Our journey of healing and growth
Discover the impact of Aj Enterprises Presents through our past and upcoming events. From empowering workshops to inspiring speaking engagements, each event is a step towards holistic healing and reconnecting with your true self.
Healing the whole person
What makes our events unique is our focus on healing the whole person—not just the struggle they’re facing. We create a safe, judgment-free environment where individuals can reconnect with their identity, purpose, and emotional well-being through real conversations, guided wellness activities, mentorship, and community support.
More than gatherings, they are spaces for transformation
Unlike traditional programs that only focus on information, our approach is rooted in transformation. We combine mental wellness education with lived experiences, accountability, empowerment, and practical tools people can apply in everyday life. Every event is designed to help participants feel seen, heard, valued, and supported no matter where they are in their journey. Through workshops, workbook exercises, storytelling, peer connection, and personal development activities, we help individuals build resilience, confidence, emotional awareness, and hope for the future. Our mission is to create experiences that inspire healing and restore purpose.
Connections to Success was a great gathering for women. This was amazing.
Beyond the ordinary
This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what Aj Speaks do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of Aj's story.
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AJ Speaks Healing Tour – June 2026
The AJ Speaks Healing Tour is making a powerful impact throughout the month of June, bringing people together in spaces of hope, healing, and transformation. The response has been extraordinary as individuals from all walks of life come together to share, learn, reflect, and begin their personal journeys toward emotional wellness.
Inspired by her book, When the Grave Let Go, AJ Speaks shares a deeply personal story of resilience, overcoming adversity, and reclaiming purpose. More than a memoir, the book serves as an invitation for readers to begin their own healing process.
Accompanying the book is a guided 30-day healing workbook designed to help individuals explore the experiences, thoughts, and emotions that may be preventing them from moving forward. Through reflective journaling exercises, self-discovery prompts, and practical healing techniques, participants are encouraged to identify barriers that may be affecting their relationships, careers, personal growth, and overall well-being.
Not everyone is ready to begin their healing journey in a therapeutic setting. This workbook provides a safe and structured starting point for those seeking to better understand themselves, process life experiences, and develop healthier paths forward.
As the tour continues throughout June, we invite you to follow upcoming event dates and join us for an experience that is inspiring lives and creating meaningful conversations.
Interested in bringing AJ Speaks to your organization, church, community group, book club, conference, or special event? Visit the Book Me page to schedule a speaking engagement, author reading, workshop, or book-signing event. Discounted group book packages are also available.
Healing begins with one decision: the decision to start.
AJ Speaks
"I Am the Dream My Ancestors Envisioned."
Women on a Mission gathering at Missions St. Louis located at 3108 N. Grand Blvd, St. Louis MO 63107
This month, AJ Speaks was honored to be invited to speak with a remarkable group of women who meet regularly on their own personal healing journeys. What began as a speaking engagement quickly became an extraordinary experience of connection, reflection, and transformation.
Through authentic storytelling, practical healing strategies, and lessons from her book, When the Grave Let Go, AJ Speaks encourages individuals to confront the experiences that may be hindering their growth and embrace the possibility of a brighter future. Participants leave empowered, inspired, and equipped with tools to continue their healing journey long after the event ends.
AJ Speaks is more than a speaker—she is a visionary, advocate, and community leader dedicated to helping people rediscover their strength, purpose, and voice. Through speaking engagements, workshops, and community outreach, she creates spaces where healing and growth can flourish.
We invite you to support AJ Enterprises Presents, the nonprofit organization that proudly sponsors and supports AJ Speaks. A significant portion of proceeds raised through speaking engagements, book sales, and community events is reinvested into programs that serve our community, particularly individuals navigating reentry and life transitions.
At AJ Enterprises Presents, we believe that successful reentry and community wellness begin with a healed mind. Our mission is to empower individuals, restore hope, and provide resources that help people move from surviving to thriving.
Join us on this journey of healing, transformation, and community impact. Invite AJ Speaks to your next conference, workshop, book club, church event, women's gathering, or community program and experience the difference that healing-centered conversations can make.
AJ Speaks
"I Am the Dream My Ancestors Envisioned."
Sponsored by AJ Enterprises Presents – Empowering Change, Restoring Lives, Building Futures.
Aj Speaks Healing Tour
Begin Your Healing Journey Today
If you are looking for a meaningful resource for your organization, support group, church, book club, or personal healing journey, When the Grave Let Go is more than a book—it is an experience.
Healing is where transformation begins. When we commit to healing, everything else has an opportunity to improve: our relationships, our careers, our self-esteem, our physical health, and our ability to move forward with purpose.
The truth is that we are all carrying something. Whether it is childhood trauma, grief, loss, rejection, abandonment, disappointment, or life's unexpected challenges, those experiences often shape how we think, feel, and respond to the world around us. The good news is that healing is possible, and there are healthy ways to regulate our emotions, process our experiences, and reclaim our lives.
When the Grave Let Go shares AJ Speaks' powerful story of resilience, perseverance, and personal transformation. While the book provides inspiration and hope, the accompanying workbook is where the personal work begins.
Designed as a guided healing companion, the workbook helps readers identify areas of pain, reflect on experiences that may be limiting their growth, and develop practical strategies for moving forward. Through intentional exercises, journaling prompts, and self-discovery activities, readers are encouraged to do the work necessary to create lasting change.
The book may tell AJ's story, but the workbook helps you begin writing your own.
Whether you are an individual seeking healing, a community organization supporting wellness, or a leader looking for resources to inspire growth within your group, When the Grave Let Go and its companion workbook offer a powerful starting point for transformation.
Because healing is not a destination—it is a journey. And every journey begins with a single step.
AJ Speaks
"I Am the Dream My Ancestors Envisioned."
Healing. Hope. Transformation. One story at a time.
Let's Make the Month of June Count
I Am The Dream my Ancestors Envisioned
This June, make a commitment to yourself.
Make a commitment to heal.
Life has a way of leaving wounds that cannot always be seen. Many of us carry pain from our past, unresolved trauma, grief, disappointment, broken relationships, or experiences that continue to affect how we show up in our daily lives. But healing is possible, and you do not have to walk the journey alone.
Join AJ Speaks this June as she continues her Healing Tour, inspiring individuals and communities to move from surviving to thriving. Through her powerful book, When the Grave Let Go, and its companion workbook, participants are encouraged to begin the important work of self-reflection, emotional growth, and personal transformation.
The book tells AJ's story. The workbook helps you discover your own.
Let's make the month of June count. Let's choose growth over fear, purpose over pain, and healing over hurt.
Join AJ Speaks, support the mission of AJ Enterprises Presents, and take the first step toward becoming the healthiest version of yourself.
Because when healing begins, everything changes.
Come heal with us. Come grow with us. Come discover what's possible when you finally give yourself permission to let go and move forward.
Let's start healing together.
AJ Speaks
"I Am the Dream My Ancestors Envisioned."
Sponsored by AJ Enterprises Presents – Empowering Change, Restoring Lives, Building Futures.
Brunch & Becoming 10/17/2026
Brunch & Becoming
A Celebration With a Purpose
October 17, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
VIP Arrival: 10:30 AM
Brunch & Becoming is more than a brunch. It is a celebration of transformation, resilience, second chances, and what becomes possible when people are given the support and opportunity to move forward.
Presented by Aj Speaks through AJ Enterprises Presents, Brunch & Becoming brings together authors, entrepreneurs, community leaders, justice-impacted individuals, young people, and members of the community for an afternoon centered on purpose, possibility, and becoming.
But there is a bigger reason behind this event.
AJ Enterprises Presents is a growing nonprofit organization being built to create meaningful opportunities, resources, education, mentorship, and support for individuals and families in our communities—particularly those impacted by incarceration and the justice system.
Proceeds and support generated through Brunch & Becoming will help AJ Enterprises Presents continue building its foundation, expanding its community presence, developing programming, and preparing its initiatives for implementation as the organization moves through the process of obtaining its official 501(c)(3) status.
From Prison to Purpose: RESET
One of our signature initiatives is RESET: Re-entry • Emotional Stabilization • Supportive Mentorship • Empowerment • Transition.
RESET is designed to support justice-involved individuals as they prepare to return home and rebuild their lives. The goal is not simply to help someone leave incarceration—it is to help them successfully transition back into their families, communities, employment, relationships, and sense of purpose.
RESET is rooted in a simple belief:
People are not programs.
Re-entry requires more than a checklist. It requires accountability, emotional support, mentorship, practical resources, a safe place to identify barriers, and people who believe that a person's past does not have to determine their future.
Interrupting the Cycle Before the System: PRE-SET
AJ Enterprises Presents is also developing PRE-SET, a youth-focused prevention and early-intervention initiative created to reach young people before deeper involvement with the juvenile justice system occurs.
PRE-SET is intended for youth who may be experiencing behavioral challenges, suspensions, early encounters with the justice system, or other circumstances that place them at increased risk of becoming justice-involved.
Through mentorship, accountability, positive activities, emotional development, life skills, and community support, PRE-SET is designed to help young people recognize that another path is possible.
We don't want to wait until a child is incarcerated to ask what could have been done differently.
We want to interrupt the cycle before the system does.
This Is Only the Beginning
Brunch & Becoming 2026 is the first event of its kind for AJ Enterprises Presents—but it does not have to be the last.
Every ticket purchased, every partnership formed, every donation made, and every person who shares our mission helps us move one step closer to creating sustainable programs that can make a measurable difference in our community.
We are in the beginning stages of building something with the potential to reach generations—from young people who need intervention before entering the system, to individuals returning home who deserve the opportunity to RESET their lives.
Brunch & Becoming is where celebration meets purpose.
We gather to celebrate who we have been, honor who we are, and invest in who we—and our communities—are still becoming.
Meet Our Featured Voices
Meet Aj Speaks
Aj Speaks is a transformational speaker, author, reentry specialist, certified life coach, and the creator of the Aj Speaks Ecosystem—a growing body of work that brings together books, companion workbooks, speaking, coaching, community initiatives, and nonprofit service.
With more than 20 years of experience in social services, Aj has spent her career working with people navigating some of life’s hardest transitions. That experience, combined with her own lived journey, shaped her passion for helping people name what happened, recognize their strength, take accountability for what comes next, find their voice, and move forward empowered.
That philosophy became the GRAVE Method: Grace • Resilience • Accountability • Voice • Empowerment. Aj describes it simply: “The GRAVE Method begins where trauma-informed care ends.” It moves beyond recognizing trauma and asks the next question: Now that we understand what happened to you, how do we help you reclaim what happens next?
Through the Aj Speaks Ecosystem and AJ Enterprises Presents, Aj is building tools and initiatives designed to strengthen individuals, families, and communities—especially those impacted by reentry, instability, trauma, and systems involvement.
At the heart of everything she creates is one belief: people are more than what happened to them, and transformation becomes possible when people are given the tools, support, and opportunity to become.
Aj-ism
“You can’t release what you refuse to name.”
— Aj Speaks
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Guest Speaker
Stevie's Kitchen
Guest Speaker
Meet Our Rising Voices
Youth Spotlight/Young. Gifted. Becoming.
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Young Entrepreneur/Youth Advocate
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The Legacy
The Legacy Behind Aj Speaks
Before there was Aj Speaks, there was a legacy.
I am the continuation of generations who survived, sacrificed, believed, and created possibilities they may never have lived to see. Their strength shaped my resilience. Their sacrifices made room for my purpose. And their legacy lives through the work I do today.
Everything I build—from my books and the GRAVE Method to my work in reentry, youth intervention, personal development, and community empowerment—is rooted in something bigger than me. I understand that the opportunities I have today were built on prayers, sacrifices, hard work, and dreams that began generations before I arrived.
Today, I honor that legacy by creating something for the generations coming behind me.
Through the Aj Speaks Ecosystem, I have turned lived experience and more than 20 years of professional experience in social services into books, companion workbooks, speaking, coaching, and community initiatives designed to help people heal, take accountability, rediscover their voices, and move forward with purpose.
My books, When the GRAVE Let Go and After the GRAVE Let Go, along with their companion workbooks, are part of that mission. And the story continues with Becoming: Choosing Me After Letting Go, because becoming is not a destination—it is the decision to keep choosing growth.
Through AJ Enterprises Presents, that same vision reaches into the community through initiatives such as RESET: From Prison to Purpose and PRE-SET: Interrupting the Cycle Before the System. My goal is not simply to talk about change. I want to create the tools, spaces, and opportunities that allow people to experience it.
Stay Connected With Aj Speaks
Explore the books, speaking engagements, community initiatives, and upcoming events at bookajspeaks.com.
Follow @ajenterprisespresents on Instagram and connect with Aj Speaks on social media for new books, events, speaking engagements, Aj-isms, and the continued journey of becoming.
I am the dream my ancestors envisioned—and I intend to leave a legacy for the dreams coming after me.