Queen Shh
Author, poet, spoken word artist and emcee Opal Ellyse has been keeping hand written journals since 1995. Each week she shares an entry and ties it to current events and relevant topics of conversation. Royalty is living in your legacy while you're still here. Understanding your past and bridging it to the present and future is a gift. Join Opal as she shares wisdom from the past as it becomes present day epiphany and a blueprint for all that is next. Queen Shh Podcast dropping 12/6. www.opalellyse.com
Episodes
Episode 22! For this one we travel back a decade and are in 2015, May 3rd to be exact.
I called this one, “I’ve Always Had a Slingshot” and then a subtitle of “Opal Ellyse Tomashevska is out of poverty for good: in JESUS name!! Coming out of a poverty mindset was one of the biggest hurdles for me. It’s a hurdle for many and it’s not as easy as it looks, even though it looks hard as hell! ...
In this 21st episode we visit the year 2000 for an entry called “Not Chains, Change”. This entry is the final entry in my last 1990’s journal and it appropriately revolves around my goals for 2000.
The air was buzzing, change was alive, and we could feel it. It didn’t feel like just another year or decade, it was a new millennium, and we embraced the change and wanted it to change us too.
We are at the 20th episode, already!! Yass thank you all for rocking with me!
This entry is called “In the Studio” and it’s from 2015 when I hadn’t been in the studio for a bit and I had just got done recording some heat!! It was so validating because it was one of those times where current life takes our focus off our dreams for a minute and we wonder if our big dreams were wrong, moments like this remind u...
For this 19th episode I we are transported to the year 2000!
This entry is called “So Good” and it’s right on time because I am just coming off a monster performance and speaking engagement run and this entry was about me just starting to dip my toe in the performance arts and it’s so cool to see how far I’ve come and that some of the same joys and principles remain. It's also fuel for me ...
In this 18th episode we are back in the 90s!!
1999 to be exact, and this one is about knowing better and doing better, I simply called “Know”.
Everything in this entry goes along with all I am feeling right now and lessons I am learning as well as blessings I am receiving so it’s right on time. Hoping it blesses you as well.
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In this 17th episode we visit Easter, 10 years ago. Recorded on Easter 2025, we visit Easter 2015 for this episode. For me, Easter is my spiritual new year, and this entry was on point for what I am feeling and experiencing right now.
There have been so many wonderful things for me in this season, I’ve been able to do so much for my art over the past few weeks and it has been pure joy! I...
For this 16th episode, this one is a little different. As every now and then, since about 2008, I make my entries live online on BlogSpot!! Yup, bet you didn’t even know I bloged, I guess it was Queen Shh before Queen Shh.
Anyway, this one is a GEM that is SO appropriate for RIGHT now!! It’s the move, it’s the wave, it’s the reminder. I was in a space the night I recorded this that comple...
This 15th episode we go 10 years back in time and land in 2015, and touch on so many ties into right now. Dreams, decisions, destiny, all the big things and the small things that take up mental real estate.
As a creative I often battle with how much I give my 9-5 vs. how much I give my art. Whether I love my job or not, this struggle is real. What I have come to learn though is, it’s eve...
This 14th episode is one I wrote in New York City. If you peep the date, it was a month and 3 days before 9/11 in NY and it was my first time in NYC and it had always been a dream of mine to go there, what a blessing for me to see it and feel it before that happened.
This trip to NYC was truly divine intervention, my friend Anisha (RIP), said that she was going to NYC with her mom, because her mom was moving b...
In this 13th episode we spend some time in 2014, and we get into one of my favorite topics. . . money. And hitting on one of the reoccurring themes of my life and many people’s lives. . . confidence.
Key themes from reflection on this entry:
· Money and mindset, HUGE!! It starts in your mind. Might sou...
This 12th episode we visit the year 2000.
This entry comes to you from me as a 20-year-old between my sophomore and junior year in college. There was so much going on for me at school and at home, truthfully during this time I was still kind of living two lives, one back in the hood at Wexford, and one at school. If I am being honest, I struggled a during those 4 years of college, never i...
In this 11th episode we are back in the 90’s for this entry! I just can’t leave them alone!
This episode tells a story I have told before and will probably still tell to my great, great grandchildren. It was an absolute turning point in my life and a moment that has since defined who I am and how I show up.
In 1999 I was a sophomore in college at the University of Wis...
This 10th episode comes to you from the spring of 2000! Whew, like I said last time, chyle what a year! And IYKYK, when I drop those entries from the summer of 2000 get your popcorn!! But until then, this is where we are, March 19th, 2000.
Why this episode now? Well, I promised you that I would share some “oh so in love me”, and if you’re listening to this when it drops or sho...
This 9th episode comes to you from the year 2000! Whew chyle what a year! I had just turned 21 years old and was in my 3rd year of college. This is an entry I labeled as a freestyle. A freestyle is just pure flowing thought, it usually tends to be a little longer but it’s when I just let the words keep coming and flow until they find their way of telling me what I need to hear.
In this eighth episode, we visit January 5th, 2014, it is the beginning of a new year and a time of reflection and a time when we tend to slow down just enough to take inventory and adjust to get our lives aligned for exactly where we want to go and who we want to be.
Inspired by a sermon from Pastor TD Jakes that was also right on time, this entry resonated so well with me right now in th...
In this seventh episode, we visit August 6th, 1996, and this is one of the many entries where I mention feeling like I have outgrown my friends and just about everything around me.
The funny thing is that I have lifelong friends (including the ones I thought I outgrew in 1996 LOL), and I know how grateful I am for that. This entry is key for highlighting how important it is to g...
In this sixth episode, we visit August 18th, 1999, when I had just failed my driver’s test. . .for the 2nd time. Failure can be an extraordinary teacher, especially for those of us who are used to winning. 19-year-old me was frustrated and wondering how this would ever play out in my favor. Spoiler alert, I got my drivers license a week later and all was well. It didn’t harm me one bit...
Get your popcorn this one is a long one!! It’s only fitting that we kick off 2025 with a full meal and not just a snack. I share never before recorded stories and truths about myself and some healing tips that are sure to bless us all.
In this fifth episode, we visit July 21st, 1999, when I had just finished reading the book “Value in the Valley” by Iyanla Vanzant, and 19-year-old me was fu...
I decided to make a special episode for NYE because one of my NYE traditions is to journal, so I wanted to honor that by dropping an episode of Queen Shh with a fitting entry. In this fourth episode, we visit June 13th, 1999. If you will recall, 1999 was a very interesting New Year's Eve, does anyone remember Y2K? That's when many thought all computers would fail because we were moving to the year 2000 and sy...
In this third short and sweet episode, we visit April 4th, 1996, when I along with several other high school students from my hometown (Madison, WI) went on a Black College tour across the southern United States. It was my first time in the south and I share what it felt like to step on Spellman’s campus for the first time, how my girls and I almost risked it all for some boys we met earlier that day, and why seeing really can mea...
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