We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alysha Price . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alysha below.
Alysha , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for?
As a black mother and business woman who started a social enterprise to support single parents and encourage cooperative co-parenting, my ultimate goal is to leave behind a lasting legacy of empowerment, unity, and positive change within the black family and community at large. I want to be known as someone who made a significant impact on the lives of single parents and their children, helping them break generational cycles and reconnect with their belief systems and values.
After I am gone, I hope people will say that I lead by example, stayed true to myself and was a dedicated advocate for the mental health of single parents. I want to be remembered as someone who went above and beyond to create a support system that fostered healthy co-parenting relationships and provided resources to help single parents thrive.
I hope people will recognize my efforts in breaking down societal stigmas surrounding single parenting, especially within the black community. I want to be remembered as a trailblazer who challenged stereotypes and provided a platform for discussions and initiatives addressing the unique challenges faced by single parents.
Additionally, I aspire to be remembered as a compassionate and empathetic leader who wasn’t afraid to tell the truth. I hope people will acknowledge my commitment to creating a safe and inclusive space where single parents could find support, guidance, and encouragement.
Ultimately, my legacy would be defined by the positive impact I made on the lives of countless single parents and the long-lasting change I brought to the way society views and supports them. I hope to inspire future generations to continue the work of empowering single parents while being more cognizant about creating a family and what it takes. My dream is for my grand children to have well parents who both supports and nurtures as a team without any court involvement.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
As a woman I’ve had my share of uncertain days, headache, and feelings of being inadequate, imposture syndrome can really beat you up. But, as a mother I needed to maintain a sense of stability, remain employed and show up sane for my child in spite of feeling like my heart was breaking when his father and I separated. The juxaposition between womanhood and motherhood felt like a bad roller coaster ride! I was instantly burdened with thoughts like, who would give me a break, how would I heal, how would I gain the tools to break this cycle, and that my son would be labeled as another little black boy without a father. I wanted a different reality for my family because our reality was our relationship ended but we could still be partners in parenting. However, there was no support for parents who had never been married and were trying to learn how to work together to parent. It was unheard of! The only resource was the court. In an attempt to create some structure we found ourselves in family court to establish child support. This would be the turning point for us. I saw how unfairly my son’s father was treated, how we were made to go against one another as plaintiff vs. defendant rather than caring parents standing together for the betterment of our fragile family.
This man was my friend from the 4th grade and now we were using the court to help us communicate, it felt unnatural. Child support was set with little input from my son’s father and we were shuffled out of the court room and left to pick up the pieces on our own. This wasn’t the outcome I’d hoped for. The effects of that experience caused us to argue and grow more distant. My intention was never to create a hostile dynamic that would result in my son having less time with his father. In fact we both wanted nothing more than to parent our son yet we lacked the tools to see past ourselves. I took initiative and dropped the child support order and forgave the rears. With an overturned child support order we were now able to define our family without the court. We worked hard to develop norms, values and a shared vision for how we would raise our son.
From my lived trials and triumph, I developed “The Price Dynamic” (social enterprise) and founded “Dynamic Family Solutions” (501c3). I had a theory of change and proof of concept in my own family and this undoubtedly sets us apart form other organizations that may offer some of the services we provide. My own experience fueled my passionate to empower other parents in my community to learn strategies for working together and to have the necessary support to heal after the dissolve of their relationships. With the right tools, we go from being divided to being united for the advancement of our children, truly breaking cycles. The Price Dynamic is designed to produce well parents, through services such as one-on-one coaching, parent education classes, and parenting time also known as supervised visitation. Additionally, I’ve developed innovative tools and products to aid parents in working through the family transitions that happen when co-parenting (Family Meeting Cards™ & Well Parent Employee Assistance Program ™
I am extremely proud of my ability to take lemons and make lemonade. Taking what most see a negative and creating a business focused on social impact through building up the family dynamic. Clients can expect to receive nonjudgmental support and have a safe place to grow their mindset around creating a new normal for themselves and their family. We support parents in goal setting, creating a family vision and establishing values. As a result children have parents who are mentality healthy and stable.
How did you build your audience on social media?
It may sound unreal but I manifested my audience and the social following I have thus far. It all started with a vision board and a screensaver on my cell phone in 2019, I cut out a picture of Oprah Winfrey and her network logo and I placed them dead center of my vision board and I also added them to my cell phone screensaver. I would look at that vision board daily for motivation as a new entrepreneur and I also began speaking it into existence, I would tell anyone who would listen that some day would be featured on the OWN Network. In January 2020 my god mother gifted me a ticket to go to Oprah’s tour, while at the event a producer interviewed me about my experience. I received this as a first sign that my appearance on the network would happen. A week later the video would be posted on OWN’s social media, I was one step closer! This ignited a fire in me…I could feel my opportunity coming. In a strange turn of events I managed to get a meeting with Carlos King, reality TVs fairy god father! Within 5 minutes of our meeting he enlisted me as an expert coach for a newly divorced couple on a show [Love & Marriage Huntsville] he was producing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. In May 2021 I was filming a coaching session that would air on OWN! That episode ended up being the most viewed episode of the series and made the show the highest rated since Iyanla Vanzant: Fix My Life. My involvement in the show has expanded my reach and has opened the conversation of co-parenting in household all over. Naturally people began to seek me out as a coach and businesses wanted to learn more about how to support their clients with my book and tools. I’ve gone on to coach clients from hit reality show, “Love After Lock Up” and another reality franchise that will air this Fall.
My advice would be to build it organically, while number may seem small those small numbers will be real client which equals real impact. Always be willing to share your passion and why you connect to your business mission, being social back is essential. You must be willing to interact and show you personality. Tap into the “real” you, and your audience will be drawn to you. Last and most important you have to believe in yourself even when doubt sets in. If creating a vision board helps inspire the belief DO IT!
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
I quit my job in nonprofit leadership to focus on my social enterprise idea and 4 months later Covid-19 took over the world. The security I thought I had to peaceful explore entrepreneurship was suddenly shaken. I was nervous about my businesses future and who I would work with with schools and courts closed, how would I reach parents who could benefit from co-parenting education and support? I found myself scrambling to pivot because I wasn’t ready to give up, Covid couldn’t be the reason my business didn’t get off the ground. I went into survival mode and started looking for a job; I thought I better secure employment in the event my business stalls. I interviewed with an organization that worked with my target population and in that interview I pitched my business and myself as a consultant instead of a full-time employee, within a week I was hired as a consultant. In this role I learned about the world of Supervised Visitation. The company decided to close their supervised visitation program after months of trying to maintain it during Covid. And then the light bulb went off for me, I could open my business with this as a core service and then funnel families into coaching and our support services offered at The Price Dynamic. Needless to say that is what I did and Covid was the motivation and the reason my business took off. I have to also add that while the passion was palpable there were times I would question the path, I am forever grateful for my mother being right there with me as I worked through my fears. The Price Dynamic was suddenly one of the only providers offering safe and secure visitation services during the pandemic. That resilience lead to a 4 year contract with Hennepin County. This year our contract has doubled. The lesson I take from this is, what the Universe/ God/ whatever you believe in has for you will be yours. If you are operating from a place of sincerity opportunities and outcomes are inevitable. They will not come when you want it but you must trust that they will come when you are ready to receive them.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.thepricedynamic.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepricedynamic
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepricedynamic
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/alyshaprice
Image Credits
The photo of me, photo credit: Tarin Souryia All other photos courtesy of The Price Dynamic