Miss Joy A Rideout shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Miss Joy A, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
Integrity, because when you have integrity it’s a sense of being intelligent enough to know what and what not to do and energy because the rare people I met with integrity has beautiful genuine energy about themselves.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Im a content creator, Singer and songwriter!
I have music projects coming soon, I also wrote in my spare time, recently I have published my first book a Christian Romance Mystery Novel. It’s based on some parts of my own personal experience in life for the female protagonist but the book is mostly fictional.
Book Title: All Because Of Mango Gelato By Joy A Rideout.
On Amazon kindle etc.
This book was written purely from my own creativity and its very entertaining while yet achieving my goal of sharing how Christ is at the center of the characters lives in a world where Loving and following Christ makes you the weirdo or the bad guy!
This book will make you feel all types of emotions, I wanted to give the characters a reality similar to the lives of people that actually struggle with sin or trauma and pain and just mountains you may have to climb. I’m grateful to say I was able to publish this book with the help of God from high school back in 2022 and now in 2025 it’s available to read.
I’m a businesswoman, I have some projects in motion I would love to share in detail but there aren’t completed yet but will be soon. I’m letting God order my steps and guide me, because honestly in life you never know what’s next. So until whatever is next for me in life. As of now I’m still pursuing my career in the medical field in case I want to work in healthcare.
While still learning new things and adapting to the challenges I face daily and not moving in fear but in silence and breaking generational curses.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
My mother and I, our relationship is a bond that I’m grateful for. No bond is perfect but when you genuinely want the best for each other and have someone that stuck by your side when you had no one else, prayed for you, listened to you. She definitely helped shape me into the woman I am today.
And God is working on me constantly day by day to be the woman he called me to be.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
Fear of thinking I can’t do it.
Which I can and will.
By “it”, I mean anything I put my mind to.
If Yeshua says it’s for me, then it’s for me!
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes I’m not changing who I am for the comfort of others. I’m chill and kind at home extra sweet in public but I’m very aware and observant and wise in my decisions it’s either I connect with people or I don’t.
If the Holy Spirit gives me discernment, I’m listening.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What will you regret not doing?
Choosing my peace over trying to please someone, being an African American/black woman. In this society that often pins us to be aggressive or strong and either have no emotion or too much emotion. It’s exhausting and at the ends of the day why give in to the oppressor’s stereotype and feed people like the negative minded and hateful a Reaction they want from me!
I rather have my peace and go about my day. Instead of being around or keeping around people that will damage my nervous system.
Stress is a killer.
I battle with anxiety and stress and I used to have depression.
I learned at an early age.
Cut it off.
I will never regret caring for my health and no one will ever make me feel bad about it anymore.
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