Witness №01
“She feels like the auntie you can confide in — but who will lovingly tell you the truth you need to hear. I've watched my mother struggle. And today, I am witnessing the best version of her I've ever known.”
Karyn Hopkins
Entrepreneur & Founder, KC Worldwide LLC
Firstborn Daughter
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For as long as I can remember, my mother has always tried to guide me. Of course, growing up, I thought I knew everything and wanted to do things my own way. It wasn't until I got older and consciously decided to listen to her guidance that I truly began to understand the wisdom behind everything she had been telling me.
Before I allowed myself to receive her guidance, I was honestly lost. I was living day to day without much of a plan. I had so many ideas and dreams, but I lacked the discipline, structure, and follow-through to bring them to life. I was also disconnected from myself spiritually. My mother helped me understand that having a vision is only the beginning, you have to create structure around that vision and be accountable to yourself if you want to see it manifest.
My mother has supported me in almost every chapter of my life. When I was a little girl and wanted to start a slime business at school, she took me to the store, bought the supplies, and helped me make the slime. When I wanted to study agriculture, she helped me with my admissions essay and supported me in securing a full scholarship through the USDA. When I wanted to start my YouTube channel, she gave me access to her camera before I could afford my own. When I began building my businesses, she helped me create budgets, routines, and systems to keep me organized.
But her impact on me goes far beyond business.
She has taught me accountability, discernment, financial responsibility, discipline, and the importance of believing in myself. She has always encouraged me to be fully myself, even when being different wasn't always easy. She never made me feel strange, too ambitious, or less than. Instead, she constantly reminded me of my worth and taught me how to recognize and communicate my value.
Spiritually, she has also helped me reconnect with myself in a much deeper way. She taught me about honoring my ancestors, being connected to nature, treating myself as a sacred spiritual altar, and understanding the divinity within me. She showed me that being a woman is powerful and that I never have to dim my light to make someone else comfortable.
One of the greatest things my mother has helped me recognize in myself is my own leadership. She saw something in me that I hadn't fully recognized yet. She taught me to see myself as someone capable of creating, organizing, leading, and making things happen. She taught me that there is no limit to what I can dream about or accomplish.
Having my mother as a mentor isn't always easy. She's my mom, so sometimes I have questioned whether she's giving me advice because she's being protective or because she genuinely sees something I don't. But one thing I can always count on is her honesty. She will tell me the truth even when it's uncomfortable, and she will call me out when I'm wrong just as quickly as she'll celebrate me when I'm right. And, more times than I'd like to admit, I eventually realize she was right.
What makes her guidance so powerful is that it comes from a place of genuine love. She doesn't just tell me what I want to hear. She helps me get things in order. She helps me make a plan when I'm overwhelmed. She checks in when I'm procrastinating. She pushes me to finish what I start because she knows I'm capable of more.
Because of my mother's guidance, I am becoming a woman who knows who she is and who she is becoming. I know there is no limit to my dreams. I know I am divine. I know I am powerful. And I know that when I put my mind, energy, and discipline behind something, I have the ability to make it thrive.
If you're considering working with Ama Nomy, what I would tell you is this: she is real. She is compassionate, transparent, honest, and deeply relatable. Working with her doesn't feel like you're being talked down to by someone who thinks they have all the answers. She feels like the auntie you can confide in, the person you can call when you need a shoulder to cry on, but who will also lovingly tell you the truth you need to hear.
And perhaps the most beautiful thing I can say about her work is that I've had the privilege of witnessing the woman behind it.
I've watched my mother struggle. I've watched her grieve, make mistakes, settle for things she didn't deserve, overextend herself for others, and carry pain while still trying to make a way for everyone around her. I've watched her cry and sit with her emotions instead of running from them. I've watched her learn, grow, release, and choose herself.
As her first child, I've witnessed so much of her journey firsthand.
And today, I can honestly say that I am witnessing the best version of my mother I've ever known. She is radiant. She is present. She is loving. She is becoming more and more free. She has taken everything she's experienced, the beautiful, the painful, the lessons, the mistakes, and turned it into wisdom that she can now pour into other people.
That is what Ama Nomy means to me.
This website is more than a website. It is an opportunity for people to get to know my mother, her wisdom, her story, and the work she has spent years developing within herself.
I am incredibly proud of you, Mom. I am proud of the woman you've become, proud of the work you're creating, and proud to be one of the people whose life you've impacted so deeply.
Please support my amazing mother, explore her work, and if something speaks to you, give yourself permission to receive it. Her books and teachings come from a place of lived experience, love, healing, and truth — and I truly believe they have the ability to help someone who needs them.
