Gina Grant continues to soar
By Marva J. Sneed
BlogTalkRadio.com/Cheryl’s World
On From Marva with Love, we are celebrating Black Entrepreneurs for Black History Month. Gina Grant is the Founder and CEO of Women That Soar, a Dallas-based media and content development company. Her focus is all about empowering and inspiring women to overcome their obstacles and soar, both personally and professionally. Women That Soar has been hosting an award show since 2007 for women who have overcome those obstacles and celebrates their accomplishments.
MS: Gina, tell us about some of the people that have received the Women the Soar Award and how you found them.
GG: Well, Women That Soar is the brand of the media company. It’s the brand, but the WTS Awards is named after the company and is all about honoring women who have courageous stories of going through the ups and downs of life and who are willing to share their stories with others about how they learn to soar. So we find the women based on other people just sending us stories. We look for women who have reached the pinnacle of success. But yet at one point in their lives, they were at the bottom. They were in the pit a lot of times. Nancy Lieberman and Gloria Campos were honored among others.
MS: How did COVID affect your business?
GG: COVID hit in March 2020, when we had just partnered with the city of Dallas. We had come off one event, on Feb. 15. We had Yolanda Adams there, and this is where we made the big announcement that we were going to do part two of the WTS Awards. We had filmed part 1 and in November 2020 were supposed to be part two. It was going to be a three day event. We had every celebrity and we were bringing Hollywood to Dallas, and COVID hit and shut us all down. Honestly. I was in Prayer day and night. Productions were dying. Everyone was losing money left and right. We went in the hole, and God just started speaking to me and said, “share your story.” I started to writing. So every day I would get up and I just wrote my own story and I sent it to my producing partner, Reuben Cannon, and he said, “Gina, we’ve got to shoot a docu-series and it’s got to be focused on minority women.” I said, it has to be about African American and Hispanic women.
MS: Tell us about the docu-series.
GG: Overcomers is an unscripted, pre-eminent docu-series that is like none other. It explores the raw, real-life stories of single mothers who have chosen to rise above their current circumstances and fight for a better future for themselves and their children…
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