Today's guest is Honey Bell-Bey, a motivational poet, writer, educator, and community advocate, Bell-Bey is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist and the founder and director for The International, Distinguished Gentlemen of Spoken Word, a character based performance troupe for adolescent males who perform on topics of disparities and social injustices. She has performed, directed, and choreographed Spoken Word performances internationally and has received numerous awards and accommodations for her service and activism utilizing poetry as a tool to unite communities around issues in social justice and equity. She was appointed the poet laureate of Cuyahoga County in January 2020, the first poet in sixteen years to hold the position, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Bell-Bey will launch P.O.E.T. (Power Over Emotional Trauma), a project that engages a collective of Cleveland poets and community-based Poet Educators to give voice to community needs, issues, and social justice concerns. The project will include a series of writing workshops celebrating poetry, healing, and community that will engage community members who do not traditionally see themselves as writers. The project will conclude with a collaborative publication.

Our conversation explores impact of vulnerability and accountability on our leadership.  What we do with the time we have. . .personal development, building relationships, following our passions, pursuing our purpose?  Our discussion touch on those topics and others as we think about reclaiming our time, even if it is from ourselves.

Below is the link to Honey's YouTube channel. . . check out her videos!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-PpjoQEhwtS2Gl1lKSWWw/videos