Ophelia
@drohbe.bsky.social
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• Finer Woman 💤🕊️
• Ice cream maven 🤌🏾
• Encourager of folks 🙌🏾
• Admirer of all forms beauty 😍
• Leadership coach/consultant 💡💡
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In my chrysalis… 🔄🔜🦋
If “Invictus” was in tangible form:
February 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If “Invictus” was in tangible form:
This book is worth your time.
Great as an audiobook, btw.
Great as an audiobook, btw.
February 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This book is worth your time.
Great as an audiobook, btw.
Great as an audiobook, btw.
This powerful thread reminds me of this powerful book of poems:
December 23, 2024 at 3:37 PM
This powerful thread reminds me of this powerful book of poems:
Not to mention the hell that’s been endured being in organizational cultures that felt obligated, even forced, to let Black folks in — especially in leadership circles, and particularly at the executive level.
This graphic rings too true for so many — Black men, as well:
This graphic rings too true for so many — Black men, as well:
December 20, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Not to mention the hell that’s been endured being in organizational cultures that felt obligated, even forced, to let Black folks in — especially in leadership circles, and particularly at the executive level.
This graphic rings too true for so many — Black men, as well:
This graphic rings too true for so many — Black men, as well:
This is so me:
Observer, with drinks and [maybe] a convo flowing.
Observer, with drinks and [maybe] a convo flowing.
December 13, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This is so me:
Observer, with drinks and [maybe] a convo flowing.
Observer, with drinks and [maybe] a convo flowing.
Self-care in progress:
Reheated pepperoni pizza with lots of Italian seasoning and garlic powder,
Room-temperature ginger beer,
Big, plush throw,
And…
Reheated pepperoni pizza with lots of Italian seasoning and garlic powder,
Room-temperature ginger beer,
Big, plush throw,
And…
December 11, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Self-care in progress:
Reheated pepperoni pizza with lots of Italian seasoning and garlic powder,
Room-temperature ginger beer,
Big, plush throw,
And…
Reheated pepperoni pizza with lots of Italian seasoning and garlic powder,
Room-temperature ginger beer,
Big, plush throw,
And…
Seriously though:
Develop the courage and competency to clarify.
Don’t leave a conversation or space with questions. It’s unfair to you. It’s also unfair to the other person(s) because your acquiescence cosplayed as alignment.
Clarification curbs chatter and chaos.
Develop the courage and competency to clarify.
Don’t leave a conversation or space with questions. It’s unfair to you. It’s also unfair to the other person(s) because your acquiescence cosplayed as alignment.
Clarification curbs chatter and chaos.
December 8, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Seriously though:
Develop the courage and competency to clarify.
Don’t leave a conversation or space with questions. It’s unfair to you. It’s also unfair to the other person(s) because your acquiescence cosplayed as alignment.
Clarification curbs chatter and chaos.
Develop the courage and competency to clarify.
Don’t leave a conversation or space with questions. It’s unfair to you. It’s also unfair to the other person(s) because your acquiescence cosplayed as alignment.
Clarification curbs chatter and chaos.
We need this message today and everyday.
Thank you, Queen Niecey.
::Note the banner pic on my pfp. This song is the first thing I thought of when I learned about #BlackSky.
🙂↕️🖤🫶🏾::
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LWY3xB/
Thank you, Queen Niecey.
::Note the banner pic on my pfp. This song is the first thing I thought of when I learned about #BlackSky.
🙂↕️🖤🫶🏾::
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LWY3xB/
November 24, 2024 at 1:43 PM
We need this message today and everyday.
Thank you, Queen Niecey.
::Note the banner pic on my pfp. This song is the first thing I thought of when I learned about #BlackSky.
🙂↕️🖤🫶🏾::
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LWY3xB/
Thank you, Queen Niecey.
::Note the banner pic on my pfp. This song is the first thing I thought of when I learned about #BlackSky.
🙂↕️🖤🫶🏾::
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LWY3xB/
When you understand that YOU are your brand, ‘brand development’ takes on higher, wider, and deeper dimensions.
#BlackSky
#Leadership
#SelfLeadership
#Career
#BlackSky
#Leadership
#SelfLeadership
#Career
November 21, 2024 at 12:31 PM
When you understand that YOU are your brand, ‘brand development’ takes on higher, wider, and deeper dimensions.
#BlackSky
#Leadership
#SelfLeadership
#Career
#BlackSky
#Leadership
#SelfLeadership
#Career
Their “No” is simply my “Not them.”
They keep trying to come between me and my head-to-toe-Bottega goals, but God…
Back to the drawing board I go!
They keep trying to come between me and my head-to-toe-Bottega goals, but God…
Back to the drawing board I go!
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Their “No” is simply my “Not them.”
They keep trying to come between me and my head-to-toe-Bottega goals, but God…
Back to the drawing board I go!
They keep trying to come between me and my head-to-toe-Bottega goals, but God…
Back to the drawing board I go!
This snippet will be in heavy rotation the next four years.
Thanks, Z and Noon! 💜🖤
Thanks, Z and Noon! 💜🖤
November 14, 2024 at 11:19 PM
This snippet will be in heavy rotation the next four years.
Thanks, Z and Noon! 💜🖤
Thanks, Z and Noon! 💜🖤
These quotes resonate right now:
November 8, 2024 at 1:12 AM
These quotes resonate right now:
Regarding current tragic events in American politics:
November 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Regarding current tragic events in American politics:
Bringing this back, plus some more of his evergreen musings here:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/h-l-mencken-on-democracy-government-and-politics/
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/h-l-mencken-on-democracy-government-and-politics/
November 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Bringing this back, plus some more of his evergreen musings here:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/h-l-mencken-on-democracy-government-and-politics/
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/h-l-mencken-on-democracy-government-and-politics/
What fuels your advocacy/activism:
Compassion?
Shared core values?
Identity affinity?
Common foe?
Helper/Hero tendencies (or, complex)?
Compassion?
Shared core values?
Identity affinity?
Common foe?
Helper/Hero tendencies (or, complex)?
November 12, 2024 at 9:29 AM
What fuels your advocacy/activism:
Compassion?
Shared core values?
Identity affinity?
Common foe?
Helper/Hero tendencies (or, complex)?
Compassion?
Shared core values?
Identity affinity?
Common foe?
Helper/Hero tendencies (or, complex)?
Sistas, let me hold your capes for you — for safekeeping…and so you resist the urge to immediately respond to the next distress call.
When the next big cause comes around, let’s *first* huddle to assess risk, value-add to the greater good and, yes, mutual benefit. If we
When the next big cause comes around, let’s *first* huddle to assess risk, value-add to the greater good and, yes, mutual benefit. If we
November 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Sistas, let me hold your capes for you — for safekeeping…and so you resist the urge to immediately respond to the next distress call.
When the next big cause comes around, let’s *first* huddle to assess risk, value-add to the greater good and, yes, mutual benefit. If we
When the next big cause comes around, let’s *first* huddle to assess risk, value-add to the greater good and, yes, mutual benefit. If we
This graphic will always be right on time.
Source: https://coco-net.org/problem-woman-colour-nonprofit-organizations/
Source: https://coco-net.org/problem-woman-colour-nonprofit-organizations/
November 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
This graphic will always be right on time.
Source: https://coco-net.org/problem-woman-colour-nonprofit-organizations/
Source: https://coco-net.org/problem-woman-colour-nonprofit-organizations/
It was not a good day to go out into my moderately-MAGA community.
I saw a group of three men. One had on a police officer’s uniform. Of the other two, who were in plain clothes, one had on a shirt that had a huge “1776” on the front.
I —
I just —
I saw a group of three men. One had on a police officer’s uniform. Of the other two, who were in plain clothes, one had on a shirt that had a huge “1776” on the front.
I —
I just —
November 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
It was not a good day to go out into my moderately-MAGA community.
I saw a group of three men. One had on a police officer’s uniform. Of the other two, who were in plain clothes, one had on a shirt that had a huge “1776” on the front.
I —
I just —
I saw a group of three men. One had on a police officer’s uniform. Of the other two, who were in plain clothes, one had on a shirt that had a huge “1776” on the front.
I —
I just —
One thing you can count on:
When We are frustrated, hurt, disappointed, shocked…
…We turn that energy inward.
The race to say “I knew it!” or shoulda/woulda/coulda certainly is well underway!
Folks, Kamala ran a REMARKABLE campaign…and America gon’ America.
When We are frustrated, hurt, disappointed, shocked…
…We turn that energy inward.
The race to say “I knew it!” or shoulda/woulda/coulda certainly is well underway!
Folks, Kamala ran a REMARKABLE campaign…and America gon’ America.
November 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
One thing you can count on:
When We are frustrated, hurt, disappointed, shocked…
…We turn that energy inward.
The race to say “I knew it!” or shoulda/woulda/coulda certainly is well underway!
Folks, Kamala ran a REMARKABLE campaign…and America gon’ America.
When We are frustrated, hurt, disappointed, shocked…
…We turn that energy inward.
The race to say “I knew it!” or shoulda/woulda/coulda certainly is well underway!
Folks, Kamala ran a REMARKABLE campaign…and America gon’ America.
To all the rabble-rousers who irrationally, illogically popped poop about -cides and sides over the last 3 months…only to post about voting for Kamala today:
November 12, 2024 at 9:39 AM
To all the rabble-rousers who irrationally, illogically popped poop about -cides and sides over the last 3 months…only to post about voting for Kamala today:
From the instant I heard that Pres. Biden endorsed MVP Harris, I believed she could and would be our next POTUS.
I still believe.
Did my part.
I still believe.
Did my part.
November 12, 2024 at 9:40 AM
From the instant I heard that Pres. Biden endorsed MVP Harris, I believed she could and would be our next POTUS.
I still believe.
Did my part.
I still believe.
Did my part.
November 12, 2024 at 9:40 AM