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✨My Degree is in Music but I do everything else. Creative, Community, Consultant | CEO @kfortheculture Arts @renadances Curator: @_colorandcharisma

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✨STILL CELEBRATING A NEW YEAR OF LIFE! I wonder what age 29🎂 will have in store. For now, we reflect! …MAN! WHAT A YEAR! You think you haven’t done much until you really take time to stop and take inventory🥹GOD IS THE GREATEST! … 27 was a life changing experience. Went silent for 7 months up until a few weeks before my 28th. Came out of a dark season SWINGING! I’ve talked enough about the losses. HERE ARE THE WINS🏆Comeback season was well worth it!🔥 #RenaSpeaks•Launched my first Talk Show #DatingStoriesWithKay•My First Magazine Interview Article: Link in Bio•My 2nd Magazine Feature: Link in Bio•Made my return as a Featured Artist after a year break.•(Poetry has taken me far but I’ve wanted to expand as a SPEAKER) My First out of state event as a SPEAKER ✈️CHICAGOI LOVE doing Spoken Word/Poetry but honestly? I LIVE for Panels, Podcasts, Radio, Roundtables, and giving a good ol Speech! Cheers to more of 🗣️ALLUVIT 🥂 #RenaSpeaks 💜*I do not own the rights to this music*#poet #blackpoet #blackpoetry #blackpoetsociety #blackcreatives #blackcreators #spokenwoed #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordartist #spokenwordpoet #speaker #speaking #publicspeaking #motivationalspeaker #keynotespeaker #travel #travelgram #atl #atlanta #chicago #recap #birthday #newmonth #august #helloaugust by @_renaspeaks

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✨I literally ended 2023 speechless…in awe of God. I have no #NewYearsResolution I made the decision awhile ago to put my foot on the gas and ima just keep it there. 🤍Year 2 of #ProCheer 🏀🤍Year 1 of #DanceMinistry🤍The #DatingStoriesWithKay Show🤍#RenaSpeaks in other states🤍@reelrecklesspodcast 🤍Reel Reckless Live Recording🤍@kfortheculture productions turns 3🤍2HotRadio BET Showcase Nomination🤍Political Campaign Manager🤍Birthed new things I have yet to announce..🤍3 Magazine Features:🌸🌸🌸LINKS TO READ IN MY BIO✨I spent enough time tryna prove myself to others. This year was all about proving my obedience to God & God proving himself to me. So if my humility is ever in question from here on out, I’ll leave you with this quote someone close shared with me…IT FREED ME: “Humility is owed to God, not People.” And that’s the business I’m standing on. FREE🦋#MyRecapIsMyResume2023 was the year to #EMERGE & I did just that. 2024 is the year to #EXCEL…#yearrecap #RenaDances by @_renaspeaks

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✨A #SpokenWord Performance by #RenaSpeaks”CREATIVITY”This is me. The real me. This is my sound. The real sound. May all those who see this feel their God-given boldness and tap into their Limitless Power. May all that has tried to silence you bare witness to your resilience. #2023 . Emerge🎤 #happynewyear #spokenwordartist #spokenwordpoetry #blackpoet #blackpoets #slampoetry #slampoet #poet #poetry by @_renaspeaks

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📚✏️BOOK A SPEAKER YOUR SCHOOL WILL REMEMBER! From Girl Scouts, Boys & Girls Clubs, After School Programs to Classrooms & Gymnasiums! #RenaSpeaks for ALL ages (Elementary-Collegiate)🎤💻 renaspeaks4u@gmail.com✨Interactive Assemblies ✨Lesson Role Playing•Self Esteem•Bully Prevention•Conflict Resolution•Reading Circles•Literacy Matters•Public Speaking•Young Entrepreneurs •Career Prepardness•Creative Writing•Black History Month•Women’s History Month📌Also a Spoken Word-Poet & Dance Teacher#KForTheCulture #Speaker #BackToSchool #youthmentor by @_renaspeaks

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🎉 IT’S OFFICIAL! 🎉 The Standing Light Foundation proudly presents the ✨ 10th Annual Psoriasis Awareness Gala ✨💜 Seen. Heard. Healed. 💜For the past 10 years, I’ve been creating spaces where individuals living with psoriasis, psoriatic disease, and other chronic illnesses feel seen, supported, empowered, and celebrated. This year marks a decade of advocacy, awareness, education, and community—and we want YOU to be part of it.Join us for an unforgettable evening of inspiration, connection, entertainment, education, and celebration as we continue breaking stigmas and uplifting those impacted by chronic illness.🎤 Hosted by Suave The Poet & Rena Speaks 🤎✨ And trust me... we have some EXCITING special guests joining us this year! Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss the announcements. 🥳📅 Saturday, August 29, 2026📍 5845 Yadkin Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28303-2656🎟️ Tickets available on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987012101685?aff=oddtdtcreatorWhether you’re living with a chronic illness, supporting someone who is, working in healthcare, advocating for change, leading in the community, growing a business, or simply wanting to learn more—this event is for you.We’re currently seeking:💜 Sponsors💜 Vendors💜 Volunteers💜 Community Partners💜 DonorsA heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who has donated, sponsored, volunteered, shared our mission, or supported this event in any way so far. Your kindness is helping us make our biggest celebration yet. 🥹🙌🏾For sponsorship opportunities, vendor registration, volunteer opportunities, donations, or additional information, contact:📧 thestandinglightfoundation@gmail.comTogether, let’s celebrate resilience, raise awareness, build community, and continue creating a future where every person affected by chronic illness feels truly...💜 Seen. Heard. Healed. 💜#PsoriasisAwareness #SeenHeardHealed #StandingLightFoundation #ChronicIllnessAwareness #PsoriasisWarrior MentalHealthMatters CommunityImpact FayettevilleNC HealthAdvocacy PsoriasisGala InvisibleIllness AutoimmuneAwareness CommunityHealing DecadeOfImpact by @_renaspeaks

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💐💐💐THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE LOVE & LIGHT sent my way in celebrating another year of life🫶🏾As a child, I heard hymns that moved me, though I didn’t yet understand. Now, I do and my feet are planted on every word:“Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand”Time is filled with swift transition,naught of earth unmoved can stand;Build your hopes on things eternal,hold to God’s unchanging hand!Trust in Him who will not leave you,whatsoever years may bring;If by earthly friends forsaken,still more closely to Him cling.Covet not this world’s vain richesthat so rapidly decay;Seek to gain the heav’nly treasures,they will never pass away!💐💐💐“I Know Who Holds Tomorrow”I don’t know about tomorrow,I just live from day to day.I don’t borrow from its sunshine,For its skies may turn to gray.I don’t worry o’er the future,For I know what Jesus said,And today I’ll walk beside Him,For He knows what is ahead.Many things about tomorrow,I don’t seem to understand;But I know who holds tomorrow,And I know who holds my hand.Every step is getting brighter,As the golden stairs I climb;Every burden’s getting lighter;Every cloud is silver lined.There the sun is always shining,There no tear will dim the eye,At the ending of the rainbow,Where the mountains touch the sky.📸 @tonimariecreativeco #RenaSpeaks #KForTheCulture #BirthdayGirl #GardenSeason #WomanofGod by @_renaspeaks

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Happy Birthday to me! So anyway, what TEAM are you on? #usherraymond #chrisbrown #teamusher #teambreezy #concert by @_renaspeaks

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✨💐🌸🌻🌹🌱🌷Growing Gracefully. Living Sweetly. Loving Intentionally. Giving Often. Receiving Well.Planted Firmly.Blooming Godly.God’s Grace is sufficient. Sufficient: enough to meet a need or purpose. God’s Sufficient Grace has shown me that I am also sufficient. Thus the embodiment of His Grace.God’s love for you & what He creates in you cannot be earned. You’re loved because you were created. That’s all. You don’t earn it, you just Embrace it.Who or what doesn’t love you is none of your concern.God’s word is a lamp, and it’s become my foundation more than ever before. If that lamp is hidden in your heart, then you have no choice but to shine. Dimming your light means dimming God’s word.The time it takes to be cultivated, to become, to flourish is precious and worth the hard moments in between. Speak well of your hard moments.Rose, don’t despise the thorns. You are beautiful to behold but can only be touched by prepared hands. Thorns are not a sign of weakness but of value. Don’t discount.✨32 was built on the Praise of Psalms, the Wisdom of Proverbs and the Poetry of Song of Solomon and all of the Gospel in between.💐I want to be God’s garden. The place where He trusts things will be planted and grow. Not for aesthetic, but for eternity and most of all, for others.💐 Rena Speaks #BirthdayGirl #ThatGirlSince94 #SummerBorn📸 @tonimariecreativeco by @_renaspeaks

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I just be in them people’s facility doing anything 🤣 but MY BIRTHDAY IS SATURDAY & I’ll be spending it at the R&B Tour 😎 Raymond & Brown, I’m ready 🥳What y’all know bout that Thunder Clap! YEA!#RandBTour #Usher #ChrisBrown #RaymondandBrown #Concert by @_renaspeaks

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✨Color and Charisma is about creating space for others & that’s enough for me! I’m grateful for everyone, especially my mentee Kaia for thinking of me! I’m such a candle girlie 🥰🫶🏾 Finna burn these things slam up! 🤣People don’t have to, but when they do, count it as love💕💙💛It’s almost my birthday! 7/18… & all month long🎂🎉#colorandcharisma #becolorful #beyou #birthdayfun by @_renaspeaks

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✨RECAP | Color & Charisma with Karena💕💙💛 A Gathering for the Girlies 🥂The First of MANY! Good Vibes, Community & Conversation in Color🎨The Girlies showed up, shared, laughed & let their inner child glow & who they are today show ☀️📍NEXT: GOLDSBORO, NC 🚗💨 I’d love to bring this to your city! Where to?! COMMENT✨#ColorandCharisma #BeColorful #BeYou#FayettevilleNC #PicnicInThePark by @_renaspeaks

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✨May this inspire you to take the idea & just go with it!💕💙💛#ColorandCharisma #BeColorful #BeYou#FayettevilleNC #PicnicInThePark by @_renaspeaks

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