Courageous Conversations with Rev. LaKesha Womack

Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Philip Butler is an interdisciplinary scholar in neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness. He writes on artificial intelligence, disruptive ethical models, and constructive speculative Black futurisms. His first book, Black Transhuman Liberation theology explores the potential for Black people to integrate technology and spirituality in the work towards materializing realities that are liberating.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Kristian A. Smith as a cultural curator Kristian helps his clients and congregants develop how they see themselves on the inside and how others see them externally. He's a pastor, stylist, theologian and podcaster. 

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Shannon Savoy, CEO of Narc Free Living is our guest where she discusses the need for humility in ministry to avoid spiritual abuse. Learn more at www.narcfreeliving.com

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

For more information on Pastor Will and Lives and Souls Missional Church visit www.livesandsouls.org 

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Dan T. Butler is the equity and Advocacy division Director at Urban League of Rochester. 

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Helen Byrd as soon on The Way Down: God, Greed, And The Cult Of Gwen Shamblin is a five-part docuseries about the Remnant Fellowship Church and its enthralling leader, whose zeal sent her after devout Christians and non-believers alike.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Holly serves as the Senior Director of Community Relations for Crossnore Communities for Children. She is responsible for the development and implementation of all marketing and communication strategies for the organization. Holly also leads Crossnore’s Fostering Communities initiative, which garners community and church support for Crossnore foster families. Holly joined the Crossnore Communities for Children family in 2013. She is married to Jeff and the couple have four children and six grandchildren.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Renita Walker is a 3rd generation preacher and truth teller spreading love and hope through faith, fashion, and the funk! She is a wife, mother, grandmother, The Funky Chaplain, an educator, designer/seamstress, and producer/singer/songwriter performing as Ya-Ya:The Intergalactic Sojourner Truth. Renita is spreading love and hope through faith, fashion, and the funk.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Reverend Terrance L. Thomas is Senior Pastor of Champaign’s historic Bethel AME Church, where he has served since 2019. In addition to these duties, Rev. Thomas serves as the Executive Director of Bridgewater-Sullivan Community Life Center, a non-profit in Champaign IL. With an undergraduate degree (2007)  in Inner City Studies with a minor in Sociology from Northeastern Illinois University and a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in African American Church Leadership from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (2017).

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Pattie Russo is the Executive Director of The Campaign School at Yale. Patricia Russo is a nationally recognized leader focused on improving the quality of life for women in Connecticut and the United States. For over thirty-five years she has held numerous leadership positions in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations centered on women’s rights. She has also held leadership positions on federal, state, and local political campaigns.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Daniel Schwartz serves as the Executive Director, Faith in Action Alabama. Faith in Action (FIA) is a faith-based community organizing initiative that helps congregations develop their leadership capacity to effectively advocate on issues of concern to them and the wider community. FIA is the Alabama Federation of the PICO National Network.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Willie Dwayne Francois III serves as Senior Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, New Jersey and President of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality. New York Theological Seminary appointed Francois as the Director of the Master of Professional Studies Program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and Assistant Professor of Liberation Theology. His second book, titled Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome our Inaction on Race, is set to be released August 2022 through Brazos Press.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Bernice is a woman of Faith, Business Coach, Marketing Campaign Specialist, Author and has plenty of titles. She has a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Management and serves as the overseer, visionary and designer for Loman Creative Services, Loman Creative Marketing and MoTalents. It’s definitely possible through God’s grace. She has a passion for marketing campaigns, business development, economic growth, as well as developing inspiring business owners, entrepreneurs and spiritual leaders.

Antwain Jackson is a creative voice in the church and an innovative leader gaining the respect of business owners and corporate executives. He has been in ministry for 20 years, and most of those years having served in leadership capacities. Currently, Antwain is the Senior Pastor of the Equation Church in St. Louis, Missouri and he oversees and mentors pastors and leaders throughout the country. 

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy, DMin., the CEO of Thoughtful Transitions, is deeply committed to challenging the societal norms that make death a forbidden topic for so many people, Dr. Eaddy-Chism helps cultivate sacred spaces for exploring our mortality. Her work with loss does not center solely on the end of life. Instead, she helps people navigate all kinds of loss, including losing a relationship, identity, normalcy, dreams, hope, etc. Providing trauma-informed care, community healing, and dismantling a system that disregards black life, silences black grief, and ignores black death is her life's passion and purpose.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Dr. Ulysses W. Burley III is the founder of UBtheCURE, LLC - a consulting company on the intersection of Faith, Health, and Human Rights with expertise in HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. Although his formal training is in medicine and public health, Ulysses’ primary work has been in HIV and AIDS education, awareness, advocacy, and capacity building, but also includes LGBTQIA+, gender, and racial justice. Currently, Ulysses is the Project Director for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) Faith Initiative to connect with diverse faith communities to share evidence-based information regarding HIV and biomedical interventions being developed for its treatment and prevention.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould is a native of Demopolis Alabama, 47 miles west of Selma where her mother fought for voter rights. Dr. Gould inherited the mantle to do justice and as product of and practitioner in the Black Church. She is ordained Elder in the A.M.E. Church, the founder of Beyond the Walls Ministries and the new Chief Strategist to the Faith Leadership Strategist Team at Faith in Action in DC.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Sistaotey was introduced to urban gardening in 2002 as a remedy when she was diagnosed with severe clinical depression. She started with one flower pot on her patio in Los Angeles which her curiosity then grew into certifications and training as a master composter and a community garden leader. By 2014 Sistaotey's gardening hobby was added as a component of her holistic services in the form of garden coaching and community garden management. In 2020, the empty shelves in the grocery stores introduced Sistaotey to the food justice movement and she has added food apartheid abolitionist and urban micro-farmer to her resume.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

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On this episode Rev. LaKesha Womack and her guest Rev. Timothy Careathers chat about white Evangelicals in Black Face. Is the enemy hiding in plain sight?

Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Pastor Timothy Careathers is the senior pastor/teacher of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, located in Fayetteville, NC and is married to the former Jill L. Baskerville. Pastor Careathers’ commitment to social justice and prophetic witness is not only evident in his proclamation of the Gospel but in his community activism and civic leadership throughout his ministry. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Hamilton County Black Caucus in Chattanooga, TN and founder and former board chair of The Net Resource Foundation, an asset based non-profit organization.

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On this episode, Rev. LaKesha Womack and her guest Rev. Timothy Careathers chat about white Evangelicals in Black Face. Is the enemy hiding in plain sight?

Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Pastor Timothy Careathers is the senior pastor/teacher of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, located in Fayetteville, NC, and is married to the former Jill L. Baskerville. Pastor Careathers’ commitment to social justice and prophetic witness is not only evident in his proclamation of the Gospel but in his community activism and civic leadership throughout his ministry. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Hamilton County Black Caucus in Chattanooga, TN, and founder and former board chair of The Net Resource Foundation, an asset-based non-profit organization.

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Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Rev. Dr. Danielle J. Buhuro is the Founder, Executive Director, and ACPE Certified Educator at Sankofa CPE Center, LLC. She is certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). She was also board certified in the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). Rev. Dr. Buhuro is an ordained clergy with ministerial standing in the Illinois Conference’s Chicago Metropolitan Association of the United Church of Christ (UCC).

Mentioned During the Show: CPE accredited online Clinical Pastoral Education

Rev. LaKesha has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant with Womack Consulting Group. Through the firm, she has worked with clients worldwide to provide Brand Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, and Political Advising. As a result of her work with colleges, corporations, small business owners, and not for profits, she began working as a Church Growth Consultant in 2016. #RethinkingChurch Strategies is categorized as a social impact community focused on providing tools and resources for ministry leaders to create healthy congregations and communities.

Rev. Dr. Danielle J. Buhuro is the Founder, Executive Director, and ACPE Certified Educator at Sankofa CPE Center, LLC. She is certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). She was also board certified in the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). Rev. Dr. Buhuro is an ordained clergy with ministerial standing in the Illinois Conference’s Chicago Metropolitan Association of the United Church of Christ (UCC).

Mentioned During the Show: CPE accredited online Clinical Pastoral Education