Meet Ayesha Faines

We recently connected with Ayesha Faines and have shared our conversation below.

Ayesha, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

Ayesha was born to two educated first generation professionals. Both her parents families migrated to Newark, NJ from the south for better opportunities. Her mother, the valedictorian in her high school graduating class knew that education was her only ticket to success and an opportunity to attend college. Ayesha’s parents wanted to start a family as her dad was in his second year of law school and her mom was finishing up a Internal medicine residency. Two years before Ayesha was born her mother signed a contract to begin a Gastroenterology fellowship. This was quite an accomplishment because there was only a hand full of female gastroenterologist in the country. She was one of the 6 fellows chosen from a pool of 200 primarily Caucasian men, therefore timing was critical. Before Ayesha was born, her parents who were avid readers began reading to her in utero and continued after her birth. Her mother truly believed that nursing babies gave them more confidence and studies showed them to be more intelligent. So for 4 weeks her mother loved, bonded, nursed and read to her, then she handed her off to her dad who studied for law school with one hand and held her with the other, yet she would continue to nurse for 15 months after work. Her parents started her personal library at 2 months and read to her daily. She saw everyone around her reading and her books became a source of pride. She told stories about the pictures until she could actually read which occurred at 5. She loved to phonetically read the words on flash cards until she could read anything by age 7. She also loved to write. In preschool she would journal in hieroglyphics until the words made sense. She was a gifted writer and her college essay to Yale left her interviewer eager to meet her.
After College she was hired as a reporter for a news station in Jacksonville Fla. WJXT, where she learned how to write stories, interview, shoot and edit stories. She worked very hard as a 23-year-old in a town with no family. Up at 3am, in makeup and on air at 5am and home by 6 in time for bed. She had a strong work ethic because she watched her parents as business owners and she knew the job did not end at an appointed hour. After 3 years she decided that although she was very successful in her job as a TV reporter, she did not want anyone to have such control over her fate, so she decided to her producers’ surprise that she would not renew her contract. She had confidence in herself, and she always landed on her feet because she was driven, hardworking, very intelligent, a great thinker, a great speaker and she was so pleasant everyone who met her loved her. With that, she took everything she learned in Fla and moved back to NJ. If she could not work in the NY area she would not work in TV. She did land a job in NY but it was a small station that was struggling. They laid her off in the second round of cuts but asked her back and she said no. Ultimately, she was introduced to a producer at My 9 who was so impressed that he said he did not have an opening, but he would make a spot for her. He had not cleared this with his superiors so the day before she was to start, he called to say that because everyone at the station had to audition, she would need to as well. She was auditioned live for 2 weeks, and she was wonderful. After her 2 weeks they auditioned a white male with no TV experience and offered him the job. She was so out done, she vowed to never work for anyone ever again, and she never did.
Six months later the concept of Women Love Power was born. She read and read and researched for 2 years. She said this had to work because there was no plan B. Plan B was to work harder at Plan A. She used every skill she learned as a reporter combined with her love of reading, writing and speaking. She developed the 7 Female Archetypes, trademarked and copyrighted them, she created an extensive free test that defined the archetype and created videos of masterclasses that are for sale on the website www.womenlovepower.com. The site was launched in 2017 and by 2021 there were more than $800,000 in course sales and continue to be sold.
Ayesha helped so many women all over the world find their power, she watched her mother navigate in a man’s world, demanding respect yet maintaining her femininity and power. Her passion would be fighting for women and helping them to live their best lives. She spoke her truth and lived on purpose. She was unapologetically a powerful woman. She became an authority on feminine Archetypes and was highly sought after by Universities Nationally and Internationally, TV shows, Radio show, magazines and was well known for her wit and intelligence on the Grapevine.
As a child she always knew she was blessed, unlike her parents who were born into poverty and ascended, she lived a comfortable life. She was always told that we have a lot of money to keep her humble, but she always responded,” but we have more than many people”. Consequently, she was always very generous. She gave to so many charities, especially to support women and she sought out and supported many women run companies from lingerie to fragrances. She would always give freely to the homeless

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Ayesha K Faines is the founder of Women Love Power, a digital platform designed to help women live their best life while redefining and reimagining what it means to be feminine and powerful. It is an educational tool full of years of research and knowledge . Ayesha has created a comprehensive quiz that defines the major personality types or female Archetypes then she takes a deep dive into those characters qualities good and bad, strengths and weaknesses,, family, work and love life. She is credited world wide for her work.
Since her transition in 2021 a foundation has been established, Ayesha K Faines Foundation, Inc., to preserve her legacy and is dedicated to fighting poverty amongst children of color born into poverty,
www.ayeshakfainesfoundation.org

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?

Reading and researching was critical to her success. She read thousands of books on female personality traits and related them to Greek mythology. She synthesized the traits into characters and related them to well known celebrities. The courses helped to understand strengths and weaknesses. She made herself an authority on the subject. Knowledge is power, and her knowledge was sought after. She was a great educator. From a little girl she had an imaginary class room that she spent hours teaching. She was preparing to teach the world

To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?

Her parents taught her to read and to thirst for knowledge. Her parents exposed her to many cultural experiences, ballet, theater, museums, vacations and allowed her to attend Yale university without debt. She was then told if she wanted to continue her privileged life she would have to work hard to maintain it. She was not encouraged to pursue medicine or law, she was told to do what ever she was passionate about, If she found something she loved so much she could do it for free and she got paid for it, that would the ultimate career. That is what she did.

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• Website: https://www.WomenLovePower.com
• Instagram: ayeshakfaines
• Youtube: Ayesha K Faines

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