{"id":631913,"date":"2024-08-23T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nicole-avant-reflects-on-resilience-and-coping-with-loss-no-one-is-exempt\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:00:00","slug":"nicole-avant-reflects-on-resilience-and-coping-with-loss-no-one-is-exempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nicole-avant-reflects-on-resilience-and-coping-with-loss-no-one-is-exempt\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nicole Avant Reflects on Resilience and Coping with Loss: \u201cNo One Is Exempt\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Nicole Avant spent much of her childhood summers in holiday enclaves like Oak Bluffs in Martha\u2019s Vineyard and Sag Harbor in Long Island, vacation havens created by the Black middle-class elites as they were often denied entry elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy parents took me there, and it was great for me growing up to see Black doctors, Black lawyers, Black professionals, Black people who own their businesses,\u201d the producer, author and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas recalled of her parents Clarence Avant, the late legendary musical executive known as The Black Godfather, and her mother, philanthropist Jacqueline Avant. \u201cAnd it made a huge difference in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n So when Avant was asked to come back to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to attend an event designed to bolster community in Oak Bluffs while spotlighting her recent book Think You\u2019ll Be Happ<\/a>y<\/em> with her two close friends and fellow authors, Michelle Norris (Our hidden Conversation<\/em>) and Sharon Malone (Grown Woman Talk<\/em>), she rearranged her schedule to be there \u2014 and made sure to bring husband, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos as well.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s a mecca for Black professionals and Black intellectuals and politicians, everybody. But it\u2019s been that way for a long time, and I always wanted Ted to experience it in the way that I\u2019ve experienced it,\u201d Avant told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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From left: Author James Hester, author\/film producer Nicole Avant, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Harborview Hotel owner Bernard Chiu, Harborview CMO Jean Wong and Broadway producer Marvet Britto. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Avant and Sarandos were both participants in the third annual Martha\u2019s Vineyard Community Purpose event, conceived by veteran publicist and producer Marvett Britto and author James Hester. Featuring an introduction from hosts Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lewis Lee, the series<\/a>, which drew hundreds of attendees including former first lady Michelle Obama, Will Packer and more, was a conversation featuring Avant, Norris and Malone with introductions from their husbands Sarandos, Comcast executive vice president of public policy Broderick Johnson and former U.S. attorney general<\/a> Eric Holder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen James and Marvett\u00a0proposed this to me, I thought, okay, wait. I have plans that week, but I\u2019m actually going to change because I love the idea of community. It represents what my family was all about, community and bringing everyone together and not separating people,\u201d said Avant. \u201cAnd for me to be able to be with Sharon and Michelle and have the event with two girlfriends meant it was even better for me. So it was a win-win all around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n While introducing his wife, Sarandos recalled their first meeting, a fundraiser for then Sen. Barack Obama that she was involved in, and her first words to him were \u201cYou are late!,\u201d drawing laughs from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n But he said it was love at first sight. Later, he described falling in love with her family as well, and touched on the tragic killing of Jacqueline Avant at 81, shot to death by an intruder in her parents\u2019 Beverly Hills home.<\/p>\n

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From left: Eric Holder, Dr. Sharon Malone, Ted Sarandos, Nicole Avant, Michele Norris, Broderick Johnson, James Hester, Marvet Britto, AR Bernard, Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Avant, who was interviewed on stage by pastor A.R. Bernard, spoke about the legacy of both her parents and overcoming the 2021 tragedy. Bernard also shared the pain of losing two of his seven children, during a poignant discussion that was still centered on hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Avant told THR<\/em> her message, much like her book, was that \u201cthere\u2019s always a sense of hope, a sense of resilience, a sense of how to move forward in different stages in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy book is not just about Black excellence,\u201d she added. \u201cMy book is also about moving forward, getting to the other side of how I did it, but giving examples, sharing advice, sharing life lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Among those lessons were the resilience of her parents, and she wanted to make sure she honored that in the book, particularly for her mother.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI thought, well, am I going to write about, is the headline just going to be what happened to Jacqueline Avant? Or am I going to actually tell her whole entire story? She earned that. She earned it. So that\u2019s what I wanted to do,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I loved having my conversation with Bernard because he\u2019s a man of faith as well, and his experience, loss and tragedy and unfortunate things, and again, proof that you could be a pastor or anybody. And things still happen. None of us are exempt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Avant has been promoting her book, but she will soon turn to another project: Tyler Perry\u2019s Netflix film The Six Trip<\/a>le Eight<\/em>, about the only U.S. army unit composed of women of color during World War II,\u00a0starring Kerry Washington; Avant is a producer.\u00a0The teaser for the film got an enthusiastic response when it was shown during the recent Martha\u2019s Vineyard African American Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cEveryone was talking about it, which made me happy because again, it\u2019s the energy of hope, and it\u2019s the energy of positivity and hope and positivity doesn\u2019t equal ease. It doesn\u2019t always equal, \u2018Things are going to be easy,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t mean that. But it also means that that still should be the intention, and it could still be difficult things that have been accomplished in life that we look at as positive outcomes. It doesn\u2019t mean that it wasn\u2019t difficult during the process, but it was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From left: James Hester, Ted Sarandos, Nicole Avant, Marvet Britto and Eddie LeVert.
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