We recently had the chance to connect with Dru Davis and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Dru, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What are you being called to do now, that you may have been afraid of before?
I am being called to be of influence and give advice to the world. I’ve always helped or been asked for advice about life by others or friends or family but now I am being called to share it on a platform which has gone viral several times and now it’s still surreal because I have started being recognized for it.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Dru/D. Lashae, a faith-based writer and creative who uses words and content to help people heal, grow, and discern better in life and relationships. My brand was birthed from my own journey of learning how to navigate heartbreak, healing, and purpose with God.
What makes my work unique is that it’s unisex and honest. I speak to both men and women in a way that calls us higher without shaming, and I create tools and books that meet people exactly where they are.
Right now, I’m focused on expanding that message through digital products, books, and now stepping into new creative spaces like film. Everything I create is about helping people feel seen, safe, and strengthened so they can become who God intended them to be.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
I believe that bonds are about choosing each other on purpose every day. Choosing to love, choosing to accept, and choosing to love unconditionally. What breaks them is lack of accountability, pride, unspoken expectations, and lack of communication. When we place our pride aside, we allow vulnerability to set in to welcome mending and restoration. Through transparency, honest, communication, and prayer—we can ultimately restore the bond that was broken in the first place.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me that I was stronger than I looked. It taught me how to persevere when it looks impossible. I was able to see myself in a “naked “way. Learning how to love myself unapologetically. Seeing what I needed to fix, needed to love on more, and who I truly was behind closed doors. It teaches me the resilience that success will never recognize.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. Is the public version of you the real you?
Absolutely! What you see is what you get. I strive to be authentic as possible because I’m very assumed. I make sure to always remain true to myself so that I’m not spending a lifetime trying to prove myself. The public version of me is the same as who the ones closest to me sees. I have a lot of moving parts to me. I am multifaceted in many ways. But my personality, my character, will always be the same yesterday and forever.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: What light inside you have you been dimming?
The light that everyone recognizes whether they see it as good or whether they’re threatened by it. I believe that I have been dimming my strength. I have been assumed by a lot of people I have been placed on a pedestal by a lot of people. My therapist once said that I am insecure in my security. And I felt that. She helped me to understand that who everyone sees me as and what they assumed me to be is actually who I’m becoming. Everything that I’m good at some people would try to diminish, and now that I am coming into who I am called to be who I am purposed to be, I will allow my light to never be dimmed or tainted by those who were scared to live in theirs.
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Otis Clayborne
Damonte Anderson
