tells you that you, that you are who you are, that you are outstanding, that you are this woman, you know that there is somebody that has put your name in this hat to be honored, and I just think that that was an awesome thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I love it. I love it and, like you said, the everyday woman you know and, like you said, the nurses. I have a niece who had a baby here and her pregnancy was getting a little difficult and she had a Black nurse that stayed in the room with her through the whole thing. I think it was long hours. I think she stayed over the time she was supposed to. She might have gotten in trouble for it, I don't care. But my niece came out with a healthy baby after that and I was like I don't know that nurse's name, like I don't know who she was, but the fact that she stayed and labored with her and wouldn't leave and stayed with my niece which it could have went left, you know, based on the Black woman's mortality maternal rate in the United States is not good and I'm just if that woman you know and nurse I don't know who you are. I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 1:You might hit the podcast one day, but I like the fact that you said the everyday woman that are doing things like that, saving lives, and we just don't know, we have no idea, you know, and I've been to events and sometimes I've been to events where they kind of cycle the same people, you know, cycle the same people, and I'm like I know there's some other people in the community. You know, I know what these other people are doing and I'm happy for them. They're very inspiring. But there's other people out there that are making very impactful, big things and we just don't know about it. So I love the fact that you, that I put that on your heart. The Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Most of the women that people refer to, I don't know them. I meet them, just like everybody else is meeting them at the event. And I like that too, because you, I admit, teachers, doctors, lawyers.
Speaker 1:And the thing I love about it is, once you meet somebody, it's always walking away with another person's number or information, because I love that, yeah, and so do I, and I love the fact, like you said, and I've met, like the educators, the teachers, the lawyer, their stylists, the jewelry setters, the women therapists, you know, body cream, I mean, it's just everything's there, you know, and I like the fact that then we're also also the poor dollar in our community to help support and empower these women and build their businesses up.
Speaker 1:You know, and you're, and you're really doing it, and you come from such a place of humility and but you're, you know, you're a goal getter, andter and you know, you're just super motivated and you're extroverted, which I love, but you're just so humble and grounded and you just have a big heart and that really comes across. You know, when I, when I go to those events, and you know, and, and I and I and I, definitely I know everybody else is blessed, everybody's smiling or laughing and cracking jokes, and so we leave there feeling just as elevated as the people who got the award, you know. So I'm glad, right, and so I'm so happy that you're having those and you also do those back in Kansas City as well, too, right, I do in Kansas City, Chicago.
Speaker 2:I'm doing one in Ghana in June. I'll be in Ghana in June. I'm going around to wherever God tells me to go. That's where I'm going.
Speaker 1:Okay, awesome, you've done one in California too. I remember seeing that, because I was going to try to make that one, but I couldn't make that one. While we're closing up, we've got a couple of minutes here. I know you are making trips to Ghana. Tell me how that experience has been for you.
Speaker 2:Yes, me how that experience has been for you. Yes, eye-opener. And it don't even have to be gonna anybody that, especially people of color. Yeah, go home, go home, but just put your feet in there and just see the difference and it just makes a life-changing I don't know, just a life change. It's life-changing. Put it that way, it's just life-changing. And the people, um, the people have been very friendly and, like I said, it don't have to be gonna. But go see, yes, it's just amazing to go somewhere in color and you don't think about color all the time that you're there.
Speaker 1:Wow, it makes because it's just a part of the community, because I think, being born in the states, I don't think God's predestined us to be here. We're descendants of enslaved people, you know, and I think to be able to go back into our ancestral homeland I'm sure makes a big difference. And then too, you get to see, I think too, sometimes in the States at least for me, I must speak for myself just taking up space where you constantly are aware of your difference or whatever, and just being able to connect on a different level, I can only imagine that it's much bigger. It's much bigger.
Speaker 2:Yes, you just don't even. While I'm in country, I don't even think about that. It doesn't even come across my mind, and that's one less stress that I have to. That's right. Sometimes we have been raised to make other people feel comfortable. Very much so. A lot of us are working our way out of that. Yeah, but you still go through that moment.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:That you shouldn't do this. Oh, I shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:Right when you could just take up space. Yeah, you can just take up space and just be there and just be yeah, and just be yes, ma'am, and I think that's healing for sure Because, like you said, being making people comfortable all the time, that takes a lot of energy out of you and I think, really walk through your healing of you, and I think really walk through your healing, yes, being very aware of that. So, um, I just want to say, uh, one last question and I'll give you an opportunity because you do consulting as well and you have several books and some other products as well, and even so much more that we probably didn't even talk about but to direct people to your website. What is your web link?
Speaker 2:but to direct people to your website. What is your web link? My web link is k badudecom. K badude, that's k-a-y-b-o-d-u-d-e dot com. Awesome. So I put out one more thing. Oh my god, I'm doing a conference. The women empowerment is doing a big conference in november. That information is on webconferenceinfo. Okay, that's webconferenceinfo. And I'm gonna tell you this nicole, it's gonna be a doozy we're gonna do a friday night we're gonna do met gala.
Speaker 2:We're gonna copy off the rich folks do Met Gala. We're going to copy off the rich folks, we're going to do the Met Gala. Black dandyism girl. I'm there, I'm there, I'm excited. Oh, my goodness, that is going to be and I'm going to have prizes for that. So that's going to be the Friday night, but it's going to be a conference Friday, saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1:Would you? I know we're going to close up here and I make sure in the description when I edit the video and I posted it. So I want to make sure that I have that. I know I have your Web link, but that that November. Do you mind emailing me that information for the? I will, yeah, because I just want to make sure that I have it and I know I just got back in the town so I'm just catching up on my emails and I don't want to make sure that I missed it, because that sounds amazing. I'm looking forward to that. Okay, one last question what gives you hope as you accomplish all these goals? And women, empowerment and business catalyst and wife and grandma and mother what gives you hope as you continue to? The holy spirit just reveals more and more to you. Is there anything that gives you hope that just keeps?
Speaker 2:you going. That is what gives me hope is god. I'm gonna tell you that the women empowerment. Just to see, hear the feedback and the women so excited about being honored it doesn't matter what age, from the oldest to the youngest Feedback is awesome. That's what gives me hope. I tell them, hey, when I call out again, you have to keep past this on and honor somebody that needs to be honored Awesome, thank you, kay.
Speaker 1:That needs to be honored. Yeah, awesome. Well, thank you, kay, I really appreciate it. Thank you, nicole. Thank you for taking this time out. It's been awesome and I just want to continue to see growth. I'm inspired. It inspires me to stretch myself out of my comfort zone and to do what the Holy Spirit or God leads me to do, because you can't be stuck, because nothing get done stuck.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right, ma'am, I appreciate you, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you too, and you have a blessed night, kay, looking forward to seeing you soon, and don't forget to send me that email as well. I will Thank you. Have a great night, you too.
Speaker 2:Bye-bye.