Latasha Ferguson

Joy is not naïve…it’s an act of resistance.

✨Soaking up time with my favorite sister
✨Celebrating shared July birthdays with my sister friends (turned 45🎉)
✨Date night supporting local talent
✨Devouring THE BEST mustard BBQ ribs and fried chicken The Monroe
✨Celebrating Caboose being named MVP—20+pts
✨Helping launch her 💅🏾 business (12 clients week 1️⃣)
✨My happy place🏃🏾‍♀️—fighting to live well
✨Mya voting 🗳️ for the first time 🎉
✨Moving #3 into her college dorm at FIU
✨Co-leading the Made for PAX retreat—welcoming 80+ fellows
✨Late night conversations with fierce leaders I admire
✨Taking in God’s handiwork 🥹😍

Loved my time away and unplugged (almost didn’t come back here 😂😮‍💨).

How have you been leaning into joy lately?

We didn’t choose this. We absorbed it just to survive.

Swipe through 👉🏾and ask yourself: when’s the last time you really asked for help?

Share this with someone who needs this reminder.

And…ask for the cup of sugar 🤎

Dear future, here she comes👩🏾‍🎓✨…Three graduations later, and I’m still a puddle every time. 😭

Special bonus: Lamar was able to be on stage to hand Mya her diploma—such a special moment 🥹.

One more to go. 🎉 I’m so grateful. God is good. 🙏🏾

Hello summer hair ☀️😍 a new cut was way overdue and Aida did her thing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.

The before and after is proof that this refresh was way overdue 😅🫣

This is your sign to stop putting off the one thing you’ve been wanting to do for yourself because you’ve been doing all the things for everyone else. 🤎

The doors that closed may have saved me.

So many stories I could share of doors closing that broke my heart. I thought it was because I had failed. Now I see that my inability to set boundaries would have did me all the way in and everything and everyone around me would have been impacted.

I’m naturally a giver…a helper, a strong advocate, strategic problem solver, and lover of people. This has worked in my favor and so many ways but it’s also been my Achilles heel.

Now, I know that.

I’ve learned not to shame myself because of it. Instead, acknowledge it and then strengthen my ability to set boundaries unapologetically. Surround myself with people who will respect them and hold me accountable for setting them.

I didn’t see the full picture then but now I do. And I’m so grateful I let those doors shut and didn’t allow myself to be torn down while trying to prop them open with my foot.

The doors that closed may have saved me.

So many stories I could share of doors closing that broke my heart. I thought it was because I had failed. Now I see that my inability to set boundaries would have did me all the way in and everything and everyone around me would have been impacted.

I’m naturally a giver…a helper, a strong advocate, strategic problem solver, and lover of people. This has worked in my favor and so many ways but it’s also been my Achilles heel.

Now, I know that.

I’ve learned not to shame myself because of it. Instead, acknowledge it and then strengthen my ability to set boundaries unapologetically. Surround myself with people who will respect them and hold me accountable for setting them.

I didn't see the full picture then but now I do. And I'm so grateful I let those doors shut and didn't allow myself to be torn down while trying to prop them open with my foot.

Do it for her. Keep going for her.

You’ve been quitting on the small things because you cannot see the results yet. I get it. In a world that praises fast results, the small steps may feel pointless.

Your 70-year-old self is being built right now…little by little in the ordinary, in the quiet, and in the choices nobody sees. It all matters. All of it is moving the needle.

Rooting for you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Don’t wait for Monday or a new month. What small step can you continue today?

All the late nights, extra effort, going above and beyond until above and beyond became our baseline. None of it moved the needle.

The decision was never about our performance. It was about their perception.

We cannot work our way out of someone else’s bias (read that again).

So we shift from asking how do I prove myself here and we start asking why are we still trying to?

I have learned that when we stop performing for people who were never going to applaud, we finally have the energy to build something that was always ours to build.

I used to think losing the passion meant something was wrong with me. So I’d recommit. Push harder. Remind myself why I started.

What if the drift was actually the direction?

There’s a difference between resistance and release.

Your spirit can leave before your schedule does.

If you’re waiting for it to be perfect, you might be delaying the very thing that could impact someone else.

Start where you are.

Keep the main thing the main thing, not the numbers, the aesthetics, or the pressure.

Focus on the impact.

What is something that almost kept you from starting that we do not talk about enough?