Walking by Faith & Sight: The Untold Stories of Black Successful Women - Softcover

Brown, Dr. Stephanie; Holman, Zakiya; Turner, Dr. Pam; Yarbrough, Shoushana; Anyanwu, Adaure; Wallace, Karla; Upson, Cheyenne; Isom, Hope; Reed, Raushana; Johnson, Percina

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218937072

Publisher: Ingram Sparks, 2026

Synopsis

This book was born from a truth that too many women carry in silence: You can be successful
and still be struggling. You can be achieving and still be aching. You can look like you have it
all together while quietly falling apart.

Black Successful Women is a collection of ten intimate, unflinching stories written by Black
women who have lived this paradox and emerged transformed. These are not theoretical lessons
delivered from a distance. These are testimonies whispered from bathroom floors at 3:47 in the
morning, confessions written in the margins of past-due notices, revelations that arrived in
hospital rooms and rest stop parking lots and the sacred silence of an empty nest. They will make
you laugh in recognition. They will make you cry in release. And they will make you see your
own reflection in places you never expected to find it.

Each author in this anthology has done something radical: she has told the truth. The full,
complicated, sometimes messy truth about what it actually takes to become the woman you were
created to be. Not the curated version. Not the highlight reel. The real story, complete with the
breakdowns that preceded the breakthroughs, the losses that became the lessons, and the faith
that carried them when nothing else could.

There is a prevailing narrative about what it means to be a successful Black woman, and it is
suffocating us. It demands that we be strong without rest, accomplished without complaint,
resilient without repair. It measures our worth by our output and mistakes our exhaustion for
excellence. It places us inside a box we have long outgrown, one that never truly reflected our
reality in the first place. This book exists to dismantle that narrative, one honest story at a time.
The women in these pages are physicians and entrepreneurs, caregivers and coaches, single
mothers and firstborn daughters, women who have navigated cancer diagnoses, divorce, grief,
depression, cultural expectation, and financial devastation. Society would look at many of their
circumstances and call them disqualifying. This book will show you they are anything but. Every
trial these women walked through became the very credential that qualified them for their
calling.

Too many Black women do not see themselves as successful because they are measuring their
lives against a standard that was never designed with them in mind. If you are grieving, you can
still be successful. If you are healing from mental illness, you can still be successful. If you are
raising children alone, rebuilding after loss, or starting over with nothing but determination and
God's promise, you are not disqualified. You are being prepared.

This book will show you that true success is not the absence of struggle. It is the transformation
that happens when you walk through the fire with your eyes wide open and come out on the
other side with a testimony, a purpose, and an unshakeable desire to reach back and pull
someone else forward. At the heart of this anthology is a theme that threads through every chapter: unconventional faith.
Not religious performance. Not spiritual bypassing that papers over pain with platitudes. But the
kind of raw, mustard-seed faith that says, "I do not have it all figured out, but I am going to keep
walking anyway."

These ten women wrote their stories so that you would know you are not alone. So that you
would stop performing and start living. So that you would finally believe what God has been
telling you all along: You are not behind. You are not too broken. You are not too late.
You are exactly who the world has been waiting for.

Welcome to Black Successful Women. Your story starts here.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ingram Sparks
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218937072
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164