Season 3: Episode 3: I Swear I’m An Introvert — From Locomotives to Love Stories - Meet Nikeva Lawrence

She inspected and repaired locomotives as a 22-year-old Black woman walking into rail shops full of older white men who questioned why she was there. She fixed the locomotive — and never looked back.

In this episode of I Swear I’m An Introvert, Your Savvy SheEO Lindsey T. Evans sits down with Nikeva Lawrence — electrical engineer turned wedding planner and owner of SouthWind Events — for a conversation about purpose, pivoting, people-pleasing, and why the most powerful thing you can do is trust yourself.

Nikeva opens up about falling into wedding planning through a church committee, hearing God speak on a random Tuesday that changed everything, navigating entrepreneurship without a mentor, battling anxiety and depression while running a business, and why the same project management skills that served her in engineering are exactly what make her extraordinary at planning the most important day of someone’s life. She’s complex. She’s calm in chaos. And she will tell you the hard truth with a smile every single time.

In this episode we cover:

∙ The unexpected journey from electrical engineering to event planning

∙ Building a business with integrity while still working a 9-to-5

∙ Navigating anxiety, depression, and finding the right therapist

∙ Why “no” is a complete sentence and boundaries are learned the hard way

∙ What it really looks like behind the highlight reel of wedding planning

∙ Positive representation of Black women in business and why legacy matters

Connect with Nikeva: SouthWind Events on Instagram @southwind.events, TikTok, and Facebook

Connect with Lindsey T. Evans: heels2sneakers.net

Girl, you got this.