She helps Detroiters "FLYY" through the power of authenticity

Greetings, my name is Scott Talley and I am a proud lifelong Detroiter and I'm also very proud to write stories for the Detroitist platform within the Detroit Free Press. A word that I often use when talking to people in the community regarding the stories that I write is authentic. I have an opportunity to write stories about authentic Detroiters and authentic Detroit institutions and that was certainly the case this week through the story that I've written for the Detroit is series that comes out Sunday. This story highlights a family-owned Detroit business which is really a also a family-owned Detroit institution, Sweet Potato Sensations, located on Losser in the old Redford neighborhood but since its founding, since it started business going back to 1987, it's evolved into so much more thanks to two sisters who were encouraged by their mom and dad and one of those sisters is the primary speaker in the story that I write. Her name is Espy Thomas, also known to many as Etta Fly, also known to to others as Etta Fly Espy and she is indeed authentic and inspiring and this week she spent much of the week away from Sweet Potato Sensations getting ready for a major event in Detroit, the African World Festival, and there Etta Fly has a booth representing Naturally Fly Detroit and this is a it's a she would say a company but also a movement and a positive vibe and it's talked about in the story but I wanted to include this short video so people who come across the story will experience the vibe, the energy, the positivity of Etta Fly and so I just wanted to provide just a tiny tiny slice of who she is and I hope that you enjoy this little tiny slice and I also hope that you will enjoy the story that I've written for the Sunday Free Press. Thank you so much and thank you for reading. All right what up go Detroit, my name is Etta Fly Espy, Espy Thomas with the Queen of Awesomeness, if you know me by that, that's what's up. We are down here at the African World Festival, it's my first time participating and I represented my passion project which is Naturally Fly Detroit. We are a brand that encourages women to be who they are starting with their hair. I rocked up hair out of your ancestors pretty but pretty all the things like that to support you being your true authentic self showing up as yourself and operating in this life with true authenticity. I'm your permission slip to be your own kind of beautiful and I support that and I push that message forward every single day and with my brand we do that all the time. So bold colors, prints, patterns, earrings, accessories, statement pieces that you can show up as your true authentic self and be you. So come down to the African World Festival and holler at your girl okay.