As an Afro-Latina girl growing up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, it looked like I had it made. 

Attending top private institutions by day, surrounded by Black excellence and culture by night. 

But none of it was enough to fill a bottomless void I felt from a young age. 

In high school, I blamed it on my lack of stable fatherhood. By college, I was blaming it on my emotionally abusive and manipulative boyfriends. But just shy of 27, after a devastating situationship, my self-esteem was crushed. 

I put down the magnifying glass and picked up a mirror. 

“Gabi, you are the common denominator.” 

I swallowed that pill as if my life depended on it. 

I left a job that had me working at the Director level, but paying me Coordinator money. Turned my focus away from dating and toward prayer, meditation, and my relationship to my Higher Power. And traded in every relationship that was draining me, for a community that uplifted my ideas.  

Then came the birth of GG The Writing Genius. 

I had no job prospects and needed money, like yesterday. I pulled my strengths as a non-profit leader who managed 6-figure grant portfolios, together with my strengths as an aspiring creative artist who just finished associate producing a short film for 2 award-winning directors.

Within 1 year, I had a portfolio of 8 mission-driven brands. I helped them get clear about their goals and how to start communicating with their audience in a meaningful way.

But I noticed a trend in my portfolio. 60% of my clients were female and struggling to push past a revenue ceiling. It wasn’t because their ideas sucked. It was because they dulled their intuition and made decisions that spread them thin – aka rooted in low-self worth.

This sounded familiar to me. It sounded like me 1 year ago.

Women were in danger of letting years of their lives pass, only to realize that they contained the power to make a small, but powerful change, all along.

And then it dawned on me. I believed my life story was tragic. But it’s actually living proof to other women that they can become who they dream of being and make a bag too.

GG The Writing Genius is about gently sitting my fellow sisters down and reaffirming that you aren’t crazy. The low self-worth decisions you’re making are being reinforced in your day-to-day.

But if I have the power to become a bad a** woman, so do you.