Serving Up Soul with Niya Brown Matthews

Niya Brown Matthews is a force to be reckoned with. She is a certified life coach, author, motivational speaker and so much more. It is her purpose in life to empower women through transparency and authenticity. Her “Soul Food Sessions with Niya” allow women to reconnect mind, body and soul.  Let’s meet Niya.  

FW: Good Morning Niya. I am so excited about this interview! Introduce yourself and your business? 

NBM: I am a certified life coach, author, motivational speaker, mother, wife, two-time breast cancer survivor, Ambassador for Ford’s Warriors in Pink and have retired from 20 years in real estate to begin Chapter 2 of my life which is Women’s Empowerment.  

FW:  Tell me about Soul Food Sessions with Niya.  

NBM:  Soul Food Sessions with Niya is a women’s empowerment organization that’s geared around motivating and inspiring them to become better versions of themselves-mind, body and soul. Most of the time, we as women, career women, mothers and corporate executives are always on the go doing everything for everybody.  I am concerned about our centering part, which is neglected.  I wanted to design a platform to pour back into the women who are everything to everybody.  Women’s empowerment is the core of who I am.  I wanted to create something that was God led.  God is my foundation. 

FW: How do you handle stress in your business?   

NBM:  I am a praying woman and I do know the order of my household: God, family and then success. My prayer life is on 10.  I learned to shut out all the ways of the world. I listen to inspirational music. I shut down for an hour every morning: prayer, music, worship mode and I read the Word.  

Read more of this dynamic interview with Niya in our March print issue!

Gracia Rich

Gracia is a freelance writer and Co-Author of the 2018 anthology release, Letters to Our Daughters, as well as a contributing writer for Today’s Purpose Woman Magazine. She has written devotionals for Our Bible App and is a current blogger at www.godandglowing.com, www.dearshorthair.com and www.thebestiecode.com. You can find her at her website at www.graciacrich.com.