Meet Shannon Williams

We recently connected with Shannon Williams and have shared our conversation below.

Shannon, 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?

.Shannon.La.Goddesss. is a survivor. My resilience comes from my inner strength,will-power,spite,and god. I’ve been through alot. Alot of people have talked badly about me. Betrayed over and over again. Ive had people wishing on my downfall. I’ve had many near death experiences. Nobody believed in me,but I’m still here by God’s grace and love.

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?

I was born in Inglewood,CA. Raised in Hawthorne,CA. I’ve always had a passion for music,but I put it on the backburner for years. I’ve struggled with depression for years because of my home life and school life I got bullied for my looks for a long time. While that was happening, I mentally escaped by watching Anime,discovering kpop, and all genres of music. I was a huge fan of panic at disco and Shinee. Shinee saved my life. Taemin was my favorite. Then onew grew on me. As i got older i got into nct 127. I was so lonely and those boys really cheered me up. They felt like my friends. I didn’t really have true friends. I Still don’t really. Except for one person that I met this year. He has stuck by my side while Ive been healing. I had really bad social anxiety growing. I wore my hair in my face.I would start shaking when I had to interact with people. It took years of therapy to heal my anxiety. I’m okay now. It’s possible to heal from anxiety. Trust me, I had it really bad. I even performed In from of a small crowd recently. I gave up on life when I was younger. I ditched school all time. I barely graduated high school. College was a bad time time for me. I didn’t plan to live until I 18. I had very Severe depression. I went to college for 4 years but never graduated. Then this year I decided to take my faith seriously. God changed my life. Im happier and I’m healing. Honestly,it took 18 years to really shake my depression and negative way of thinking. I met some good people at church. They make life more better. That are very supportive. So I’m doing great right now. I feel like I’m going to accomplish alot next year. I’m going back to college to finish my degree. I’m getting a better job. I met my best friend. I have hope for the future. Keep a eye out for my mixtape that’s coming at the end of this year. It’s called its self titled .Shannon.La.Goddesss. or I might call it poet. Thank you guys so much!

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Empathy,kindness, and sensitivity. These three traits are natural to me. It’s how I got the nickname Angel. In this current world we need more people with these traits. There’s emphasis on being rude or “savage” as possible nowaday. Learn how to be kinder. Do something nice for someone. Uplift someone. Listen to someone, even if you cant fix their problem. That all what I have to say on that.

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?

Definitely improve in areas your not strong in. If I didn’t do that I would have lost everyone and everything. For example I’m currently working on my emotional intelligence right now. I used to have bad anger issue and was overly sensitive. The smallest thing would make me flip out. I didn’t know to handle stress. You go low,I go lower. I used to live by that quote. I had a wake up call when I almost died. I knew I couldn’t live like that. God gave me another chance. Because of all thing I went through I took out my pain on people I cared about. I’m still struggle alittle how to be calm and not take things personally. I have someone in my life right now that I’m scared of losing so I’m working on myself still. I’ve realized i still have alot of ways to go being in my current friendship. He’s my first friend after 6 years of being alone. I’ve made alot if progress on being a better person. He’s very patient and good to me. Thank you,ill return the favor to you and make your life better as you did in mines. I love you guys! Thanks for reading!

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