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🗣 Maddox and Mayson’s Singin Mama.
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✨REFLEX INFLUENCE✨ I’m soooo THANKFUL to be part of the Englewood Soweto Exchange!!! Such an amazing group of world class artists! Its a privilege to share space and experiences with my brothers from South Africa! 👑✨🙏🏾 😍
@phattchops
@nduduzomakhathini
@darkie_sa
@sikhakhanelinda
Our fearless, and I do mean fearless 😅😂 leader: @dawkins.ernest
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@alexislombre wrote a beautiful tune called ‘Reflex Influence’ that highlights the parallel of our experiences. Southside & Soweto.
Come get these vibes- Mostly a dope fusion of hip hop and jazz!
We’re playing at the Englewood Jazz Festival TODAY at 1:50pm. HAMILTON PARK: 513 W. 72nd Street.

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✨THANK YOU!✨
Over 1,300 new faces in 24 hours?! 😭 The past 24-48 hours have affirmed for me, YET AGAIN!, that the universe conspires for our good. 🙌🏾😩 I had been feeling overwhelmed; with so many compartmentalized spaces in my life. |MOMMY| PARTNER | COLLEAGUE|
ME(minus roles and titles)
I’m sure I’m missing some.... Frankly, it was exhausting! This unproductive expectation of keeping all these parts of me separate. 😩😂 Like, why did I make that a thing?? ...because Trauma. (Thanks @mastinkipp !)🙌🏾🙌🏾 Well recently, I decided no more. 😤
I am a whole, complex, nuanced, flawed and worthy being- on a journey of welcoming harmony in lieu of balance. And that it’s okay to exist FULLY. (thanks @leslehonore !!)🙌🏾🙌🏾 With that, I ASKED, earnestly, for you!!! I asked for a tribe of people who LOVE-to find me! 😩✨ For folks who are unapologetically them. I asked for other mamas. For folks who love sunshine AND rain! Who love the art of food, and dance and culture and travel! Who create! Who inspire! Who value “live and let live”. I asked for MY people. And here you are! 😭
Listen y’all, THANK YOU for finding me when I needed you. 🙏🏾💓 I really appreciate you.
Also- “Write it down on real paper with a real pen. And watch sh*t get real” <—-TRUEEEE!! (Thanks @erykahbadu badu) 🙌🏾🙌🏾 If you want to connect to any of my music... There’s a Spotify link in my bio to works I’ve collaborated on, stuff from my time on @nbcthevoice, and an old record I did in college! 👀😩😭
Been workin on getting things in order, and on a project that is really special to me. Finally. 😩✨😭 Stay tuned!

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MY great grandma, Big Ka(HUNA) used to drive buses for @chicagocta. I used to ride with her all the day long.
Yesterday, for a moment, me & @coreywilkesmusic got to share space with about 40 passengers and just groove a little Chicago House during lunchtime. Sometimes, you just need to bring your own sunshine. Sometimes you need to bring your kids too and put them in a @mobywrap! 😂 And I wouldn’t change a thing about that. Thank you @avery_r_young and @thefloatingmuseum for your vision and programming - for letting me be part of SOUL EL WEEK! ☺️☺️ I’ve always wanted to sing on the ELevated trains! 🥰😂🙌🏾

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GRATITUDE:
I was working in logistics...hated EVERYTHING about it, but I had a little one and adulting was real. I said the shortest, most sincere, prayer of my life: “Lord, get me out of here!” Next day, got a GREAT opportunity from a relationship I’d made 5 years prior! 🙌🏾😩 I wouldn’t have been ready for the when I was first introduced. The timing was perfect. Kismet. ✨ From there, I learned more about how to run a small business and moved to full time self employment.
My goal was to have extreme flexibility so I could be fully present for my children. Sometimes, when I’m tired, I get stuck on autopilot. 💆🏽‍♀️ I forget to focus on gratitude. I am absolutely grateful for (usually😩)fun work that revolves around their schedule. I get to chaperone field trips, check homework, give cooking lessons, take road trips, smell milk breath and snuggle... and I’m grateful for that. This is what I asked for.
If you’re feeling discouraged, rest assured it typically doesn’t last always.
I walked in 5 minutes too late and missed #sundayservice 😩😢, but my boo @keisharenee brought service to our place to meet baby Mayson.
Good friends, good times, good life. Goodnight! 😴😴😴

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How long can you last watching this video before it makes you anxious?? 👀😩💆🏽‍♀️ WEEKDAYS are full of... allowing sibling wars over displaced caterpillars & redirecting behavior+ ‘Rushing‘ home, in rush hour to cuddle baby who is OVER being in the car seat.
Do you see how many times I blinked? That’s me on the brink... check on your friends who took kids back to school. It’s me. I’m friends. 🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️😩😩😩 Also- snacks. 😳😅 @toyotausa we need a mama partition feature, please and thank you. 😬😬😬

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@leslehonore is a brilliant writer. (Buy her book!) She recently challenged my thoughts on ‘balance’; suggesting ‘harmony’- a life where the fullness of all the highs AND lows exist together peacefully, not flatlined emotion or resolve. I like that. Harmony. With that... •••••
Spent some much needed family time,outdoors, enjoying the last of Summer before WORK and more work !!
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Kicked off the weekend celebrating TEN YEARS of @aventsbyaugust with my @flowersfortheliving_ family. Guess who showed up wearing bright red, when the call attire was black. 🙋🏾‍♀️@haroldgreen here is my PUBLIC confession & pledge to read the emails at least 5 times. 😩😂 ••••
Sang my favorite Aretha tunes with some of my favorite humans. @samtrump & @chicagosoulspectacular! @mrgreenweedz even let me photoshoot in his infamous hat! 💁🏽‍♀️
•••• Celebrated love and all things STUNNING garden wedding with my @chicagocatz family. 💓 Sang songs on the beach with my @newblackrenaissance1 fam. CHICAGO has one of the best skylines in the country. Fight me. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Wrapped up with singing a song I wrote with @lilikjazz about my baby with my baby. He left me hanging even after I tried to bribe him with Robux though. 😭 Win some lose some.
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Schools back in session. We’ve had a 1st grader for TWO whole days! How?! 🤯😩

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FRIDAY| mornings are made for tummy time and a little laundry. I learned QUICKLY that balancing family and work is HARD. 😩 I mean, where is the handbook?! 🤔🧐
Even still, they sure make it worthwhile. 😍🥰 I LOVE this @boppycompany pillow cover. It’s comfy (SOMEBODY is about to fall asleep!🙌🏾) and super easy to wash.

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