Selfless Love Talk w/Coach Chanel Budd & Author S. P. Brown

 Author S.P. Brown

S.P. Brown was raised in New York on the upper west side of Harlem. S.P. is  corporate executive, attorney and author with twenty-five years of diverse legal and corporate management experience.  S.P. has been writing creatively for over a decade and recently took a hiatus from her career as a legal executive to pursue her writing career full time and nurture her long time dedication to the issues of domestic violence and youth empowerment which speak to her spirit.   

S.P. serves as a Vice-President of the Board of Directors for a non-profit domestic violence agency based in Nassau County, New York, and also routinely lends her time and voice to support youth services initiatives on Long Island.  S.P. wrote Gifts in Brown Paper Packages (“Gifts”) in 2017 as a story of inspiration and survival for young adults as well as any person who has experienced any kind of life strife.  The characters and events of the narrative are grounded in S.P.’s life, while the story is fictional.  Gifts is S.P.’s first novel. 

Gifts is a story of a young girl’s survival driven by strength, personal growth, a journey to self-awareness, and ultimately acknowledging her truth. Through Kyrie’s lens, the reader is led through vivid episodic flashbacks from her adolescence through young adulthood in a journey ripe with experiences that are sometimes funny, often shocking and painful, and always genuine. Acceptance of her story and how it shapes her enables Kyrie to embrace the lessons, i.e., gifts, that strife and challenges offer despite their unpalatable aspects. Kyrie reveals her struggles, fears, and growth through this tale while displaying the perseverance that births her power and voice. Ultimately, Kyrie recognizes and accepts all the gifts, even the ones that come wrapped in brown paper packages!