UPDATE: ‘Wasn’t my ambition to go into Pageantry’ - Shondrea N. Turnbull
“The committee I think this year they really made it [decision]… They didn't tell me any information, so when I moved, it wasn't necessarily my ambition to go into pageantry,” she said after taking home the crown last night, March 28, 2019, in a coronation ceremony at the Moorings Marina in Hotel in Tortola, Virgin Islands (VI).
No Background
“I don't have a background of pageantry but when I was younger, I did want to be some type of ambassador or spokesmodel or work for a lobbyist. I wanted to fight for a cause,” Mrs Turnbull said in invited comments.
According to the newly crowned queen, over the years, her quest to become an ambassador didn’t work out, “Dreams kind of dwindled at times, my voice dwindled at times, just because of different trials and tribulations that I went through as a teenager and then college and things like that,” she revealed.
“But when we moved to the BVI I actually made a commitment to myself that I was going to strive to find my voice,” she said.
Career Woman
Now a Human Resource Manager of ATU General Trust (BVI) Limited, Mrs Turnbull said that through trial and tribulations, she made it in life with a family, however, not without some setbacks.
“I was making good strides and then hurricanes hit and just as I was thinking, you now making strides and gaining confidence and things like that… the hurricanes hit and just turned our lives around and we had to move our kids to Chicago which is where I'm originally from,” she unveiled.
She said that she has been living in the BVI for the past 14 years, back and forth, however, the hurricane season was especially trialing according to her, “living without power and the feeling of being powerless.”
“So fast forward to now, through that journey I wrote a book I started in 2017 and it’s called 'The Power of Thirty, Transferring the Mind, Body and Soul' and it’s really the journey and taking other women and also men through the journey of trying to find their power in powerless situations,” she added.
Impacting the World
“My belief really is that a whole woman and a well woman can impact the world and it not only benefits ourselves, because we have to put ourselves first but our family, our community, our job also matter. But we as women need to be whole and take care of ourselves,” the new queen shared.
The Mrs BVI/Mrs Globe pageant is a unique platform for married, separated, divorced or widowed women to contribute meaningfully to their community and Ms Alicia Green, the president of WINBVI is the Regional Director for the Mrs Globe International pageant.
See previous story published yesterday, March 28, 2019.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Human Resource Manager of ATU General Trust (BVI) Limited, Mrs Shondrea N. Turnbull has been crown the 2019/2020, Mrs BVI Queen.
The event, held in fine style tonight Thursday, March 28, 2019, at the poolside of the Moorings Marina in Hotel in Tortola, Virgin Islands (VI), saw the 36-year-old mother receiving the crown at the grand coronation ceremony.
Wife & Mother
Mrs Turnbull, an Author and the wife of Dr Michael A. Turnbull, owner of Wellness Center Medical & Behavioural Health Clinic and also the Executive Pastor at the Cane Garden Bay Baptist Church (CGBBC) focused on the platform, "Wholistic wellness with the focus on the mind body and soul,"
Giving some insight via her Facebook page, she said, “The Power of 30—or Power 30, for short—is a system of practising wholeness, wellness, and fitness every day by spending 30 minutes to recharge, reframe, and renew your mind, body, and soul.”
Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) will have more photos and details to come. Mrs Turnbull has been married for twelve years and is the mother of three children, Ania, age 9, and twins Elijah and Amelle, age 4.
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Evidently what she lacks is at least a touch of scruples and a country where she can call it her own and be accepted.
Anything else is naught..
Try finding happiness and fulfillment through prayer and insight or an admirer or counseling.
Behind your computer we would see that your life is what truly lacking. Tola people are the absolute worst.
Congratulations ma’am and do your best to represent us. All the very best!