Sean-Nika Ford is a first-generation college student, having completed undergraduate and graduate degree programs. While in college, she started her career with Verizon as an intern. She will celebrate 12 years with the company in June, with the experience of working in a variety of departments and positions with that time. Sean-Nika currently provides HR support to Visible employees, a company powered by Verizon.
Sean-Nika is a believer that adversities truly make a person stronger even though the challenges adversities aren’t always easy to endure. Her upbringing drives her to overcome any obstacle that she has faced and strive to push to achieve more. Sean-Nika’s birth mom was killed, being beaten into a coma when she was an infant. She died when Sean-Nika was one. Sean-Nika was “adopted” into another family – the parents that she’d always knew as my mom and dad brought her into their world. They were older and retired grandparents at the time their paths crossed. But they still took care of her as if she were their own. They did all the things that parents should do. While Sean-Nika has overcome a variety of things from low self-esteem to the scare of a low-grade malignant tumor, the hardest things she’s had to overcome was losing her parents – her mom while she was in high school in 2005 and her dad after she’d graduated college in 2012.
The love, the faith, and the values they instilled in Sean-Nika helped her to meet adversity head-on and be strong – even in their absence. They loved, supported, invested, and helped her to believe that she was special and that she could do anything she put her mind to. Sean-Nika can persevere because she knows that’s the right thing to do. She can accomplish things and overcome them not, only to show she can do it but also to honor her parents’ memory.
Sean-Nika states that because she knows that life is uncertain, she wanted to have something that would always remind her son that he is loved and can do anything he sets his mind to do. Sean-Nika’s new book, Don’t You Know, is her attempt at doing just that and hopefully allowing others to do the same with the children in their lives.
The best advice Sean-Nika would give someone is to “never give up on the vision they see they’re your mind. Translate your vision to something tangible and take small steps to meet your goals every day. Be compassionate yet firm with yourself. Start saying affirmations out loud like “I can do the hard things” — watch yourself do it, celebrate your win, and then get back to work!”
Now that Sean-Nika has become a published author, she feels incredibly inspired to create more. She knows now the self-publishing process is easy to think through the creation of another book or help people she knows to bring their visions to life in print. She also plans to create more products to accompany her first book like puzzles, affirmation flashcards, and anything that will help little ones to have positive reinforcement. She loves that her son influenced the character of her first book and herself. She believes representation matters, and it has been really beautiful to create more in that space and dedicate this project to him.
Readers can connect with Sean-Nika online:
Facebook – Sean-Nika Floyd
Instagram – SimplySeannika
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://bit.ly/dontyouknowbook
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