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There is a quiet power in deciding to stop forcing the plan and trust the process. Olandria Carthen, runner-up of Love Island USA Season 7, recently shared how the hardest season of her life became the foundation for the one she is living now: “When I wasn’t in my winning season, that was the darkest part of my life. The most lowest point I’ve ever been. Being post-graduation and exploring a new city and a new career and only having just enough for bills, and you got a little bit toeat and all those things. But I really think, although those were like the toughest points of my life, they were very vital to what I’m doing right now. I really feel like I was relearning the exact same lesson over and over and over. Now I asked like, ‘God, what am I missing? Like what am I doing? Like what like, you know?’ And in the leading, I would always write what I want my life to look like, with all these things. And I always say this little joke, like: ‘If you ever want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Tell him your plans.’ And I remember going into the year of 2025, I’m like, ‘You know what, God? I give it all to you.’ I brought the year in at church. I didn’t make a mood board, I didn’t make anything. I brought my year in at church, prayed, left it at the altar, went home and went to sleep. A few months later I got the call about the show. God gave me every single thing that I’ve wanted ever in my life all in one year, because I stayed still, I took my hands off the wheel and I let Him take control over everything in my life. So if you find yourself being in that season where you don’t feel like everything is going right, whoever you pray to, I’m not pushing it on anybody. Talk to yourself, put it out in the universe. And I didn’t even realize how much I was putting out in the universe until people found my old tweets. I was literally tweeting my life! Everything that I have said, I’ve tweeted, has happened already. So I didn’t realize how much I was actually putting out there in the universe, but the moment I decided to stay still and not really necessarily tell God like, ‘This is what I want, this is what my life...’ He already has it written out. He already has exact what your life will look like. So I sat back and let Him do His work, and honestly, I’m living my dream right now. So that’s exactly what I did, I stayed still.” What stands out is not only the outcome, but the discipline of the pause. She does not frame surrender as passivity. She frames it as releasing control after years of effort, naming what she wanted, and then allowing the path to unfold without constant revision. For anyone in a season that feels stalled, her account is a reminder that the years that look empty on the outside are often the ones doing the quiet work.

If you hate Olandria that bad, babe just block her I know she’s successful and somehow she keeps finding her way onto your timeline, but you have options!!! Block her, block the fan pages, block the hashtags do what you gotta do 😂

This is so embarrassing. Like black women/men, love yourselves first. Your hatred for Olandria won’t make you feel any better about yourself.

Mind you, this is from her YOUTUBE.

Olandria via Gabrielle Union LinkedIn 🥹

Gonna have to give this hater their .0001s for that, they’re not wrong about this one! 😛

i’m sorry but this makes me love her even more. she makes you bitches SEETHE effortlessly.

so what im getting is they mad cuz its happening for her and not their favs…oh boohoo

y’all cannot complain about darkskin black women seldomly reaching high levels of fame if you are going to tear down every black woman that comes on the scene and starts reaching new heights 😭😭😭

oh another thing… y’all thought she was only making waves bc of the relationship she was in. now that she’s not in it & the waves are LARGER, y’all tryna figure out HOW!!!! 🤣😂 ahhh i got y’all figured out.

Concept of being mad that a college educated woman is getting booked to speak while stanning someone that sucked dick while her mom was driving ✌🏾✌🏾

Hug your children tight or else they’ll spend every moment of their lives worrying about what Olandria is doing or saying all while claiming to not like her

But I huuurd

“doesn’t hang with any black women that show” yet do you see her hanging with any of them white women from that show either?

WOW. #OlandriaxCultureCon

Dedicated haters for the Doll even after a whole year henniii I’m gagged

The way y’all find something negative to say about something positive and uplifting should be studied.

📸 Olandria at CultureCon via tiktok!

RT @vincentnick15: @ctrlamyrah Every time olandria always keep you guys pressed.

Yall hate when Olandria speaks so let’s hear it from all the other Black women ! Different seasons yet similar messaging about the importance of representation, the portrayal of black women on screen, & unfair scrutiny that comes from the weight of being highly visible & Black!