With her authentic, rebellious and playful personality and her @curvycurlyconscious movement, Shelah Marie engages an online community of over a quarter million people and is a sought-after speaker.

Why choose Shelah to speak at your next event?

As an author, content creator, and women’s wellness influencer, Shelah Marie has helped disrupt the ideas that women should place themselves last or seek others’ approval in order to lead healthy, fulfilling lives. With a combined audience of over 500K followers on Instagram and YouTube, including prominent entertainers, black-owned wellness brands, and dreamers seeking to nurture themselves and their potential, Shelah offers a fresh perspective on self-care and creativity while answering the call for greater, more mindful connection among women.

Best known for The Curvy, Curly, Conscious movement as well as her new book, Positive You: A Personal Growth Journal for Women, Shelah excels at meeting people exactly where they are, customizing each of her workshops and retreats to accommodate the distinct needs of her participants and help them overcome barriers in advocating for themselves and their physical and mental wellness. Her guidance, at once practical, heartfelt, and relevant to women often overlooked by social and news media alike, has caught attention from women seeking a deeper connection with themselves along with a stronger support system and more positive ways to engage in community outreach. It’s also earned features on Atlanta’s Fox5 network and in publications such as Essence, Heart & Soul Magazine and the blog XO Necole.

Prior to founding Curvy, Curly, Conscious, Shelah partnered with the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to bring her inaugural effort, the Sustainable Theater Workshop, to students around the world, including Hohenfels, Germany, Dakar, Senegal and San Rafael, Haiti. Designed for students of all ages, levels, and backgrounds, the Sustainable Theater Workshop used playwriting, poetry, acting techniques, to help participants develop confidence in telling their stories their way. The program purposely sought inexperienced actors along with differently abled children and youths impacted by poverty, ultimately empowering each group to embrace and share their personal narratives and to see the value in learning about themselves and others.
Shelah holds degrees from Florida State University and the Tisch School for the Arts. When she’s not creating meditation mixtapes for herself and her followers or journaling her way to improved self-awareness, she enjoys Netflix and chilling, good coffee, and planning the next retreat for her CCC community.

Self-Love and Self-CarE

Shelah can break down her unique perspective on self-love and how she has learned to make peace in her own life. She can share insights on coping with depression, severe anxiety, and toxic family cycles -- especially as they relate to women of color. Shelah connects very authentically to women, in particular women of color, who she refers to as “first generation healers.” She speaks candidly and honestly about her story, which opens up space for more connection. Shelah can also advise practical, simple tips for how women can practice more self-care in their own lives.

Meditation

Shelah brings meditation down to a practical level and presents it in a way millennial women can grasp. Shelah is passionate about adding her unique voice as a young woman of color to the modern conversation and meditation and wellness. In support of this, she recorded her own Meditation Mixtape, which has garnered over 100,000 streams across all streaming platforms. Shelah has used meditation to rewire her internal dialogue, invite more peace into her life and to get clarity on what exactly she desires in life -- and how to create it. Shelah can also teach simple breathing techniques for centering energy and managing anxiety.

Love and Intimate Relationships

Shelah values relationships and the depth they bring to our world and believes through relationships we can learn so much about ourselves because that will always be the most important relationship. When discussing love and relationships, Shelah focuses on dissecting how beneficial self-love and self-appreciation are for our outside relationships. She also explains how honoring the relationship with yourself first and foremost allows anyone to cultivate beautiful relationships with others.