Dana L. Perry

OK
About Dana L. Perry
Dana is a woman who is committed to work that encourages and empowers women and girls. Through her Hannah the Great Early Reader Collection, Dana affirms confidence, ability, strength, and beauty in little girls. Girls are encouraged to think outside the box and challenge themselves. Through writing, podcasting, blogging, and speaking Dana challenges the status quo while often serving up doses of inspiration and healing.
She is also a pretty good playwright. Her first show premiered to a sold-out audience and her Hannah the Great skits deliver doses of pint sized inspiration to Pre-K-1st grade audiences.
Stay home orders and recommendations served as creative time and her next ADULTS ONLY production is sure to leave those in attendance scratching their heads, clinching pearls and wanting more.
Dana uses her platform to raise awareness on issues that are important to her and to share her parenting successes and boo boo's. Her children Evan and Hannah are a "well" of joy for her and countless others.
Dana serves as an Ambassador for Women for Women International which is a global organization that brings women together to overcome the social, economic, and cultural barriers that keep them from reaching their full potential and she also supports local organizations that are committed to social justice, equality and feeding the homeless.
In her non-creative life, she is a housing industry professional who successfully provides management oversight to multi-million dollar residential assets. For more, www.danalperry.com
Are you an author?
Author Updates
-
-
Blog postMy beloved Hannah, I look at you and I am in awe of the soul that you are. You have the sweetest spirit of anyone I know. As you prepare for high school, I want you to hold on to your footing. Protect your innocence. Continue to enjoy your morning cartoons and hot chocolate. Most […]3 weeks ago Read more
-
Blog postI saw a post today on social media that really infuriated me. A woman posted that her father’s daughter stood her up for the Father-Daughter dance. Again. Let’s be clear, fathers do not stand children up so please stop referring to males who do as such. Secondly, why was he afforded the opportunity of AGAIN? […]1 month ago Read more
-
-
-
Blog postEveryone has an emotional love language. Simply defined, it is the way in which we receive the love we need to thrive. Some say we have a responsibility to communicate our love language to our partners and then determine whether or not they have the capacity to deliver. I disagree with this notion because that […]2 months ago Read more
-
Blog postAlways tell the truth especially when it is easier not to. #higherliving#higherbeing -Dana Lena’2 months ago Read more
-
-
Blog postDon’t let what was, interfere with what is and what is becoming. Going back will never produce what moving forward will. Some people have held on because they were too afraid to let go. They lost the best clinching to the familiar. Chase down what is in front of you and pursue it relentless. Pure […]2 months ago Read more
-
Blog postTake your time developing your man. Do not become a father until you are wholly committed to supporting the mother of your children and your children. BEFORE selecting a partner, you must be fully formed and possess a high level of emotional intelligence. A woman is not responsible for your happiness and you are not […]2 months ago Read more
-
-
-
Blog postSometimes in order to gain clarity we have to retreat to silence and allow our quiet to hear what our Spirit has to say. We all have the ability to manipulate and be manipulated with language, speech. We all can be interrupted and influenced by someone else’s thoughts, plans, desires. I have learned that I […]3 months ago Read more
-
-
Blog postInconsistency is the passive aggressive way of saying “it is just not important enough to…” People are where they want to be and they absolutely do what they want to do. Some are wholly committed to who they are and what they want and others string themselves and other folks along. Words are meaningless. Actions […]3 months ago Read more
-
-
-
Blog postIn a world that encourages women to fault find, we have to defy that messaging and settle in our own skin. I am a real woman. Beauty is an inner thing. It is not hair and makeup. I feel the most glamorous in my natural state. I am home inside of me. So whether I […]4 months ago Read more
-
-
-
-
Blog postGet what? Everything you want, need, desire, crave and must have. Get the person, the places and the things. We are not getting another life that we know anything about. Better live this one parked on Happy, Thriving and Running Over Satisfied. Get. It! ~Dana Lena’ Penning4 months ago Read more
-
-
Blog postEither we are living 100% of the truth or 100% percent of a lie. A little lie makes all of it a lie. It’s like adding a little bit of poison to cake. That little bit of poison made what was sweet, deadly. -Dana Lena’ Penning4 months ago Read more
-
-
Blog postConfirming, affirming, supporting, acknowledging, celebrating and appreciating, the beauty, brilliance, resilience, intelligence, knowing, fire, zeal, determination, grace and creative power that is the Black Woman. -Dana Lena’ Penning4 months ago Read more
-
Blog postSeated in the seat of my soul is one of my sacred and beautiful places. I arrive naked, vulnerable and exposed. Ready to see what I see, and uncover what lies beneath pieces of man made garments and layers of cosmetics designed to cover imperfections as opposed to celebrating them . I come to this […]4 months ago Read more
-
Blog postThere are two realms. A spirit realm and a natural realm and they overlap. There are people of the spirit, or after the spirit that reside in the natural realm but move between the spiritual and physical realm. They can see with their minds eye and create and manifest what they have visually constructed. They […]4 months ago Read more
-
Blog postI simply cannot understand why any man would want to tag his name onto a woman’s or why any woman would allow it. Neither do I understand why any grown woman would take the name of a person she just met weeks, days, months, or a few years ago. Humans are named by parents/legal guardians […]5 months ago Read more
-
Blog postWhen it was announced that Rihanna had left her billionaire tycoon boyfriend for ASAP Rocky, I glanced and kept right on minding my business. After constantly seeing pictures of them and hearing interview clips on the WWW, as I was scrolling for something else; I began to tune in because so many women are struggling […]5 months ago Read more
-
Blog postPeople may steal my recipe but whatever they are cooking up won’t taste the same or be the same. ~Dana Lena’ Boop!5 months ago Read more
-
Blog postAn open letter to my sisters living with broken hearts out loud with silly men, I see all of it and know some of it. I am so sorry that you have endured so much pain and disappointment. Dysfunctional and unloving family dynamics growing up as a little girl that you never healed or recovered […]5 months ago Read more
-
Blog postWhen you are clear, you cannot be manipulated. When you are healed, you can’t be wounded. When you are directed by inner compass, you can’t be misled. When you have joy, you are happy. When you are Truth, bullshit runs. When you are connected to Spirit, you are sovereign and move accordingly. And when you […]5 months ago Read more
-
Blog postIt will take a collective, all hands on decks commitment to root out hatred and racism in this country. It can’t be tolerated in any shape, form or fashion. When evil comes for any of us, it is indeed coming for all of us. Eventually. So when we stand for others, we are really standing […]6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postIt’s the first of the month! A time for my friends and supporters to support my writing and other endeavors. I have a few things that I am working on that will allow me to better serve my community. I will share as soon as all the 411 is nailed down. I am coming into […]6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postWhen we do the work in the Spirit of Honor, Truth and Sanctification, we get there. ~Dana Lena’ Penning6 months ago Read more
-
-
Blog postSometimes I really do feel like a magical, mystical, womancorn. I had another encounter with another man who wants to own me or possess me in some form or fashion that I tweeted about. I keep talking about this, writing about this, tweeting about this to sound the damn alarm. Not all women want to […]6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postA person’s why will tell you absolutely everything that you need to know. I stopped examining actions and outcomes a very long time ago and started asking the questions that reveal the heart. Heart decisions and heart desires are what’s true and that is hardly ever what people actually say and do. Why did he? […]6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postWe can be whoever we want to be, chose to be. Our worldviews are shaped by a number of factors but at the end of the day, we get to decide what we stand for. Most of us declare to be good people. Good women, good men, good humans. Rarely, do we encounter people who […]6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postFolks will get all kinds of indigniant when they cannot accomplish their unholy agendas. Just be prepared for them to call you paranoid, obsessed, uneasy and all kind of crazy when you start getting close to what they don’t want you to know and closer to who they really are. – Dana Lena’ Penning6 months ago Read more
-
Blog postFirst of all, I want to thank every single one of you for supporting my blog via readership over the years. I appreciate every comment and message that you send to me. Some of you have been empowered by what I have shared, others challenged and a few amused. Well, quite a few amused. Writing […]7 months ago Read more
-
Blog postMost women are vulnerable to the deceit of men but young women who are mothers are prey. Too many often feel unprepared and are unprepared for life. They often feel they are to be dependent on sperm donors and baby daddies. Society tells them that they “need” a man to survive and to help them […]7 months ago Read more
-
Blog postMany brought in the New Year with #Lovegoals or #Relationshipgoals on their 2022 New Year List. The most important relationship we will ever have is the one we have with ourselves. Let us take the time and energy needed to align our heart and head. Our spirit, soul, and body. We cannot manifest out of […]7 months ago Read more