• Serena Brown-Travis
• Daughter of the legendary motivational speaker Les Brown.
• Native of Ohio, USA.
• Accomplishments: Author, restaurateur, and minister.

· Acknowledge Your Pain

• Personal Struggles: Serena shares her struggles with low self-esteem, self-worth, and confidence despite her father’s positive influence.
• Recognizing Pain: She stresses the importance of recognizing and acknowledging personal pain instead of sweeping it under the rug.
• Metaphor of the Lump: Serena uses the metaphor of a “lump under the rug” to describe the growing, visible signs of unresolved pain.

· Tackle Your Pain

• Active Approach: Serena emphasizes the need to actively tackle pain rather than passively praying it away or ignoring it.
• Confronting Challenges: She discusses how confronting pain can be uncomfortable and even painful, likening it to ripping off a band-aid.

· Succeed in Spite of It

• Overcoming Adversity: Serena shares how overcoming pain and adversity is essential to success.
• Personal and Spiritual Growth: She highlights the importance of prayer, gratitude, and surrounding oneself with supportive people as key strategies to succeed despite hardships.

· Acknowledge the Pain (A)

• Identify and accept the source of your pain.
• Understand that suppressing or ignoring pain only exacerbates it.

· Tackle the Pain (T)

• Take deliberate actions to address and overcome your pain.
• Avoid becoming passive or casual in dealing with personal challenges.

· Succeed in Spite of It (S)

• Use pain and adversity as a catalyst for growth and success.
• Shift focus from limitations to possibilities, allowing challenges to fuel your determination.

· The Power of Faith and Mentorship

• Serena shares how faith and mentorship from Antonio T. Smith Jr. and others helped her confront and overcome her challenges.

· Resilience and Gratitude

• Emphasizes the importance of gratitude and resilience, even in the face of overwhelming obstacles like her COVID-19 diagnosis.

· Facing Difficult Truths

• Encourages honesty with oneself about past hurts and pain as the first step towards healing and success.

• Call to Action
• Serena motivates listeners to acknowledge their pain, tackle it head-on, and ultimately succeed despite it.
• She ends with an uplifting message about overcoming adversity and encourages her audience to reflect on their own journey.