Dr. Shayla Johnson is a director of academic growth at a local charter school in her hometown, instructional coach, educator, mentor, and faith-driven leader living in Rochester, New York with her three children.

In her first book, Grind with Grace, Dr. Johnson confronts the belief that strength means silence and that success requires exhaustion. She calls women to stop managing life on their own and start inviting God into every decision, direction, and desire.

Grind with Grace empowers women to put God first, release unnecessary weight, and build lives rooted in alignment instead of anxiety. Through faith and lived experience, readers learn how to pursue goals, heal deeply, and grow sustainably with God at the center.

The lesson this book carries is not about doing more.

It is about doing what matters, in the right order.