We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful LeTisha Jackson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with LeTisha below.

LeTisha, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Before we get into specifics, let’s talk about success more generally. What do you think it takes to be successful?

As a self-published author, I’m working triple time to make my memoir successful! Not having a Literary Agent or a big Publishing house backing me makes my fight to be seen in the literary world a monumental task! To be successful it takes true belief in the power of your message; a view that what you’re doing and/or saying will make a change in the world. It also takes patience, stepping far outside of your comfort zone, connecting with others authentically, and be sure to offer the same support you are asking for from others.

LeTisha, 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?

I was born in the midwest and am a self-proclaimed Pageant girl at heart! After winning several local pageants in Michigan, I used those opportunities to begin modeling and acting. The acting bug took me to Hollywood!

During my time in California, I did what women do all to often, and that is I became so wrapped up in a relationship that I lost who I was and the dreams that I had. Unfortunately that relationship would be the catalyst for my memoir, “Woman to Woman: Letters from Wives to Mistresses.”

By the title of my book, I’m sure you can tell what occurred in that marriage. But I took a completely different perspective when it came to the infidelity in my marriage; I’ll take a quote from my book…”it may have been my husband who broke our vows, my trust and my spirit, but it was his mistress who broke my heart.”

The title of my book did not come to be by happenstance. “Woman to woman” were the three words his mistress said to me, followed by the most perplexing and heartbreaking words I had ever heard come from another woman.

My book is based mostly on my interactions with my ex-husband’s mistress. It’s a raw look at what she put me through and it calls to question where our loyalties lie when it comes to this thing we call sisterhood.

Adultery is most often spoken of from the perspective of the husband-to-wife betrayal, well “Woman to Woman” effectively changes that perspective to the “woman-to-woman” betrayal.

My book is different because in it I, and other wives who wrote in letters for my book, weren’t afraid to say “we blame her!” That’s right, we blame the mistress! That has been the biggest issue that some women have with my book, that it’s women blaming the mistress as opposed to the husband. That couldn’ be further from the truth. Of course the husband bares 100% responsibility for his actions, but for a woman who knowingly gets involved with a married man, she is equally as culpable for the pain and destruction she is helping to put upon another woman…her sister. I should note that while I do believe the cheating spouse is responsible, I wrote “Woman to Woman” for women only because we are the ones who can put a stop to this ultimate betrayal.

“Woman to Woman” makes women do some serious introspection and ask themselves “am I a problem in this sisterhood?” And if they realize they are, my book helps them to think about sisterhood as more than a trend, but as a truly living force that right now has fractures that need to be healed because of the lack of loyalty and respect we as women have for this thing we call sisterhood. My book forces women to take a step back so we can begin to heal our fractured sisterhood in a genuine way that will be built up on the foundations of loyalty, respect and the ever-powerful “Girl Code”.

Another thing that makes my book a one-of-a-kind, are the letters I gathered from both wives AND mistresses for the purpose of being used in the book. I asked wives to write a letter as if speaking right to the woman who had an affair with her spouse, whether she knew her or not. Likewise, I asked mistresses to write a letter to the wife of the man she had an affair with. Those letters are raw and powerful and they are doing what I hoped they would…sparking an ongoing conversation about the destructive betrayals between women.

“Woman to Woman” is a game-changer. It’s being called “the book written for women only that’s going to piss off all the men.”

I am so proud that my book is getting women to really talk about this problem, and other problems within our sisterhood that keep us from seeing our fullest potential as a community. I’m most shocked (and also proud) that I’m finding a large and engaging audience of women on the popular TikTok app of all platforms! I’m booking interviews with women who’ve been cheated on as well as with women who’ve been the other woman. I record those interview (or what I call “girl talk”) for my show “Woman to Woman.”

What I most want you to know about me is that I care about women; I care about my sisters and I care about our worldwide sisterhood. “Woman to Woman” on its face may seem like a book that’s aimed at taking down the mistress, but it’s not. At its core “Woman to Woman” is about healing our sisterhood and coming together to protect each other’s hearts and families. And we can only do that if we’re willing to talk, really talk…”woman to woman.”

Have you ever had to pivot?

I was already posting to my blog but I was told by an amazing young lady who does marketing that I HAD to put myself on camera and talk to women. She told me over and over again that that was the only way I was going to be able to connect to and with women. I fought doing it for so long because I just wasn’t a big fan of social media! But, I finally gave in and she was 100% right! So now I regret not taking her advice to build an audience BEFORE releasing my book; I released my book and have spent the better part of a year working hard to build the followers I wish I’d had before publishing. But I don’t live in that regret. All I can do is keep going forward and be happy with the audience that’s engaging with me now! I’m having incredible, honest conversations with women from everywhere about how we can fix the chasm in our sisterhood so that the little girls who are to become women won’t have this continued cycle of betrayal from “woman to woman”, sister to sister.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

If you’re a writer like myself, PLEASE build your social media image, brand and audience BEFORE you publish your works! Be willing to put yourself on camera so your audience feels connected to you. Don’t use your platforms to only seek support, be there to offer support to your audience as well. Be honest with your audience. Share personal things about yourself with your audience so they don’t see you as just another creator trying to get their money. Let others share with you; don’t make it all about yourself. Be authentic – followers can sense fake quickly! Most importantly, be consistent. If you’re going to post something every day, stick to that. If you’re going to post once a week, stick to that. Be patient with your growth, the people will come if you continue to put out unique content that’s relatable.

I’ve been building my audience by doing everything I’ve advised you to do. I’m a small fish in a huge ocean but I gain followers because I reply to every single one of their comments. I go to their platforms and follow them back and watch and comment on their postings. I participate in some trendy things like on TikTok if there’s a popular filter trend, I’ll participate and post. You want people to know you’re not all business; that you know how to have some fun and that you’re relatable and down to earth.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.letishajackson.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/letishasjackson
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/womantowomanloyalty
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/letishasjackson
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@letishajackson1259

Image Credits
Photo by: Brad Olson Photography