Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Acquilla Faye.
Dr. Acquilla, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
Often we think of success as being the accomplishment of accumulated wealth while ignoring the life transformations and lessons that occur along the journey. From an early age, my family laid a foundation that happiness and love are founded in the heart and mind of each individual and then demonstrated through their action. I give thanks to The Source of all Life, the One True Creator for blessing me to grow into a woman who is able to blend my gifts and talents in a way to provide benefit to those who are seeing to transform their lives, reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-worth, and improve their quality living.
You see, as a child, I was blessed to begin writing at age 3 and become internationally published at 7 while developing the skills of entrepreneurship, entertainment, and community service on a daily basis. My community supported the uniqueness and brightness that is housed in my body. I had role models such as my Grandmother, Grandfather and parents who constantly showed me the various aspects of living a loving yet diligent life. While experiencing a traditional agricultural life at home with my family and visiting my biological dad, who owned a business—I LEARNED AND OBSERVED A LOT.
There were several tragic events that occurred throughout my life that we could summarize as everything in life minus personal hardcore drug addiction. The first violation entered my life before kindergarten and continued through different people and environments outside of my home through young adulthood. These experiences transformed into my first career as a professional educator for 15 years in public and private institutions while intertwining into the entertainment provided through media platforms and live entertainment and trainings.
These experiences grew my passion to fulfill the purpose that God placed inside of me to experience the balance of tragic and radiating joy to master internal balance, self-worth, and the passion to serve others.
Becoming a mother while teaching the masses, more deeply embedded the knowingness to use my gifts, trainings, education and experience to help others master themselves and live in peace and harmony. The companies I have, being Acquilla Faye, LLC and Our Efforts United are both founded on providing products and serves that help others to overcome their internal turmoil, life stressors, and negative self-beliefs to live in a happy manner that is not deterred by circumstances.
Our Efforts United formulated from teaching to provide resources and exposure to youth and their families because the school’s system no longer provides holistic teaching. The organization creates curriculum, programs, and events that add value to the creative arts, entrepreneurship, acculturation, and healthy relationships. The programs and outreach have created seeds for change through social service, partnership, and pop-up community organizing. The organization also provides scholarships for those all the economically disadvantage with opportunities to receive benefit from programs and services that are outside of their budgets.
Today we have served clients across the United States reaching over 500 million via social media, live trainings, retreats, blogs, vlogs, and entertainment both independently and in collaboration with other companies. We are providing the community and businesses with skills to develop the emotional fortitude to conquer challenges through guided strategic coaching, mindfulness stress reduction, personal development, transformational healing sessions, and literature. We believe that everyone is capable of fulfilling the visions that have been given to them by The Creator if they are provided tools that shift their mindsets and habits in addition to educational resources.
For these reasons the show Grown Folks Talking Live, available on iHeart Radio, Google Play and other platforms, was developed to provide “Old school conversations in a New Age Fashion”. We discuss adult issues while providing live guided meditations, book discussions and work life balance techniques. It is a show that increases our ability to discuss common issues, concerns and realities that we face as adults and parents in the 21st century. The show is a compliment of Unwrapping Your Package Web Series on YouTube, vlogs and blogs on www.facebook.com/pathtoyou and resources on acquillafaye.com. Dr. Faye has authored several articles and books, with the 2 favorites for adults being The Men We Choose an Amazon Best Seller and Letters of Devotion: Prayers through Meditation–a downloadable tool for increasing focus and peace, along with helping individuals go from Dreaming to Becoming Authors through the Writing Bookcamps and author services.
We are here to help others with transformation, through both companies allow all participants and clients to grow in the way of living a life of reduced stress and increased opportunities and exposure. The world has expanded to provide an International reach of Transformational Services and Products to meet the needs of each of our clients.
To God be the Glory.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
There are challenges in every situation. I like to think that challenges are a time of learning to prepare for our next level in life. For me, as a business owner, there were distractions that formulated through the associations that I did not want to release, unexpected financial issues that resulted in homelessness and becoming a single parent, not by choice.
These were personal challenges that were reflective of choices that needed to be made and characteristics of strength, resourcefulness, resilience, and Faith that developed to new heights. In the wake of these challenges, my awareness of the impact of associations grew and allowed me to seek innovative ways to build a team, develop a brand, market, and continue with community outreach. Most expansions occurred while in the midst of the storm because being in the eye is the safest place.
God blessed me to have supports and insights from angels who appeared for a long enough moment to inspire to overcome and to remind me of the purpose which only I can fulfill. The challenges were a hard yet beautiful shift my business because the one thing that was not shook was my Dignity. There is value in dignity because the Divine has created us to manifest the changes which we desire. I would tell everyone to look for the growth opportunity, the lesson to be learned, the internal belief that must change, and the resources to make the unseen become visible. Faith in action is attracting the resources and people necessary to overcome the illusion that thoughts create while in the midst of chaos.
The road is always going to have detours, closed signs, random potholes and crazy drivers. While this is true, we are the driver in our cars and have the ability to reach our destinations safely as long as we know that God, the One True Source, is always guiding us even when we are lacking compassion towards ourselves, insight to the “how”, or a state of confusion. It all passes and we focus on the path while knowing, everything is temporary and this too shall pass.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
Acquilla Faye, LLC is a company focused on the 5Es- Education, Empowerment, Elevation, Entertainment, and Enterprise. We provide serves and tools that reduce stress, remove barriers, and build positive relationships that support transformation. We provide individual and corporate services through online media broadcast, marketing opportunities, and trainings. There is the opportunity for the organization to book Dr. Faye in multiple capacities to shift the atmosphere of their company’s events and long-term needs.
Our Efforts United is a community-based organization which focuses on the assisting the economic and personal imaging of youth and their families through education, outreach and partnership. We assist companies across the nation with program development and strategic planning to expand their reach in their communities.
Both companies use the arts, relationships, and mindfulness techniques to create changes that improve self-worth, relationships, focus, peace, and goal attainment. A free 15 minute consultations to determine which services and products are the best transformational package. As well products are available at acquillafaye.com and www.facebook.com/pathtoyou
Tribe Transform an aspect of our company that focuses on wellness, life-balance, stress reduction, and personal development. The company provides education and entertainment to corporations and organizations who are seeking to increase productivity, effective communication, emotional intelligence application, and profits. We know that when people are more in balance and at peace within that the work or learning environment becomes calmer and more productive. We create lunch and learns, training series, and on-going support to corporations who understand that their most valuable asset is the people who work to create the vision of the company. As a company we understand that wellness includes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals. We provide a comprehensive wellness solution that is formulated to build relationships between each companies dynamics and our expertise.
What were you like growing up?
I love this question. It is beautiful to me that everyone who knows me from birth to adulthood would tell you that I have been consistently me! I am Scorpio woman who was always straightforward, creative, helpful, and very tom-boyish. I am still a country girl through and through with the knowledge of the elders, world travel that increased my acculturation, and the attitude of “no matter what, I will succeed”.
My determination and outgoing, transparent nature has always been with me. I had an interest for using my gifts as an artist to make money while delivering a product that made others smiled and make their lives better. I was always interested in teaching and when not tutoring I would put my stuffed animals outside and teach them using my chalkboard and colored chalk. Singing, writing poetry, stories, and songs, along with performing for audiences or in studios was something that made me smile.
The entertainer, entrepreneur, writer, and lover in me has always been there. And the funny thing is I was such a strong leader that it would get me in trouble because I learned early how to assert myself, address leaders without intimidation, and voice the desires of myself or my peers to create change. When God made me, it was like sending a fireball to the earth that etched out it’s on the river and transformed into the water to take care of the habitats of the land. And let me not omit, I have always loved food!!! Food makes me smile.
I was blessed to grow-up on a farm where there was always fruits and vegetables along with a pump house full of fresh water. So being outside was a delight because I was able to play and eat as much as I want. Foodie is an understatement to the love that I share for the delight of the creation and consumption of yummy morsels on my palate. You know several have said that I was funny and silly because of my free spirit and this nature continues to reign true today. I have always been very self-assured, confident, calming, and bubbly even when it is was not the best time. Thank God my timing has improved ϑ
Pricing:
- PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY SESSION $275++
- CORPORATE EVALUATIONS & CONSULTS $750++
- WELLNESS PROGRAMS & PLANS (includes evaluations & strategy plans) $5200++
- ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICES – $427/month++
- SPECIAL RATES FOR NOT-FOR-PROFITS & SCHOOLS
Contact Info:
- Website: www.acquillafaye.com
- Phone: 919.378.1691
- Email: info@acquillafaye.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/acquillafaye/
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/pathtoyou
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcquillaFaye
- Yelp: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXORI_EzZuyp1J_iowpiVsA
- Other: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/grown-folks-talking-wdr-faye-28601008/
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