Coffee with Lyvonne Proverbs Picou

Minister Lyvonne “Proverbs” Picou is a preacher, speaker, poet,
educator, creative social entrepreneur, and an Emmy-award-winning
media producer. A New York City native, Lyvonne is
currently a part of the inaugural cohort for the Do Good X
Startup Accelerator. Do Good X nurtures Christian
social entrepreneurs who wish to do good in the world. She was
also recently profiled as a Millennial Womanist to Watch
by The Millennial Womanism Project.


Through her organization, beautiful scars, Lyvonne promotes
healthy and safe conversations around religion, sex, and
Blackness in order to, ultimately, address the silence in the
Black Church on sexual abuse.


Lyvonne graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor of
Arts in English Honors, Yale Divinity School with a Master of
Divinity, and Columbia Theological Seminary with a Master of
Theology. At Columbia, she published her thesis, The Problem
with 'Father' God: Incest as a Silent Killer in the Black
Church, an exploration of the praxis of using poetry to
preach about sexual abuse from the pulpit.


Lyvonne is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Incorporated. She currently resides in Oakland, CA with her
husband, Brandon, and can be found on the instructor bike
teaching classes at RiDE Oakland and on Facebook
and Medium, as well as Twitter and Instagram (@LyvonneP).


Lyvonne was kind and courageous enough to be our first podcast
guest to be interviewed in front of a live audience inside of the
Clergypreneursprivate Facebook group. It was awesome for me, as
the host, to be able to share - in real time - the conversation
as it unfolded and receive live responses with Facebook Live.
Faith leaders are welcome to join at clergypreneurs.com. Members
of Clergypreneurs Congregate get to give feedback and ask
questions for future interviews in the extended, full interview
inside the group. And, in this case, hear the very best part of
the whole interview, was an original poem of Lyvonne's read by
Lyvonne. All I can keep thinking is that I almost didn't ask her
if she'd share a second poem with us before we said good-bye.
Lyvonne, T-H-A-N-K--Y-O-U-! The poem was amazing!


Thank you for speaking so much truth: here, in pulpits,
everywhere.
Links:

Sponsor: United Faith Leaders


Sponsor: Clergypreneurs Congregate


beautiful scars


RiDE Oakland


Do Good X


Twitter: @LyvonneP


Instagram: @LyvonneP


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