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Stop Asking the Storm for Permission to Stand

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Stop Asking the Storm for Permission to Stand: The Science of Unbending Sovereignty Family, take a seat on the porch. Look at the code in front of us today: "I am not what happened to me; I am what I decide to become." — Mossi Proverb: "An upright tree does not fear the storm." Let’s get real for a second. Most people spend their entire lives reacting to the wind. They let systemic dysfunction, toxic chatter, and past trauma dictate their posture. But when your roots are tethered to the Eternal, your standing posture was never granted by the weather—it was decided by the tree. The Code of Incorruptible Sovereignty History doesn't lie. On August 4, 1984, Thomas Sankara looked imperial masters in the eye and erased "Upper Volta"—a name slapped onto his people by colonizers—replacing it with Burkina Faso : The Land of Incorruptible People . Sankara didn’t fill out a government form or ask permission from foreign powers. He exercised Kujichagulia on a con...

Sword and Sheild

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I haven't been writing on my blog or doing my radio shows for over a month. I have been engaged in a personal conflict, now I know that the uninitiated will hear this and be concerned. If you have been traveling with me on this Journey then you know that conflicts are good for a warriors soul. I have been engaged in figuring out how to help young people educate themselves using the internet. We are living in an amazing time and it is time that we start preparing ourselves and our future for it. I have taken the challenge, and will be successful at it. New challenges are good for several reasons: 1. They help us find out what we are made of 2. They force us to use our imagination, and channel our creativity into a new place 3. They force us to grow in new ways that may be uncomfortable but good 4. They prepare us for the next step in our life, and in many occasions they open the road for us to take the next step. For those who are on the Journey find yourself a challenge, som...