We recently connected with Lady Farley and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Lady thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

Since I was a child, I detest it and protested having my voice taken away from me. In those days children were to be seen and not heard. I quickly realized that what I was dealing with was systemic miss education. I began to notice the more I got older and went into the workforce that black women and men were basically answer the same injustice systemically taught to be a token in the workplace. It dawned on me in my early 30s that if I could just get women to support other women, then we could accomplish more than what the oppressors were withholding from us. The birth of The FPI NETWORK LLC became the house for the 100 women strong movement wear each year 100 black women across this nation are dedicated to educating and Quan to find the experiences of other black women.

Lady, 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?

As a project manager, I leveraged my skills and experience; beginning with the women whom the world might not exactly see as professionals, such as house, wives, poets, chefs, and caretakers.

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

I believe that resilience is an inner man or a spiritual strength. It is one of the reasons that the women in my network are offered spiritual encouragement. I’ve had to be resilient my whole life as a black woman in a world of predators I had to be resilient, since I could walk. Nevertheless, that resilience became fortified in 2021 when I survived a secular hemorrhage brain aneurysm. I had to learn how to speak and walk all over again. But my resilience was nothing without the love and support of my husband and daughter.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I believe in giving credit where it is due, and I had to learn how to give myself the credit that I was due. My understanding became illuminated when I began meeting single black women who were holding their families together, and becoming extremely successful in their own right, but not getting any credit for it, so then I looked over my life. My first marriage was 20 years long and I was afraid to leave because I believed that I was there to strengthen and to build my husband. As if our success could only come from him in the society, it would be outright recognized if he had been the successful one, so I was trying to be the woman behind the man. After my divorce, I had to learn that I wasn’t behind him, but I was the source of his strength, I was the one propping him up, I was the one feeding his inner man to help him get through the days that he could not have made it on his own. So I’ve learned to strengthen other women not be behind them, but to walk with them side by side .

Contact Info:

• Website: Fpinetwork.com
• Instagram: Fpinetworkllc
• Facebook: Farley productions inc
• Linkedin: Lady Farley
• Youtube: Lady Farley FPI