Throughout the retreat, celebrity guest speakers like Tabitha Brown, Angela Rye, Estelle, and more, conducted conversations about finding peace amid difficult life transitions and shared their wellness practices.
Codie Elaine Oliver
In 2017, business and life partners Tommy and Codie Oliver, founders of Black Love, Inc. and the Black Love docuseries, built their media empire to help drive change by inspiring healthy conversation around relationships across the Black community. Oliver understands Black women’s ability to love and affirm themselves and how vital it is to their existence and how channeling it can be, which is why she decided to share her expertise with women across the nation with The YOU Retreat.
The YOU Retreat is an intimate, one-day wellness experience and opportunity for Black women to pour into themselves. The retreat was specifically designed to break down emotional and spiritual walls in women who need to jumpstart their journey to clarity and peace. Throughout the retreat, guest speakers like Tabitha Brown, Angela Rye, Estelle, and more, conducted conversations about finding peace amid difficult life transitions and shared their wellness practices.
Ahead of The YOU Retreat, we caught up with Oliver on why she created the wellness event and what’s next for Black Love Inc.What led you to create The YOU Retreat, Black Love's first-ever women's wellness event? What’s the purpose and the intention behind the retreat? Last year, before the beginning of the pandemic, so many women in my life were struggling with grief or heartbreak, self-doubt, and anxiety feeling like there was no one to talk to.
When the retreat was canceled in March 2020 due to COVID, I wasn’t sure I’d try it again, but it’s not like getting through grief and anxiety got any easier over the last year. So, we brought it back and focused not only on helping Black women feel like we can get through anything but also on sisterhood as one of the ways through. We are stronger together, and real queens fix each other’s crowns.
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