Identity Authority · Author · Educator · Community Builder
You were never lost.
You were being formed.
Ebony Simms helps women rebuild their sense of self after adversity — through books, curriculum, and a faith-rooted community grounded in the conviction that identity can be recovered, clarified, and owned on purpose.
70+
Published titles under Inner Voice Publishing
20+
Years in healthcare compliance & adult education
3
Business entities built while working full-time
How I can help
Three ways to work with the work
Whether you need a book to carry you through, a curriculum to guide your community, or a room where you’re held accountable to becoming who you already know you are — there’s a place for you here.
Books & Devotionals
70+ titles spanning identity, faith, neuroscience, and healing — including the Still Standing Inside™ rehabilitative series and I Am Powerful teen girls devotional.
Still Standing Society™
A paid community for women doing the intentional work of identity transformation — with structured curriculum, live sessions, and a cohort that holds you to your evolution.
Rehabilitative Curriculum
Multi-faith editions of the Still Standing Inside™ curriculum — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish — placed in chaplaincy and reentry programs nationwide.
The Identity Authority Doctrine™
The framework behind the work
“Know Thyself. Align Thyself. Stand Anyway.™”
The Black Excellence framework distills 20+ years of identity work into seven pillars — a roadmap for women ready to stop recovering and start leading from who they actually are.
I
Roots
Knowing where you come from so you can stand in it with authority.
II
Identity
Declaring who you are before the world has a chance to define you.
IIII
Resilience
Not bouncing back — rising different. The adversity shaped something.
IV
Purpose
Connecting your history to your assignment. The wound becomes the work.
V
Legacy
Building something that outlasts you — for the women who come next.
VI
Excellence
Not perfection. The daily discipline of becoming who you were always meant to be.
From the community
What it feels like to do the work
"I didn't know I could rebuild an identity I never got to choose in the first place. Ebony's work gave me language for something I'd been living for 40 year."
— Still Standing Society™ member
The Jubilee year — December 2026
50 years. 70+ books.
One woman. Standing anyway.
This December, Ebony turns 50 — and she’s calling it exactly what it is: a Jubilee. A year of release, reclamation, and arrival. Join the community and be part of what’s being built.