Exploring Life & Business with Delilah Harris of Jacquie Abram Speaking & Consulting LLC

Today we’d like to introduce you to Delilah Harris

Hi Delilah, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I have always been creative since I was a child, as it was the main way I was able to escape the toxic environment I grew up in. Singing and Art were my most used avenues to express myself.

Eventually I found myself escaping my environment by becoming obsessed with other cultures and languages during the worst seasons of my teenage years. I dreamed of being someone else, somewhere else. I created a Youtube channel singing in multiple languages and started learning Korean, Japanese, and Thai. My youtube channel was very successful with many of my videos accuring over 50k views regularly.

Unfortunately in my search to “become someone else”, I experienced heinous degrees of mistreatment and abuse from the spaces I attempted to join to understand the cultures I was trying to integrate myself into. This led me to having a deep awareness of discrimination and racism and other forms of abuse that stem from this at a very young age. I realized that the abuse I was facing as a child was mirrored outside of the home, almost like I couldn’t escape it. This realization paired with continued experiences of abuse lead me to severe depression that I’ve only now begun to improve and change through developing a deep relationship with God and acceptance of my past.

The realization that I wasn’t able to escape abuse and feelings of existing as an unlovable and unwanted person no matter where I went, built alot of anger in me and I could no longer be creative. This lasted for the duration of my 20s while I was also in an abusive relationship & eventual marriage that I stayed in for 9 years and had my son in.

My son is the only reason I was able to build up the strength and find some form of self-love to decide that I was no longer going to be in any situation where I was going to be treated like I didn’t matter or a punching bag.

Things didn’t improve right away once I divorced my abuser, fought and gained full custody, and attempted to try and find a life without abuse. I experienced racial discrimination while at the jobs I had to stay in to provide for my son as a single mother, and had to endure loneliness, guilt, and shame for several years. It was during this time that me and my mother reconnected and built a strong relationship, helping each other heal from our past, as she experienced very similar situations. We came together at the realization that we were experiencing the same methods of discrimination even though we were different generations and had different career fields. So, we decided to embark on a journey of writing a book detailing what we learned in our situations. We self published and the book became a huge hit, helping thousands of others enduring toxic workplace abuse and discrimination.

To see that everything I had gone through could become a testimony and help others through their own similar situations became a passion for me and helped me reconnect to my inner child to soothe the horrific memories and trauma that was still affecting me. It helped me get back into my creative hobbies, and I am now able to work on art and music again.

I have an upcoming album called “Vocal Alchemy”, and a business focusing on Art Therapy, Spiritual Healing, and connecting to God. I found love with someone I admired for a really long time and never thought could ever have genuine interest in me, and we are planning our wedding this year.

To see my life turn around the way it has after so much pain, has helped me see everything as a needed and beautiful journey. I gained strength in my adversity instead of allowing it to defeat me.

While I wish I never had to experience all that I have, I know there was a purpose in my pain. Learning to alchemize it into growth & lessons is one of my best accomplishments.

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?
As I stated in the previously question, it has absolutely not been a smooth ride to get to the mindset and career I am in today.

To see that the book me and my mother created is now an international best-seller with over 400 five star reviews, and to have been featured in Forbes and conducted several interviews and public speaking opportunities, along with improving in my creative crafts has made it all worth it.

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My mother, Jacquie & I, are the international best-selling & award-winning authors of a book series called “Hush Money”. We help employees in toxic jobs fight workplace discrimination because what’s happening to them is not unconscious it’s unconscionable.

We share our strategies in an upcoming book you can pre-order called Surviving in a Toxic Workplace: Strategies to Help You Protect Your Career (Release Date 12/1/24), or purchase our current books in our series available on Amazon : Hush Money: How One Woman Fought Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job & Hush Money: The Cost of Being Black in Corporate America.

We often host a week long beginner and advanced Masterclass teaching the strategies of Covert Racism used in Corporate America, with methods to fight against them.

We also have a training video called “How to Fight Discrimination in a Toxic Workplace” available on Youtube that goes over some of the information in our masterclasses for free. Subscribe and watch through my mother’s Youtube channel: @Jacquieabram

If you need our help or would like links to the books or videos, email us at hushmoneyseries@gmail.com. We offer consultation appointments and accept clients. We have a high success rate for the 70+ clients we currently have and many of them have been able to obtain six figure settlements with their employers over wrongful termination and discrimination.

What makes you happy?
My family along with my best friend make me happiest. My Fiancé, son, mom, and my best friend help me regulate my nervous system by giving me safe spaces to be fully myself.

I am typically masking on a regular basis with everyone else I encounter due to my mental disabilities : ADHD, Autism (Audhd), and PMDD, which caused me severe social anxiety as I was constantly feeling misunderstood and treated differently from others.

To have a space where I can feel loved and accepted despite the difficulties I face everywhere else brings me great joy.

Pricing:

• Consultation Fee : $100
• Art Therapy Classes : $50+ (Per person for class)

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @BlessedbyAbba
• Facebook: Delilah Harris
• Youtube: TheAlchemistTribe