We recently connected with Eve Powers and have shared our conversation below.

Eve, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

Before I became a Life Coach, I worked with at-risk youth who had made some decisions that threatened to destroy their lives. Some of them were robbers, abusers, drug addicts or gang members. Instead of seeing them as being these things, God helped me see them as youth who were powerful, brilliant and capable of success. I never treated them like they were losers. I treated them like they were winners. They started seeing themselves as winners, and started loving themselves enough to start creating positive changes in their lives. Many of them went on to be successful adults, because they were able to change their self-image.

After working with the youth, I discovered that I had the power to love people unconditionally, and I saw how that could change lives. I began falling in love with the idea of coaching people who had endured massive trauma, so I started The Sista Boi Empowerment Company. I began helping women redefine themselves so that they could own their powers and create a powerful self-identity. I love what I do, and I am proud to serve God and humanity, especially those who identify as LGBTQIA.

Eve, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Dr. Eve Powers, also known as The Sista Boi, is a Certified Transformation Coach, Self-Love Mentor, Energy Healer, and self-help author. Dr. Eve earned her Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Communications from California State University, holds a Diploma in Mental Health Studies, and a certificate in Mental Health First Aid.

She also holds a PhD in Kvantum Energy Healing, and a diploma in Relationship Counseling, Dr. Eve specializes in helping spiritual women around the world transform fear and anxiety into self-love and success, and is an advocate for at-risk youth and former foster youth who struggle with fear and anxiety, loss, and abandonment. Her non-traditional coaching methods help women create greatness from life’s biggest tragedies.

Dr. Eve’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Heart & Soul Magazine, BET Centric, and many others.

An empowered trauma survivor and spiritual teacher, Dr. Eve offers self-love classes, workshops, and one-on-one private coaching sessions.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

As a child and for most of my adulthood, I suffered from chronically low self-love and self-esteem. Due to the fact that I was in foster care, had a father who abused me as well as my mom and many of my family members, dealt with chronic bullying for years and dealt with sexual abuse and abandonment, I didn’t like who I saw in the mirror. I often walked with my head hung down, put on headphones when I went out so that I could escape from the world, and I continually attracted toxic relationships. I felt sorry for myself, guilty that I lived while my brother was killed by my father.

Even though I knew I had something beautiful inside of me, I felt angry about my life. I was pissed that I didn’t have the parents who loved me the way I needed to be loved. I was pissed that God allowed my brother to die. I was mad that I wasn’t attractive, and was often a target for bullies and abusers.

I was sad that I couldn’t stop my parents from using drugs and ruining their lives. I was angry at God, and angry at myself for not being who I really wanted to be, and I felt shame for being in the LGBTQ community because I was taught that God didn’t love me, and that I had to be heterosexual to be loved by God.

I contemplated suicide, but God wouldn’t allow me to do it. There was something inside of me that knew I was put here on the planet to help people heal. One of the things that changed my life was hearing a priest tell me I had the gift of music and the gift of healing, when I was 12 and living with foster parents.

I kept that info inside of me for years, because it helped me stay focused on my path to becoming successful. Even though I had endured so much loss and pain throughout my childhood and teens, I was able to listen to the guidance God was giving me and I was able to go to college, get my degrees, and start a business that I loved.

No matter what, I chose to never give up on myself. God sent me people who believed in me, and even though I wasn’t 100% sold on myself, I promised myself and God that I would not be a statistic or be like the people I was raised around. I was born premature, and I was born weighing one pound and a quarter. I was almost aborted, but God saw me as worthy of being alive, so I fought to make God proud. I still fight to help other women know what’s possible for them.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One lesson I had to unlearn was creating negative meanings from the things that happened to me. For example, when I was being chronically bullied and abused, I thought it meant that something was wrong with me. I thought that I deserved to be mistreated, and I began to treat myself the way my abusers treated me. I now know that when bad things happen, they are meant to help us become better, wiser humans. When negative things happen, or when I get rejected, I take it to mean that better is on its way to me.

This was a huge life lesson, because I don’t feel defeated when things happen. I already know that I have the victory in every single situation if I choose it!

Contact Info:

• Website: SistaBoi.com