We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Frenchaire Gardner a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Frenchaire, appreciate you joining us today. What’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?

I woke up from a vivid dream, sleeping in the same twin bunk bed that I slept in with my big sister Shonette M. Anderson. This was in December 2019, I moved back to my hometown Dallas, Tx to get some R&R. before leaving for China to teach English in September 2019. The other purpose of the trip to Dallas was to love on my family and friends before I left for my Chinese adventure. Then I lived and owned a four-family flat in St. Louis, MO. It held four two-bedroom apartments with an unfinished basement. Two tenants were left in the apartment when I drove cross-country in my pickup with all of my worldly possessions inside it packed to the brim. During that summer, I stayed with my brother Tony and his family. They were so gracious to me. And I was so grateful for them, their hospitality and somewhere to rest.

Being a landlord and a multi-family property owner was not an easy feat. Although owning the building was a huge manifestation and blessing something that was on my vision board. The location of the property was deeply set in the impoverished, derelict, drug-infested neighborhood of West Saint Louis City on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. and Union. If you know anything about any Martin Luther King Blvd. in the United States, you know there’s lots of trouble there, to say the least. The environment depressed me and I didn’t really need the extra external stressors with already having bipolar depression and being a transplant in Saint Louis with no relatives there for support. After three years, I needed a break from all of the responsibilities and heartaches which prompted the trip back home. The summer of 2019, I kicked it and kicked it hard and hung out with friends and my Mama. I visited my father in the hospital. Then he just had cancer in his lungs removed. (F cancer.) He had double pneumonia too. I moved back in with my momma in August.
December 2019, Tori Russell, my activist friend, came to me in a dream. Telling me how I needed to do more to let my four children know that I still loved them despite the separation. In 2010, my four children, Joseph Jr., Frenchaire-Two, Melchizedek and Sarai, were kidnapped from me by the Child Protective Services given daycare. And they took them away from me, and they’ve been in the system ever since. In 2014, they were put in. They were adopted by a family in another State. I haven’t seen my children since November 2014, the last time I visited them at a Denny’s with my mother and father. The next morning, after the dream, I wrote a 40-page unedited love letter to my children. Not only did I write my first book in one sitting, I also published the ebook on Amazon on the same day. I did not want to give myself a chance to not publish my story. Did not have very many sales of the ebook but I did even less marketing.
Two years later, I collaborated with my good friend and business partner Dail Chambers to illustrate the edited second edition of Mommy and Daddy Do you still Love Me Anymore? Published that edition on Amazon as a paperback and as an ebook. Then I started emailing bookstores, blogs, and influencers to feature and carry my book. Bookstores were responding positively. The Twig in San Antonio, TX initially e-mailed inviting me to start the process of having a book signing. Once I mailed them the book though, they emailed me back to let me know that they were canceling the book signing. They were returning my book saying that they only wanted Local Authors. That was a big disappointment and I thought it was a racial thing. Other bookstores were more receptive to the book and carried the book in St. Louis, MO., Birmingham, Al., and in Canada.
The kindest thing a bookstore owner did: Yvette Quarles-Chatman, owner of Homecoming Cafe and Books in Birmingham, AL, asked for five copies of my children’s book and five copies of the compilation #1 Amazon Best Seller, Finding Joy in the Journey Vol. 2: Healthy
Ways of Finding Joy During Difficult Times. 90-Day Devotional, where Vernessa Blackwell was the visionary. A few weeks after Yvette received the books, she emailed me to inform me that she had moved her location to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Then she asked me to invoice them for the books. The best part was that they paid me well for the books. I am so grateful for her. And the other bookstore owners and publishers who support my writing career. Coming full circle.I took my mother on a flight to Alabama to visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and we met the owner. We took pictures of my books on the shelves of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. This was my mama’s first flight since 1975. That was a true joy and blessing to actually witness that with my mama.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The most important thing I want people to remember about me is that you can overcome all of your obstacles from your past. My father molested me when I was a little girl which led to a promiscuous youth. I was always an A and B student and a leader in school. After my parents divorced when I was five years old, my mama raised my older sister and I with the communities’ help. She enrolled me in every afterschool program that there was in sunny South Dallas. Graduating from Southern Methodist University with two BA in Psychology and Sociology. Studies came naturally to me so I passed with little studying. During freshman year, I ran track and got to know all of the Panhellenic sorority members. Pledged AKA in Fall ‘99.
Once I graduated from SMU I started working for a while after college. I struggled with abusing alcohol during this time I was in therapy when I discovered that my father molested me. That helped me to understand my relationships with men. In 2005 I had a baby with one guy and then married another man. We got married for convenience. We had three more children but did not really get along well. We argued and fought a lot in our impoverished environments. Sometimes my ex-husband would go to jail. This is when I was diagnosed with bipolar depression which explains the ups and down mood swings. Sometimes after violence in our home, I was taken to the mental hospital. After child protective services kidnaped our children we became homeless. We lived on the streets for a while before retreating to my mom’s house and our relationship never recovered. We were not getting along so much that I ran away from him literally to live in St. Louis Missouri.
After isolating myself with the family that I moved with for two years, my good friend hired me to be her Director of Public Relations and Marketing for her boutique independent publishing house. I made contacts with so many bookstores, influencers, and bloggers; securing interview opportunities and features for her. She also asked me to sell her books. I began to vend at community events in 2014. That’s what opened me up to the world. I made a lot of connections that year.
Moving forward I registered two LLCs with the State of Missouri. One to purchase real estate and the other a retail business selling products that I created. In 2016, I bought my first investment property in St. Louis. It was a four-family flat in St. Louis City with 4 2-bedroom apartments and a basement with three tenants living there already. At that time, Wells Fargo had an event at the Edward Jones Stadium. Took off work for this event to get a grant and got approved for a home loan. Gratefully, I was approved.
At some point, I was a landlord and an insurance agent. I also did other odd jobs like canvassing neighborhoods to place political placards on doors. When I was not fully engulfed in corporate life, early on I vended at community events monthly. First only selling The English Schoolhouse books. Later in 2017, when I established my brand in Missouri, Be and Us LLC, I sold other products.
Be And Us LLC was born from a conversation with my past boyfriend. We were discussing names for T-shirt brands. The name of my line would be Be for several reasons. Because if we just BE our best selves and help each other we can do any and everything together because teamwork truly does make dreams work. This is also one of the Nguzo Saba Kwanzaa principles “to build our own businesses, continue the economics of our own community and share in all its work and wealth cooperative economics.” (https://bkreader.com Ujamaa, the Fourth Principle of Kwanzaa means Cooperative Economics.” Dec. 29, 2019).
Besides selling any products that either I created or acquired, I also partnered with other brands to sell their products. Collaborations with Dail Chambers and her company and nonprofit: Nu Mobile Healing and Yeyo Collective. She is a farmer and a visual artist. Using herbs that she grows to make herbal salt baths and herbal teas with lavender peppermint and other healing herbs. Sometimes I sold her paintings and her buttons with her paintings on them. Her books and whatever else she was selling at the time I sold those items too. Other collaborators I have worked with are Amber Book Store LLC selling their collection of books; Raw Blends sweatshirts; and B & B Productions’ original Black art. I put the original art on shower curtain sets. Sold the Buy Black Campaign’s hoodies, T-shirts, buttons, and stickers.
For years, I sold insurance from auto, home, life insurance, and annuities. I worked in the office and was best at sales. Did independent insurance sales where I was responsible for doing everything from setting appointments, quoting, marketing, and closing the deals. Meeting at least 20 clients a week.
Once I started my business Be And Us LLC in 2017, the focus was to expand my partners’ markets by selling their products in spaces they usually did not sell. Really desired to impact and help black business owners. In January 2019, I started my podcast A News You Can Use Podcast. The mission was to promote Black Excellence within events. The podcast started at a meeting at Nexcore, a co-working space, where they hosted a Podcasting event. I attended and at the time I did not have a Podcast. It wasn’t even a thought in my mind at that time. I was put on the spot at the event and asked what my podcast name was and what was the premise. So right on the spot, I made up News You Can Use Podcast promoting Black everything. Sharing the positive impactful things Black businesses and brands are doing in their communities across the diaspora. They offered us time to record a podcast in their podcast studio. That night I stayed up all night writing what I would talk about on the first episode of my podcast. The next day was Wednesday, January 26, 2019, I recorded my first episode of the News You Can Use Podcast. I haven’t looked back. The first season consisted of my sharing events, resources and information that was helpful for the Melanated communities. It was just me talking as the Host. Now at this point, I’ve interviewed over 75 Black and Brown business owners and Artists. After the first year of the podcast, I decided to interview Black and Brown business owners and artists from around the world. Because the mainstream media does not give Black business owners our proper SHINE. There just is not a lot of positive media coverage for Black businesses and I wanted to change that.
Started interviewing local St. Louis business owners at their locations. Talked to the business owners about their business stories. How they balance their personal and business lives. The Guests answer my interview series “Black Influencers Values” which is a 15-Question Survey, where we hear leaders’ perspectives and insights based on their experiences. We conclude with the business owners or Artists giving tips and advice to aspiring business owners. Artists, musicians, and producers send their music to be played on the Podcast.
Over the four years and four seasons of Podcasting, I have interviewed over 75 business owners from all over the world from Singapore, Canada, the UK, and countries in Africa. A News You Can Use Podcast had advertising Sponsors. Over 5300 downloads and 30+ countries listening to the Podcast. You can stream the Podcast wherever you listen to your Podcasts like popular platforms such as Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and iHeartRadio. The Podcast grew from an idea at Nexcore’s Podcasting event. I am so grateful for all of the beautiful people I have spoken to and impacted.
My business evolved over the years from manufacturing, packaging, and selling Nigerian raw shea butter; to t-shirts that I designed for an Economic March to Progressive Emporium in St. Louis, MO; and other Black brands’ products. This Economics March happened because one of the Master Teachers Kaba Hiawatha Kamene offered this protest idea at one of his lectures in St. Louis. We marched from Pamoja Academy with an African Drum Line to Progressive Emporium and Education Center to each spend $25 there.
I took Introduction to Photoshop and Introduction to beginner’s Acrylics painting classes at Craft Alliance. After that, I started painting on everything from canvas, cardboard, poster board and discarded art with original abstract paintings. Discovered a few platforms while talking to my peers, such as Printful, Threadless, and Spring while talking to my peers and folks online. The sites allow you to upload your designs to different collections of merchandise from canvas, t-shirts, and hoodies, to notebooks, shower curtains and rugs, duvets, yoga mats and so much more. I really enjoy painting and creating something from nothing. Painting really is therapeutic and relaxing for me. See, I experienced a tremendous amount of trauma from being sexually molested, too many domestic assault and violence incidents to count, homelessness, and the hardest-to-swallow separation from my 4 biological children. Creating and the arts help me to put my mind on more positive things.
Through some text marketing to friends and family, I sold a few masks, tote bags, and buttons from my Collections on Threadless. Haven’t uploaded any new art collections to my Artist Shop since uploading the first 4 paintings. Submitted a few of my original paintings to London’s No Name Gallery Art Contest. One of my paintings titled “First Bloom” was chosen for the April 2021 Print and Digital Collection. My painting is in their magazine and on their YouTube channel. Most of my paintings use pointillism and folk art using bright fabrics to create mixed-media collages. I write positive messages on the art and they usually have a deeper meaning than meets the eye.
Partnered with another Black-owned business to give access to gorgeous original Black African art. Took my peers’ commissioned art and put them on shower curtains and rug sets. Queen Nandi set was the most favorite of the sets. Sales picked up once the Pandemic hit. People used the shower curtains as backdrops for their virtual meetings in their offices.
After moving from St. Louis back to Dallas, I stopped vending at community events. Found it hard to find opportunities to sell my products. And after the Corona 19 Virus hit Texas. We were isolated in our homes, so I took to selling only online. I get sporadic sales but nothing consistent. Haven’t mastered marketing for those particular products.
At the end of 2019, I transitioned to writing as an Author. As I said earlier, I woke up from a vivid dream to write my first children’s book and ebook Mommy and Daddy Do You Still Love Me Anymore? Wrote and published it one day on Amazon. A couple of years later, I collaborated with Dail Chambers to illustrate the edited 2nd Edition of “Mommy & Daddy Do You Still Love Me Anymore?” as a paperback, ebook and audiobook. The book is also translated into Spanish, “Mami y Papi Todavia Me Amas?” This book is a very personal story to me because it details how I was separated from my children so many years ago. The Universal Message of the book to children and adults: Biological parents still love you despite the separation. All of my writing is authentic and builds from my own personal experiences.
Actually, my writing career started before I wrote my first book. A magazine editor reached out to me through messenger many years ago to write for his eZine “Arts Today Ezine.” I was super surprised because I was not writing on Facebook to get any attention, just sharing my opinions. Yet and still once the opportunity was presented to me, I took it and ran with it. Two of my articles were featured and one was the Cover Feature titled “How to Combat Anti-African Anti-Black Propaganda“ in the Arts Today Ezine Vol. 5.1. The other article was “What’s Self-Love Got to Do with It?” published in Vol 5.7.
I enjoy networking and finding opportunities to speak. Last year, I was a Guest on over 30 radio, internet and Podcast shows. Talking about my books mostly and the motivation behind the writings. But on some shows, I speak in regards to overcoming life’s traumas like being molested by a parent, the separation of my children, positive mindset, and gratefulness. Google me to listen to the Podcast episodes and read the features. Also through networking on Facebook, I jumped on the opportunity to write on a #1 Amazon Best-Selling compilation book project.
In 2021, Vernessa Blackwell the Visionary of Finding Joy in the Journey Vol. 2: Healthy Ways to Find Joy During Difficult Times 90-Day Devotional. Vernessa masterfully orchestrated 90 International Authors to each write a chapter about finding joy in hard times. This title resonated with me because I am constantly working on and finding ways to keep my joy and peace despite struggling times. And still I rise and persevere with a smile on my face. One of the Co-Authors of Finding Joy, Angie Bee offered another opportunity to write in her series of Pandemic stories. Angie Bee narrated my tales in “The Single, Saved, Struggle: The Struggle Continues.”
At the end of 2021, I connected with a podcaster that I have collaborated with previously, we interviewed each other a couple of times on each others’ podcasts. Singapore’s Viki Esther Chang invited me to write in her business compilation book talking about the Black economy in America. I went further than that offering a plethora of advice and resources for anyone pursuing business life. The other 10 Co-Auhtors offered a well-rounded guide to “good” business practices. “Gold Nuggets for Entrepreneurs: Lessons That Can Change Your Life.” is written by some of the industry’s top professionals in Military, Finance and Podcasting.
I am proud to be a published Author unafraid to tell my truth. #1 Amazon Best-Seller for Finding Joy in the Journey. My children’s book, Mommy & Daddy Do You Still Love Me Anymore? 2nd Ed. won Honorable Mention at the Spring ‘22 Book Fest in the Nonfiction Family genre. This book is carried at several bookstores in the US, Canada, and in the libraries in Tanzania, Rwanda, New York Public Libraries, Cedar Hill Texas Library, and the Birmingham Public Library. Dr. Meilissa-Sue John wrote a riveting review of the children’s book on Lauren Simone Publishing’s site. Tiktoker “Storytime with the Gemini” in Jamaica read and marketed my book on her page. Chicago’s Turn the Pages did a review and created an activity to do based on the children’s book. The English and Spanish versions of the 2nd Ed. are available on Walmart.com and Barnes & Nobles’ website. My mama is my best saleswoman selling more books than me.

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

****TRIGGER WARNING*******

While I was a landlord in St. Louis, I met a guy. We visited each other a few times. He had two children. At some point, he lost his apartment and had nowhere to take his children in the winter. I invited him and his children into my home temporarily until he found a new place.
It was not too long after they moved in that I noticed that his attitude and behaviors toward me shifted negatively. He became bossier and easily irritated with me. He started boasting about how handy he was and how he was a “Jack of All Trades.” He could fix anything is what he said. He wanted me to pay him to fix things in my building. Mind you, I was not charging him to stay with me. I already had a maintenance man but to stop his nagging, I asked him to caulk the bathtubs in the 4 bathrooms. He used the wrong color caulk and made a huge mess. But of course, he still wanted to be paid so I paid him to avoid arguing with him.
His children were outright disrespectful. When I spoke to the boy and girl they would just stare at me and ignore me. They never said anything to me. One day, he was around and he noticed that they did not respond when I addressed them. He admonished them for that. The children and I did not have fun together. I did try to communicate with them though.
This guy and I were talking and out of nowhere, he slapped me. I was surprised and in shock.”Did he just hit me?” I thought. I could not believe it and did not really know how to react. Call the police? Call my homeboys to beat him up? Put him out? I did nothing besides telling him to not hit me anymore.
Christmas was coming fast along with the coldest days of the year. Plotting in my head how to get him and his kids out of my house. I cleaned up one day while they were gone. He complained about where I put their things. The conflict between us seemed imminent. The welcome was worn out and I was now uncomfortable in my own home. I went out one night to blow off steam. Before I left, he walked me downstairs to the front door to tell me to be home before midnight. Ha! I laughed. I reminded him that we were not dating. Had a great time and I returned home gleefully early in the morning. The first alarming thing that I noticed was that his children were awake watching something on their tablets. When I questioned them about why they were still awake and where was their father? They said that he was sleeping. By this time, I’d asked him to not sleep in my bed anymore but that is exactly where he was. I was boiling. Everything about this situation made me uncomfortable. I’d lost control of my home. There was no peace and joy for me. That was the beginning of the end.
Woke up the next morning with him talking loudly. I cannot remember if he was on the phone or just reading aloud. Told him that I was still resting and to quiet down. This was Christmas Eve. I was unnerved. To calm my nerves, I turned on the meditation app Insight Timer to listen to a meditation. Then he complained that I was making too much noise and wasn’t trying to sleep. I was fed up with his constant pestering and annoyance. It was time I told him how I really felt. There had to be some boundaries until he left my house and really he needed to leave as soon as possible. Because this arrangement was no longer working for me. He started rattling off that he was a tenant with a lease and I would have to evict him through the courts. He said he was going to call the police on me. He kept popping off. Mind you, I was recording the whole conversation with my iPhone. He was really pissing me off with what he was saying about being a tenant. He was my guest who’d overstayed their welcome. Never gave him a lease to sign. When I could take all that I could take, I yelled out some expletives and called him a B as ninja. Those words sent him over and enraged him. I witnessed his face and eyes change. By that time, I was standing on the side of my bed. He rushed out the bed towards me punching me with his closed fist in my face. He broke my glasses. He plummeted on me with punches to my face and whole body. The pain and experience were surreal. In those moments, I thought that I was going to die. He pinned me into a corner in my bedroom. I was screaming and begging him to stop but he wouldn’t stop. He wrestled the phone out of my hands and took it from me so I could not call the police. His children could have called the police for me with their cell phones but they sat in the living room quietly while their father assaulted me. They did not come to the room to see what was going on nor did they act alarmed at his behavior. No this was something they’d witnessed before and was numb to his actions. He assaulted me with monstrous brute force. The closed-fist blows hurt so bad I thought the attack would never end. Fighting back did not help me at all because he had me pinned down with his knee. I was screaming for one of the tenants to call the police if they could hear me in the building.
When he finished assaulting me, again I had no idea what to do. Do I jump in my ride and leave them in my house? Slash his tires then leave? I ended up taking my laptop since he had my iPhone and going live on Facebook. Telling folks that I’d just gotten jumped and to send help. He tried to switch things around by calling one of our mutual friends and telling her that I had jumped on him. By then, he’d calmed down and was talking to her calmly. It was bizarre. I ran into the hallway still screaming for one of my tenants to call the police for me. One of my tenants came out of her apartment and asked me if I wanted her to call the police. I told her that I did. I waited for them in my stairwell. Then I went to get a knife from my tenant. My nerves were so bad. Even though there was snow on the ground and it was freezing cold, I waited for the police outside of my building in my robe.
The police finally came. Two white cops asked me questions like I was some low-life hood rat not like a bruised victim. One cop stayed outside with me while the other one went upstairs to talk to the monster. The next thing I knew, the monster and his children were being escorted to his SUV and he was being allowed to leave. The police told me that he would leave and let things cool off before he comes back. WHAT?! Cool down? What was said upstairs, I thought. This monster just beat me up and they were letting him go.

My next moves were to photograph myself and show the bruises and how he broke my glasses. Then I drove to my girlfriend’s house to discuss what my next steps were. She drove with me to the police station. I reported not only the crime but the police officers. Because there was no reason why he should’ve been let go after assaulting me the way he did. I went to the emergency room too after going to the police station. Fortunately, nothing was broken but my spirit. This monster named Yah Ammi AKA Perry Gibson was a part of the African communities in St. Louis. He was well-known as an activist. I wanted everyone in the world to know that this guy is a scam artist and a menace to society. I posted collages with pictures of my battered face along with pictures of him. Warning everyone to be aware of him. At the time, he was driving for Uber so I reported the assault to them. But it did not stop them from letting him drive.
For a while after the assault, I kept thinking that it was somehow my fault for him assaulting me. What if I never invited him into my house? What if I hadn’t said this or that? Just hindsight thoughts of how and what I could have done to prevent the assault from even happening. After pressing charges against him and the police that came out, St. Louis City offered me domestic abuse counseling. I had been to therapy and counseling before so I welcomed this healing. Through counseling, I discovered thoughts of mine that were not true. We talked through what were the facts of what happened in Christmas 2016 and how I was attacked by my “guest.” Discovered that I had PTSD and there were quite a bit of things to work through in order to heal and to feel safe again.
For some time, I went to counseling. That even prompted me to start taking my bipolar medicine and going to therapy for that too. It was embarrassing for me to post those humiliating battered pictures to the world. I did not want people to see me like this but this was bigger than me. People needed to see this imposter for who he really was. I sacrificed my pride and ego to out this monster. And it was definitely worth it and even empowering. The next day my people came and helped me change the locks and secure my home. They arranged a meeting with him to find out what happened.
For me though, it made me pause with men and relationships with them. Gave me more time to be introspective. I was empowered because although he got me that one day and the police insulted and demeaned me. I had the last laugh. I went back to the police station to file reports against the cops because they did not do their jobs that day. I was a victim and they treated me with disregard and disrespect. Internal Affairs dealt with them. The monster got probation and had to do several classes. And went on to Kansas City to rape a woman after dropping her off. This was really sad since I had reported the assault to Uber but they kept him on as a driver. The experience with being assaulted halted me from trusting people or being too giving. Because sometimes people really do take your kindness for weakness. But the situation made me more keenly aware and discerning of people. To pay attention to the red flags. Not to be too trusting of people. For a while it jaded my view of people in general. But today, I write as an empowered domestic abuse survivor. Nothing can tear me down. I understand people so much more now and I know when to draw boundaries. Not to let people walk over me. But the beautiful thing is that I did not stop dating or wanting love because of this experience. It just made me wiser to people and their behaviors. After the assault, I kept walking with my head held high in front of my female tenants who were at home the morning of the assault. I did not let anyone victim-shame me. No, I got the last laugh because even though I was assaulted I ended up shaming the monster. NO one can say that they did not know about this monster. I made sure you knew exactly who this monster is.
After counseling, I kept taking care of business and being active in the communities. I did not let that experience dim my light, no I was more active afterward. My spirit was renewed and strengthened after learning that the assault was not my fault and that I did nothing to warrant being assaulted. I am grateful for my support system that was by my side after that experience. Life is great and I am so much stronger for overcoming that experience.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

When I first started using Instagram, I was doing a lot of reposting content from awesome Black business owners that I followed using the hashtag #NewsYouCanUse. The premise for using that hashtag was to promote powerful and impactful content that I thought people could use to empower them. Resources and events that helped the communities. Those photos were intermittent with my love of capturing the moments with my iPhone. Taking pictures and videos at community events. Pictures of food when I ate at Black businesses. I was the one at the event saying “Aye, let’s take a picture.” Going live at events and recording events then posting to my social media and YouTube pages. When I patronized Black businesses, I posted pictures of myself with the products. At some point through my Instagram engagement, I got the opportunity to be an Ambassador for the SheaMoisture brand. For a year, they sent me new collections of products to try out and share with my followers. I went live talking to my followers often and posting consistently. Commenting and responding on followers’ pages. I followed pages that were from my target audience and who were like-minded. Engaging my followers in their inboxes too to get to know them personally.
When starting out with social media, find one to work with and familiarize yourself with first before you start to work on another one. Create your profile with the same or similar name across all social media platforms for consistency and for your followers to recognize you. Also, use the same profile picture across platforms. Create the pages even if you are not using them yet. Post consistently. Schedule your posts so you do not spend all of your time posting. There are platforms like Buffer that you can use. Use sources like Canva to create your brand posts with your brand colors or pay someone to make professional flyers for posting. I use my favorite color purple with black and white for my color schemes. Gold and black for my Podcast A News You Can Use. Connect your social media platforms to either your website or landing page to have somewhere to direct followers off social media to get to know you better.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://melchizedekllc.wixsite.com/beandusllc
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frenchaire_gardner/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrenchaireGardner/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frenchaire-gardner/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/msfrenchy06
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SusieQtyB
• Other: https://linktr.ee/FrenchaireG https://authorfrenchaire.mystrikingly.com/ https://frenchyswonders.threadless.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@frenchaire https://www.buymeacoffee.com/frenchaire https://anchor.fm/news-you-can-use https://www.pinterest.com/FrenchysWonders/ https://www.clubhouse.com/@frenchaire

Image Credits
The “Strategy” in Struggle by Au’Loni Media Group, LLC Young Patron at New York Public Library pictured with her mother and the Author Frenchaire Gardner taken by Tamara Pizzoli Finding Joy in the Journey Vol. 2 Presented by Vernessa Blackwell Will holding the notebook from the Supernova Universe Collection on Threadless Gold Nuggets for Entrepreneurs Presented by Viki Esther Chang Selfie of Frenchaire in her Economics March T-shirt Visiting the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Gift Shop taking pictures with Mommy & Daddy… with my mama Virgie Gardner taken by bookstore owner Yvette Quarles-Chatman