Yvonne Manifested Her Writing and Travel Dreams | Black Women Abroad 

Good morning. 48 years cancer survivor of my 69 years. I am planning my exit by the end of 2024. Looking forward to living in my 70's and beyond in joy and peace.

Stephanie, I'm so glad your guest is healthy and living her writing dreams.

Replay watcher. Love this convo. Watching from Barcelona because of Exodus Summit. Taking a two week European trip with my daughters. By the way, Stephanie--you are glowing!

RANDOM.. But Stephanie's skin is glowing🌟😃💫🌸

Baby Yvonne came out the gate with the vibes.😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

Yvonne you're an inspiration! In grad school I cried 😢every time I had to write. At this point, I don't see writing in my future! 😂 Thanks so much for using your talents and gifts to showcase the ladies of Exodus Summit! Holla at me if you're ever in the Philly area! 💚🌿

Thank you Yvonne and Stephanie - This was fabulous!

Love this conversation and love the work Stephanie does to share a diversity of stories of Black women living free. One small, but vital perspective to share on the spiritual pieces of the convo. Black women, please be careful about how you open yourself to various spiritual practices- Do your own proper research on what is appropriate for YOU. As a Nigerian American woman, I have seen a lot of people (in the Americas especially) engage with some practices that are presented as our heritage without enough experiential, critical, and empirical insights to discern when things are actually healing or providing a portal for spiritual dis-ease that you are not properly equipped to handle. Demonic possession is a real thing, and often, things that present themselves as healing are robbing you of more than what they claim to offer. Stephanie Ike Okafor has a fantastic series on the modernization of witchcraft that helps explain these things in context. She is a pastor, but you need not be Christian to see the wisdom in the research...

The kidneys can regenerate. I do shiatsu and I have a client whose #'s of kidney function improved when she received shiatsu (acupuncture points done in massage, regularly.) Acupuncture can also help based on same principals. Some residencies also are for whatever work you are doing...they don't all need you to do work or present....Usually the major difference is taht residences- require you to BE in a certain place- often a retreat type setting, that is the difference between grants n residences.

I was raised that way . My mom let us discover ourselves & I have done the same for my children. Very freeing 😊

Good morning Stephanie! First, I feel so fed from your channel. As I was listening to the show, I started feeling like Yvonne had cracked my head open and took a look inside at all of my thoughts. I know of Yoruba, but not familiar with the practices. A number of years ago, someone told me I reminded them of Ohshun, so I am familiar with that name. I was raised in the church and not exactly sure what I'm comfortable with. I wish I knew about this retreat before now, but I'm going to try to work it out. I am next door neighbors with Yvonne in Ohio and only a couple hours away and I am a big Pittsburgh Steelers fan. We have flown out of the Pittsburgh Airport a number of times. I visited Puerto Rico for the first time last year and I told my family I could live there. It is also a place I could live and still be in compliance with my telework agreement! I have been asking around and looking for a retreat since last year and I feel like this would be exactly what I want and need in this transformation phase of my life. Would love to meet Yvonne because I feel our future plans are in alignment with each other.

Good morning from the future! Stephanie, thank you for featuring Yvonne on your channel. Yvonne, So proud of you! Keep sharing, growing, and leading! I wish I had known about this retreat prior to booking my birthday trip because thus would have been a perfect way to bring in 50! I learned alot watching this segment and maybe it is a push to put those journal writings to good use.

Hello beautiful ladies from the future..I was inspired to start writing, doing yoga on the beach and traveling to Scotland 😊

I was very impressed with Pittsburgh's beautiful gardens and flowers.

Good Morning and hello from the future! Stephanie you are an amazing interviewer/communicator. I think you could do a course on teaching how to articulate our thoughts to words. When you spoke to Yvonne about wanting to dip your toes into the spiritual part and psychedelic experience as someone who raised in a strict Christian household, I was there with you. Thank you for this segment.

Hey to Stephanie, Yvonne, and everyone in the comment section👋🏾. Excellent conversation…I took lots of notes…yesss to manifesting!🤗🌹

Wow! Such a blessing to find that donor so quickly…

Good afternoon from the future! Excited to hear Ms.Yvonne’s story.

I know God lead me to this segment. Thank you!

Hello from the future 😊, Yvonne has such a beautiful personality ❤

I loved this conversation! I’m watching the replay and soaking up the writing information and Yvonne’s writing life. That was helpful. And then, to hear about the healing retreat and incorporation of the orixás. Love it. ❤️ I’m hoping there will be a future one.

This is so helpful. I loved watching this conversation. I’m so grateful that Yvonne’s health took a positive turnaround. I’m determined to position myself in the right way to fully unlock my writing and travel desires!!

I appreciate this video, and can relate to health issues. You can't heal if things are tainted. The cost of the deathcare is our lives. I can no longer let fear of being alone, family, finances, or a plantation mentality keep me stuck. I've pondered the places, made the vision board, have a burning desire in my heart! It's time to make it happen!

Hi Yvonne, Pittsburg is a pretty city. Pleasantly learned while attending a workshop for my previous job. Thanks Yvonne for the resources & networks for ppl of colors and the process to get accepted. Researching, reaching out, and find my writing community.

Stephanie, there was so much good, juicy content in this interview. Thank you.💖

Hello. I am one of those friends of the future. Glad to catch this replay. Enjoying this exchange. So sorry to hear about Yvonne’s relapse but so glad she was able to pivot. I love her disposition. Writing and storytelling warms my heart. Thanks so much for the nuggets as it pertains to connecting to a writing community.

Thank you for all this wonderful information

Good morning everyone, I like this video.

Good morning watching the replay!

Greetings from South Florida 🏝️ Praise Jesus ✨ Congratulations on being a Cancer Survivor! So am I 🙂. This was a very inspirational and encouraging interview. So happy she followed her dreams. Other groups have always sacrificed financially and went for their dreams. Unfortunately many of us would rather have expensive cars, homes or apartment dwellings. Thank you again for this wonderful interview ✨✨

I got a kick in the pants. I had already applied to the Miami Book Fellowship but I just stopped. I applied for a writer's workshop next month.

This was a fantastic discussion. I'm trying to get my good friend to commit to her writing and Yvonne covered everything.

Hi Stephanie and Yvonne. I’m watching from your future and glad I got to this interview. I am interested in hearing how she started writing career as I am being led to step into as our family is preparing to do a sabbatical in Panama for starters 🎉🎉🎉.

This is so inspiring! We share a lot of similarities including being a writer. I write Children's books though. I also love that she does Freelance writing something I'm looking to get into in the near future. This was great to watch!!!

Bliss & Love Goddesses, THIS WAS EV ER Y THANG❣️❣️❣️❣️ Everything I'm working on manifesting

I’m just watching the replay but I want to say I agree with Stephanie about the men in Ireland and Scotland. There are definitely black men in Ireland but I haven’t made it to Scotland yet.

♥️ Beautiful Blessings

Hello from a friend in the future. I am a Yvonne too.

Hello Stephanie, hey ExoDus Squad!

The herbs are for the healing of the nations!

I didn't learn the lesson of doing less until I was losing my ability to walk and diagnosed with arthritis and degenerative disc disease.

Think and Grow Rich has information which has you repeat and repeat daily what you want to do ….. Then it becomes apart of your subconscious

Awesome session. Thanks for sharing from your heart❤ Yvonne exudes peace, joy, gratitude and ease.

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Congratulations everyone ❤

I feel like anyone black woman watching this channel probably goes with the beat of their own drum in some way…

Hello, Stephanie!

Good afternoon!

Hello Ladies 👋

Hello and Good Morning🌞💜

Good morning! I’m watching the video!

Greetings from San Antonio, TX ❤

Hello with Joy!

good morning!

Good Morning/Afternoon 3 me. Interesting session.

What a great session.

Good morning, that spirituality is common in Bahia, Brazil

Hi There👋Ladies ..

really good ~ sleep well,🤙

Hello 👋🏾 from the replay!

Pittsburgh I never knew is/was a jazz hub

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Hi Ladies 👋🏾

Good morning everyone ❤

Happy Saturday! I am Nicole lol

Im a Pittsburgher too and a writer. How can I hook up with her?

Good day…

Good morning

Hello

Im not sure if JK Rowling went to college for degrees in writing. She was on welfare and just started writing, and she birthed a wildly popular novel series. Even Stephen King says just write

Previous message: 30 years ago at age 32….

Wait a minute. 30 years ago and storage 32…. She doesn’t look over 60 years old. Am I doing the math correctly

hi ladies! Ya'll look fabulous! Best wishes always!

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