When it comes to resilience, transformation, and building community, few voices resonate as powerfully as Coach Stormy Wellington.
Known as a transformational leader and entrepreneur, Stormy has turned her personal pain into a movement that uplifts women worldwide. Through her platform Girl Hold My Hand, she has created a safe space where women find healing, sisterhood, and empowerment. In this exclusive conversation, Stormy opens up about the loss that shaped her purpose, her daily practices for mental and spiritual health, and why she believes women holding each other up is the key to breaking generational cycles.
FEMI: Coach Stormy, you’ve built platforms that empower women to heal and grow. What led you to create Girl Hold My Hand, and why do you believe this movement is so vital right now?
Stormy: I created Girl Hold My Hand because I saw a void, and it started with the death of my mom. She died on August 26, 2011; I was holding her hand and didn’t know she was taking her last breath. That moment changed everything. I experienced deep pain, and that pain caused me to pivot and pay attention to how women treat one another.
“Too many women tear each other down. There’s jealousy, competition, and a lack of real support. I would not be here if it weren’t for a few good women and many great men who held my hand.”
I wanted to be the woman who says, “I’m here to hold you up.” It may not always feel good — growth can be painful — but that pain can cause a greater pivot. The death of my mom is probably 50 percent of why I am who I am today. Between my mom, God, and living a principle-based life, Girl Hold My Hand was birthed from pain that turned into a purpose: to make women hold each other up.
FEMI: Suicide prevention is such a delicate and urgent topic. How has your own journey of overcoming struggles shaped the way you approach mental health and emotional support within your community?
Stormy: Everything is mind over matter, but if you don’t get your mind right, your mind becomes the matter. I work on my mind every day. I pray, I have God mornings and spiritual time, and I have what I call “Stormy time.” I walk, I meditate, and I follow a life system I’ve built. I teach people how to create a life system that supports mental health.
I meditate with thousands of people every month at 8 a.m.; I’m very consistent and treat myself like a corporation because I have to protect five domains of my life: mind, body, spirit, relationships, and finances.
“Mindset is first — it’s your greatest asset.”
There was a time I was suicidal. I considered ending my life, but I didn’t. There were days I didn’t want to wake up, so now I pay attention to how I feel and prioritize those practices that keep me grounded.
FEMI: The phrase Girl Hold My Hand is powerful. How does that sisterhood mentality help women feel less alone during some of their darkest moments?
Stormy: Everyone wishes they had a sister from birth — someone to play with, someone who’s always there. As adults, women still long for that sisterhood and oneness. Having a group of women who recognize they need sisters is powerful.
You truly become the people you hang around. If you hang around five broke people, you’re bound to be number six. If you surround yourself with mentally disturbed people, you’ll take on their thoughts. Birds of a feather flock together. If you surround yourself with five successful, elevated, consistent, committed people, you’re likely to rise to their level.
Girl Hold My Hand is a community of like-minded women who may not be where they want to be yet, but they’re on their way.
FEMI: Many women are taught to suffer in silence or “be strong” no matter what. How does your platform help break down those walls and create real conversations around depression, suicide, and healing?
Stormy: Mindset is a huge part of what we do. I lead 1–2 hour coaching calls each month. My mornings don’t just start with meditation, they start with a message that I feel downloaded from the Holy Spirit. I lead and I follow that guidance.
Every day I help women access their inner power. Too many people look for external validation — they run ideas by someone to see if they’re “good” instead of expanding on them. On my calls, you can’t leave without feeling personally empowered — not empowered by me, but empowered by the inner work we do together. Inspiration comes from within.
It’s an experience and encounter every morning that teaches accountability and responsibility for what we want in life. I use the saying “cut the AC on” — alignment and consistency. That’s how real change happens.
FEMI: You are known as a transformational leader. What tools, practices, or daily habits do you encourage within Girl Hold My Hand to keep women mentally, spiritually, and emotionally grounded?
Stormy: Meditation, breathwork, journaling, practicing divine feminine energy, and movement — dancing, walking, getting your steps in. I’m walking right now; when I get home I’ll turn on music and dance because I’m a feminine goddess.
I teach women to gather, pray, speak what they want, and believe they can have it all. If I can have it all, you can have it all. I teach the power of who you are and that God is within you — you cannot fail when you walk in that truth.
I give practical tools and instruction — real practices, not just talk. Some people know me as cool and chill, but you don’t always know who I am until I cut off what doesn’t serve. I teach women to take what they can when they can, because sometimes opportunities won’t be so close later.
Stormy Wellington’s journey is a reminder that even in life’s darkest moments, there is light to be found and shared. Through Girl Hold My Hand, she continues to inspire women to lean into sisterhood, embrace alignment and consistency, and trust that God has placed everything they need within them. Her story is not just about survival but about leadership, legacy, and lifting others along the way.
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