Jul 29, 2022
Surviving a double attempted homicide while 8 months pregnant with Agape Garcia.
Her survival of a double attempted homicide while 8 months
pregnant (by the father) and the desperation to survive became the
catalyst to the foundation of BYIS while achieving an undisputed
outlook of independence. During her journey to overcome, Garcia
learned that extreme independence is a trauma driven response and a
natural one which can be defeated through focused, self awareness
and intentional control.
Through her own walk, harsh lessons brought on by extreme
independence resulted in areas of her life being sabotaged
repeatedly. Her personal journey of post traumatic growth has led
Garcia to dedicating her life in developing transformational
programs, various forms of coaching, certification courses and
establishing a nonprofit to help real time victims. Her commitment
is to provide lifelong transformational habits that can restore
your powerful internal sense of control. One of her personal
statements, ‘You don’t live anywhere but in your head’ is why some
of her laser focus teachings are on aligning your mental and
emotional belief system.
As her passion grew from her own personal struggles, Garcia
became active within the community receiving a Mayoral appointment
to work with the Citizen Review board in direct conjunction with
Internal Affairs. She received hands-on training from the Sheriff’s
department, Department of Homeland Security, and FEMA which also
led to the Infrastructure Liaison Officer designation (ILO),
through the local Law Enforcement Center.
Garcia has spent more than 20 years in the corporate world
holding positions in Office Administration, Project Management,
Compliance, Policy writing, Team building, Training, Leadership,
and Consulting. She continued to serve other organizations
including the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), and
Board of Directors and holds current membership in the FBI vetted
private sector program of InfraGard. As VP of a Security Consultant
Company, she has developed programs with leadership responsibility
for security and emergency management. These emphasize awareness
toward identifying different stages of human behavior leading
towards violence mitigation.
While working, attending school, and raising her kids as a
single parent, her personal priorities of housing, safety and
privacy for her children were of utmost importance. This required
Garcia to navigate through various self-help centers, state, city,
local programs, systems and assistance to create a stable
foundation for her family while providing the ability to assist
others. She also volunteers and collaborates with local law
writer(s), in support of bills under Public Safety.
Garcia believes in the need to feel loved, wanted, and cared
for as a part of life in all of us. Living through emotional tugs
of war and learning to apply a controlled healthy mindset to
overcome voids, shortcomings, and to break unhealthy cycles is who
she is today versus the opposite of where she came from. Today, she
prides herself on meeting the daily challenges of being vulnerable
and safe at the same time while empowering others to Be Your
Incredible Self.
Garcia’s personal mission is to help lead others in
transforming their survival of Domestic Violence (DV) into Post
Traumatic Growth and to mitigate the depletion of resources for
real-time victims.
Sharing her personal testimony has empowered so many others.
She loves teaching her BYIS formula of: How to combine Situational
Awareness with Emotional Intelligence to control your
triggers.