Today we’d like to introduce you to Brianna Marí Franklin.
Hi Brianna Marí, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I got started in stress! Ha! What I mean is, about 5 years ago, I was in the most stressful season of my life. I was newly married, working a job that wasn’t terrible but wasn’t a good fit and I just couldn’t seem to stop the anxiety that came with it all. I was trying to be the perfect wife, friend, employee, daughter and whatever else but I was breaking down, literally! My weight spiked up, my marriage was new and lovely but came with growing pains and I was so unfulfilled and highly overworked at my job. Granted, a lot of the anxiety came from the pressure from society to be a “boss woman”. Boss women don’t need rest, they don’t need time to decompress and they certainly don’t need “me time” – right? Wrong! So wrong because this “boss lady” was shutting down and my hormonal acne wasn’t giving me a break either. That is when I decided to go into therapy and started learning about natural products for my skin. Soon I began making myself, my husband, and my mom Skin Care products. Simultaneously, my last session with my therapist was one of her encouraging me to get into the field of psychology to become a therapist or life coach. So I took her up on it. 2 years later, I am a certified Coach for high performing women who are looking to learn how to work from a place of rest and I provide the natural skincare to aid in that self-care journey.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
It’s been a rollercoaster ride in the best ways. I started SlateSkinBeauty.com on May 7th of ‘21 and it was an amazing turnout for the first couple of months but then I was hit with the Delta variant COVID, which I spent 5 days in ICU and two weeks on a breathing machine, shortly thereafter I lost my grandmother who has my heart. So learning how to create content and generate sales in the midst of life’s adversities has been strengthening and made me more and more grateful. Coaching women to lean heavily on rest so that they may live a fruitful life has become of my top joys because I’ve been through it and I’m here to serve so others can know how to navigate a bit better than I did.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
My work in Skincare and in Coaching Women is the same. To provide safe spaces with themselves for themselves. This means learning to unapologetically create space to indulge in skincare in a way that decompresses and rejuvenates. Pray, meditate, listen to music or just sit in silence during this time while pampering your skin. Through coaching women, we identify the areas in their lives where they are working from a place of anxiety and we find out why. We then build a plan and practical way to reverse it and learn to practically work from a place of rest.
I specialize in working from rest creating safe spaces to just, be. Unapologetically.
Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
I advise all people to find a mentor, therapist, or life Coach – better yet all three. Going to therapy not only unlocked my stored up stress but then released me to be adamant about working from rest. I would suggest finding a Coach that is just as down to earth as yourself and has been through similar life struggles. Someone who is transparent, compassionate and will admit to not having all the answers but gifted in leading you down your own road with compassion and empathy.
Contact Info:
- Email: Bmarifranklin@gmail.com
- Website: SlateSkinBeauty.com
- Instagram: @slate_skin & @__briannamari.com
