TULSA, Okla. – Tulsa radio talk show host, holistic healer and entrepreneur Majick RavenHawk has been honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Oklahoma district office for helping other women in business.

The founder and CEO of Engage Life & RavenHawk International has been named Women in Business Champion of the Year for the state. She received the award at the annual small business luncheon on April 21 at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.

Before attending, RavenHawk, Tigua Pueblo, said she is honored for the recognition.

“I always believe in giving back to the community and helping, particularly women and minorities trying to build a business,” she said.

RavenHawk was notified of the award from the SBA in late March. News traveled quickly, and e-mails and phone calls of congratulations soon followed, she said. It isn’t the first time she’s received such kudos. Last year, RavenHawk was named Minority Business Champion of the Year during the Tulsa Metro Chamber's 2010 Crystal Star Small Business Awards. The SBA award was another “beautiful surprise” to come from creating ties in communities.

The former Dallas resident founded Engage Life, an employee assistance company, in 2004. Engage Life is hired by employers to provide employees free counseling services and referrals. The services are often offered to the employees and their families to help them deal with personal problems that can affect job performance and health.

RavenHawk is also founder of the MindShift Holistic Wellness Center in Tulsa offering a variety of herbal medicines, native teachings and therapies rooted in wisdom to heal and promote personal well-being. The center has partnered with the organization Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to introduce wellness treatments into native communities. The committee launched a pilot program in cooperation with the Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Project to reduce the number of diabetes diagnoses among the tribe through education about the foods that kept the Navajo healthy for centuries. For some, RavenHawk said, the diabetes condition went away. Now, the organization and MindShift want to bring the same program to native communities in Oklahoma in the coming months.

Those who hear her voice on RavenHawk Talk Radio at www.contacttalkradio.com and her show, “Minding Your Business with Dr. Majick RavenHawk,” Monday mornings know well that RavenHawk is also a life coach and speaker on creating success in business and life through personal harmony.

With her personal success as a small business owner and a position as facilitator for the Tulsa Native Business Network, RavenHawk provides free business coaching to people starting a new enterprise. Those she helps benefit from her advice and knowledge of resources that can take their endeavors further than they imagined.

“It’s paying it forward,” she said.

RavenHawk had help and encouragement to make her own choices, she said.

“We get lost in the ‘thought virus,’ but we can make a conscious choice to get ‘unstuck,’“ she added.

The book she is currently working on is both biography and a self-therapy guide. When it is published later this year, readers will find out how RavenHawk overcame enormous obstacles in her early life to help others today. Purging negative thoughts and behavior is the keystone to RavenHawk’s work. It could even be called a personal philosophy.

“I help a lot of women in business. To me, when I found my purpose in life, it was to help other people. It’s not that I’m helping them to get something back,” she said. “Well, I guess it is. It makes me feel good. The more I give, the more my business grows and the more I have. I do believe in the law of Karma.”