Frank Ocean’s Mom on His Evolution, Life Gems & Trusting Your Path — Katonya Breaux

Katonya Breaux (IG: katonyabreaux) is a force of grace and resilience, an entrepreneur and mother of visionary artist Frank Ocean. Born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles, she emancipated herself at 17 from a toxic family environment and is renowned for her sage wisdom by those who know her. She founded Unsun Cosmetics, a mineral sunscreen line for people of color, which was carried by major retailers including CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart. Katonya closed the company while navigating her own healing journey following the loss of her son Ryan. Today, she dedicates herself to life coaching, plant medicine, and training as a death doula, guiding others through life’s transitions with clarity and compassion.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS //

+ Emancipating herself at age 17 from a toxic family dynamic

+ Folding her skincare business after fighting for it for many years

+ How meditation changed her life

+ There is an order to the world we can trust in… i.e looking at the planets all moving in synchronicity or a child growing in the womb, even when uncomfortable things happen in your life, trust its part of that same order and happening for a reason

+ When she first discovered her son's gift

+ Incredible talent is NOT enough to be successful, you need incredible work ethic to go along with it

+ Discussing Frank’s lyrics to her in his song “Futara Free”

+ The immense luxury & gift of getting paid to do what you love

+ Katonya (even though she grew up in the church) supporting Frank when he came out as gay and how him doing that helped shift the stigma in hip hop & pop-culture as a whole

+ Frank not succumbing to the pressures of our modern-day culture to always post and be visible on the internet

+ How she feels knowing Frank's music has helped and touched so many people

+ How people spend more time WISHING than WORKING for their dreams

+ The intense work and focus it takes over time, i.e. Kobe Bryant shooting / dunking a basketball to hone your skills & the countless hours of work no one truly acknowledges that’s part of it

+ How she will go with Frank to the recording studio and find it so boring because she will hear him play the same segment of a song over 30-40 times working intensely to improve it

+ It’s not 10,000 hours to become a master at something, rather 10,000 iterations to become a master at something

+ Katonya’s favorite Frank Ocean song…

+ How Frank has never struggled with a scarcity mentality when it comes to money

+ When we allow fear to grip us we actually put up energetic blocks to achieving what we want

+ Trusting that you have a sacred team of sprit guides + angels that are always intervening to help you whether you can see it or not, it’s ever-present like wifi and when we tap into literal magic happens

+ We discuss the song “Be Yourself” off Frank’s Blond album

+ How Katonya and I handle our “bad days” and the grace we try to remember to give ourselves to make it back to shore, which we always do if we hang in there (HOPE acronym: Hold On Pain Ends)

+ Katonya answers a fan question in our new segment called “The Magic Moment” and shares advice to parents raising a creative child

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