Greetings, my name is Jessie Irene Reed. I am the owner of Phoenix-Lotus Creative Enterprise, formerly known as DeLuxe Writing Experts.  I would like to thank you for stopping by and exploring our website. We hope that you will have an enjoyable experience as you check out our site’s pages, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions that you may have. You can send us an email at info@phoenix-lotusce.com, and someone will get back to you as quickly as possible, or if you should need more immediate assistance, you can call us directly at 800-792-7736.

 

First and foremost, I must thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for blessing me with the gift of inspiring others and the talent of writing and the knowledge and ability to broaden my skills in learning new things that will allow me the opportunity to assist others in their growth and success! I would also like to thank my wonderful family; without family, life is just empty and not worth all the sacrifices. 

 

 

         “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” –Philippians 4:13

 

My Story

 

With that being said, I would like to give you a little history on who I am and how I chose to start this company. Throughout my life, I have always exhibited a positive attitude and a tremendous outlook on life. I believe whole heartily that there are no obstacles that I cannot conquer. With numerous accomplishments, I know that I can achieve anything that I set out to do in life. The only requirement is to believe in me and have the determination to strive to achieve my goals.

 

I have experienced many adversities, tragedies, and even death, yet I use those experiences to shape my life by looking at them as just another stepping stone on life’s rugged path. This attitude allows me to strive to become better, continually learning new things, and improving my ability to be an inspiration to others.

 

I experienced my first tragedy at the very young age of seven as I watched my stepfather being murdered right before my eyes. As I stood there looking on in terror, I couldn’t move; I was frozen in shock. Two men had broken into our family’s home to rob us, but what they did was much worse. They brutally raped my mother and shot my stepfather once right through the heart, all because he was going to help my mother. His last words were, “Fredia, call the police, I’ve been shot!” Then his body was heaped over, and blood was spewing everywhere. That was just the beginning of the struggles that my family and I would face. After my stepfather’s death, my mother had to get on the state welfare program just to pay the bills.

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I have been writing since I was seven years old. I began writing as a way to cope in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy that I endured. It was during the recovery from that tragedy that I fell in love with writing. After that, I knew that I was born to write.

Over the years, I discovered I could write gracefully with emotion and depth. I found myself looking at different avenues to express myself and share my gift of writing with others.

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 After years of nurturing my gifts and talents, I have decided to use my abilities to help those in the business world succeed. Therefore, I chose to open my business to assist others in their success.

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My family and I were penniless growing up, so my life was exceptionally rough. Even though I grew up in one of the poorest areas of Nashville, I have been blessed with the special gift of inspiring others. I have always been ambitious to have a better life and focused on a brighter future.

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I have had to fight tremendous obstacles to achieve my dreams, goals, and desires. Even as a young girl, I always wanted two things out of life. One is to be a great writer, and the second is to help others, which is the purpose of my company: to use my writing abilities to help others succeed.

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The first time I was recognized for my writing abilities was in the third grade, when I won first place for an essay I wrote about “The Importance of Getting an Education” in the regional writing competition at my school.

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Then, when I was nine years old, one of our neighbors asked my mother if she would be willing to babysit her sister’s kid, and of course, my mother agreed. The sister brought her two-month-old son, Bobby, over for my mother to take care of for what was supposed to be a couple of days. However, it turned out to be several months. I still cannot understand how a woman can just leave their kid with a total stranger and never even come back to see them or anything.

 

After several months, my mother filed for custody of Bobby, and eventually, custody was granted to my mother. The next few years were rough, but things got better. Then, when I was twelve years old, our family was evicted from our home in the projects. As we were moving some of our things to a family homeless shelter a few blocks away, Bobby and I were racing. He was on his tricycle, and I was on the big wheel. All of a sudden, I hit a very high crack in the sidewalk and flipped about 3-4 times. I sat there for a moment, then got up, dusted myself off, and we continued to the shelter.

 

That happened on a Friday afternoon, the following Monday morning, I woke up, and I was paralyzed from my neck to my waist. We didn't have any money, so we walked over 20 miles to the hospital. The doctor took an X-ray and they found that my neck had been broken when I was in the accident that past Friday. They told us that if the bones had moved another millimeter, I could have been paralyzed for life or even killed. I was immediately admitted into the hospital, and the night before I was to have my surgery, something magnificent happened. After the doctors came in and explained the risks of the surgery, which was that if they slipped even a tiny bit, it could paralyze me or even kill me.

 

I was scared out of my mind. So, I began praying, I prayed and prayed for hours. Later that night, after the nurses changed shifts, the nurse who was assigned to me just happened to attend my church at Born Again. Out of all the nurses that could have been there that night, God had sent someone to help me get through this ordeal. She came in and we got down on our knees and prayed together.

 

Later that night, as I was just lying there in the bed staring at the wall, all of a sudden the room lit up, the light was so bright it was blinding, I had to close my eyes just to adjust to the brightness. When I opened them on the same wall I had been staring at for hours appeared a vision. Now I know some people are skeptical and don't believe, but I can testify that what I saw was real.

 

The vision was like a large movie screen, the top half was bright and heavenly, and standing in the mist was Jesus...but it wasn't like the Jesus in all the pictures that society portrays him to be. He had very tan skin, black woolly hair, and was dressed in a magnificent white robe. Jesus was standing beside a chalkboard that had words written in a Language that I had never seen before. I assume it was the Language that he spoke when he was here on Earth. In his hand, he held a pointer stick (you know the kind that teachers used to use), and he was pointing to the words written on the board.

 

At the bottom of the screen, it was black and dark with huge flames reaching way up high. In the middle of the flames, there stood Satan. But again,n he didn't look like the red demonic creature with horns sticking out of his head and pointed teeth that society portrays him to look like. Instead, he was this beautiful being. His beauty was so extraordinary that if I didn't know the word of God, he probably would have fooled me. But as anyone who knows the BIBLE can testify that Satan was at one time the most beautiful angel in Heaven. But due to his sins, he was cast out of Heaven to burn in Hell forever.

 

Jesus and Satan were having a confrontation about who was going to win my soul. Satan said he wanted my soul, and Jesus told him, "You cannot have her, the Holy Father and I have special plans for her; she is one of the few that are blessed with the spirit of GOD, anointed by the Father's hand personally." I began to cry uncontrollably. Satan turned and looked so deep into my eyes I could feel the burning inside me. As he stared into my soul, he spoke to Jesus, and said, "I am going to make her life a living hell, I will put her through so many trials and tribulations that I will break her and she will surrender to my will and leave the Holy Father forever."

 

Jesus told Satan, "You may try, but this child is blessed and she WILL OVERCOME ANYTHING that you place into her path, she will NEVER stray away from her Heavenly Father, for we are within her and she is part of us!" I began to shiver and cry with joy, and a feeling of peace, a peace that I had never felt before, came over me to the point I raised my hands and began to Praise My Heavenly Father. I closed my eyes and when I opened them...The vision was gone. I knew from that moment on that I was going to have a hard life, but I also knew that no matter what, I would overcome any obstacle or adversity that was placed in my path, for my Savior Jesus told me Himself that I would overcome it.

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At the age of 13, I had already become a rebellious teenager and had become sexually active. By the time I was 14, I was pregnant with my first child, and only child that I had. When I was in my third month of pregnancy, I was involved in an accident that resulted in my neck being broken for the second time. Due to the fact that I was only in my first trimester, I had to be placed in a halo neck brace for four months before the doctors could perform the surgery to repair my neck. During my surgery, I lost too much blood and had to receive two pints of blood products in a transfusion. I had to continue to wear the halo brace until my seventh month of pregnancy.

 

When I went back to the doctor for my six-month pregnancy check-up, I was asked to get an HIV test. I asked why, and the doctor told me the hospital had gotten a bad batch of blood contaminated with the HIV virus. Since the hospital was not sure which bags of blood products were positive for the virus, they were asking everyone who had received blood products over the last two months to get tested for HIV. We had to wait two weeks for the results to come back. It seemed like the longest two weeks of my entire life. Finally, on a Sunday afternoon, we received a call from my doctor stating that we needed to come in the next day to discuss the results.

 

My heart felt exceedingly heavy, because why would they call on a Sunday afternoon if everything was okay? I knew that I had tested positive for HIV I do not know how I knew; I just did. The next morning, we arrived at the doctor’s office and were taken to a room. The doctor came in and sat down, and broke the news that I had been a recipient of some of the contaminated blood. I had tested positive for HIV. Then the doctor told me that I could pass the disease on to my baby during birth. The doctor tried to talk me into getting an abortion, but I refused. Then he told me that I would not live to see my 18th birthday and if I passed HIV to my baby, that she would not live to be two years old. Then we left the doctor's office. I just gave it all to God and went on living my life. 

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However, that wasn’t the end of the adversities that I would face. When I was around my seventh month of pregnancy, a drunk driver killed my baby’s father while he was on his way home from a job in Kentucky. A few weeks later, my family and I were evicted from the home. My mother had been forced to quit her job because I needed her to care for me full-time. We lived on the streets for the remainder of my pregnancy.

 

Then my most precious memory took place. It was on November 23, 1987, that I gave birth to my one and only daughter, Deondra Mae Snyder. She weighed 6 lbs. 12 oz. I went through 56 hours of labor before she ultimately decided to make her appearance in this world. However, finally at 4:33 pm, she was born. She had black curly hair and the most beautiful hazel eyes. After the doctors checked her out, they laid her on my chest. I was so amazed at this little miracle that I was holding in my arms. My nine months of pregnancy had been very hard. I had faced one tragedy after another, but in the end, it was all worth it. I had this beautiful creature that had been living inside me, sheltered from all the tragedies that I had to endure.

 After my diagnosis, I was forced to finish school in the medical homeschool program. This program only gave me three hours a week of constructed education, yet, somehow, I graduated high school on June 3, 1993, with a 3.2 GPA. I displayed more determination and ambition than anyone my age, striving for excellence, which was my driving force and motivation to succeed, and wanting to prove that I could accomplish anything in life. Even though everyone was telling me that I would not be able to graduate, due to being home-schooled, I was determined to prove them wrong, which I did!

 

In 1997, I began to pursue my college education at Nashville Tech, where I completed my first semester maintaining a 3.2 GPA. In 1998, one of my poems, "The AIDS Prayer," was published in the school's literary journal, "The Tetrahedra." That same year, I began writing as a contributing author for the school newspaper, "The Falcon." Against tremendous odds, I displayed a wealth of determination, a courageous personality, an ambitious soul, and a strong faith in God. I have been able to overcome every obstacle that life has placed in my path to achieving my dreams. 

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After I graduated from high school, my daughter began getting sick a lot more. However, we were not going to give up, we continued to fight for 12 years. We had fought a long, hard battle until finally my daughter's fragile body just couldn’t take anymore. On January 26, 2000, my baby went home to be with Jesus. It was the hardest day of my life. I couldn’t imagine living my life without her. I always believed that children were supposed to outlive their parents. Three weeks before the death of my daughter, my mom died of liver failure, so I was left to deal with this horrible fate alone. 

I had to share this testimony so that those people who look at my website or do business with me would understand why I praise God in ALL that I do, for He is the only reason that I live. Now, if you do not want to do business with someone who is as honest as that, then it's not meant for me to assist you.

 

Looking back over my life, I realize that I am a very special and gifted individual. Despite having such a hard life, experiencing many adversities, trials, and tribulations, and even death, yet I always kept a positive attitude and never doubted that I would be able to overcome ANYTHING that was placed in my path.

 

My mother once told me that, “I was definitely born with the special gift and talent of writing; because I could write in any genre or niche, making the words come alive, creating a sense that the words were jumping off the page; making you feel as though the characters were right in front of you talking to you in person and allowing you to feel the emotions behind every story I wrote about.”

 

My Experience

 

 Since my high school graduation, I have been nurturing my talent for writing by keeping a journal, taking different classes, and practicing every day. As the years passed, my writing became more developed as I began to outshine and surpass my competition. In 2010, I began experimenting with different styles of writing, including Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Creative Writing, Journalism, and eventually Business Writing. What I soon realized along the way was that I was extremely gifted as a writer, 'A Born Writer, ' one might say. I have been able to write in any genre or niche with precision and grace. 

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In 2011, I began writing as a contributing author for the website "Searchwarp," where I have published over 70 articles, poems, and essays. Later that same year, I began writing for "EzineArticles" and several other websites. I also wrote a two-part mini biography, "Beneath an Angel's Wings: My Story of Struggle and Longtime Survival," parts 1 & 2, for thebody.com, which is still available today on their website. In 2013, I had one of my essays, My Passion” published in the school's literature magazine "THINK: A Journal of Essays." That same year, I won two World Poetry competitions and was named the "International Who's Who in Poetry of 2012." In addition, I have had a guest post on several blogs and other websites throughout my writing career and have even been a guest speaker on two radio talk shows: Dr. Irene Conlan's "The Self-improvement Show" and Steve Kovacs ' "Through Our Eyes."

 

I have taking several courses in Creative Writing, English Composition, Small Business Management, Office Administration, Graphic Design and Journalism, at various colleges including, Nashville State Community College, Full Sail University, Southern New Hampshire University, The Art Institutes of Pittsburgh, Penn Foster Career School and now I am currently looking to continue my college education at National University. I have written five books;

 

  1) "The Curse of Princess Deondra a Fairytale" which was self published in 2014 & is available on Amazon.

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 2) Hidden Treasures-A Journal of Essays, which was self-published and is available on Amazon.

 

  3) "True Inspirations of the Heart," a book of free verse and prose poetry; yet to be published.

 

  4) "Sleeping with the Angels-A Story of Courage," the story of my life, which I hope to have published by the summer of 2025, and

 

  5) "The Sky is the Limit—To Achieving Dreams," which is still in the works and is the story of all the adversities and obstacles I have overcome on the path to achieving my dream. 

 

I have been the owner of two other companies, designing my websites, which were:

 

1) "DeLicia Jeezes Media Promotions," a web-based company that offered artist of all genres and niches a way of becoming known, showing off their talents.

 

 2) “DeLuxe Writing Experts” is a web-based company offering different writing services.

 

I am now 52 and will be working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Liberal Studies in English at Mercy University in the Fall of 2025. I am finishing my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management at the University of Arkansas, Grantham. In Addition, I am working on a Diploma in Freelance Writing and Journalism at Penn Foster Career School. I am also working on a medical terminology certificate at Des Moines University and a Writing class at Allison, an online education community.

 

Finally, after decades of writing, I am ready to begin a new chapter by recreating and launching this company, "Phoenix-Lotus Creative Enterprise, formerly known as DeLuxe Writing Experts." I hope to provide my clients with new and inspirational ways to promote and run their company and write medical stories for websites, blogs, magazines, or newsletters for companies and organizations in the medical world. In addition, I do resumes for academic and entry-level individuals.

 

 With "Phoenix-Lotus Creative Enterprise," we guarantee quality services at the most affordable prices in the market. We hope to be known as the go-to place for companies and organizations worldwide. Come and experience the Phoenix-Lotus Experience, where you are our sole focus, and satisfaction is our priority!