Meet Letitia Council: Founder/Executive Director

We had the good fortune of connecting with Letitia Council and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Letitia, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I never imagine becoming a business owner. It wasn’t until my daughter was in a tragic accident that Declared her life endless! While she was hospitalized in ICU around day 3 that I knew I had to do something dealing with the youth! My daughter was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury. On January 16, 2020 while laying on the couch in my daughter’s hospital room is when God gave me Nasia Foundation after I was asked if God has mandated me to something that was relative to my then current situation. Nasia Foundation was birthed out of a tragic accident that not only my daughter was affected by those closest to her was too! Nasia Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides resources to mothers with a teen whose life has been devastated and affected by Traumatic Brain Injury. That’s when I realize my WHY & HOW when it pertains to the youth. From the time my daughter was in the hospital, transferred to rehab & from rehab to home I realized I wasn’t just her mother, I had become my daughter’s primary caregiver up until the day she gained her heavenly wings. Now that Nasia Foundation has been birthed, I dealt with frustration and being overwhelmed daily, yet I overcame frustration which cause me to become overwhelmed. I had no clue as to what I was doing, yet I did it fearful & all.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
All my life I knew HOPE existed. We speak Hope of expectations to what we want to see come to life. But what happens to HOPE when you are faced with a life altering tragedy. When life events come along that cause tragedy & trauma events, is there still HOPE? On 8/15/2019 I received a phone call that my daughter Ja’Nasia had been in a motor vehicle accident. I was told that Ja’Nasia was cut foo by another vehicle, and lost control of the car, ran off the road flipped my car twice hitting a utility box then a tree. My car looked like a hi-c juice box. On the scene of the accident, I was informed by the state trooper that all 3 girls made it our alive. My mind had to process what my eyes was seeing; my daughter was already in transit to the hospital when I arrived on the scene. The state trooper told me that she was traveling in the same direction as my daughter and was n the scene immediately. That was nobody but God that had the trooper traveling in the same direction on that evening. When I arrived at the hospital, I didn’t know what to expect going in to see my daughter. As I was walking into the hospital one of the paramedics informed me that Nasia went unconscious on the ride to the emergency room. After speaking with the trauma doctor that was on duty that evening my cousin and I was escorted to the room my daughter was in. Nasia was incubated, not able to move no parts of her body, she was in a vegetive state. From the accident scene to the hospital, to the room she was in my tears was flowing. We were told that Nasia’s quality of life would soon come to an end and surgery wouldn’t help her quality of life. However, the next morning we were asked by the same physician if we would like for him to perform surgery because improvement had taken place in less than 12 hours. Nasia’s right frontal bone flap was removed so that the swelling could expand, and healing could began to take place, days later Nasia had a trach and g-tube inserted. She was in a medically induced coma for two weeks, in ICU for 10 days, 16 days on a ventilator, 27 ½ days in the hospital, and three weeks in rehab!
My hope had decreased throughout the life changing event! Even though I felt defeated as a mother I called on the name of Jesus more times than I ever did in my adult life. I grew up in church I believed in God and his power all my life but choose to live life the way I wanted vs the way God planned for me to live. God used my daughter’s accident to shift my life into His hands God saved my daughter’s life to save my life! That’s when my HOPE began to increase yet again! God made it so that I had no choice but to shift my life into HIS presence. God didn’t allow me to feel overwhelmed by the pain and hurt I endured, and in my feelings, I got understanding and heard God clearly, He spoke and said “trauma may have caused you to fall but I won’t let you stay down”, God picked me up from my brokenness, pain and hurt told me to stay strong for He is with me, and it’s okay to be weak for He is my strength. I overcame trauma when God introduced me to my purpose which was conceived on 02/19/2020 with just a Facebook page and birthed on 04/27/2020 with officially becoming Nasia Foundation Traumatic Brain Injury Teen Survivors.
My HOPE shifted into more than I could ever see or dream of. My daughter was obedient to God to release me of my duties on 04/25/2021 so that I could fully fulfill the purpose of Nasia Foundation. Although Ja’Nasia isn’t physically here with me, she’s with me spiritually so that I may continue to share our story in HOPES that it will IMPACT & HELP other caregivers of TBI survivors on their journey of HEALING.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
What is the most important behind your success? Once I began to speak about the awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury and align with the people had assign to me I began to see the impact I was doing on behalf of Nasia Foundation.