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STORY AND LEGACY MUSEUM
For Black Grandmothers
About the Founder
Tonya Jackson — Story, Life & Business Curator
Tonya Jackson is a Story, Life & Business Curator™ who helps Black grandmothers and women 40+ reclaim their voice, restore their identity, and redesign their future with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Blending storytelling, personal reinvention, and quiet-power entrepreneurship, Tonya curates the experiences women have lived through and transforms them into powerful narratives, strategies, and legacy-building opportunities.
With over 18 years of community leadership through Voices of Black Grandmothers, Tonya has guided thousands of women through seasons of caregiving, loss, transition, and rebirth. Her work stands at the intersection of emotional healing, identity reconstruction, and women’s entrepreneurship — offering a safe and empowering space for women to rise from what they’ve survived and walk boldly into who they’re becoming.
Education and Certifications
2015-2017
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2011-2014
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2007-2010
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As The Story, Life & Business Curator™, Tonya’s approach is rooted in three pillars:
1. Story Curation — “Your story deserves to be curated, not carried alone.”
Tonya helps women make sense of their lived experiences by extracting lessons, rewriting outdated narratives, and shaping their personal stories into sources of strength, visibility, and influence. Through guided prompts, identity reframing, and signature-story mapping, she helps clients move from silence or shame to clarity, courage, and purpose.
2. Life Curation — “Reclaiming your power begins with reorganizing your life.”
Tonya supports women in assessing where they are, releasing what no longer serves them, and rebuilding a life aligned with their values, identity, and future vision. Through life audits, boundary-setting frameworks, and reinvention planning, she curates a new pathway for women to walk in their truth with power, dignity, and intention.
3. Business Curation — “Your story is your strategy.”
Tonya helps women transform their personal stories into digital products, coaching offers, brand content, and revenue streams. She curates their business ideas through structured systems, storytelling-based marketing, and quiet-income pathways that honor who they are — without burnout, overwhelm, or comparison.
Her signature approach blends lived wisdom, community impact, corporate expertise, and deep empathy for the challenges many Black women face as grandmothers, caregivers, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Tonya believes reinvention is always possible, no matter your age, what you’ve been through, or the weight you’ve carried.
Her Mission
To help women reclaim their power by curating their stories, restructuring their lives, and redesigning their businesses — so they can step boldly into the legacy they were born to create.
Her Movement
Tonya’s work reaches across her coaching programs, her Today’s Black Grandmothers podcast, her retreats, journals, signature events, and the national Voices of Black Grandmothers community. Through every platform, she curates spaces where women feel seen, supported, valued, and empowered to write the next chapter of their lives.
Her Promise
“You bring the story you’ve lived.
I help you curate the story you’re becoming.”