Courageous Fire, CHW
Sis, You Need Her Messages
Nearly 97% of women experience trauma in their lifetime; for Black women it fuels the top three causes of death—heart disease, cancer, and stroke—contributing to an average lifespan of just 78.1 years. Nearly 8 in 10 Black women also experience trauma connected to childhood abuse, intimate partner violence, and chronic stress, yet abuse is often normalized or overlooked, allowing long-term harm to persist.
Through this opening keynote and closing reflection, Courageous Fire equips Black women with practical tools to transform trauma into reparations using her P.A.I.D.™ Framework, supporting stabilization, economic clarity, and personal power. Guided participation and outcome tracking in the closing reflection reinforce learning, document impact, and ensure participants leave safer, informed, and connected.
What You'll Be Able to Do!
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Know how to navigate the conference and all its wonderful parts when the day begins
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Learn the #1 reason cycles of lack persist — and how to stop it
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Uncover the power buried beneath Black woman “strength” that equips participants to build generational wealth
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Discover what “normalized violence” you’ve been harmed by and how to get help
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Get time to reflect and have time for yourself away from the crowds; she will build it in!
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Know how to measure what you gained from the day as it ends
Who She Is
Courageous Fire, CHW is an award-winning author, national trainer, and Scholar-Practitioner of Lived Experience whose work strengthens safety, health, and economic mobility for Black women by transforming how trauma is understood and addressed.​
She is the Founder and CEO of Courageous Fire, LLC, where she develops and delivers culturally responsive, trauma-informed frameworks that help organizations reduce harm, strengthen trust, and improve outcomes. Her signature tools — including HaRD-Wiring™, Centers of Trust™, Centers of Must™, and Decentering Leadership™ — are used across healthcare, victim services, higher education, and justice-aligned systems to support healthier decision-making and more sustainable leadership.​
Courageous is also the Founding Executive Director of Courageous Access, the nonprofit host of the Courageous Access Black Women’s Conference. Through cohort-based programming, direct services, and culturally rooted healing spaces — including Empowerment Through the Arts™ — she has maintained an 80% success rate in helping Black women achieve and sustain intimate partner safety and gender-based violence prevention, alongside improvements in emotional regulation, economic decision-making, and generational well-being.​
She is the author of This Is for the Other Child, a groundbreaking exploration of secondary trauma and family systems following sexual abuse, now being introduced into professional learning environments as a resource for culturally responsive care.​
Whether facilitating healing spaces, training leaders, or convening national gatherings, Courageous is known for creating environments grounded in safety, clarity, and respect — where Black women are seen, trusted, and supported in doing the work that changes their lives.​For more information, visit iamcourageousfire.