We were lucky to catch up with EbonyJanice Moore recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi EbonyJanice, thank you so much for opening up with us about some important, but sometimes personal topics. One that really matters to us is overcoming Imposter Syndrome because we’ve seen how so many people are held back in life because of this and so we’d really appreciate hearing about how you overcame Imposter Syndrome.
I was having a conversation with a Life coach years ago and telling them that the basic conversations about my imposter syndrome that we were having wasn’t working and I needed something deeper. He told me to close my eyes and envision myself standing in the center of my honorable ancestors in the ancestral realm. He added that in the ancestral realm, all of my ancestors are 10ft tall+ so I had to look up to them. He said, envision them all around you in an expanding circle for as far as you can see. Then he said, “Now see your honorable ancestor Emma Jane Baxley (my maternal grandmother) standing right next to you. Look up at her and say, “I’m not good enough.” As I followed along in this guided visualization I stopped in a screeching halt, opened my eyes and said, “Never.” Because I would NEVER tell my grandmother that I’m not good enough. And that is sincerely the end of my imposter syndrome. I recontextualized where my affirmation and authority comes from and that changed the way I move around in this world.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am always intrigued by questions like this because as an entrepreneur creating content most specifically just around my intellectual production, it feels like there really isn’t a title for who it is that I am or what I do. But I would consider myself a thought leader, I’m a trained theologian, I am a cultural critic, and I am a sovereignty coach and mentor. My primary focus in all of the things I just mentioned is Black women. I’m invested in supporting Black women on their journey towards sovereignty, teaching them how to dream.
And I do this through a hip-hop womanist lens, which is me acknowledging that I was simultaneously raised by both hip-hop and in the church language and my framing is a black American cultural dialect and simultaneously a sacred and secular understanding of black people, particularly black women, as holy and divine.
Most recently, I have published a book called All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance. It can be purchased wherever books are sold. I have another book coming out in 2026.
You can subscribe to my newsletter at ebonyjanice.com or at bit.ly/jointfppnewsletter to find out more updates about the title of that book and also ways to continue to grow in community with me.
And I have an ongoing coaching, mentoring project called Dream With Me, and there are three different ways to dream in intimate community with me. One way for people to enter into my dream universe is through a six-week masterclass intensive called Dream Yourself Free. And it’s an easy way to have some intro relationship, getting to know each other through this coaching dynamic and then the opportunity is extended after that to dream with me deeper.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Discipline, obedience, consistency. Period. I want to acknowledge that I do have what I consider a slight gift and a curse, is that I am a Capricorn.
And it’s my Sun sign. And so discipline, obedience and consistency is what Capricorns eat for breakfast. But also, and I call it a gift and a curse because when I want to sit down, it is the deep work that I have to do to really actually sit down.
But being disciplined is going to trump motivation every day of the week because some days no matter how great my motivation is, and your motivation could be your family, your motivation can be some vision board, your motivation can be some ideal that you have of yourself in the future, and it will still fail you. But being disciplined will not.
And so looking back, I’ll say that discipline, obedience and consistency consists of obedience in the sense of I know what spirit has been calling me to and I show up to it on an ongoing basis.
Consistency means that every single day, I give myself permission to answer a series of questions about who it is that I am when I think about myself, what I think about the future version of myself, and I’m consistent in that regard.
As a result of that consistency, it really shows me how to continue showing up for myself.
The advice that I give people on cultivating discipline is both rooted in practicality and spirit. The practicality of discipline is, if you keep doing something, something will happen.
In the sense of, I just keep showing up to the thing that I know that I’m being obedient to, and I do it consistently. Something is going to happen, there’s no way that whatever it was will remain. Something will happen. The spiritual part of that is showing up in discipline and obedience and consistency and cultivating that as a part of your own success story.
It’s actually sitting there with the practical, there’s a Chinese proverb that says the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today, and so knowing that if you plant a seed and do some very basic things. You could go over the top and do some extra things, get some fertilizer, put it in a perfect position to do some other things. But doing very basic things after you plant a seed, it is going to produce something.
So that is both the practical and the spiritual of the best time for you to start it being disciplined, obedient and consistent was 20 years ago.
The second best time is today. And if you go ahead and plant that seed of discipline, obedience and consistency today, you will find in a week, in a month, in a year, in 10 years, in 20 years ongoing that the thing that you started doing consistently has either manifested, evolved, or evolved you.
How can folks who want to work with you connect?
I am currently looking to connect with podcast hosts that would benefit from learning how to self-actualize, decolonize one’s faith, build community for Black women’s Safety and Sovereignty, Dreaming, Softness, & Black Religion and Technology, and Black Girl
activism. Email admin@thefreepeopleproject.com with the subject “Interview” so we can get something scheduled.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.ebonyjanice.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/ebonyjanice
- Other: https://www.patreon.com/ebonyjanice
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