Mission.

My Black Carrot Hub is JP's lifelong project making sense of mentoring and shaping it to make a more dignified impact. My Black Carrot houses multi-talents and gifts. My Black Carrot, while classified as a business for legitimizing purposes, primarily serves to redistribute time, energy, love, and resources.

Mission. 

My Black Carrot is a hub that offers bi-relational and bi-directional Education, Advisory, and Supportive Services. The goal is to empower individuals, institutions, and cultural influences to achieve a full self-determination and ever expanding joyful existence to shape intended impact. To this end MBC use innovative, grounded, and experiential approach to work collaboratively with the community members towards achieving both individual goals and collective ecological promises.
  • The brand is inspired by the Black Carrot, which is black-purple in color and has some roots in Eastern Africa. The BLK Carrot is symbolic. It represents authenticity, richness, and nuance beyond face-value understanding. Black Carrots were used for medicinal purposes and as a food source. They have a rich history in African cuisine.
  • The Winding River is also symbolic. It represents the Founder+Owner’s connection roots to full outdoor ecological systems. JP has family lineage through Future City/Cairo Illinois and Western Kentucky-Tennessee near the Ohio and Mississippi River. And Chicago-Blue Island where the Eastern Arm of the Little Calumet River is located. For JP it is a symbol of resilience, strength, and community connections. The winding path represents the twists, turns, and reshaping of life’s journey. Beyond industrialization, sources alike serve as a space for gatherings, celebrations, and spiritual healing practices among natives to the land.
  • The Glossy Starling Bird is a symbol of beauty and grace. Rooted in its history as a bird that is native to Africa, where it is known for its bright colors which include purple, green, and black. The Founder+Owner observed many glossy starlings once traveling to Ghana for the spiritual journey “The Return.” Glossy Starling birds have been used in African art, music, and literature to symbolize freedom, creativity, and a connection to the natural world.​
*My Black Carrot honors the symbolism, ancestors & history and strives to incorporate care into the work and brand.


​Vision. 

"We believe in a non-deficit approach when working in collaboration and view community members as partners with deep talents, gifts, and possibilities. The deficit approach can be harmful because it reinforces negative stereotypes and bolsters a sense of inadequacy in community members and institutional partners. These artificially created, self-inflicted power imbalances in relationships can act as barriers, hindering growth and transformation. We do not believe in “tough love” especially for "tough love sake" because it can ultimately restrict in seen, unseen, and unforeseen ways. Instead, we offer a more enhanced humane experience where community members and institutional partners feel empowered to take ownership of impact. We believe collaboration and working in partnership should feel good, sense great pleasures, and experience happiness rather than feeling inadequate or restricted by “tough love mantra.”

Delivery. 

While we offer a range of bi-relational and bi-directional education, advisory, and support-oriented impact, you can expect the following common thread embedded in services:
  • Alignment in Personal, Institutional, and/or Social Level Goals
  • Positionality Reflection
  • Checking in on Mind, Body, Spirit, and Heart
  • Laughter, Joy, Play
  • Transformational Interactions
  • Deep Learning & Intuitive Processing
  • Transcendent Listening
  • Connectedness & Compassion
  • Leveling Power Dynamics in Exchanges
  • Contextualized & Personalized Call-On Support
  • Direct Naming Threats To Progress
  • Reveal Motivations, Talents, & Gifts From Within
  • Slowing All The Way Down Presence
  • Responsiveness Coaching​
  • Empowering Critical Framework & Analysis​: Unpacking Goal(s), Explore New Goals, Holding Space for Emergent Outcomes, Discuss Patterns, System/Structural Reflection
  • Outside Healing, Bathing, Nurturing
  • And So Much More...

Founder+Owner

JP Story

Jeremy Vincent "JP" is Nova’s daddy, life partner, Joy-Pository Mentor, PhD student pause out, advocate, organizer, outdoor nurturer, critical contextualizer, cultural worker, and creator. He is also a lifelong joy-transmitter who breathes life into social work practice and mental health-substance use recovery service provider work, lecture, training, coach, facilitator, and creative when called to task. 

JP’s roots are in Future City-Cairo Illinois and Western Kentucky-Tennessee. He grew up in South Side Chicago and its suburbs before moving to the Southwest Wisconsin Tri-State area in 2008. He has a BS in Health and Wellness, an MSE in Adult Education-Human Services, and a Social Worker Certification. He has over 10+ years of experience in educational and supportive services across diverse communities.

JP is the Owner Founder of My Black Carrot Hub, a social impact platform that offers Cultural Education, Mentoring Empowerment, Social Activation-Transformation Coaching, and Outdoor Nurture (CMEST). The hub empowers individuals, institutions, and social influencers toward self-determination and joyful existence using innovative, grounded, and experiential methods.

JP is also a Co-Founder organizer at Black Platteville Community Network, In-Love Advocate for Subversive Social Work, Certified Peacemaking Circle Keeper, an Emotional Intelligence Diversity Institute Facilitator, and a Stop The Hate Campus Pride Trainer and Crisis Interventionist. He is passionate about outdoor nurture and a trusted local advocate. He embodies creative, transformation, justice, and reimagined human services and helping work.

JP draws wisdom from ancestors, elders, youth, acquired knowledge and lived experiences. He speaks truthfully about outdoor nurture, collective care, love, re-conceptual mentoring, leadership, identity, community level social change, and creative endeavors. Formative life experiences encourages him to challenge oppressive norms, encourage authenticity, and break free from internalized harm. He is committed to what he describes as love impact.

JP extends a ‘love ethic’ to all his interactions. He does love work with people of all ages, helping them explore their personal narratives, affirm their identities, understand their emotions, fulfill their human promise, and create. His calling is to flow like a river, soar like birds, and share resources like a black carrot —adapting to changing conditions and social landscapes.

Imagine the bountiful harvest from a well-rested field—a loving, joyous, harmonious exchange that enriches all involved.
  • CV UPON REQUEST!
  • BS in Health-Wellness
  • MSE in Education (*Multidisciplinary: Adult Education, Counseling Psychology, and Human Services)
  • PhD Pause Out
  • 10+ years in Educational & Supportive Services
  • 10+ years experience in Adult Training, Coaching, and Facilitation Work
  • 15+ years experience in Creative Work
  • Lifelong Cultural Worker Experience 
  • Co-Founder of Black Platteville Community Network (BLKPlattCom) & In-Love Advocate & Organizer at Subversive Social Work at Our Spot Community Space, Platteville WI
  • Dynamic Holistic Wellness & Substance Use Recovery Service Provider Experience
  • Crisis Interventionist
  • Social Work Certification
  • World Class Professional and Career Skills Life Skills Certification Completion with James Anderson Productions
  • Certified Peace Making Circle Keeper with Community Justice for Youth Chicago
  • Certified Emotional Intelligence Institute
  • Train the Trainer Facilitator with Campus Pride
  • Experienced Intercultural Development Assessment
  • Trusted Local Advocate for Outdoor Nurturing Experiences 
  • Heart Saver First Aid CPR AED
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