Brandi J-E McAlister, MS, CSC, CLC is a New Jersey native. She obtained her BA in Mass Communications from Virginia State University. Later, she completed her MS in Integrated Marketing Communication from Manhattanville College. Her passion for encouraging and helping others led her to acquire her certification from Life Purpose Institute and is now a Certified Spiritual Coach and Certified Life Coach. She is a member of the illustrious Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Brandi is an award-winning author of the Devotional of the Year titled Real Talk: A Conversation From My Heart To Yours and Amazon’s #1 in New Releases for the title My Way or God’s Will? The Choice is Yours. She is the self-proclaimed Spiritual Friendvisor of Pray the Impossible, a faith-based service company. She defines a Spiritual Friendvisor as a friend who gives advice and drops GEMS (God Enthused Messages Spoken) from her heart based on godly wisdom. 

As the founder of Blessed by Brandi, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization, the mission is to address the whole person by tapping into the mind, body, and spirit to get to the root of the issues that have had the greatest impact on our spirituality, wellbeing, mental and physical health. She believes that God blesses us so that we can be a blessing to others.

She learned through her transformation that God chose her for this unique assignment because she’s relatable; she is what this generation needs to see and experience God in a new way. She prides herself in showing others that you can be authentic, walk in your purpose, live life to the fullest, turn up, and still love and uniquely serve God He’s called you.

She lives by the phrase, “Impacting lives one conversation at a time”.