The Gudz

10/03/2026

I’m really excited to share that The Gudz is supporting the upcoming Community Mental Health Walk here in Houston hosted by Larneka Lavalais, LPC PLLC and Rell’s Real Fruit.

I believe our work, businesses, and ambitions should support our lives not consume them. That’s why mental wellness is important to me.

So being able to sponsor an event that centers community care, connection, and mental health feels incredibly meaningful.

If you’re in the Houston area, I hope you’ll join us at Memorial Park. Let’s walk together and continue building spaces where wellness and success can exist side by side.

💜✨ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ✨💜

We’re proud to highlight one of our amazing sponsors supporting the Community Mental Health Walk:

🌟 Alysia Gradney
Founder of The Gudz
Marketing Strategist & Coach

Alysia Gradney is a certified marketer, strategist, and speaker with more than 15 years of experience helping creators, business owners, and mission-driven organizations grow with clarity and intention.

Through The Gudz, Alysia helps people build marketing strategies that support their life — not consume it.

Her work focuses on helping individuals and organizations:

✨ Gain marketing clarity without burnout
✨ Build sustainable growth strategies
✨ Communicate their mission with confidence
✨ Align their work with real-life capacity and well-being

At the heart of her philosophy is a powerful belief:

Marketing should support your life — not consume it.

We are grateful for Alysia’s support of the Community Mental Health Walk and her commitment to helping people build businesses and brands that honor both ambition and mental wellness.

🌐 Learn more about her work:
www.thegudz.com

📅 Community Mental Health Walk
📍 Memorial Park – Houston
🕘 Registration 9:00 AM | Walk 10:00 AM

Together we are building a community that values mental wellness, connection, and sustainable success.

💚 Thank you, Alysia, for supporting this movement.

11/11/2022

So your post wasn’t perfect; now what?!?!

I’ll tell you what; you keep going. Don’t stop trying. Keep pushing forward.

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — Henry Ford

Remember, you got this. 💜

Until next time,
Alysia

19/10/2022

You can put a fall twist on your small business content marketing strategy by adding an autumn flare to your brand voice.

If your business is playful and conversational, for example, a post about making fall specials or showcasing local fall attractions could get a lot of traction.

Remember, you got this.

Until next time,
Alysia

17/10/2022

Fall is the time of year when the weather turns cooler, the leaves start turning a deep red or orange, and the air gets crisper.

It’s also the time for marketers to take advantage of fall marketing hacks to boost traffic and conversions.

Take a close look at your products and services and ask where you might add some unique fall offerings. Introducing seasonal fall products exclusive to this season will attract even more customers!

Remember, you got this.

Until next time,
Alysia

02/10/2022

Imagine you just woke up on Monday morning, ready to start the week. After getting ready for the day, you pick up your phone and start scrolling through social media to find inspiration for your social posts.

Your chest starts to tighten, and a wave of anxiety takes over your body as you see super-polished photos, perfect selfies, highly edited videos, fancy vacations, and money-flaunting business owners.

😔 Has this ever happened to you?

Now you are overanalyzing your photos, worried that your pictures aren't good enough, or wondering if you've even earned enough to be considered an expert.

Maybe this has never happened to you, but this has happened to me often. I can quickly help my clients overcome their fears of showing up online and build strategies that attract their target audience.

However, I wanted my posts to be perfectly polished and appear to be highly edited, so I could look how I think people would like me to look online.

Well, I'm proud to say I'm a recovering perfectionist. So, to avoid this, I've created a simple process and worksheet that has helped me curb my anxiety and start showing up online.

05/05/2022

In anticipation of , our client partner the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference - TPRC is looking for a young scholar doing research in the area of adoption or ?

If your research meets these qualifications, or know someone who does, submit your work to the Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Award sponsored by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and TPRC! The prize is $1,500 and free registration to attend TPRC 2022.

Deadline May 27!📅 https://www.tprcweb.com/

📢Are you a young scholar doing research in the area of adoption or ? Submit your work to the Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Award sponsored by the and TPRC! The prize is $1,500 and free registration to TPRC 2022. Deadline May 27!📅

21/03/2022

We are proud to announce that our agency has been accepted into the Greater Houston Black Chamber (GHBC) Supporting Our Success (S.O.S.) 2022 Program.

This program will be held at the University of Houston Texas Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center (SBDC).

This 12-month program will provide Black business owners with a learner-centered interactive cohort forum to learn, evaluate and apply their knowledge, prepare them to grow and expand their businesses, and prepare them to enter into corporate and government supply chains or sell their businesses.

Special thanks to the partner and sponsor organizations who have put this together:
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11/03/2022

Our team is excited to be producing Threewalls Dreaming Circles event this Saturday.

Dreaming Circles, where artists and their neighbors will collectively dream of a future Chicago. Their dreams will be shared out as calls and presented artistically in community spaces in their neighborhoods, spaces that they frequent. The spaces will be identified by the Dreaming Circles participants and may be laundromats, bus stops, grocery and corner stores in South Shore, Andersonville, and Back of the Yards.

Dreaming Circles is one part of Threewalls multi-pronged anniversary project. They will share more about Call-and-Response: Dreaming of a Future in the coming months. In the meantime, join our Dreaming Circles curators Wisdom Baty, Nancy Sánchez and Adia Sykes at our intro event.

To learn more about Threewalls visit three-walls.org