During the month of March 2010, Dawn McCoy, author of Leadership Building Blocks will highlight great women in leadership during Women’s History Month.

LaTara: Thank you for allowing me to be a guest blogger today at Mom Unplugged. Today, in the Celebrate Women in Leadership series, I want to highlight my grandmother, Mrs. Eula Clotelle McCoy (pronounced “U-la” and “Clo-tell”).

Eula Clotelle McCoy, Exceptional mother, church and community leader

Mrs. Eula Clotelle McCoy (pronounced “U-la” and “Clo-tell”) was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on May 10, 1917. She is the fourth of sevenchildren of Rufus and Ethel Bradley Searles and was raised in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. In 1935, she graduated from Coatesville High School. A year later, she married the late Reverend William M. McCoy, Sr. and this union lasted for 63 years. She had three children—two sons, a doctor and a minister and a daughter, a special education teacher.

Who I’ve Become is NOT who I AM, is Sonya Visor’s first non-fiction book. Her passion is to minister to the people who hide behind masks. Sonya’s calling is to break and destroy the yokes of bondage, releasing the power of God into the lives of others by the preached Word and prayers of deliverance. When you can find the strength, to step into who you truly are; you can find the strength to BE THE (Tru U). TruU Ministries is the women’s ministry that God has charged her with to help other’s become free.

Sonya shares her heart with her husband, Pastor Tony Visor, who she calls her better half, for nineteen years. She and her husband have ministered effectively in the city of Racine together at NCC since 1999. Sonya is blessed to love two sons, Jason and Tony, Jr. Visit her online at sonyavisor.com.

Dwan Abrams is a full-time novelist, freelance editor, and publisher. She’s the best-selling author of My Mother’s Child (the sequel to Divorcing the Devil), Married Strangers, Divorcing the Devil, Only True Love Waits, and The Scream Within. She’s the founder, publisher, and editorial director of Nevaeh Publishing, LLC a small press independent publishing house. She’s currently signed to Urban Christian, an imprint of Urban Books/Kensington. Her sixth novel, the second book in the Married Series, is set to hit national bookshelves in 2011. Visit Dwan online at http://dwanabrams.com.

Dwan stops by Mom Unplugged today to tell us how she balances writing and being a wife and mom. Welcome Dwan!

Thanks for having me! Having a career and a family is like throwing many balls in the air and hoping that none of them hit the ground. On the rare occasion that a ball gets dropped, it’s best to pick it up and throw it back in the air instead of sulking about it.

About the Book

Josiah Tucker, the son of a substance dependent and neglectful mother, spent most of his childhood years in the custody of the State, living in foster homes throughout Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of fourteen, he was taken from  the foster family that he had grown to love, the Smiths, and returned to his negligent birth mother. Enduring the hardships faced while living with his birth mother JT manages to makes something of his life.  However, fifteen years after being taken from the Smiths and at the peak of success, he finds himself feeling empty and at his lowest.  When he decides to reconnect with the Smiths, JT finds his faith in God renewed and discovers his attraction to his foster sister.

Stacy, your latest release is titled Dreams That Won’t Let Go, can you provide tips for mothers who are still waiting for their dreams to be birthed?

My humble advice to mothers wanting to pursue their dreams is something I say often – a quote that I borrowed from former stockbroker and author Chris Gardner: “Baby steps count too.” It means that every chance you get, carve out a little time to pursue your passion. If it’s writing a book, you might have one hour a week to write a new chapter. If it’s singing, maybe you start out in the church choir, and eventually form your own group, and then take that group on a local church tour.