Anna Nyakana - Niyah Zuri Movement

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's episode, our guest is Anna Nyakana, an Award-Winning and Bestselling Author, Motivational Speaker, and Business Owner of NiyahZuri Books NiyahZuri Studios. She grew up in Connecticut and pursued writing and musical skills, but she ventured more beneficial for people's world. She started with children's books and is impacting not just kids but also adults.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:23]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I'm a radical. I'm here to tell you that everything you may have thought is probably not true. The way that the world is formed against you. But I'm here to tell you that everything is working in your favor. So you're going to want to listen.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:36]</span><strong>How did you get to the point that you are impacting lives?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding that I had a purpose and a destiny, and I was the only one who was standing in my way. Realizing that the only thing standing in between me reaching my fullest self was myself,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[13:28]</span> <strong>Aww Shift Bad Moments </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the neighborhood where I grew up, somebody told me that I only have three or four options in life: to become a young mother, sell drugs or join a gang, or end up in jail or dead. There weren't a lot of options in the neighborhood that I grew up in. We did not have any options to choose life. I got all the rejections from publishers and everyone when I wanted to create change and the impact that I wanted to impart. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[16:58]</span> <strong>Critical Moment</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was on Sirius XM radio and the Amazing Karen Hunter Show. That was so profound for me at that point in my career because she seldom had authors on her show, let alone someone who's an independen