004: Giving Yourself Permission to Not (Always) Be Okay w/RaShaunda Fuller

 


Episode 004 of Get Naked LIVE features
RaShaunda Fuller, founder of Statement Tees
& Things.   In this  episode, she gets
real  about how she lacked the emotional intelligence to be
vulnerable and how she no longer sees being strong as a badge of
honor.  She’s taken off the cape AND the mask is truly
defining strength on her own terms.

Some of the Episode’s Defining Moments:

 


The challenges of raising a seventeen year old son who’s a
black man in America

How crying was unacceptable in her childhood home because it
was viewed as being weak

How her mother rarely showed anything other than positive
emotions, which spilled over into her life

How she lacked the emotional intelligence to handle the
challenges of everyday life

Making not-so-good choices and not going into hiding
afterwards

How slavery contributed to the lack of emotional intelligence
among African American women

How churches and communities need to have more dialogue
around mental health

How she finds it challenging to be consistent in freely
expressing her emotions

How she’s encouraging her son to communicate his emotions

As you can see, it gets REAL in this episode.

RaShaunda held nothing back.  She was very open about her
childhood experiences with her mother and her father and how
those experiences shaped how she lives her life and how she
raises her son.

ABOUT RASHAUNDA

RaShaunda Fuller, founder of My Social Media Mentors, 
an online social media training center that offers self-paced
social media courses for women entrepreneurs, is most widely
known for her “Pinning with a Purpose” course that taught women
how to achieve big brand success on a shoestring budget while
using Pinterest marketing. The training center also served as
community for women who are passionate about their personal
development in addition to succeeding in business.


She recently launched an apparel and novelty online store, 
“Statement Tees & Things” where she uses her creative skills,
unique way with words, her love for motivating others & her
for passion for fashion in a motivating but stylish way.
She’s committed to making sure that her customers
have apparel that makes BOLD positive self-declarations
about themselves in the most stylish way possible.


RaShaunda has recently been featured on Bloomberg Newsweek, Black
Enterprise, Yahoo! Finance, Marketplace and MarketWatch just to
name a few. She is also a contributing author of Chantelle Adams
book; “The Courage to Fly” which also features best selling
authors Danielle LaPorte, Karen Salmansohn.


She’s also passionate about women’s mental health and is
determined to debunk the false narrative that black women have to
be strong all the time; and that our strength is measured &
defined by the amount of pain that we can take. Her new mission
is life is to free others from the stigma, judgment and shame
that comes to those who struggle with things like depression, and
anxiety.

You can find RaShaunda in the following online spaces:

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/statementteesandthings


Facebook Personal Profile:  www.facebook.com/rashaundaf


Instagram:  @statementteesandthings


RaShaunda also has a podcast COMING SOON called “Let’s Talk About
It. Conversations w/ The Girl Next Door.” Follow her on social
media to stay in the loop.
RaShaunda’s MOST Quotable Moment:

“I don’t measure my strength by the amount of pain I can
take.
My strength is based on me being able to say, ‘I need help. I
need a break.
I need to replenish myself.  I need to refill my cup’.”


 


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