Our Panel
Mianna Deberry
Founder, Hostess
Mianna Deberry is the founder of You Grow Girl and the creative force behind the Mi’Dee Girl brand, where she blends homesteading, horticulture, and women’s empowerment into transformative community experiences.
As an entrepreneur and single mother, Mianna draws deeply from lived experience to guide women in cultivating resilience, healing, and self-sufficiency through the rhythms of nature.
Rooted in her passion for gardening and horticultural therapy practices, Mianna has hosted countless conversations around growth, faith, and motherhood, always returning to the idea that women — like seeds — deserve to be nurtured, supported, and given space to thrive.
Her work extends into community initiatives such as The Garden House, a nonprofit she founded to create safe and supportive spaces for youth, and through her farm, Mi’Dee Roots Family Farm, and homestead projects that feed and inspire families in her county.
As the host and facilitator of The Mirroring Seed Event, Mianna invites women to reflect on their own seasons of growth, release what no longer serves them, and step boldly into empowerment.
Her mission is to help women recognize their own strength, plant new seeds of possibility, and bloom into the lives they were meant to live.
Asya M. Little
Speaker, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate
Asya M. Little, MA, LCMHCA, NCC is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate in North Carolina with two years of clinical experience from Monroe, North Carolina. A proud Double Deac, she earned both her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2022) and her Master’s degree in Counseling with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (2024) from Wake Forest University.
In her work as an employee and therapist at Progressing through Therapy, PLLC out of Greensboro, NC, Asya is passionate about helping young adults, especially women and women of color, reclaim their identity, voice, and power in a world that often tells them who they should be.
Through a trauma-informed lens, she supports clients in healing from grief, untangling generational narratives, and navigating relationships, all while building the confidence to choose themselves. She believes healing mirrors the natural world: growth is often messy, sometimes uncomfortable, but always transformative.
Asya often reminds her clients that they have choices — that we each get to decide what we grow and root ourselves in. Those roots don’t always have to be what was handed to us by family, culture, or society; we are free to plant new seeds that align with who we are becoming.
Known for her authenticity, honesty, and supportive presence, Asya creates spaces where women feel both seen and challenged to step into their power. She is honored to join this gathering to share in a collective experience of healing, self-love, and empowerment.