We recently connected with Mylira Green and have shared our conversation below.

Mylira, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

There was undoubtedly a defining moment in my professional career, and as you read this, my desire is that it inspires you to keep pressing on. In 2021, at the tender age of 27, I secured a high position as a Program Director for a prominent non-profit in my local area. I was entrusted with a community program that had paved the way for so many others for twenty years but was now facing red. My task was to provide CPR to what appeared to be a dying program.

Or so I thought……

God did not send me to be this agency’s program director but to learn how to direct the program that He wanted to birth through me. No matter the plans we made, and the changes we endured, red was where we resided. I was faced with the question of whether I was going to fight for someone else’s vision, or take a leap of faith and trust the dream that God had given me would indeed come to pass.

I decided to jump.

This jump came with more unknowns than answers, and I had yet to learn how to make it work. At the time, I was the family’s breadwinner with no savings to fall back on. God showed me if I told Him yes, He would work out the details. A few days before I did my last clock-in, I sat in the tax office and walked away with the amount I told God I needed to make this leap. Almost a year later, neither my family nor I missed a meal or a bill, but it started with me jumping with radical faith. God showed me if I trusted him, He would do the rest. Now I am a full-time entrepreneur with not just one business, but two, with a mission to have the spirit of suicide die when I leave this earth.

Mylira, 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 am a Certified Complex Trauma Professional functioning as a Licensed Clinical Social Work who serves as a psychotherapist, Confidence Coach, Master Healer, and Transformative Speaker. I strive to provide the world with preventative services to lower the rate of suicidality worldwide.

I founded M. Green Enterprises, LLC, where I heal leaders to build a better workplace. My goal is to provide training and consultation to businesses looking to revive the lives of their employees by taking an interest in their holistic health.

I also recently birthed The Metamorphosis Healing Experience, LLC. I work with individuals to become unstuck and motivated to reach their goals while owning their gifts confidently. I do this by providing person-centered services assisting people with thriving beyond the triggers that proceed post their life’s traumas.

I am a social work alum of Norfolk State University and the University of Southern California. As a present student at Regent University’s Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership program and Virginia Bible College’s ICF coaching program, I bring nine years of experience assisting individuals addressing their mental and emotional health.

My previous experiences include working in Foster Care, Community Direct Support, Corrections, Substance Abuse, Youth Experiencing Psychosis, Youth with Severe Depression Dealing with Suicidal Ideations, Women with Women’s Issues (i.e., infant loss and death and sexual abuse and assault), Couples having Marital Problems, and Military Personnel and their families who struggle with trauma-related issues. Mylira is currently working on certifications for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. (and is a Certified Complex Trauma Professional-REMOVE b/c this has been completed). I am a certified complete clinician (I feel like a word is missing from this title) to conduct the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach and Community Reinforcement Approach for treating substance use disorders. I am passionate about serving as the bridge between the caterpillar and the butterfly for all I serve. I obtained my license to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia on April 15, 2019.  I also completed my requirements to be an approved state board supervisor on April 23 and 24, 2021. I have self-published two books entitled, “The Art of Just Being Me: An Interactive Guide to Finding the Courage Just to Be You” and “Free Thyself: A Guide of Healing for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault” and participated in the Speak Out Survivor and Why My Mom Anthologies.

I am currently focused on providing consultation to workplaces looking to transition from what was to what needs to be to maintain stable employment among their employees. This is done by creating a solid foundation resulting in a transformation in the lives of those they serve, coaching sessions to create a safe environment encouraging brilliant minds who struggle to fit in to reach their highest level of self-esteem, conducting healing sessions to help people of God become more focused while stepping into their purpose, engaging couples with in-depth conversations to gain the confidence needed to make it last forever, and facilitating training/keynote speeches on the role of trauma and mental health in our society to promote professionalism and the importance of self-care in our daily lives and the workplace.

You can find me on the Mogul TV Global Network, where I co-host the fantastic show Curves, Curls, and Crowns with Dana Watson and Katrina Willis. This talk show was created by black women for black women and women of color who want to see and hear more of our experiences and wants while we explore what we love and how we love it. With my fantastic husband, I co-facilitated The Culture Podcast of The Floor is Yours Podcast, LLC platform. We strived to open the door to the houses in the African American community to promote healing and transformation within our neighborhoods and beyond.

My ultimate goal is to strive to close the gap between someone’s current reality and where he or she ultimately desires to be in their lifetime!

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

A lesson I had to unlearn was “the more I give, the more I will receive”. In this entrepreneurial world, I learned “the more I gave, the more the individual would take”. Now before you judge my life, go on this journey with me.

I started my first business on September 1, 2016. Due to it being a hobby, I did not charge for my services. I would do speaking engagements in my community and provide behavioral health support, with no invoice attached. At times, I even invested in opportunities for exposure to expand my visibility. The more I did, the more people would begin to ask me to speak and serve. I would always say yes because I thought one day it would get me in front of the right client that could pay off all my debt in one day (no lies here and I still believe this will happen to me one day, lol).

Fast forward to being a full-time entrepreneur, I could not take my “hobby” mindset with me; however, in the first six years of my business, I showed people how to value me at $0. So when I started putting prices on my services, the regulars stopped inviting me. The problem was not that I was giving freely; the problem was I needed to know my value and added tax on it, so they did not conceptualize what I had to offer as valuable. People invest in what they see value in, no matter how great of a service they provide.

Now that I have learned this lesson, I limit my “yes” to things that will get me closer to accomplishing the mission God gave me and will assist me with creating a legacy for my kids. I learned that every time I say yes to something, I am saying no to something else. I am no longer going to say no to my family, which is the most important to me for the sake of exposure. Although this is still a work in progress, I am letting my price be my price and requiring people to pay my worth, especially when they see value in what I have to offer.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

If I could go back, I would certainly choose to be a social worker. Every day, I get paid to do what I love doing, serving people and linking them with the resources to become the best version of themselves. Social work was not my first choice. I wanted to be a teacher; however, a traumatic event occurred at the beginning of my senior year that thrust me into a depression. As a result, my mother, an educator, refused to assist me with applying to be a teacher because she shared, “Educators don’t make no money”. Then, she applied for the next field that also doesn’t make any money, lol.

I will say that this was the best decision that was made for me. At my core, I am a social worker that believes in serving the people, fighting for social justice on behalf of marginalized individuals, treating people with dignity and worth regardless of their background, reiterating the importance of human relationships, walking in integrity whether in the professional world or my personal life, and continuing to expand my competencies to assist individuals with their transformation. Social work has truly become my happy place, and I have been able to do so much in this field.

The only thing I could see myself doing differently is going deep into neuroscience. The brain is extremely interesting to me, and I want to better understand why humans think like we do. I believe this will reiterate my knowledge of trauma, and its lasting impacts on the human mind.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.myliratransforms.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myliratransforms
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mylira.green/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myliragreen/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChS488XxVPw1Lmf4uIFf99g
• Other: https://linktr.ee/MyliraTRANSFORM

Image Credits
Brenton Jomar and Jeanita Castille