Today we’d like to introduce you to Audra Dorsey.
Hi Audra, so excited to have you on the platform. So, before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.
My name is Audra. I’m a Heights Tiger. My story leading up to owning TheGodWear.com and writing the self-help title Digging Out Your Demons: Baby Steps, available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, begins with loss. I attended Hiram College for pre-med, and my treacherous roommate deleted my turn paper from my laptop. Although I did everything I could do to restore it, it was a permanent delete. My gracious professor granted me spring break to rewrite it. Pondering the opportunity, I recounted that I was done at page six and had miraculously turned out a 22-page report, anyhow. I knew there was no way to rewrite this sanely or willingly during spring vacation, and defeated, I declined returning to college. That summer was filled with a little travel and more loss. Michael Jackson’s death was the turning point for me. I didn’t realize I was inviting occult and witchcraft into my life upon his death, but this is when God stepped down and saved me. I heard a literal voice from every direction in my bedroom telling me to get up and go get the book I glanced at this morning. I rose to standing in curious obedience, retrieved the book, and sat down on my blue carpet cross-legged. Instructed to open it to any page, the words leapt forward in 3-D and they were EXACTLY suiting my situation and EXACTLY for me. It turns out that book was the Bible and my life was changed ever since. The summer of 2009 is the summer I wrote Digging Out Your Demons: Baby Steps. Then more loss arrived. The American housing foreclosure flung my life into Georgia, where I experienced more loss in terms of sexual assault which changed my life and ran me back to Cleveland where I gave birth to a son. The man never went to jail because I was afraid the system would not rightly believe me, although the evidence was there. Being a black woman, I’ve seen so much Injustice and just didn’t believe in the system. Fast forward to the Covid shutdown and the pinnacle pivot of many lives. I experienced loss in marriage, 15 more car crashes not caused by me, a stroke, educational injustice, homelessness, tenant injustice, and more that you’d think I’d just give up. I still joke I could be coping in more unhealthy ways, but my faith just isn’t set up that way. In 2022, I began to finalize TheGodWear.com and learned Amazon’s KDP self-book publishing program. All of the products I offer are for your benefit and anointed. Through so much consistent hardship, my mission is to still help and fortify the public into the days we are living in now. The end days. The Book of Revelation is upon us, and our focus must stay clear.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I fairly believe I’ve made it clear the road has not just been rough but also muddy, tumultuous, and a rainfall mix of ice and hail creating black ice come as we all know so well, here in Cleveland. I’ve definitely and unfortunately slipped off the road and crashed into a tree, quite literally and figuratively, especially during the winter periods at times. I’ve always been able to retrieve a newer car through the grace of God. So many times, it may have made sense to not forge forward considering the accidents multiple strangers and drivers have put me in. Although I’ve been in many car accidents, almost 40 to be exact, I did not cause a lot of these. It is a running joke with my chiropractors whenever I enter the office: if I’m okay this time? Yes, I’ve had a lot of paydays, but in reality, I wish certain days had gone differently. I do realize how those hardships also caused blessings and financial windfall in my life. They’ve fortified my beliefs in how God’s eye is on the Sparrow, so I know He watches me.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
From March 2020, during the 3-month shutdown, to now in 2022, I’ve needed to pivot my focus completely from medical massage to creating an income off of my creative artistry. As sad as this makes me that I’m not able to do the career I love, I look forward to what the future could hold. TheGodWear.com showcases the fact that I had in previous years converted to Islam, and that’s also a crazy story of loss. The man I’d loved had lied about everything, and I didn’t realize it until I did. While I learned the five prayers a day in Arabic language, wore a hijab, covered the majority of my body, and attempted to renounce my faith in Christianity, I could not do it fully! Whenever I put my forehead down on the prayer mat those five times a day, I could not pick up my body unless I spoke the words “and Jesus.” The Father God of Heaven ultimately never let me go. It felt as though a 1-ton weight was on my back until I spoke those words. Only then could I lift my head up off the mat. It was in those moments of tried disobedience that I learned who the True Father God is. And while Allah does mean god, they have another experience of what or who that is. I am most proud of the way my faith has been cultivated by the things God has allowed me to experience in my life. The photo showcased on TheGodWear.com is of me clothed in disobedience, concerning my Islamic ties, not concerning the way I was dressed, and in that photo, it is true and Live Halo above my head. I think this photo alone shows how I’m set apart, quite literally, sanctified from others. I’ve lived a solo life by design. It allows me to become closer with the father and distance myself from people with ill intention. I’m very proud of my relationship with the Lord and how much I’ve overcome through faith. A true believer is tried by fire, and the Lord allows his strongest warriors to fight his strongest battles with some of the strongest demons. Even principalities of the air.
Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
I really cannot say I’ve had a strong or consistent mentor in my entire life outside of heavenly aspects. I’ve definitely admitted to seeing individuals help me along my rough journey, however. Concerning networking, being in the right place at the right time is the best advantage. Sometimes it feels like you have periods of drought; however, when the floodgates open, they open! I’m still waiting to meet the exact right person and seeing how my life has gone; I do believe that should be due to me anytime soon. I don’t believe God has created this apparel and HomeGoods collection on TheGodWear.com or the short self-help read Digging Out Your Demons: Baby Steps for no one and no reason. I know I’ve seen improvements and challenges faced utilizing both myself, and I can expect the same in others immediately if they should optimize what God has made through me in their lives. My life is ridiculously supernatural and what has worked for me is having faith, getting close as I want with God, and walking with Him. As cliche as that sounds, I understand many people may not have the same tenacity as I do towards the father. I’ve had to rely on God because I never did find a true human mentor. I cannot Grant any human the gift of saying that they brought me to God. I was not brought up in the church whatsoever. No human spoke to me about accepting God or Jesus into my life. It was a one-on-one unforgettable experience. I may not be the correct person to ask about finding a human mentor, but I can definitely enlighten others onto a path of the best mentor I’ve ever had. YHWH the only one who’s truly been navigating me throughout this life. That is my experience and my testimony. To connect with me on any social media platform is always @djwwbrand DJWW backwards is WWJD? Forwards is Devil Just Won’t Win!
Pricing:
- Digging Out Your Demons: Baby Steps $10
- TheGodWear.com $15-90 Apparel/Homegoods
Contact Info:
- Website: TheGodWear.com
- Instagram: Instagram.com/djwwbrand
- Youtube: YouTube.com/thegodwear
