Hey everyone! 🎤✨ I’ll be LIVE tonight on Good Morning Black People Podcast with Morgan Rees discussing my book The Pearl: Unveiling the Strength Within 📚💎 We’ll be talking faith, purpose, resilience, healing, and turning pain into purpose through creativity. ⏰ Tonight at 7:30 PM EST Would love your support if you’re able to tune in! ❤️ 📺 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/2dULFgAVbNc?si=rK9MlZKv5vZC5E-_

📌 Welcome to the Poetry Business Institute (PBI). Whether you’re joining for the first time or you’ve been with us for a while, we’re glad you’re here. PBI is a global institution built for poets; created to educate, train, and equip poets to create income and build sustainable careers with clarity and confidence. You don’t need to rush. You don’t need to prove anything. You belong here at your own pace. 🏛️ What the Poetry Business Institute Is The Poetry Business Institute (PBI) is a global trade school and learning institution for poets. It exists because poets are the only creative group without a clear, shared infrastructure for turning their craft into sustainable careers. PBI was built to provide that structure. Inside the Institute: - Everyone enters as a Student Poet - Experience levels vary, posture stays the same - Growth is recognized quietly - Leadership is entrusted intentionally Poetry is the center. However, other creatives may join, because the information is transferable. 🌍 How PBI Connects to the Poetry Business Network (PBN) The Poetry Business Network (PBN) is the broader global community and marketplace for poets. - PBI focuses on education, preparation, and skill-building - PBN focuses on connection, collaboration, and opportunity circulation All members—Free, Premium, and VIP—are encouraged to join, explore, and participate in the Network. 👉 Learn more or join PBN at PoetryBusinessNetwork.com 🧭 How to Navigate the Institute (Important) This is an institution, not a social feed. Before posting widely, we encourage you to: - Read pinned posts - Browse categories - Observe how conversations happen here Exploration builds confidence and helps you ask meaningful questions when you’re ready. This guidance applies to all tiers. ✅ What to Do First (In Order) 1️⃣ Read this post fully You’re doing that now—great. 2️⃣ Introduce Yourself Post a written or recorded introduction so the community can meet you.

Where are you on your BINGO board? Going forward, each month, we're going to center our collective work on completing tasks on our boards! We will celebrate those who complete a row and/or a column first, BUT we're going to strive to complete the entire board! Y'all cool with that? Let's get to work y'all! This is a fun, interactive way to build the foundation of our poetry businesses! When you complete a task, create a post and tell us about it. Let us cheer you on! Share the board to your social media! This is a great recruiting tool and conversation starter. Be sure to tag @PoetryBusinessNetwork. HIGHLIGHTED TASK: Create a list of your top 20 professional contacts! Call, text, email... and let them know that you'd like to work with them and add value to them and their organization. Let's goooo!!

It's time to celebrate! 👇🏽 What is ONE WIN you've experienced in the last month? Maybe you: ✅ Finished a module in Track 1 ✅ Wrote a new poem ✅ Posted consistently on social media ✅ Landed a paid opportunity ✅ Performed at an event ✅ Started your business ✅ Invested in yourself ✅ Completed an assignment ✅ Gained a new follower or supporter ✅ Simply kept going when you felt like quitting Remember: Small wins become big wins when repeated consistently. Success isn't always a major breakthrough. Sometimes it's just showing up again today when you didn't feel like it yesterday. Let's encourage one another and celebrate the progress happening throughout our global community. 🎉 Drop your win below and let's celebrate with you!

Who's coming LIVE today? I want to see your faces and hear your about your progress! Y'all good? @Joshua Clark @SunnyTaira Wyatt @Yecheilyah Ysrayl @La Toya Hampton