Meet Ersula K Odom

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ersula K Odom a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Ersula K, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
One word: Grandmother In fact, my first book was “At Sula’s Feet” highlighting the life lessons learned while living with her

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
As CEO of Sula Too LLC, Ersula K. Odom is on a mission to preserve cultural history in any form possible. As such she is a publisher, legacy wall designer, a 10-time author, and living history performer. She is also founder of Ersula’s History Shop and the non-profit Rescuing History, Inc. Collectively, all her skills lead to preparing your story, rather average and ordinary or extraordinary, to take its rightful place in our cultural history.

Ersula combines research, life and professional experiences of rural living, college life, fortune 500 corporate management, spirituality, family, entrepreneurship, sales, genealogy, and publishing, to deliver relative multi-generational and multi-cultural products and services.

Interesting facts. She portrayed Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune at a 2012 DNC event in NC, in Washington for the Capitol Historical Society’s celebration event of Dr. Bethune’s statue installation in 2022, and of her performance at FAMU was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal.

Books by Ersula K Odom:
At Sula’s Feet
The Doris Ross Reddick Story
Miss Lizzy’s Story
African Americans of Tampa
Pamala McCoy-A Shero’s Story
Rolanda McDuffie – Living Life as Intended
Create Your Signature Book in A Weekend
Rogers Park Golf Course (18 holes of history)
Tanya (Tanya Martin-Pekel)

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1- I focus on stories that are being taken for granted by the subject or the community. The ones that need to be told to create the basis for others to learn or build on.

2- I bring to the table 20 years of computer technology and systems training and documentation management. These skills permit me to offer low cost options to new authors

3- Advice: Rescue your family’s history

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
The word is getting out and we are growing. We need single focused publisher support providers who complete tasks or operate departments.

Author public relations and event planning

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