Sekou Andrews

Everything is, you know, all in blue and hearts and we love you.

And then a year later, you know, same problem, still dealing with all this stress, all this trauma, but not getting any of the

the honoring, right?

And not feeling seen and not feeling heard.

And I think that was why I was like, we still need to let you know that we see you, that we hear you, that we feel you.

And that we know that the only reason why we are where we are is because of folks like you.

And I think that's why the message hits so strongly.

And I think that's what ultimately inspiration is doing is it's connecting you to your highest self, it's connecting you to your best self, and it's connecting you to possibility.

So it's the biggest reminder that this is real.

It's not just our heart.

It's not just our bodies and our knees and our backs.

It's not just our organs.

It's our mind.

It's our spirit that needs health care as well.

Poetic Voice is the name of the speaking category that I created 15 plus years ago.

And it's really described as the seamless integration of inspirational speaking and spoken word poetry.

So as opposed to a performer

who speaks or performs you applaud they speak and they perform and you applaud and they speak and it's more like a set i wanted to create this seamless experience where you just didn't know what when one ends and the next begins you know one minute it's like business content then wait no he's rhyming and now wait it's a story and now i'm taking notes for my company and and it helps to keep the audience leaning in

keeping them from getting ahead of you.

That's what happens with a lot of speakers is, you know, you get up there and it's like, I'm going to give you my five points of this and you got your PowerPoint as a correction.