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Jewel Cave’s November 7 Native American Heritage Day features named performers and storytellers. It offers a regional invitation—and a wider practice of listening with respect.
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Keke Palmer is announced as host of the November 2 CFDA Fashion Awards. Our preview looks beyond the spotlight toward the women whose creative work deserves recognition.
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A November 2 online workshop addresses business cash flow. Registration has prerequisites, so check the organizer’s requirements before planning to attend.
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USDA’s October food-price update offers national context for household planning—and a reminder to make gathering invitations easier on the people bringing the food.
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The Library of Congress’s current folklife exhibition considers how living traditions are shared and sustained. Here is a small way to preserve one of your own.
Read the Network storyA WOMEN OF COLOR ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE
The women you have yet to meet. Their stories, their courage, and wisdom for your life today.
Meet Apphia. Try WHAT’S ALREADY IN MY HANDS?™ free, then explore ten women, ten practical experiences and ten words to carry forward.
THE LIVING CENTER OF THE NETWORK
Heritage. Stories. Wisdom. Life application. The Tree is still growing; take time with what is already taking root.
Meet the women, work, stories and opportunities growing across The Network.
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHYEditorial • Style • Culture • BusinessStill a first love. See it. Hear it. Wear it. Find it. Build it.EXPLORE FASHION →
POP-UP PRAISE PARTY!Free music • Gather • CelebrateYour room. Your people. Your praise.START MY PARTY →
PROMISES FROM GOD FOR MEN OF COLORHardcover Gift Edition + Song MP3Bundled with “There’s a Promise Over My Son” at the HUB.VIEW BOOK + SONG BUNDLE ↗
THERE’S A PROMISE OVER MY SONHagar • Jesus & Jazz • Women of Color ChoirHear the song included in the HUB’s hardcover bundle.LISTEN ↗
THE TREE IS NOT A DIRECTORY. It is a living map of women, growth, work, legacy, possibility and what connects us.
Story → Wisdom → Application
How does this wisdom show up in my life? Story → Wisdom → Application.
Choose a story that stayed with you. Name the wisdom inside it. Choose one action you can take today—in your home, your work, or your community.
BUILDING SOMETHING BIG
Physician Dr. Michelle Yates is transforming a vision for better healthcare into an ambitious mission to build a hospital in Africa—creating care, opportunity and lasting impact for the communities it will serve.
LEGACY IN MOTION
Cheryl Wilson is carrying forward the beloved Mrs. P’s Cakes story—preserving a community baking legacy while helping the brand grow into its next chapter.
WOC — THE NETWORK · THE TREE
Teacher to Teachers · Clinical Supervision · Professional Consultation
Meet Stacey, founder of Calm Minds Healing Collective. Her Tree branch is for teachers, clinicians, practitioners, and organizations seeking professional learning and stronger capacity to support others.
Discuss professional learning →Her website describes more than three decades of clinical experience and work informed by trauma, nervous system regulation, hypnosis, EMDR, and Brainspotting. On The Tree, the focus is the knowledge she can share with professionals who teach, lead, and guide others.
PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATIONS TO BEGIN
Ask about supervision for clinicians, professional development goals, eligibility, and the states or settings she can serve.
Ask about professional consultation and support for practitioners developing their EMDR work. Confirm prerequisites and any credential-related requirements directly.
Her site lists workshops and organizational consulting. Ask about trauma-informed practice, resilience, leadership support, and your team's professional learning needs.
Stacey confirms the available scope, format, dates, fees, and any certification or continuing education requirements directly.
STORY → WISDOM → APPLICATION
Name one area where the people doing the teaching or helping need more support. What learning would help them serve with greater clarity?
“Our team works with [audience]. We want to strengthen [skill or practice]. What professional learning or consultation would fit our needs?”
CONNECT DIRECTLY
Tell her who you teach, lead, or support—and what you want your team to learn.
Direct email:hello@calmmindshealing.com
Read her background on Calm Minds Healing ↗
GROWING NEXT
Somewhere a woman is building, creating, healing, preserving, teaching or starting again—and we want to know her story. Recommend a woman whose story belongs here.
Recommend her →Begin your message with TREE NOMINATION and include her public website or business page.
A FREE GIFT FROM THE NETWORK
Gather your ladies. Pick your sound. Turn the room you’re already in into a praise party.
Free music, short videos, a ready-made party, and a little help for the host. No account or checkout to listen.
Start My Party →Authority • Training • Teaching excellence
Teaching excellence. Stronger teachers. Wisdom that reaches the classroom and the community.
The Teacher’s Teacher
Master educator. Systems builder. Developing teachers who can train others.
Before planning a lesson, name one thing learners should understand and one way they can use it. How will you know that understanding has taken root?
Experience Ms. Jordan →
The classroom bridge
Book → Lesson → Real Life. Bring the page into the classroom, then carry the lesson into everyday life.
Choose a passage. State its central lesson in one clear sentence. Invite learners to name a situation where that lesson could guide a choice this week.
Apply wisdom with Lala Work →WOC editorial teaching companions
Edition: November 1, 2026 · WOC stories, Scripture and real life
USDA’s October food-price update offers national context for household planning—and a reminder to make gathering invitations easier on the people bringing the food.
Read James 2:14–17, where faith is examined alongside a response to physical need. Separate that biblical argument from USDA’s economic reporting. Use an invented gathering budget to ask who carries the cost and what practical care could change. Do not frame financial hardship as a failure of faith.
In ten minutes, read James 2:15–16 and redesign a fictional potluck invitation so someone can attend without buying anything. Add one concrete offer of help and a private way to accept it. Participants may write silently or pass; no personal financial disclosure is needed.
What can we change so the next invitation includes someone whose resources are stretched?
A November 2 online workshop addresses business cash flow. Registration has prerequisites, so check the organizer’s requirements before planning to attend.
Read Luke 14:28–33 in context: Jesus uses construction and conflict to address the cost of discipleship. A business planning exercise is our contemporary analogy, not the passage’s original subject or an endorsement of borrowing. Ask teachers to identify the limit of the analogy before using it.
Read Luke 14:28, then use a fictional project to list its tasks, due dates and unanswered questions. Choose one question to take to a qualified adviser or workshop. This is practice in thoughtful preparation, not personal financial advice. Learners may observe instead of sharing.
What do we need to understand before we say yes to the next commitment?
Keke Palmer is announced as host of the November 2 CFDA Fashion Awards. Our preview looks beyond the spotlight toward the women whose creative work deserves recognition.
Read Exodus 35:25–26 within the tabernacle preparations, noticing the women’s skill and willing contribution. The passage is about a particular sacred task, not a prediction of modern fashion or divine approval of an awards ceremony. Help learners distinguish honoring workmanship from assigning spiritual value to appearance.
After reading Exodus 35:25–26, write a thank-you to a fictional seamstress, stylist or maker. Name a skill and its useful effect without commenting on anyone’s body. Share only if comfortable. Then choose one everyday worker whose contribution you could acknowledge this week.
Who helped create something we admire, and how can we credit the work accurately?
Jewel Cave’s November 7 Native American Heritage Day features named performers and storytellers. It offers a regional invitation—and a wider practice of listening with respect.
Use James 1:19 as a Christian learning prompt about attentive listening, not as an explanation of Indigenous traditions. Keep the park’s cultural program distinct from Scripture study. Do not reenact ceremonies or ask an Indigenous participant to represent a whole people. Model attribution, careful questions and a right to pass.
Read James 1:19, then practice with an invented speaker describing a craft. Write one accurate paraphrase and one respectful question before adding your own opinion. Participation is optional; learners may reflect privately. Apply the habit when reading a creator’s own public words.
What changes when we listen to a creator before supplying our own interpretation?
PERSONAL FAITH COMPANION
Take what you learned with you.
More Than a Conqueror—simple faith-strengthening support for the day in front of you.
I’m here for you.
One day at a time.
RESET & RESTORE
WHEN YOU NEED A MINUTE
A little room to breathe, listen and begin again.
The Network does not only tell you what is happening. It should also give you somewhere to put the weight of it.
FROM THE WOMEN OF COLOR LIBRARY
The Network is new. The publishing legacy beneath it is not. This is where the page remembers what women have already carried into homes, churches and study circles.
Scripture, study, reflection and representation—made to be opened, marked, carried and passed forward.
Explore the Study Bible →FROM OUR WORLD
THE EVE REPORT
TODAY’S CONVERSATION
What women are talking about, going to, gathering around and passing along.
Five handpicked things worth knowing, enjoying, sharing or gathering around.
Something worth talking about today.
Style, beauty and a little fabulousness.
Food, tables and something delicious.
Somewhere worth going or gathering.
A little faith and wisdom to carry.
FROM THE EVE REPORT
Something worth talking about?
Bring the women together.
You do not need a garden.
You only need someone you would love to see.
GATHER • TALK • LAUGH • GROW
FROM THE EVE REPORT
Something worth talking about?
Bring the women together.
Who would you love to see?
Start with one girlfriend—or bring your whole circle together.
You do not need a garden.
You only need someone you would love to see.
FOR THE LITTLE ONES
A little book to share, read together, and give with love.
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THE BIBLE THAT STARTED IT
A Bible designed for deep study and everyday encouragement, with women of the Bible, insight articles, Scripture-based prayers, and Black Presence notes.
FAITH THAT MAKES ROOM FOR REAL LIFE
Three companions for three kinds of days: restoration and praise, quiet reflection, and honest lament. Find the one that meets you where you are.
A BOOK FOR THE SEASON YOU'RE IN
Prayers and declarations for rebuilding strength, finding clarity, and moving forward.
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Gentle prayers for grief, exhaustion, rest, and days when words come softly.
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A fuller lament-centered prayer book for the questions, waiting, and weight of real life.
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