My Coaching Story

Chronological Resume 

Community Engagement &

Continued Education

• 11/04/2023

Black Girl Health Conference

Hosted by: BGHC

Williamsburg, DE

Facilitator 

Facilitated Leather and LACE workshop around black women’s sexual liberation, safer sex practices, and intro to BDSM. Also facilitated “mental mania” How to deal with systemic oppression while navigating your mental health. How to build systems of support outside of institutions.   

 

• 10/24/23 Adult Mental Health first Aid USA Certified

Hosted by: National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Nashville, TN 

 3 years Certification and 8 hours C.E Credit

 Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.

 

• 08/30/2023 QPR Gatekeeper Certified

Hosted by: I.Scott payne,MDiv

Nashville, TN 

1 day completed. 2 years Certification

QPR Suicide Prevention gatekeeper certification. 

QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention is an educational program designed to teach lay and professional “gatekeepers” the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to respond.

 

• 2023 WomYn’s Wellness Retreat

Hosted by Orixa Wellness by Orisha Bowers

Memphis, TN 

Guest speaker and facilitator

Facilitated discussions and topics about safer sexual health practices and how to have pleasurable sex using my L.A.C.E (Liberated Aware Connected and Educated) model. Discussion included basic anatomy and sexual health, circles of sexuality and consent. HIV and Blk women and the need for PreP. Pleasure activism and how to expand sexual pleasure for everyone through the spectrum of kink and bdsm. 

 

• 2023 N3C Town Hall: PrEP & Doxy PeP for Cisgender Women

Hosted by: The National CFAR (Center For AIDS Research) Community Action/Advisory Board (CAB)

Virtual

Guest Speaker

Discussed the lived experience of being a Black woman on PrEP and the systemic barriers women of color face in preventing their involvement/participation. While offering solutions to those in research on how to make their efforts more equitable and accessible to black women and other women of color. 

 

• 07/2023 Healing for the Healer Retreat

Hosted by: The Healing Trust with Ashyia Swan

Nashville, TN 

1 day attended and completed

Healing for the Healer is a day of relaxation guided by the belief that rest and self-care is a necessary practice for meaningful work. 

 

• 03/2023 International Women's Day 

Ending the Epidemic by Embracing Equity

Hosted by: Nashville CARES

Nashville, TN 

Host/facilitator

Created, organized, managed budget and hosted the event Ending the Epidemic. Cross departmentally collaborated with a small team to hold a community town hall to discuss issues around HIV and Blk women and ending the HIV epidemic together. While also celebrating the triumphs of those women living with HIV and providing a space of peace and healing. Topics included the importance of gender equity on a micro vs macro level. How shame and stigma impact the black community's view on HIV. How to deal with and move forward with issues like race, black culture, gender identity, and HIV? Where we think the disconnect between Cis-het Blk women and Trans Black women are and how to bridge the gap. 

 

• 2023 Night of Seduction I & II

Hosted by: Mama Speaks poetry slam

Nashville, TN 

Host and MC

Hosted a night of seduction based around safe and sensual kink and BDSM practices, while discussing HIV and PrEP in between performance art. 

 

• 2023 Trevecca Social Work Department 

Hosted by: Trevecca Nazarene University 

Nashville TN

Guest Speaker 

Met with current student social workers to discuss lived experience of BIPOC and the importance of understanding systemic racism and how it plays out in the day to day lives of individuals. Discussed from lived experiences of marriage, divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, and transformative justice work. 

 

• 2022 Sexual Health & Wellness Class 

Hosted by: Austin Peay University

Clarksville, TN 

Guest Speaker 

Discussed a wide range of sexual health to students in the sexual health and wellness program about STI’s specifically HIV and PrEP/PeP. In addition to consent, safer sexual practices, sexual identity and expression. 

 

• 2022 to Current  Employment Program Manager

Nashville CARES

Created and implemented an intensive case management program that would encourage professional development and sustainability for those living with HIV. The creation of an intersectional curriculum to use as a tool to help clients navigate cyclical poverty and employment barriers with the objective to empower individuals to go from surviving to thriving. 

 

• 2022 Galentines Women’s VDay Event

Hosted by: Canvas Studios 

Nashville TN 

Sexual Health Educator 

For women's empowerment and self love we discussed basic anatomy, sexual health, pleasure zones  and mindful masturbation. 

 

• 2022 Social Capital: Sex Showcase for Black HIV/AIDS Day

Hosted by: The Ally at Soho 

Nashville, TN

Hostess/ MC

Hosted event while also giving sexual health education information between presenting talent.

 

• 2022 Trevecca Social Work Department 

Hosted by: Trevecca Nazarene University 

Nashville TN

Guest Speaker 

Met with current student social workers to discuss lived experience of BIPOC and the importance of understanding systemic racism and how it plays out in the day to day lives of individuals. Discussed from lived experiences of marriage, divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, and transformative justice work. 

 

• August 2022- March 2023: Crisis Response Specialist 988 Text and Chat      

Family & Childrens Services

Nashville, TN

Contact Center Specialists provide texters and online chatters with free, confidential short-term emotional support, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, information, referrals, follow-up, and advocacy.

 

• 2021- 2022 The Mom Thread

Hosted by: Parade Magazine 

Virtual Guest Speaker

Discussing subjects such as the holidays, gratitude and equity. On a later date discussing dating, romance and motherhood. 

 

• 2021 Planned Parenthood: Ban off our Bodies Rally

Hosted by: Planned Parenthood MMTN

Keynote Guest Speaker

Public speaking on the intersections of white supremacy and abortion bans with the overthrow of Roe vs. Wade for Nashville residents. 

 

• 2021 Sacred and Profane Sacral talk

Hosted by: Letimicia Fears PHD

Virtual Interview 

Discussion around spirituality, sexuality and the sexual liberation of black women.

 

• 2021 Sex Down South Conference

Hosted by: by SDS Conferences, LLC by Marla Renee Stewart and Tia Marie Mosley

Atlanta, GA

3 days attended and completed

Interactive workshop on healing, sex positivity, and human sexuality. Rooted in the idea of sexual liberation, SDS covers a wide range of topics that are led and spearheaded by voices that are often unheard or marginalized. SDSCon is dedicated to having a diverse range of presenters and audience members, and is especially committed to highlighting and centering the voices of women of color, trans and gender non-conforming folks, sex workers, queer people, and disabled individuals.

 

• 2021 The Southern Gent Podcast 

Hosted by: Eddie Wiley

Virtual Interview Dec 21 2021

What is Heauxlistic Healing and how we can take a more inclusive look into black sexuality.

 

• 2020 to 2021: Nashville CARES: Blk Folx staff support group

Chair and founder                                                                              

Nashville, TN

Created during the political unrest of the killings of Black Folx in America. A support group for the employees of Nashville CARES to come and discuss feelings of frustration, fear, and grief while having to continue to perform their working duties. 

 

• 2020- Current  Heauxlistic Healing 

Community Liaison, Sexual Health Educator & Sex Coaching

Creator and Facilitator 

Nashville TN 

Working at a grassroots level, through many nonprofit organizations and community partners, reaching the general population on sexual healtheducation and justice.  With a personal mission to help liberate Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color in their sexuality.Sexuality and reproduction rights/justice should be seen as intersectional, as it helps shift the narrative on how women will seek, receive, and maintain their personal health care. 

 

• 2020 Transformative Justice Training series 

Hosted by: Healthy and Free TN partnering with Mia Mingus                                                                                                                   Nashville, TN

6-week, 3hour virtual training series attended and completed

Working on steps and ways of addressing trauma, harm and conflict within our movements and communities.

 

• 2019 to 2021 Sexperts With Cory

Hosted by: Nashville CARES 

Creator and Facilitator 

Nashville TN 

An all day community workshop that spans the human sexual health and wellness spectrum. Supports general anatomy, STI education, sexual preferences,  senior sexual health inclusion and sex and living with disabilities. 

 

• 2019 Music City SAR (Sexual Attitude Reassessment and Restructuring)

Presenter: Renee Burwell, LCSW, CST

Nashville, TN

3 days attended and completed

A look into Human sexuality in connection to Human sociology and psychology. Pushing past biased comfort levels, elicit feelings and confronting attitudes, beliefs and values about sexuality. Exploring the potential range of human sexual expression in a modern society.

 

• 2019  Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training

Hosted by: Crossroads

Nashville, TN

2 days attended and completed

Analyzing & Understanding Systemic Racism. Introduction to Systemic Racism and AntiBias AntiRacist (ABAR) Education.

 

• 2019 Historical Trauma and HIV                               Hosted by: USCHA US Conference on HIV/Aids

Virtual  attended and completed

Understanding systemic racism in the medical industry and its effects on BIPOC.  Implementing ways to help eliminate barriers to care for those PLWHA that are also BIPOC

 

• 2019 to 2022: Healthy and Free TN

Active Board Member          Nashville, TN

Healthy and Free Tennessee is a non-partisan network of agencies, organizations, and individuals working together to promote sexual health and reproductive rights and justice in the state of Tennessee.

 

• 2019 to 2021:  Nashville chapter Black Treatment Advocacy Network (BTAN)

Active Board Member                                                            

Nashville, TN

Established in 2010 by the Black AIDS Institute, the Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) is a national network of HIV/AIDS stakeholders including service providers, community members and leaders, educators, and people living with HIV/AIDS, who mobilize Black communities across the country to confront HIV.

 

• 2019 The Academy 

Hosted by: Corner to Corner 

Nashville, TN 

10 weeks of class held once a week attended and completed

Practical business and marketing training in ten extensive modules designed specifically for those without business experience or education.Completing accounting principles, legal structure, business marketing and pitching a business.

 

• 2018 Planned Parenthood Sexuality Education Trainings Series  

Hosted by: Planned Parenthood

Nashville, TN

2 Days attended and completed 

Values and Philosophy in sexual education. Holistic Sexuality, Sexuality and systemic racism, anatomy. How to PARSE: Pause, Affirm & Ask, Respond, Share, establish when dealing with difficult situations.

 

• 2018  P.R.I.D.E Training:  Pursuing Respect, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity   

Hosted by: Vanderbilt University                                                                                                                              Nashville, TN

1 day attended & completed

Racism and identity in the LGBTQ community and addressing issues specific to queer people of color. 

Intersex history and awareness and de-stigmatization. 

 

• 2018 Hepatitis and HIV Oraquick testing certified                                                                                                       Nashville, TN

On site and clinical hospital trained with an average of 100 test completed individually on a monthly basis

 

• 2018-2022 Early InterventionServices Specialist

Nashville C.A.R.E.S

Nashville, TN

Early Intervention Services (EIS) are designed to support individuals who are newly diagnosed with HIV, are pregnant, recently incarcerated or who have been out of HIV medical care for over a year. EIS support provides intensive support to identify and reduce barriers to accessing HIV medical care and are provided as part of a comprehensive case management team.

 

• 2017 to 2019:   Memphis Advocates for Radical Child Care  

Active Board Member                                                                            

Memphis, TN

Creating a solution to the childcare need in the movement community, beginning with the childcare need of Fight for $15 workers. Among us were organizers from Fight for $15, Healthy and Free Tennessee, CoreAlign, Memphis Single Parents Network, Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, Center for Research on Women, Cooperative Memphis, H.O.P.E. Women and other members of the community. Together, we formed a collective that aims to sustain movement work and build a healthier support community that respects, values, and shares caregiving work.

 

• Oct 2017 iKnow HIV Prevention Counseling and Testing Training                                                                                                                                         Hosted by: OUT Memphis

Memphis, TN

3 Days completed

The I Know – HIV Prevention Counseling and Testing training is required certification for HIV testing programs who receive HIV tests from TDH and Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) in health departments in the state of Tennessee. This training is conducted in partnership with community-based organizations to ensure that the most updated, culturally appropriate content is provided.

 

• Sept 2017- Nov 2017: Community Health Educator                           

Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region

Memphis, TN

Implemented comprehensive sexual and reproductive health programs for youth and young adults throughout Shelby County. Provided educational presentations and outreach to the community through in-person instruction and virtual platforms as needed. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to sexuality, equipping participants with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to make healthier decisions, including choosing abstinence.

 

• July 2016 to May 2017:Home Care Organizer

Fight for $15                                                                       

Memphis, TN

Conducted broad and intensive data- driven outreach efforts to non-union workers while developing  leadership training and organizing events for sustainability. Managed community advocates by identifying, recruiting and developing spokespeople for media and press opportunities. Facilitated individual and group meetings with workers to move organizing campaigns forward. Updating and maintaining VAN (Voter Action Network) data entry weekly. 

 

• Jan 2016 to July 2016: Office Manager

Lead Public Schools Brick Church Middle 

Nashville, TN

Organized file system, student personal database, and interpersonal office information.   

Organized inventory of school and office supplies. Occasionally conduct teacher lesson plans while teachers are absent.

 

• Sept 2013- Dec 2016 Community Health Educator

Peace Corps

Fiji, South Pacific 

Pre Service Training Hosted by: United States Peace Corps Government Branch                                                                                    

110 hours of technical training in health education. 138 hours in Fijian language. 68 hours in Fijian cross cultural training and 8-week community integration. 

• Facilitated and organized reproductive and sexual health workshops. Implemented and facilitated difficult subject matter training in multicultural/religious settings. Organized joint workshops with partner organizations such as the local Red Cross and local church youth groups working on gender identity and roles. Created and distributed education materials for trainers and local health center nurses.Maintained and managed records and project programming. Initiated and coordinated three fundraisers obtaining clinical infant birth supplies, a laptop, printer, camera and other technical supplies to support outreach efforts. Managed and organized a $17,000 (Fijian Dollars) SPA grant funded by the U.S government.