What every woman needs to hear (and it’s not a jab at men).
Remember to SPEAK UP. Your voice is what will allow you to:
1. Fully occupy the space you hold at the table, in the room, in the conversation. Speak without shrinking, minimizing or apologizing for your authority.
2. Invite yourself (+1). No one owes you an invitation. So extend one to yourself (raise your hand), then extend it to another woman and mentoring her so she can maximize the opportunity. We play a critical role in making access normative and less exceptional.
3. Ask for what you need and say NO to what you don’t. Whispering your expectations rarely gets you the resources, respect or results you deserve. Name what you need (whether it’s budget, authority, time, or support) so there’s no room for misinterpretation.
Then say no to requests, roles, and commitments that drain your capacity or pull you off your priorities. A strategic “no” protects your energy, your credibility, and your ability to deliver at the highest level!
If you’re struggling to SPEAK UP please don’t sit in silence hoping something will change one day.
There are resources, coaches, programmes that exist to help you #UNMUTE.
We have just a few seats left in our upcoming Speak Up Workshop so comment WORKSHOP below if you’d like me to DM the link to register.
📆 Saturday August 16, 2025
⏰ 10am-2pm
📍 UWI Mona Campus
Training Fee $24,000 (inclusive of lunch and workbook)
#Speakup #SpeakWithCourage #PublicSpeakingCoach
Krystal Tomlinson Carter (@krystaltomlinson ), Self Management Strategist & Founder, Success Farm Life Academy (@mysuccessfarm ), discussed intentional planning for 2026, focusing on how tools like planners can help people stay flexible and aligned with their goals throughout the year and build systems that support progress. #SmileJamaica #1MorningShow #DailyDoseOfAwesomeness #WakeUpAndSmile
Surrounded ❤️ Supported ❤️ Held ❤️
Birthed and raised in a tribe of fearless women, to become a fierce woman who would raise the fiercest and most fearless female I know - my daughter.
(Slide 3 is among my favourite mom moments this year. Her FIRST time in an Olympic sized pool and Xiah swim dung di girl and pass her enuh! I was unhinged on the sidelines!! CC: aunty @kemeshaswaby 🥹😭)
7 years of motherhood. SEVEN.
Been sitting with that all weekend into this week.
Recognizing the spiritual significance in that number alongside an expanding sense of peace and clarity over the last year and odd.
So much has come full circle (completion) and into alignment (divine perfection) without me feeling harried and fretful of what’s next (rest). This Mother’s Day reminded me just how much I am:
Surrounded: by people I love who love me right back - not simply a crowd of witnesses but willing hands.
Supported: routinely and unconditionally - in the mundane, the magical and all things in between.
Held: gently and lovingly by God, my husband, my family and friends - my version of true wealth.
Praying the mommies in my community received all their flowers on Mother’s Day - and can lean into true pillars of support for the other 364.
You deserve that and so much more. #GroundedGracedGrateful ♾️❤️
You’re more than a profession, a paycheck or a post. You’re a person. A whole, complete and built-for-purpose person.
Work, duty and obligations obstruct that easily because it feels more urgent and rewarding to prioritize every other component of our lives.
But remember the person. The soul who needs more than money to feel fulfilled. The heart that needs purpose to expand. The hands that need holding to feel seen and supported.
Your life and the quality of it, matters. Pause for it, in every season.
@ra.williamsdistributors@pharmaceuticalsocietyjamaica thank you for having me as your Keynote Speaker for this year’s Annual Induction Ceremony. An event due in 2025 but Melissa induced a pause.
The wait was worth it!
We allowed even that to be a reminder of how thoughtful pauses give clarity, heighten wisdom and enhance quality as we show up and serve each day.
#Speaker
Learning to stay loyal to my decisions even after the mood passes is one of my biggest signs of growth and maturity.
I used to have to “feel like it” to do it.
I used to need support and motivation to practice self-discipline, especially in the gym and with food.
Somewhere between reading the Compound Effect, Atomic Habits and the 5-Second Rule I got it! And it’s never been forgotten.
1. Less fireworks. More follow through.
2. Feelings are unreliable managers of my future.
3. Discipline isn’t about intensity; it’s about repetition.
#DutyBound #MyDailyMUSTS #ThriveMode
To our teachers who turn classrooms into workshops of character, discipline, curiosity and courage - thank you!
Long after the exams, the confidence you’ve built, the standards you’ve set and the self-belief you’ve nurtured will continue to shape lives.
Happy Teacher’s Day✨♥️
To the beautiful souls who continue to pour unconditionally into the children under your care:
I pray this #MothersDay feels like a genuine and thoughtful celebration of your dedicated, selfless, life-giving love!💕
If you’re reading this knowing you won’t be with the Queen you want to celebrate, remember @taptapsendjamaica allows you to give the gift of support conveniently, with no transfer fees taken out.
Use my code Thrive25 on your first transfer and she will receive an extra US$10.
#RemittancesMadeEasy
Befriend your body.
The body keeps the score…it carries the imprint of our lives, especially the pressure and pain we’ve endured. It’s literally the score card and that’s sometimes what makes it hard to look at, to love, to respect, to trust, to protect.
I could really stop right there.
Our body’s internal indentations are often more telling than the external ones. They are harder to see but so easy to feel when we are triggered, challenged or traumatized. It can feel easier to drink, smoke, eat (the list of options goes on!) ourselves numb and dumb so we don’t have to feel or know the parts of us that need to be tenderly recovered and lovingly healed.
But let me use this moment to remind you, brave warrior, that you are worth the work. Listen to what your body has to say, what your gut has been trying to tell you, what the dis-ease is asking you to change. Reconcile and return to a loving relationship with your body. You are always worth the work.
#WellthyLife #SelfRecovery #SelfLove
I’ve been playing chess for only 1 year and yesterday I achieved my Chess Goal🎉
Slide 2 is my ranking last year as a rookie.
Slide 3 is my ranking after yesterday’s @jamaicachess National Age Group Championships 🥳♥️🥉🏆
Thank you to my coaches @rdchessjamaica , my parents who always support me @krystaltomlinson@kingbeenieman and my brother who helped me to practice and get better @mosiahdavis ♥️♥️
In one year I moved up 16 places and I’m very proud of myself!
Congratulations to all the competitors, especially my teammates who placed 1st and 4th 🎉🎉
#ChessKid #Top3
Sunsets on West End are my favourites. Pair that with compère duties, guiding the flow of conversations and connection and I’m in my own #FlowState!
Hosting this second staging of @scotiabankjam ’s SME Soirée in Western Jamaica was an opportunity to hold up a mirror for the businesses that keep our economy in motion, in spite of! A true testament to our resilience as a nation, the capacity we have to excel as entrepreneurs and the suite of responsive services that #ScotiaBank has deliberately curated to meet the dynamic needs of the sector.
Thank you for having me!
Outfit @tulleys_boutique
🎥 @obsiidiiansocials
#EventHost #Emcee
Not sure who you’re becoming? Check the recipe (your routine, your process, your daily disciplines).
They reveal your standards, your true and deeply held beliefs, priorities, altars and commitments. If you look honestly you can literally smell what you’ve been cooking up for #FutureYou.
May it be savoury, worthwhile and wonderful now AND later!
#DailyDisciplines #WellthyLiving #ThriveMode
