Today we’d like to introduce you to Mylira Green.
Hi Mylira, we’d love for you to start by telling us your why?
My pain became the thing that catapulted me into the helping profession. Being someone from a two-parent middle-class household, people from the outside looking in did not see I needed help getting out of my darkness. This darkness resulted from being exposed to sexual activity at age three to struggling with what I now know is my sexuality until I was thirteen years old. Feeling personally like damaged goods and tired of messing up my relationship with female friends and family members, I utilized my body and sexualized conversations to get boys to notice me. This resulted in me getting sexually assaulted when I was sixteen years old, sending me into a state of depression. Depression at that time was not new to me for my first thought of suicide was when I was thirteen years old after I found out I was morbidly obese. This further reinforced the thought that I was defective.
I remember being seventeen years old staring in my bathroom mirror, overwhelmed with the belief that death would be way better than living. I felt stuck in the grips of depression. I remember being so unmotivated to live because at the time—I was not aware of the gifts that I had to give to the world and that they truly mattered. When a person is stuck, depressed, no longer wanting to be alive—it can be challenging to see one’s gifts, that they matter, and that there is a way out.
As I sat there contemplating life or death, a miracle happened, my father chose life for me seconds before I was about to choose death. It was at this moment that I promised to be CPR for other people’s goals in their lives after trauma tells them their future is at risk.
I pursued a career in Social Work to learn how to understand a person in their environment to make transformative change. As a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Social Work in 2013 from Norfolk State University. I received my Master of Social Work with a clinical concentration in children and families from the University of Southern California in 2015. During my time at USC, I lost two children and thought about giving up on my dream of being a Mastered Level Social Worker. However, on May 5, 2016, I gave birth to my rainbow baby (a child born after losing two children to miscarriages). Upon looking into my daughter’s eyes, I realized I had to overcome my fears of failure and rejection to build a legacy my daughter, and now son would be proud to carry on.
As a wife and mother, I realized I had to become the solution to the problems I saw the youth, young adults, and women struggling with by becoming “the bridge between the caterpillar and butterfly”. I strive to close the gaps between someone’s current reality and where he or she ultimately desire to be in his or her lifetime. I overcame my fears to help build a testimony applicable to others to help them overcome their fears and blossom into the butterfly they were created to be.
I became the solution by creating M. Green Enterprises, LLC and becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. As a psychotherapist, Confidence Coach, Master Healer, and Transformative Speaker, I strive to provide the world with preventative services to lower the number of individuals in mental health facilities or receiving post-reactionary care! I have begun to help people of influence who have reached their goals but struggle with finding joy in life to experience the bliss of living authentically by marrying my expertise and experiences to bring people out of their hell into their intentionally created heaven.
I have recently started my journey as a Ph.D. student at Regent University School of Business & Leadership. I am looking forward to transforming the organization of Mental Health Services worldwide.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
This journey has not been a smooth road. Because my purpose is attached to my pain, I have had triggers present themselves along the way. Due to fear of being rejected or invisible, I became a human doer, as my good friend Toni Jones says, and not a human being. I thought doing more for others, even if that meant without pay, would gain me the level of influence and exposure I needed to be a successful business owner. It did the opposite. I built other’s brands and platforms as mines remained stagnant.
Recently I experienced an intimate moment with God where he told me, “Mylira, I am not into rape culture. I am an ultimate gentleman that will not force you to live out your purpose”. I realized it was now or never and took the leap of faith into full-time entrepreneurship. I still do not have everything together, but I now have the opportunity to focus on my brand while fulfilling my life’s purpose.
The level of uncertainty in this phase of my career could certainly birth fear. However, I am doing it scared because I know there is a purpose attached to my life, and God will handle the obstacles and challenges that come my way.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
The stigma of mental health hinders individuals from reaching out to ask for help. The lack of normalizing the impact one’s mental health has on their life further perpetuated the problem, leading to poor mental health and maladaptive behavior impacting one’s relationship with others and self.
M. Green Enterprises, LLC. provides the world with preventative services to lower the number of individuals in mental health facilities while helping individuals grow from a caterpillar to a butterfly. We are known for providing psychotherapy, confidence coaching, healing sessions, and mental health support through transformative speeches, training, and workshops. There is no better time than now to educate people on the role one’s mental health has on their outlook on life. COVID created a space for us to go within and access those things in our lives that were either hindering or serving us. This realization led to many people questioning their existence and committing suicide. Suicide rates are increasing amongst those whose lifestyles drastically change during the pandemic, and M. Green Enterprises do not want the number of individuals of influence taking their own lives anymore.
M. Green Enterprises services high-profile clients tired of putting on a face because of the influential roles they play. We work with individuals whose childhood trauma influences their ability to fully show up in their days because they are anchored in the hell of today. The Mental Health profession lacks diversity and visual representation in the field. Being visual allows underrepresented communities to feel their voice are heard. We are that representation. What makes M. Green Enterprises different is our ability to add coaching with a digital application, creating an opportunity for public speaking and mental health coaching to be at one’s fingertips. This platform also keeps costs low and allows the ability to reach the masses.
We are most proud of our founder, Mylira Green, appearance on the TV One show For My Man and her jumping into full-time entrepreneurship to truly change how mental health is viewed around the world.
Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
When finding a mentor, I encourage you to find someone that genuinely desires to pour into you and not just someone who has the position to change the trajectory of your life. I have learned just because someone is in a position to pull you up does not mean that they will. The thing that has worked well for me was no longer giving people the title of a mentor just because of their socioeconomic or career status. I now only give a person a label who is producing fruit in the areas necessary for me to become the best version of myself while fully living out my purpose. Another thing I implemented to help find the right mentor was communicating my needs and expectations to provide him or her with an opportunity to agree or disagree with my desires for the connection.
When networking, I encourage people not to network out of the place of trauma. When one makes connections out of trauma, they are liable to fill the created void with a relationship that may not truly serve them. I believe we are all like cell phones. An android charger is unable to charge an iPhone. An individual must be sure of what type of phone they are so when networking they connect with the right charger cords. The right cords would be people that will charge them back up and not deplete them. Ask yourself whom you are allowing to charge you up, so you can be intentional with all of your connections.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.myliratransforms.com
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/myliratransforms
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mgreenenterprisesllc
Image Credits
Jeanita Castille
Jason Charles
