Growing up in Compton with two well versed artsy Christian parents, Keysha was a natural born creative and performer. Her parents performed in Michael Matthew's hit Gospel stage play "I Need a Man"; her mom Yolanda played the lead role of Mama Lily while 9 months pregnant with a past due Keysha. Her first name is actually from that same play that ushered in her glorious arrival because it was the same name as one of her mom's daughters in the play. Her mom used to always recount how her and Keysha's dad used to get a kick out of yelling it around the house practicing for when she was born. Initially they thought Keysha would be a boy, but at the last minute she turned out to be a girl.

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 Keysha's mom Yolanda made it a point to spell her name KEYSHA rather than the popular spelling Keisha because she felt as though she was the Key to her heart. Her parents prayed for her and after multiple tries her mom was finally able to conceive Keysha despite a pastor telling Yolanda that she was too overweight to get pregnant. When Keysha was first born her mom was so protective of her that she took even took her in the bathroom with her while she was in the hospital. A lady who was sharing a room with her mom kept offering to watch Keysha while she used the bathroom, but her mom didn't trust it. From conception and even from heaven, Keysha's parent's prayers still continue to protect her.

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Performing since the tender age of 2 years old, Keysha is no stranger to the spotlight although she's spent practically her whole adult life running from her ability to influence others. Her mom used to always tell her stories of how bold she was when she was a toddler before she passed away. Keysha was always trying to dance with the older kids. One story in particular that she always told her was about when they were holding auditions for the party scene for the Gospel stage play "A Taste of Life" by their good friend Carlotta Adams. The girls were doing some popular 90's dances and a young tenacious Keysha ran out at just two years old trying to do the dances too. Yolanda always laughed telling her the story of how her dad snatched her up so fast before she could finish.

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Keysha always loved to dance and would constantly get reprimanded as a teen for dancing too sensual around the house. Her mom never wanted her to lose sight of her virtue although it was always very much still in tact. She was so scarred from getting in trouble when she told her mom she had a boyfriend in kindergarten that she ended up practically running from guys who approached her when she got older. Subconsciously when her father passed away, it was another thing that hindered her from wanting to get close to men romantically. She loved the way her parents loved and it didn't seem fair that it was so short lived.

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Her father Larry was a musician, graphic designer, writer, actor, and painter. Her mom was a vocalist, chair dance choreographer if you let her tell it, actor, writer, and preschool teacher by day. Her mother loved children and had a way of always knowing what to say when people were having a hard time navigating through life. Creativity has always been around Keysha and both of her parents were the best writers she knew. You can say the ink was embedded in her DNA.

Having lost both parents by the age of 15 and a host of other relatives/close people in between, life hasn't always been the easiest for Keysha. Even though life has had it's hardships, God always blessed her to encounter many special people throughout her life. There was a long period of time where she'd rather hide behind her pen or camera to avoid her performing roots that reminded her of the childhood she dearly missed.

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After shooting her first music video for an artist named Bree Real one summer, Keysha soon found herself shooting many of her homeboys visuals/music videos in her late teens and early 20s. She could always be found shooting music videos for her friend GMAC or  visuals for her childhood best friend's ex David Sabastian. Keysha would even help people design their websites and shoot visuals for their clothing lines. With each project she got better and better, always being sure to pay attention to detail when editing. Sometimes Keysha would edit videos all night to make sure she had everything in sync and edited to the best of her ability by the next day. She was always known for her very quick turn around time. Keysha would film and edit music videos then have it ready to artists by the following day.

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She eventually stopped doing music videos although she loved to film/edit because she was tired of shooting videos with no clear purpose or treatments. She was extremely underpaid with people sometimes taking advantage of her kindness and switching prices at the last minute or not paying her at all. The last project she said no to finally had a big budget worthy of her efforts from a rapper in Texas, but she turned it down because she didn't like the music and no longer had the desire to do anything that wasn't in alignment with her. Even then, writing was still close by. Keysha would sometimes recite some of her poetry to her friend GMAC's mom in his parent's garage in Carson.

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Keysha has excelled in creative writing dating back to elementary school when she first learned how to spell in Kindergarten in her teacher Ms.Mann's class who was one of her mom's friends. Keysha would spend many bbq's at Ms.Mann's house playing spades with the adults since most times kids her age found her to be annoying. Her mom helped her write her first poem at 7 years old for her father's obituary. Before she even knew how to write she'd be doodling in church on the back of service programs as a toddler pretending she was writing in cursive like her mama. By the time she got to third grade and was taught the different styles of poetry by her favorite teacher Ms.Mckay, Keysha was hooked.

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Although somewhat confident in her writing abilities, comparison also brought her much self doubt. Keysha would sometimes find herself intimidated by how well her childhood bestfriend Tyiesha wrote poetry. They'd often sit in Ty's room and she would let Keysha read the poems of her diary. She was inspired, but at times it made her question her abilities as a writer. It was until one of her middle school friends had her write a poem for their mother that she really recognized how good of a writer she was.

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Keysha and her other childhood best friend that she met in middle school named Domonique Davis used to sit on the phone for hours writing songs together imagining the day when their singing group KDA would become the next big thing. Nique would sometimes bring notebooks to school for Keysha to read stories she'd written and put her on to the best story sites that were popular in the early 2000s. Those same story sites, Keysha would also get in trouble for reading till the wee hours of the morning on school nights.

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Keysha loved to read stories about love and unique romances between opposites who found their way to each other. Reading was something she always enjoyed doing as a child and she'd sometimes even read the dictionary for fun. Keysha was facinated with language and loved acing all of her spelling tests. Sometimes Keysha would even read the back of the school announcements that were in Spanish to practice her accent. Her obsession with reading got to a point that in high school she started telling her mom to get Borders gift card to get more books to read instead of a lot of Christmas gifts.

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Keysha has always been passionate about storytelling and remains impressed by the influence it has on people and the decisions they make in life. A hobby as a child eventually became the therapy that helped her cope with loss and the many challenges she faced as an adult. In 11th grade she used to post her poetry on her Tumblr entitled "She is Misunderstood" under the pseudonym Emiko Nicolette which eventually became Emiko Love the pen name that she still uses for her books today. 

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At 19 years old, one of Keysha's stories was published by her college professor Hiram Sims in a short story compilation entitled The Invisible Door. Becoming a published author inspired Keysha to delve back into writing and although her first poetry book that she started writing was lost when her laptop crashed, her professor's support in her poetry empowered her. Keysha's second publication and first book is entitled The Commandments of Womanhood. The book was inspired by her sisterhood with Dyamond Taylor as they prepared for the arrival of Dyme's first daughter Marz.

 

Keysha recognized how necessary this book was through their many conversations discussing their childhood trauma. After completing the first manuscript, Keysha tried tirelessly to give her book away and even attempted to have Dyme release it for her because there was so much struggle that found it's way in her life after deciding to write it including the loss of her first apartment on her own. Keysha sent early versions of her manuscripts around through email to women she knew like a chain letter and told them to pass it on if they liked it. People suggested that she sell it, but she continued to share it for free.

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The initial release was through her online blog(mindfulblisss.blogspot.com) where she originally released it for free after being inspired by how Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts first released what became her first book "Lost and Found". Keysha used money from her unemployment checks while staying with her cousin Jason in Boston before getting another job there. She paid influencers that she felt could benefit from her book to promote it who had a large female audience after only raising about $70 on her book Gofundme. 

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Her friend Rochelle who she knew from high school was the first person to ever buy a copy of her book paying double before it was even a physical book. Rochelle helped Keysha move when she became homeless for the first time after losing her first adult apartment on her own. Even though it took Keysha years to return her friend's belief in her, she always kept Rochelle in mind and sent her copies to all the books she'd written since the first seed she planted in 2016.

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Keysha was overwhelmed at the outpouring of love that her first book received and was grateful that it was doing what it was intended to do which was help women tap into their greatness. People kept urging her to sell such a remarkable gem, but she stayed obedient to God and kept listing it for free or very cheaply priced. After repeat requests for a paperback release, she went on to self publish The Commandments of Womanhood on Amazon through KDP formally Create Space after seeing it listed as the publication source of a popular Instagram poet's book. She had been listening to seminars by author Tiphany Montgomery for months and researching for a long time before finally just using Create Space. One of her followers on Instagram who became like a sister name Kahmeel still paid Keysha when she offered to send her the book free.

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The Commandments of Womanhood is a 10 chapter inspirational handbook mirrored after The Ten Commandments with a new age spin. It has been referred to as the best friend and mom for young women trying to navigate figuring themselves out while evolving in their WOMBMON hood. The Commandments of Womanhood is the first installment of many books to come in the series that she hopes to be able to use to introduce new writers. She has since dropped a limited edition version called The Commandments of Black Womanhood. Over the years, many of her male friends have even asked for a version which she hopes to write one day after getting together a team of males and hopefully her husband to contribute whenever God brings her a spouse.

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Her original book is now condensed into an 100 page handbook with a special edition hard copy made with love with her Black sisters in mind. This condensed version has taken 7 years of trial/error, betrayal, homelessness, and 14 years of instability to create. Even though $100 is more than worth the price, the physical book is still available for a cheaper price on Amazon. A purchase of all her books give Keysha a collective royalty of $29.30 that she hopes is a sign from God that instability will be a thing of the past as she moves into her 30s. A dollar a page is more than worth the 7 years Keysha tried giving it away for free and even poured into women who tried to break her when they were not operating as their highest.

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Keysha believes that true healing comes from storytelling and hopes to one day create her own platform and healing center to help hurting people heal from past trauma while tapping back into their greatness. Even with everything that she's been through, Keysha continues to uplift the people around her and press forward by spreading positivity. Throughout 2021, Keysha began taking a step from behind her pen and consistently putting more of herself on Instagram after being urged to by her sister Naimah Metoyer (Owner of Pristine Yoni). Although her Instagram page and videos never garnered much attention by the masses even with genuine love/reposts, it helped her step back into the beautiful light that she spent years running from. 

 

Eventually Keysha transitioned her content over to TikTok where she eventually grew a following after many failed profile attempts.

Some of the first people to watch her Tiktok live's who people grew to love were Khadijah and another girl who likes to be anonymous going by the nickname "AS". Keysha would sometimes listen to music and they always encouraged her to sing complimenting notes that she'd hit while she tried singing under the music to hide her voice. Another one of her loyal supporters named Coco always came with good vibes along with Hannah, Tabatha, Chelsea, and few parody pages. Keysha has a large young following that she often refers to as her lil cousins, brothers, sisters, and TikTac besties. 

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Keysha continued to be persistent on her TikTok page despite the many content violations and bullying/hate she received from trolls or previous supporters who became obsessive. Sometimes she even contemplated leaving the app or giving her page away because of how tired she got from blocking people when she was just trying to spread good energy, but she knew that God gave her that platform for a reason. Keysha knew she couldn't leave her new friends that grew a special place in her heart.

 

She had a feeling that there was something special on the app because her first post in March of 2020 instantly started to get pushed and it was almost immediately taken down as quick as it grew. The moment reminded her of when one of her videos started trying to take off in 2012 on Youtube after Pharell Williams channel IAMOTHER who produced the second season of Issa Rae's awkward Black Girl commented on a video of hers. Like  Instagram, once too many people saw her, she delete her page or stopped posting. Keysha tried to be consistent on Youtube, but eventually let her fear of the spotlight push her back into staying behind the camera as a photographer.

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Keysha always told God if he gave her another chance she would try her best to be a good steward over the next platform she was noticed on. Throughout her time creating content, she always managed to be noticed by celebrities or influencers that she felt she could relate to even with her small following on Instagram. It took her a few failed accounts to finally grasp a rhythm on TikTok. Her honest rants and sometimes comedic posts in between taking calls working from home eventually grew her platform from 93 followers to over 50,000+ and counting. In less than two weeks after first dreaming of it the year prior, a couple of her videos garnered nearly 4 million views combined. Keysha often had trouble sleeping with all the notifications because she's never had so many people on any of her social media accounts before. Although the comments were sometimes well into the thousands, she always made it a point to write thoughtful messages or video responses to every positive comment she saw. She always remembered how she felt when her favorite people on the internet showed her love over the years and wanted to do the same for those who followed her.

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After 10 years of on and off social media content creation, Keysha gained her biggest following to date in less than two weeks because of consistency and dedication to God's plan for her life. If you take anything from Keysha's story, know that failure is sometimes necessary to build character needed for you to go the distance. It's okay to quit, but never quit for long because you never know what can happen if you are persistent on your quest. Keysha has been starting businesses since she was 16 years old and has failed more times than you can even imagine. She has slept in hotels, motels, 2 shelters, and 2 airports after the passing of her mother 14 years ago. She has never fully decorated any of her apartments for the fear that she'd soon have to leave and she's never felt at home anywhere since her childhood home that she grew up in.

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There were many dark days, but even at the bottom she still found herself pouring into people who crossed her path. Even with crossing paths of some who mishandled her while trying to navigate their own low moments, she still experienced beautiful encounters with kind souls. Strangers would offer her rides and sometimes chase her down to give her money even though she tried her best never to look like her struggle. Encounters like that always reminded her of the wealth she possessed through her relationship with Christ Jesus. Her baby face that she resented as a child paid off as an adult because most of her followers thinks she's a teen regardless of how many times she proudly lets them know she's pushing 30 in November. 

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The only difference between Keysha and anybody else is that she got back up while developing the discipline needed to finally see results after years of hard work. While she experienced a difficult journey and even made some mistakes along the way, she always met kind strangers who felt like family who showed her God's grace through how they handled her. Although she may not remember every name, she loves and appreciates their kindness because people would manage to show God's grace in times when her hope was low. Keysha always posted great high quality content on Myspace, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram for years going unnoticed by the masses. Her pages rarely grew regardless of who shared her posts and how many blue checks were following or even secretly stealing content. For 14 years none of her platforms ever had even close to 2000 followers and then random posts of her having fun began growing her Tiktok quickly out of the blue. Be open to miracles and rapid growth even when you've spent years going unnoticed. Mind your journey and know that God's time is the perfect time. Everything always happens in God's timing!