We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Demond Alverez . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Demond below.
Hi Demond , thanks for joining us today. Alright, so you had your idea and then what happened? Can you walk us through the story of how you went from just an idea to executing on the idea?
So everything started when I was a kid, and I had this over active imagination. In church I did plays and sang in the choir, that lead me to writing music and poetry. From there years later I put my first book out in 2015. At that point I knew that I had something special, to share with the world. Take into consideration I was a very quiet sheltered kid, along the way I had to find my voice. In the beginning I was just someone who wanted to share his talents with the world. After that thought process it became more of wait this is turning into it’s own brand /business. The whole Soulofaman504 brand was morphing into something amazing right before my eyes. Along with that I was going through this incredible spiritual journey. So in one had you have the writer and speaker, on the other you have this amazing spiritually gifted individual. In that moment in 2018 I decided to fuse the two together to create something that the world has never seen before.
Demond , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I wrote my first book in 2015 Soulofaman poetry for the mind body and soul. it’s very important to note that I have been self published from the beginning. One major thing is that I had to empower my self to do that to give my self permission to share my talents with the world. New Orleans has so much soul, from the culture, to the art the food religion etc. With that said going to poetry clubs early part of the millennium seeing all that talent inspired me to this day to be as varied an artist and business owner as possible. Creativity thy name is New Orleans, there is no place like home. The city has such an energy to it almost feels alive. That within its self helped me immensely to go down this amazing spiritual journey. It opens you up and helps to prepare you for so much in your life. For that I will always be forever greatful. Once I started my spiritual consulting business in 2018 I have been blessed with so many spiritual gifts. That’s helped me to reach out and connect with people from all over the world, from all walks of l if e. In those sessions I have helped folks to get a greater understanding of who they are on their own unique spiritual and life journeys.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
In 2005 my self and my family we found our selves in the eye of the storm called Katrina. At that point I was ready to leave Louisiana and see more of the world. One thing about life is that it always is going to look somewhat different when the opportunity comes. We evacuated to Houston it was about 10 vehicles cousins aunts uncles etc. We left before evacuating but this time we had no idea that it was going to be that bad. After the storm we all became homeless, and in the news we were called refugees imagine that home grown American citizens, called refugees. In the midst of all of that I lost my job at the time, we all become homeless. One thing I can say is that we had each other as a family. That was everything to this day I can’t say how much it means that my family was there for each other. Long story short I had to go back to Louisiana a few weeks later to southern in Baton Rouge. Who graciously took a lot of the displaced students from SUNO. Most people would have lost their minds going through something like that. It is true what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
My super hero origin story let’s see, A lesson I had to unlearn is that you are never alone. If you believe in anything of a higher being, or now it’s called the universe. Is that all things happen for a reason and we have a say in our lives as to what happens. You always have everything that you need, already inside of yourself. It’s not what everyone is saying that is imp but what you are not listening to. Meaning we all have this voice inside of our selves our intuition. Call it our higher selves or the voice of God or your consciousness. Telling us that everything is going to be ok while we are on the outside freaking out. I didn’t realize this until much later in life. As people say hey better later than never.
Contact Info:
- Website: Www.Soulofaman504.com
- Instagram: Instagram\Soulofaman504.com
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/CreativeSoulNewOrleans
- Linkedin: @Demond Alverez
- Twitter: @Soulofaman504.com
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/user/dsoul504
- Other: https://linktr.ee/Soulofaman504 Email: [email protected]
Image Credits
The pic with me sitting down being interviewed @TheDrdawn