About

Terryl Ebony is a parent coach, public speaker and parent/youth advocate.  For the past 15 years, she has dedicated her life to her son.  In doing that, she learned to understand human behaviors and how it relates to the growth and development of one’s life.  As a parent, she learned that raising a child was not going to be easy.   As a leader, she learned that EMPOWERMENT + COMMITMENT = ULTIMATE SUCCESS. She decided to combine all her new found knowledge and educate the world as a Certified Parent Coach.

Born in Washington, DC but raised in New York City, Terryl came from a West Indian upbringing where it became ingrained in her that discipline is the core ingredient to reshaping one’s life.  Her parents were not the model parents but her situation was very common and typical – father was not around and mother was left to support both of her children by herself.  Terryl did not wallow in her circumstances instead she used it as a learning tool.  Her parents opened her eyes to a lot.  Some things she knew she would imitate when she became a parent and some things she knew she would not.

Nineteen and pregnant, Terryl had to face many truths.  She was about to relive a chapter in her mother’s book of raising a child on her own.  She knew she could not do much about the beginning but she was determined that the chapter would end differently for her and her child.  Terryl took what she had learned from all the mothers around her and tailored it to fit the needs of her and her child.  The things she did not agree with, she tried not to duplicate and the things that she thought were valuable, she implemented.  Needless to say she was off to a very good start.

Terryl did not allow parenthood stop her professional goals.  She did whatever was necessary to sustain both.  However, raising a child as a single parent, Terryl began to see how vital family communication and support is and witnessed firsthand the consequences that occurred when it was not.  Terryl realized that there was a great need for additional youth programming that gave children a means of positive self expression.  So, in 2005, Terryl founded “The Misunderstood Youth Development Center (MYDC)”, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help understand, develop and stimulate the minds of our youth.  The organization currently serves the Brooklyn and Queens population of New York City.  MYDC has received a proclamation from Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz, supporting their efforts.

As a Parent Coach, Terryl travels around the country teaching parents the importance of reconnecting their family values and implementing them in a way that is most productive for both parent and child.  Along with her commitment to MYDC, Terryl also gives back to her community by chairing on the board of The Underground Railroad to Success (URS).  URS is a non-profit organization geared toward educating foster care youth about the options they have in life after they age out of the system.  In July 2009, Terryl launched an international radio show.  “Living in Reality with Terryl Ebony” serves as a platform to bring awareness and solutions to problems that intimately affect families, parents and youth.  As Terryl continues in her endeavors, she is currently penning her first book, “Losing Love, Having Faith & Finding Hope”. This book will touch you and make you think about the relationship you have with your children and/or the role you play in a child’s life, as well as offer solutions on what you can do to strengthen or develop these relationships going forward.

Terryl wishes to share all of her accomplishments with the world in hopes that from her experiences and her words she is able to touch someone’s heart and mind creating a positive transformation from within.  It is her expectation that through these self-revelations a better quality of family life will result.