The groundbreaking Still Surviving and Walking in Your Purpose Talk show will encourage, empower and engage viewers to change their perspectives regarding their self-worth and self-awareness.

Still Surviving and Walking in Your Purpose will inspire, motivate and encourage men and women to overcome their past, trials and tribulations, while providing keys to unlocking the future they are destined to live. Viewers can expect to be challenged, encouraged, inspired and educated on societal issues that affect our lives and communities today.

The creator of SSWYP believes that there is no such thing as “I survived –period.” Because survival is a process and a life long journey. Each of us is the sum total of all that we have experienced in our lives and these experiences create the lens through which we view our lives, the world and various situations.

Host Gigi Blackshear interviews persons from various walks of life who have faced challenges ranging from drug addiction, rape and sexual assault, domestic violence, etc. These guests have learned to use the ugliness and darkness of their pasts to find a glimmer of hope and strength, moving from darkness to not only discovering their purpose, but to be able to walk boldly in that purpose.

Still Surviving and Walking in Your Purpose increases empathy, creates open and honest dialogue to provide hope to those that are without hope and to generate awareness.


Director: Adam Madrid - A & M Productions
Creator and Executive Producer: Claresa Baggs


Interested in being a guest? Contact us at StillSurviving@alliknowjax.org.