Antina Campbell

I'm not a totem Bible twister, but just my faith. God directed me. One of my prayers used to be, 'God, if you can use me,' and that was early on, and it was really stressful at that time, and He was reminding me, you prayed that prayer, not everyone can pray that prayer. He told me to remember that what you do, you do for me, first and foremost, and then continue to keep the faith. And if it's for you, if it's God, and it's for you, it's gonna be there. If it's not, I tell Him He closes the door, and I have to accept that. I continue to keep that door open, or make a way, because your word talks about provisions. You give us provisions, you will also make the provision. If it's for me. If it's not, close that door. And I'm okay with that. And every now and then, that may hurt, because we want to win in areas that we're working so hard for, but the reality of it is, it wasn't for me. God has something bigger, better, or it simply wasn't the path He wanted me to go on, and I have to be okay with that. So go ahead and have my little moment of hurt, and get over it, and get moving.

Crazy as this may sound, it's that tie another knot at the end of that rope and hang on. That fits everything, my day-to-day job, because there come days where I'm like, oh my god, I can't take another call about things that are not as important as what we're experiencing in life today, with families losing their homes, with people losing their lives. When I get calls and say, oh, I got a leak in my sink, it's like, is it really an emergency? Simply, we gotta get it fixed. And I get those calls, and sometimes I just tie another knot at the end of that rope and hang on, and help them through that, because to them, that's an emergency. It's about stepping back and saying, remember love. Love first. Operate in love first, because that gives you more patience to deal with things day-to-day.

Have a plan. And really, I'm just gonna be 100, because I am a spiritual person, is really understand your why. If you have a relationship with a higher power, really seek and ask for directions. Some people go into entrepreneurship for not understanding their why and what the ultimate goal is, and then it becomes just a project versus really seeking what needs to be done, because there's going to be some highs, there's going to be lows, probably more lows than highs before you get to a level of success. A lot of sacrificing. And so I would say really, falling into entrepreneurship, understand your why. Don't just do it because you think it's going to generate a lot of income, because if money is the driving factor and not your purpose, then I don't believe it's gonna work.

The opportunity for me is just to be able to work with phenomenal women across the country, whether they're teaching me or I'm teaching them, or showing, especially the younger girls, how to walk in their purpose, how to move in excellence, how to take their platform, whether it be mental health or domestic violence, and turn it into something purposeful to change lives. I'm very adamant when it comes to the pageant world - we're not just a pageant, we're more than that. We are change agents, and I instill that into young women about making a change in your community and the world. The challenges in my world is always financing. My pocket's bleeding, because I'm funding a lot of things on my own, so the challenge is just getting the funding needed to keep these programs that I'm implementing or working on going. Hey Sis I Got You is not just a book, it's a movement that I've created, where there's a podcast in the works, there's an app in the works, there's a single that's been produced, there's a fashion line that's launching in September in New York and then Paris in October, so there's so much going, and my pockets don't have it anymore. That's the biggest challenge - funding all of this vision. And then my property management business, I'm getting to where I need to start hiring more staff, and trusting that is hard for me sometimes. Finding workers is difficult because I want someone to come in that's just like me or better, not that I have to spend a lot of time managing or micromanaging or training, but I need to be able to feel trusted and you can run my business while I go off and change the world.

The values most important to me are integrity and love. Love is extremely important to me, because I truly believe all we need is love in every aspect. I have this t-shirt that says 'everybody love somebody,' and this morning I put it on, and I said, come back and step back and say, remember love. Love first. Operate in love first, because that gives you more patience to deal with things day-to-day. And integrity, faith, and hard work are important to me. Do the work. If you do the work and put in the dedication, and do it in the spirit of excellence, it'll come back the way how it's supposed to.