Today we’d like to introduce you to Naja Kierre’.
Hi Naja, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’ve always been a storyteller, even before I understood what that meant for my life. As a child, I spent my elementary school years writing poetry and short stories-creating worlds, expressing emotions, and documenting feelings I didn’t always have the language for yet. Writing became one of the first places where I truly felt seen.
At the same time, I’ve always been deeply intuitive. Even as a little girl, I would dream things before they happened or sense shifts before they unfolded. For a long time, I didn’t fully understand that part of myself, but over the years I learned to honor it instead of silence it. That intuition eventually became part of my spiritual journey and the foundation of the work I do today.
My path hasn’t been traditional or easy. I’ve experienced seasons of instability, including homelessness, and those experiences completely changed how I view people, survival, and community. Because I know what it feels like to need support, compassion, and hope, philanthropy and service became deeply important to me. Earlier in my journey, I worked with unhoused communities and offered support to women through pregnancy-related hardships and transitions. I’ve always believed healing work can happen in practical ways just as much as spiritual ones.
I’m also a single mother, which has been one of the greatest motivations behind everything I’ve built. Motherhood taught me resilience, sacrifice, faith, and how to keep creating even when life feels uncertain. So much of my work is rooted in legacy-showing my child that pain does not cancel purpose.
Professionally, I spent years working in property management and serving people in community-centered roles while continuing to nurture my creative gifts behind the scenes. I also served within the church, which shaped my understanding of ministry, compassion, and spiritual responsibility. Over time, I began blending those experiences together-creativity, spirituality, intuition, service, and healing.
Today, I’m a three-time published author and the creator behind Project Speak, a growing spiritual platform centered around guidance, reflection, intuitive support, and emotional healing. Through my writing, spiritual work, and ministry as an ordained officiant, I aim to create spaces where people feel safe enough to reflect, heal, and reconnect with themselves.
One of my most personal projects is The Green Room, which is more than a book to me-it’s a healing space. It combines affirmations, journaling, and poetry in a way that encourages people to sit with themselves honestly and gently. Everything I create is rooted in the belief that softness, truth, spirituality, and storytelling can coexist.
I think the biggest lesson my journey has taught me is that purpose rarely arrives in a straight line. Sometimes your greatest calling is built from the very things that once tried to break you. And for me, every chapter-the struggle, the service, the motherhood, the intuition, the writing, and the rebuilding-became part of the story I was always meant to tell.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. I think a lot of people see the finished version of someone-the books, the business, the creativity, but not always the rebuilding that happened behind the scenes.
I’ve experienced instability, grief, financial hardship, and periods where I had to figure life out while still showing up for other people. There were times I experienced homelessness, times I questioned myself, and times where I felt overlooked creatively and professionally. Navigating life as a single mother while trying to build something meaningful from the ground up has also come with its own challenges. There’s a different kind of pressure that comes with knowing someone is depending on you while you’re still trying to heal and grow yourself.
I also think one of the biggest struggles was learning to trust who I was fully, especially spiritually and creatively. For a long time, I minimized parts of myself to make other people comfortable. Being intuitive, deeply emotional, creative, and spiritually led isn’t always understood, especially when you come from environments where survival takes priority over self-expression. I had to learn that my sensitivity wasn’t weakness, it was part of my purpose.
Another challenge was balancing practicality with passion. I worked in property management and community-centered roles while still nurturing my writing and spiritual work quietly in the background. A lot of what I’m building now was built during late nights, exhaustion, uncertainty, and moments where I had every reason to give up.
But honestly, those struggles shaped the work I do today. They gave me compassion, depth, discernment, and the ability to connect with people from a real place. Whether through writing, ministry, spiritual guidance, or community work, I never want people to feel judged or unseen because I know what it feels like to carry heavy seasons silently.
Looking back, I realize the journey wasn’t meant to be smooth, it was meant to transform me.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a published author, poet, spiritual practitioner, ordained minister/officiant, and the creator behind Project Speak, a platform centered around healing, reflection, intuitive guidance, and emotional honesty. My work exists at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and human connection.
A lot of what I do is rooted in helping people feel seen. Through intuitive readings, spiritual support, writing, affirmations, poetry, and conversation, I create spaces where people can reconnect with themselves without judgment. I specialize in intuitive guidance, emotional clarity, reflective healing work, and creative expression. My offerings range from tarot and oracle readings to spiritual support sessions, writing, officiant services, and curated healing-centered content.
I’m also a three-time published author, and writing will always be one of the foundations of who I am. My book The Green Room is especially close to me because it combines affirmations, journaling, and poetry into an experience designed to encourage healing, self-reflection, softness, and truth. I wanted it to feel less like a traditional book and more like a space people could return to when they needed grounding.
What I’m most proud of is the fact that everything I’ve built came from authenticity and perseverance. I didn’t come from a perfect situation or a straight path. I built my platform while navigating real life, motherhood, personal hardships, professional responsibilities, and spiritual growth. To see people connect with my work, trust me with their stories, and find comfort or clarity through what I create means everything to me.
I also take pride in the fact that my work is deeply intentional. Whether I’m writing poetry, giving guidance, supporting someone spiritually, or simply creating content online, I want people to leave feeling lighter, more understood, and more connected to themselves.
What sets me apart is that I don’t approach this work from a performance standpoint, I approach it from lived experience. My background in community service, ministry, motherhood, writing, and personal transformation allows me to connect with people in a very grounded and compassionate way. I think people can feel when someone is operating from authenticity instead of image.
At the core of everything I do is the belief that healing and self-discovery should feel human, honest, and accessible. I want my work to remind people that softness can coexist with strength, and that even the most difficult chapters of life can still create something meaningful.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
People can work with and support me in several ways, whether through my creative work, spiritual offerings, or community-centered projects. Through Project Speak, I offer intuitive guidance, tarot and oracle readings, spiritual support sessions, officiant services, and reflective healing experiences designed to help people reconnect with themselves and gain clarity during different seasons of life.
I’m also always open to creative and community-based collaborations that align with healing, storytelling, spirituality, empowerment, and authentic connection. That can include podcasts, speaking opportunities, workshops, book events, women’s empowerment spaces, wellness events, creative projects, and community outreach initiatives.
Readers and supporters can also support my journey by purchasing and sharing my books, especially The Green Room, leaving reviews, engaging with my content, and simply helping amplify the message behind my work. Independent creatives and authors grow so much through word of mouth and genuine community support.
As I continue building my platform, I’m especially interested in collaborations that create safe spaces for reflection, healing, creativity, and honest conversation-particularly for youth, Black men and women, single mothers, creatives, and people navigating transformation in their lives.
More than anything, I want the work I create to feel impactful and accessible. If something I share helps someone feel seen, inspired, comforted, or understood, then that’s meaningful support to me as well.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/50shadzofl0cdcurlsandtarot/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/najaprincessmatthews/
- Other: https://a.co/d/0dd0oXKl
Image Credits
Malaina Baker, Anasha Asforis, Trinity Janai
