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She rose again when the whisper became a roar

“My vulnerability became someone else’s permission slip.”

The launch of Nakeisha Geddes’ second book, “Activate You: Becoming the Superhero of Your Own Journey,” on Saturday, November 15th, 2025, filled the Suzi Mari facility in Etobicoke with family, friends, supporters, and entrepreneurs. The afternoon brought more than celebration. It invited connection. The event’s networking element kept the room engaged and sparked real conversations among women ready for reinvention.

Geddes is a global business owner, speaker, and strategist with a mission to help women rebuild their lives with freedom, purpose, and overflow. She dedicated her book “To the women who forgot themselves; may you rise, awaken, and activate the life you desire.” She also honoured her: husband, children, parents, siblings, sister-friends, nieces, nephew, and business partner, an entire ecosystem that held her through the hardest chapters of her journey.

Two quotes anchor her acknowledgements. The first comes from Geddes herself: “If God gives you the vision, He already believes in you. Say yes! He will provide the rest.” The second, from Marianne Williamson, reads: “You playing small serves no one. Who are you not to be great?” Both set the tone for a book rooted in: truth, courage, and spiritual confidence.

Kadine Cooper, Executive Leadership Coach, Speaker, and creator of the C.E.O. Mindset Method, penned the foreword. She writes, “Reinvention is not running from who we were. It is returning home to who we’ve always been. Nakeisha opens the door to her own journey, from exhaustion to empowerment, and in doing so gives every woman permission to step forward too.”

The book unfolds in three parts:
Part 1: My Journey of Reinvention
Part 2: The 5 Activations Framework
Part 3: The Path for Women in Transition

In Part 1, Geddes shares the highs and lows of juggling life as a wife, mother, employee, and friend. She reveals how she mastered the smile that made others comfortable while she fell apart in silence. She writes, “To the world, I looked fine. Inside, I crumbled. Quietly. Secretly. Consistently.” Her depression deepened until burnout forced her into a spiritual battle between the life she knew, and the life she wanted. A whisper of a dream grew into a roar that marked her rebirth. The release of her first book, “My Crossroads,” shifted everything. A moment in a café changed her direction when she realized, “My vulnerability became someone else’s permission slip. That was the day I let myself dream again.”

Part 2 introduces the 5-Activation Framework: Awareness, Boundaries, Courage, Reinvention, and Overflow. She calls awareness “The spark of transformation.” She reframes boundaries as shields that protect a woman’s time, energy, and peace. Courage becomes a muscle that strengthens with use. Reinvention, she writes, is not about turning into someone new. It is about remembering who you are. Then she explores overflow: emotional, physical, spiritual, financial, and relational growth. “Overflow isn’t about having more. It’s about becoming more.”

Part 3 guides women from survival to fuller living. She names exhaustion as a silent epidemic that affects women most. She challenges the belief that self-sacrifice equals love. “Self-abandonment is not love,” she writes. “Love never demands your depletion. Real love thrives in overflow.” Her turning point came from one truth: she could no longer pour from an empty cup.

Anyone ready to explore Activate You: Becoming the Superhero of Your Own Journey can visit geddesconcept.com.

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