Today as I was driving in my car I started to reflect about my life and my career. I asked myself is PR dead? I thought for a minute, and I remembered the gift GOD gave me a long time ago when I was a child. When I was born I was a late bloomer, I didn’t talk until I was 3 years old and I didn’t walk until I was 4 years old. My mother told me that she had me examined and the doctor said I was actually smarter than what people really thought; I just wasn’t ready to show it.
Growing up I was very shy and I always kept to myself. Then one day God spoke to me and I gave my life to Christ and I blossomed out of my shyness and I started to speak. Soon after that I became a writer and from that point on I knew I was going to be a journalist. In 2003, I attended North Carolina A&T and majored in Journalism concentrating in PR. In college, I was so in love with PR, you couldn’t tell me anything, I was the PR Diva.
When I graduated in 2007, I started working for a small PR firm in Greensboro, N.C. and I absolutely loved everything I did with my job. I was so fascinated with PR it was just like a chocolate cake that I just wanted to keep eating. A year later, I get that special announcement at 12 o’clock that I’m being laid off due to client cutting back.
I had heard through the grapevine that firms were laying off and clients weren’t paying a lot of money for PR services anymore. So doesn’t that justify that PR is slowly dying because clients are not fueling these agencies?
HA HA! Think again! PR is alive and it’s alive in me. The world can say that PR is dead because clients are cutting back but you have to ask yourself where does your passion lay. My passion dwells inside of my heart. I was given a gift a long time ago and I refuse to sit here and think that PR is dying out.
I am an independent PR consultant, turned publicist over night. I represent spoken word, financial freedom, hip hop, and a celebrity. I am blessed and my business is flourishing and I have cocoon into a butterfly all thanks to GOD.
Keep Praying, Keep Moving, and Keep Pushing.
