Meet Deborah.
Author | Advocate | Artist | Educator | Entrepreneur
She's also the founder of "The Use Your Words Movement". Through Use Your Words, she works as a mentor, blogger, editor, and broadcasting personality. Since the movement's inception, she has delivered her messages of communicative restoration in schools, youth programs, retreats, and conferences.
Deborah also hosts Use Your Words nationwide prayer calls where hundreds of young adults have come together to pray. Deborah also wrote The 30-Day Speak Life Challenge was created as a tool to save Deborah's life. After battling depression, anxiety, and multiple visits to counselors, she decided to get in control of the negative emotions she had faced for years. in doing so, she discovered her story was not the anomaly she had often considered it, but, more often, the status quo.
She shares portions of her journey through a series of thirty days to assist those struggling with internal conflict as well. Deborah hopes publicly exposing her scars will encourage others facing depression, anxiety, and some of life's most challenging obstacles to establish new, positive perspectives about their lives.
Deborah lives with a mission to die empty and to spread love to every person she meets.
Meet Colgan.
Photographer. Actor. Writer. Artist.
Born and raised in Dorchester, MA. Colgan is always involved in making art in a variety of disciplines. If he’s not reading, he is somewhere taking pictures, acting, or writing. Listen to Colgan break down his love for seeing and creating art inspired by the world around him.
In his own words: "I’ve realized through music and definitely now with photography and acting, I require a certain personal connection with my work. It has to mean something. It started with the idea, of just making cool stuff. But after loving, living, and working for a little time, I would rather my work and time truly mean something to me and other people. So I just jumped into the art world and went back to painting, drawing, writing and photography. Photography just made me appreciate life and the beauty around me even more."