The Seeded Voice

09/28/2025

09/20/2025

Three Key Elements When You Are Trying to Get Funding.

Be ready to ask the right questions when you have the right people in the room.

I have attended a lot of events in my career of serving communities, where small businesses, non profits, and other entitys are looking for funding.

Three Key Takeaways:

🔶Most of the time, the ideas pitched were too small, think bigger! Collaboration and innovation should be top priority.

🔶Funders know where you are by the questions you ask. Don’t just invite them to hear your story be ready with your portfolio and your ask!

🔶Do your research! The people you are pitching to are bombarded with requests. Know what type of grants, loans, and other resources they offer. Know your ask!

I watched a lot of ideas remain stagnant just off these few key points. Hey, you got this!
Let’s recalibrate, and let’s get it🤞🏾

09/19/2025

I Pray Our Elders Write Books 📚

Many of our community pilars lived lives that never make it into the pages it deserved.

We lose so much when we don’t encourage them to write their books.

What if we helpedevery elder leave at least one book behind? It doesn’t have to look like what mainstream publishing says a book should be.

It just needs to be theirs—truth in their own words.

When our elders write books, we get to see who we are through who they were. And for us—especially as communities fighting to preserve legacy—that’s how we leave a legacy.

Imagine:
🔶A grandmother writing down how she cooked from scratch when there wasn’t much in the pantry.
🔶A grandfather writing about working the land, or building with his hands, or what it felt like to serve in the military.
🔶An auntie capturing the process of preparing Sunday dinners, the chatter, the prayers, the stories of family gathering around.
🔶An elder speaking directly to the next generation, telling us what they wished someone had told them.

I hope we begin to push the cookbooks, devotionals, poetry collections, family storybooks. Small or big. Self-published or printed on the church copier. We need those voices written down.

09/16/2025

Your voice has work to do here 🪴
Beautiful day to you ☀️