Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Harmony Ekundayo of Atlanta

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Harmony Ekundayo. Check out our conversation below.

Harmony, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
I think a lot of people are quietly drowning in the mess they created but are too proud (or too scared) to admit they are the ones that pulled the trigger. We wear masks of victimhood when we were really the authors and co-authors of the chaos. It’s easier to say “I have an enemy after my reputation”, “they hurt me”, “it’s because of my childhood trauma”, “I have a stalker”, than to whisper, “I stayed too long”, “I ignored the red flags”, “The information is true about me”, or “I knew better”. Silence and lack of self-accountability doesn’t cleanse. It festers.
The mantra of my branding company is to start branding from the inside out. After working with a particular client, I began to notice that people are afraid to admit they are more of a villain than a victim in their own story. You can’t heal what you won’t hold accountable. Growth doesn’t happen in comfort. It happens in confession. And many of us need to confess to ourselves first, “I was complicit in my own calamity.”

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My first introduction to VoyageATL was through my branding/consulting company, S. Moore Styling & Co which is a creative branding house rooted in one simple, but powerful task: “We start from the inside.” I believe that true transformation begins beneath the surface. Before the logo, before the wardrobe, before the website, it’s about true identity. Who are you REALLY? This the question I ask every client because I refuse to brand a lie.

This philosophy ended up changing me, too!

As I worked with clients, whether it was styling, branding or ghostwriting, I realized I had been hiding behind everyone else’s story. I was helping others step into the spotlight while dimming my own. That’s when I made the bold and necessary decision: become my own client and stop ghostwriting for the world without publishing my own body of works.

That decision birthed the Read Me for Filth series which is my unapologetic, trap-healing debut as a published author under my ministry and spoken word stage name, HAEtheprophet. The first book, Read Me for Filth: How to Drag Yourself Out of Your Own Bullsh*T cracked open the door and is now available on Amazon. I may lose a few family members behind the second release, I Know What You Want, But an Ass Is All You Need: Faith, Trauma, and the Unlikely Road to Redemption which is off for formatting now. I have already received death threats from publishing the cover of the second book in the Filth Series, Read Me for Filth: Relationships and the Bloody Trail. These aren’t just books. They are mirror mazes, shadow work, revelation, exposure, and a spiritual scalpel all wrapped in street wit and holy, scared rebellion.

This series didn’t just introduce me to the world as an author. It revealed me to me. After ghostwriting for Sheen Magazine, several bodies of work in book form, performing branding miracles, I discovered that I am unfiltered, unashamed, and undeniably gifted. Now, my brand is about more than styling or branding. It’s about calling people into alignment with their rawest truth whether that’s through creative services, literature, or the legacy that I am building. I refuse to put lipstick on a pig!

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
I’d have to answer this question in two parts, because the two most defining relationships in my life pulled me in opposite directions. Ultimately, both brought me home to myself.

First, my the relationship with God the first 20+ years of my life was complex and filled with resentment if I can be honest. I had to shrink. I had to be silent. I didn’t feel loved once I got an idea of what love wasn’t. But as I got older and stopped outsourcing my faith to people, I built a relationship with The Creator on my own terms! No middleman. No manipulation. What I found was grace, not guilt. Power, not punishment. It made me realize that being chosen doesn’t require performance. It requires honest, sincere presence.

On the other hand, have you ever been in a relationship, situationship, friendship (or whatever kinda “ship” it is) with a Cluster B personality type? Narcissistic. Manipulative. Emotionally volatile. Loving them is like hugging barbed wire and calling it passion. That five year, secret relationship with a pastor right here in Atlanta showed me every boundary I didn’t have and forced me to build the ones I now guard with my life…on God. It taught me how to recognize false grief, emotional bait, spiritual gaslighting, love bombing wrapped in bible verses and how to never confuse chaos with chemistry.

Out of the ashes, Read Me For Filth: Relationships and the Bloody Trail (release date 2/14/26) was born. It is not a cute little memoir. It’s a battlefield handbook on recognizing and healing from psychological warfare. It’s not pretty. It’s brutal. It’s bloody. It rips the veil off everything you believed about love, premature death, God, and yourself. However, it is also sacred.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Ahhhh, we lean in heavy with the wisdom forged in the fire because suffering will always be a more honest teacher than success. Success claps for you. Suffering challenges you to know you.

Suffering taught me to sit in silence without loosing my mind. It taught me that applause can’t replace alignment. Titles don’t mean trust (btw- Only Trust Your Own Research !). Suffering made me question why I took advice from a business owner with a dissolved business or allowed the discredit of my academic degrees when they purchased the title of “Dr.” from a diploma mill. That not everyone who prays for you is praying for you. Some of these jokers are preying on you!

Success, for some, is loud. It’s public. It’s a curated version of your becoming. Performance optics for people when you hate being alone. But suffering is what happens when no one is watching or present to catch the hot tears. When the brand is quiet. When the inbox is dry. When you are in the mirror asking, “WTF?’

Success never taught me how to get back up. It just told me to pose for the camera once I did. Suffering? She taught me how to crawl, drag, scream, write, cry, and still show up. She taught me the why behind my work. That healing ain’t marketable until it’s been metabolized. That I can’t brand or write resurrection if I have never buried anything myself.

Suffering doesn’t just break your heart either. It breaks your image, your theology, your ego, and your whole damn personality! But the beauty is, she will never leave you empty handed. She brings truth. She brings clarity with a mirror. And if you let her, she will always bring you back to yourself.

Success makes you visible.
But suffering? She makes you real. I prefer to be real than recognizable.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Is the public version of you the real you?
Pretty much. If I love you in private, I love you in public. If I cuss you out in private, surely I will cuss you out in public! And still love God afterwards!

Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: Have you ever gotten what you wanted, and found it did not satisfy you?
Good God a’ Mighty! Stay tuned for Read Me for Filth: Relationships and the Bloody Trail.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://haetheprophet.carrd.co
• Other: Email: haetheprophet@gmail.com
  s.moorestyling@gmail.com
  Phone: 1-800-935-6174