I’m Jazmine Renae,

a native of South Carolina. I’m married to my soulmate, Jalen. Our partnership has been beautiful, challenging, and rewarding all at the same time since 2016. I’ve lived around the world most of my adult life due to my career. My career has offered countless opportunities that have helped me to expand my wisdom and challenge myself to meet goals I never thought I would. The greatest opportunity of all has been the women I have worked alongside; understanding their journey as well as how far they’ve come. I would say that it is the other women around me that has helped me recognize the challenges & triumphs in my life and the passion I have for service and mentorship.

I recall a time in my life when I yearned to be anything except "just Black". I wanted to be Native American, Irish, anything else. Being only Black wasn't good enough for me at one point. Being only Black was not popular. Being the only Black did not attract the attention of my peers. Being only Black was not beautiful. You could definitely say that I had low self-esteem and any amount of self-acceptance was absent. I measured my value by which popular boys at school thought I was cute. And, the popular boys liked the girls who were lighter-skinned, physically developed, and sexually active. I was none of those. So naturally, being immature and young-minded, I felt ugly and like "one of the boys". That's how it started...

Breaking Free.

Fast forward five years or so, I found myself in Afghanistan, fighting in a war I didn't quite understand. I was 19 years old and I barely understood who I was. What I did know was that I was losing friends in this war, and I had a feeling that my life would end abruptly, as theirs did. So I got married to someone I thought I loved, and to someone I thought loved me. It was a mistake that would yield some of the most important lessons of self-love and acceptance. The verbal, physical, and emotional abuse had a subtle start and out of nowhere it became frequent, regular, routine, and painful.

I'm surprised I didn't leave immediately. I had always told myself I would never stand for anything like that. But you just can't say what you wouldn't do without experiencing it yourself. I left one day out of nowhere and after an extremely petty argument. That was the first revelation I had regarding self-worth. I knew I deserved more. I deserved better. By staying, what was I saying to myself? What did staying say about how much I valued myself?

Ever since, life has been teaching me hard-learned lessons; maybe God's honest truth. I go through everything knowing that there's a benefit on the other end. There's something at the end that brings me joy. After all, it's the survival of the struggles that increase our self-confidence and make us believe. We know that He will not give us more than we can bear. And my friend, we can bear a lot.



Overcoming the Challenge


The journey to authentic self-acceptance is an everlasting journey. Life is, and will always, bring us obstacles and challenges that can shift the way we see and feel about ourselves. The challenges in life that we will encounter: racism, sexism, tragedy, trauma are inevitable. But those challenges don’t have to alter the continually increased satisfaction we have with ourselves.

I've been mentoring young women of different ages and backgrounds for more than 10 years now. My end goal for them is to develop a true and authentic love and acceptance of themselves, while embracing all the complexities that make them who they are. We can't go about life trying to be like the people around us. I see your individuality. I embrace your individuality, your value, your worth. I just need you to do so too.


My Mission


is to start controversial conversations with ALL women about what authentic

self-acceptance is, so that they can embrace their individual complexities.