Yaphett K. Powell, JD, MBA

01/19/2025

Honored and humbled to do my first ever interview as a new author with the good people at Living Real Radio in Nashville. The live radio show aired last Sunday, and the podcast ep is up now. Thank you Greg Walton , John Angotti Music Mission , Leann Brown Didier , and Chris Britton! book

01/01/2025

01/01/2025

New Year’s Day unboxing surprise!

01/01/2025

New Year’s Day unboxing surprise!

12/22/2024

Front and back cover of my new inspirational book for teen boys: Founded by Faith - The Found Boys.

12/21/2024

Hi Family & Friends, I’m officially a published author! My publisher just informed me this morning that my new book, FOUNDED BY FAITH, is now available on Amazon. It’s a great gift this Christmas, but get it whenever you can. If I reach 1,000 books sold by mid-January, then my publisher will reward me with a “1K Book Award”. 🥇 🏆 Plus, tomorrow (December 22) is my birthday … What better birthday gift can you give than supporting your favorite first-time author! 😇 🎁Finally, special thanks to Dr. Brian J. Dixon, Dr. Zoe Shaw, and hope*writers /Hope books for your guidance and support through my book writing journey! 🙏🏽

11/07/2024

The Found Boys podcast: Inspiring and igniting teen boys to become mighty men.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5mksmNadWI3OqXsClMg8CK?si=hwvGtEjJSS-g7Hn45dCfag

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Podcast · Yaphett K. Powell, J.D., M.B.A. · Inspiring and igniting teen boys to become mighty young men. I help teen boys growing up without their dads to overcome feeling lost so they can become faithful, wise, and mighty men of God … The Found Boys: Founded by faith. Welded by wisdom. Built by...

11/05/2024

Another step in my author journey … At a rewarding retreat in Charleston, South Carolina with some of my Hope*Books colleagues 📚

Stop writing alone.
As a writer of hope, you need to surround yourself with people who will encourage you in your journey—for accountability, for inspiration, and to remind you that what you have to share is truly important.

In fact, having people who are excited about your book and your message will push you to focus and get your book out into the world, especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed or discouraged.

This is what we do at Hope Writers. This weekend, we hosted our biannual Writing Dream Retreat, encouraging these incredible messengers that their stories matter.

So find your writing community, and those hope-filled words won’t just stay in a journal—they’ll one day be shared in your published book.

11/05/2024

Are you a teen boy growing up without your dad?

Maybe he passed away.
Maybe he was never there.
Maybe he’s alive and around, but not involved in your life.

I have good news for you. You actually have the best Dad ever. Do you want to know who he is?

The words you are about to experience are true. They will change your life if you let them. For they come from the very heart of your Dad. He loves YOU. And He is the Father you have been looking for all your life. This is His letter to you …

My son,

You may not know me, but I know everything about you.
Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
Psalm 139:2

I am familiar with all your ways.
Psalm 139:3

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew 10:29-31

For you were made in my image.
Genesis 1:27

In me you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:28

For you are my offspring.
Acts 17:28

I knew you even before you were conceived.
Jeremiah 1:4-5

I chose you when I planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11-12

You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book.
Psalm 139:15-16

I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live.
Acts 17:26

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14

I knit you together in your mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13

And brought you forth on the day you were born.
Psalm 71:6

I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me.
John 8:41-44

I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love.
1 John 4:16

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you.
1 John 3:1

Simply because you are my child and I am your Father.
1 John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
Matthew 7:11

For I am the perfect father.
Matthew 5:48

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.
James 1:17

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.
Matthew 6:31-33

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Because I love you with an everlasting love.
Jeremiah 31:3

My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore.
Psalm 139:17-18

And I rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

I will never stop doing good to you.
Jeremiah 32:40

For you are my treasured possession.
Exodus 19:5

I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul.
Jeremiah 32:41

And I want to show you great and marvelous things.
Jeremiah 33:3

If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29

Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

For it is I who gave you those desires.
Philippians 2:13

I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20

For I am your greatest encourager.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you.
Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart.
Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4

And I'll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth.
Revelation 21:3-4

I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus.
John 17:23

For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
John 17:26

He is the exact representation of my being.
Hebrews 1:3

He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you.
Romans 8:31

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you.
1 John 4:10

I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love.
Romans 8:31-32

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me.
1 John 2:23

And nothing will ever separate you from my love again.
Romans 8:38-39

Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7

I have always been Father, and will always be Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15

My question is…Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13

I am waiting for you.
Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad.
Almighty God

Father's Love Letter used by permission Father Heart Communications ©1999 FathersLoveLetter.com

For more inspiration for teen boys who are growing up without their dads, visit THE FOUND BOYS podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-found-boys/id1733955552

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