Hello today, our guest is Jessica Moore , she is an author, a speaker, and a business coach. She resides right near me in Atlanta, Georgia, and she coaches people on how to create a profitable business that makes an impact. Her local impact is through her agency, Atlanta Youth Services, providing support services to children and families in the foster care system.

Her global impact is through her nonprofit Lead Our Teens, Inc. Her passion is showing people how to turn their adversity into ambition and discover their super power so they can give themselves permission to evolve. Please help me give a warm welcome to my friend, Jessica.

Welcome to the vitality feed, Jessica.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

Oh, it's my pleasure. I know we've spoke previously and, you have just blown my mind with what you've gone through and where you've come to. What you would tell young people who have gone through constantly upheaval in their life. Like you have, want to give us a little background.

So pretty much. my mom passed when I was , 13 years old , and I ended up moving with my grandmother who also passed away and by the time I was at the end of my teen years, I had lived in seven different homes, went to four different high schools and stayed in three different states. So that's kind of where my journey of instability began. Um, and from that. Uh, ended up pregnant at 18 years old. And it was in that moment that I had to really sit back and say, okay, what is it that I want out of life?

I had to quiet the noise, find my own voice and begin to design my destiny and design my life. The way that I wanted to be , not the way that people thought it would be as a result of my life. So the advice that I would give to anyone who is experiencing instability or experiencing a hard time is to stay focused on your voice, to quiet the noise, find your voice and design your life the way that you want it.

That is so impressive that you got through all that that's a tremendous amount of moving, um, and loss. And then on top of that being a single parent, what advice would you give a single parent trying to follow their dreams?

my advice would be to dream big. A lot of times we, um, we don't as adults, we stopped dreaming.

And one thing that my mother taught me is how to use my imagination and how to dream big. And I thought everybody's parents was teaching them that. So that's something that , she taught me and she's instilled me as a child, how to set intentions and how to create my life, how to set goals, how to dream big and how to basically design my life the way , I want to.

And so, as I was going through everything that I was dealing with, when she passed, I kind of, I knew the worst that she told me, but it wasn't lining up with where I was. And so it was like, man, what's my mama telling me the truth. When she said that because that's not the way life is looking for me and everybody else around me, you know, had negative things to say about, you know, where I was headed.

So the biggest thing , that I would say is to begin to shut everybody else out and say like, no matter who you are, like, what is it that you truly want out of life and learn how to imagine, learn how to dream big and then let everything else work itself out.

I heard recently on a podcast, they said, knowledge and information is at your fingertips. Anybody can have it, but imagination and creativity, that is something that's just, you know, You need to have it or you don't.

what do you think helped you overcome all those challenges? That is just a tremendous amount of things to overcome. What do you think at such a young age helped you keep focused?

Well, I started studying psychology and 10th grade, because I wanted to basically, I didn't have anyone helping me, so I had to learn how to help myself.

I wasn't like , in therapy, counselor or anything like that. So in 10th grade I started to learn, psychology, like mindset and different things like that. I think that, that was the biggest thing for me is just, understanding how life works. Things just happen. Some people just get dealt a hand that they may not have wanted, but you have to begin to just like embrace who you are.

And then also changing your mindset about your circumstances in your decisions. So I did actually go on to college. I graduated at 22 and completed my bachelor's in psychology. So yeah, so mindset is something that's very, important to me. So that's what I would say,

I could not agree with you more. I think mindset is the number one factor. above everything. That is so cool, you started having interest in psychology at 10th grade, man. I wish I had that thought. That is so awesome. Um, I do love psychology too. It's just so fascinating .

All right. Um, Who or what did you look up to for any kind of influence or guidance? Was there any specific people out there . So , Les Brown is really like, he's been a part of my journey since the beginning, like, so I've always listened to Les Brown and his motivational, um, switches and things like this.

I would say that he is, definitely a big part of my life and my journey when I was at my lowest points in my life, he brought me out of there. So he has several different quotes and I've pretty much memorized them all. But one of them says," If life knocks you down, try to land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up."

And so, um, just different quotes like that, that he said that I would stick the quotes around my walls, just to kind of keep me focused. And I always just told myself, you know, what, this person was very influential in my life. Yeah, so I would definitely say less Brown in now I actually get the opportunity to work with him.

I did an interview with him yesterday. I will be doing other stuff with him. So definitely if you watch Les Brown stay tuned because we have other stuff coming up this year. So it's definitely an honor just to be able to now be in his presence and like actually be a part of his journey.

So just his life in my life, I feel like really, align. So that is the most influential person .

That is so cool that somebody you studied is now literally a part of your life. And Les Brown is the man I've I've followed him. He's awesome. He's got some serious words of wisdom to say, and I do love that quote! That it's good for you. Congrats on that. That's quite the feather in your cap.

Are there any resources, do you think are specific services that you would suggest to somebody who is trying to get through a similar situation ?

Suggests my program. So I suggest that because I actually work with entrepreneurs on how to, not let their circumstances determine their destiny and, how to just give yourself permission to evolve. So I would definitely, I know my story is very unique. I can relate to a lot of people because I have been through a lot of things.

So like, I'm not just telling you something, I'm like speaking from my heart, I'm speaking from my experience. And so if someone has been through something and you just want to get un stuck. I would definitely recommend, becoming a part of my program, which is called Lead The Masses,

Which is an awesome name. I mean like how cool is that! That's such a wonderful concept.

Tell us a little bit about, your present business, your mission and where our listeners can connect with you.

Okay. So my mission is really just to teach people how to discover their superpower and to teach them how to, basically own their time through entrepreneurship.

I've been a full-time entrepreneur for me and my husband for a few years now. so I believe that becoming an entrepreneur, uh, a full-time profitable entrepreneur is what will allow you to be able to be creative, to be able to be successful your level of success and different things like that. So, my Lead The Masses is my coaching program where I teach you how to make an impact.

But my impact is through Atlanta Youth Services, I'm a government contractor. So I provide services directly to the government and then Lead Our Teams is my nonprofit. And it's pretty much if anybody wants to support, Atlanta Youth Services, then they can do it through donating through Lead Our Teams. Atlanta Youth services is my business that changed my life. And then, , lead our teams lead the masses. That's kinda just like, if you want to know how I did it lead the masses. If you want to support what I'm doing Lead our teams in Atlanta, Youth services is the business.

You have a big heart lady and I I've experienced that firsthand. I reached out for help one day and you helped me. That was very nice.

My last question, my signature question, if you could eliminate one thing from this world, forevermore, what would it be and why?

would say trolls, the ability to be able to troll people on the internet. And I would say the reason why is because a lot of people don't move forward on their dreams and their goals, because they're worried about what other people have to say, whether that troll is a family member or a friend or a complete stranger on the internet. So I think that if people didn't have that noise in their ear telling them what they can't do, what they can't be or criticizing what it is that they do, they will be a lot further than what they are.

Isn't it funny how people they're naysayers until you're successful. And then there all of a sudden, your best friend and supporter, right? Well that was very original. Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm sure our listeners we'll find that very inspirational. Like I said, you have really climbed some mountains and you are at the top now helping so many, especially our youth, which is a place that really needs some help today. Kudos to you

I want to thank all our listeners out there. We've got people all over the world, so thank you all for listening. And I'm hoping to keep inspiring people on their mission to make their mess, their message just like Jessica did.

So everybody remember "Life has no remote get up and change it yourself".