07: Using Life's Challenges to Create Your Message with Kayla Nixon

An episode of the Black At It: The Next Adventure podcast, hosted by Gayle and Tia, titled "07: Using Life's Challenges to Create Your Message with Kayla Nixon" was published on January 17, 2022 and runs 40 minutes.

January 17, 2022 ·40m · Black At It: The Next Adventure

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Episode Description

Everyone faces difficulties in life, but it is truly a gift to use those challenges to inspire and motivate others. Join us for a megadose of creativity and inspiration from our guest!

Kayla Nixon is a blogger, first-time author, and former PreK teacher. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Old Dominion University, and she has written A Black Woman’s Coffee Table Book: Commentary on Life, Loss, and Love. Even at her young age, Kayla uses her digital platform to showcase her work as a photographer and writer, broadly addressing themes of travel, black womanhood, loss, love, and more.

Show Highlights:

Kayla’s inspiration to write her book and fulfill a lifelong dream
How Kayla realized that her journal writing of encouragement to herself could become a book to help others
Why Kayla decided that her book should be a coffee table book for black women
How Kayla shares her personal experiences in her book, which are highlighted by her uterine cancer diagnosis and her mom’s cancer journey and subsequent death
How Kayla realized that, even at a young age, her story could be inspirational and helpful to others
Why Kayla wanted to encourage people to think about how to change their approach to life, love, and loss
How Kayla learned to be specific about what she needed in a time of loss
Why you need to identify your “top three” or “top five” people whom you can count on
How therapy helped Kayla face her difficult challenges
What it means to “choose abundance”
What healthy love looks like
How meditation and prioritizing herself have brought peace and abundance to Kayla
Why and how Kayla began traveling, even in the time of COVID, and has seen different perspectives and insights from people around the world
Life lessons from Kayla:
“You have to learn how to pivot and be OK with it.”
“Listen to yourself–and not all the other voices.”

Resources:

Follow Kayla on Instagram.

Find A Black Woman’s Coffee Table Book at regular booksellers or at www.blackwomanscoffeetablebook.co.

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