Author: Veronica Speaks
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musichead – a musical escape in my head

musichead describes my love for music. I love the fantasy inducing creativity. The masterful way we paint pictures in our heads. It takes energy to create music. When it enters my ears, I am immediately mesmerized. Listening to rap is a different experience for me. I am about do my best to explain. Why wrap…
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My Sisters Call Me an As$hole and…

My Sisters Victoria and Jazara are my girls I love my sisters with my whole life. They offer me a new perspective on life and I love watching them grow into their own being. They are the first children I impacted and now I am witnessing how my energy affected them – in good and…
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Success Looks Like Me, Too.

Who am I to say I am successful? To say the least, I am what success looks like. But, you know I have to do the most. Allow me to explain. I want to use all my gifts while I am here. I don’t know when is my expiration date. So, I focus daily on…
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Attention: You get distracted too?!

I can literally lose train of thought mid-sentence and – I don’t know what happens, my brain just clocks out or something. My attention pulls away. The thing is, I get my brain not wanting to work. I don’t want to work either; sometimes, I just want to lay in bed and relax. It gives…
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You are here for ONE reason

To share this experience. To love. We’ve complicated our existence so much and seem to forget that we are all in this together. Let’s talk about it: Now, I’m not talking High School Musical – I mean, we are literally on the same floating rock together. We are breathing the same air within the layers…
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I Do What You Can’t Do. Just Be You.

Ruff Ryder’s First Lady, Eve, first spit the bars “I do what you can’t do, I just do me.” While I’m busy being me, I challenge you to start being more of you. Start loving and maintaining the love you give to yourself. Open your eyes to see how loved you are in this existence.…
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What is The LIME Teaching Method?

Let’s use the LIME Teaching Method The LIME Teaching Method is built on the foundational understanding that students deserve teachers that model the growth mindset behaviors. If we student learning to stick, we must show them what it looks like. The LIME Teaching Method Basics: What does LIME stand for? LIME is an acronym for…
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Do I write for you?
“I am writing for me,” I try to convince myself. “But why do you want you to see my writing? How could my writing be for me, too? These are two questions I straddle between on a daily basis. I like to think that I write for myself, but it doesn’t work that way. While,…
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Appearance on First Gen Triump Podcast Episode 8 ‘Triumphantly Trailblazing’

Watch the full episode here.
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Why You Need Inspiration.

“The best thing you can do for a person is inspire them. That’s the best currency you can offer: inspiration. So, when a person can rely on you for that, that empowers them in every realm of their life. Being inspired,” author of the debut album Victory Lap, Nipsey Hussle. In this video, I am…
