Wellness Education · Health Advocacy · Coaching
Advocate for Yourself, Elevate Your Health
Amplify Noire gives Black women the tools, language, and confidence to navigate healthcare spaces with clarity — and to be heard.
"Every Black woman deserves to leave the exam room feeling heard, informed, and in control — regardless of education or income."
Why We Exist
Amplify Noire was founded after a pattern became impossible to ignore: friends and family were walking out of medical appointments feeling dismissed — not because they lacked education or resources, but because they lacked the specific tools healthcare spaces require.
Founded by Makeda Black, RN — a Registered Nurse and Public Health Nurse Specialist with 12 years in communicable disease and immunization — Amplify Noire is built on one truth: knowledge is not enough. You need language, strategy, and the confidence to use both.
We are here to close that gap.
Meet the Founder
Makeda is a Registered Nurse and Public Health Nurse Specialist with over 12 years of clinical experience in communicable disease and immunization. She has sat across from patients in the most vulnerable moments of their lives — and she has watched, again and again, as brilliant women walked out of appointments without the answers they came for.
She founded Amplify Noire not as a side project, but as a mission: to equip Black women with a practical, tested methodology for showing up powerfully in healthcare.
Her approach draws from clinical training, public health systems thinking, and deep community knowledge. Every tool she teaches, she has used.
The Flagship Program
A premium, workbook-driven masterclass designed for Black women who are done leaving appointments without answers. Five modules. Intimate cohort. Real tools you will use the moment you walk into your next appointment.
Your legal and ethical rights as a patient — from informed consent to requesting your records to filing complaints. You cannot advocate for what you do not know you have.
How to communicate your history and symptoms clearly and efficiently. The SBAR method — adapted from clinical practice — gives your provider exactly what they need to help you.
Insurance, referrals, second opinions, and specialist access. The structural map your care team uses — now in your hands.
Real-world scenarios, power phrases, and escalation strategies for the moments that count most. Practice with nuanced role-play — not easy answers, but honest ones.
Leave with a personalized, written healthcare advocacy plan you can use immediately — and build on for years. Your Amplify Method™ Journal becomes your permanent reference.
The Amplify Method™ Journal (coil-bound, print-quality), a full workbook handout, digital resources, and a community of women who will hold you accountable to being heard.
Join the First Cohort
American Underground · American Tobacco Campus · Durham, NC
Premium small-group format · Under 10 participants · The Amplify Method™ Journal included
Investment: $90–$125 · Register via Eventbrite
Advocate for Yourself, Elevate Your Health
The SBAR Framework — Situation · Background · Assessment · Request. The clinical tool adapted for patient-to-provider communication.
Appointment Prep Pages — Three questions to ask your provider, your support person's role, and one phrase to use if you feel dismissed.
Power Phrases — Tested, clinical-grade language that gets results: "I want to make sure this is documented today."
Your Patient Rights — Be Heard · Informed Consent · Second Opinion · Your Records · Refuse Treatment · File a Complaint
The Amplify Method™ Journal
The Amplify Method™ Journal is the physical anchor of every masterclass — and a tool you will use long after the session ends.
Designed for real appointments, real moments, and real conversations — not aspirational self-help. Every page reflects clinical knowledge translated into language that works inside exam rooms, specialist offices, and urgent care.
Coil-bound for flat, hands-free use during appointments. Printed at premium quality through The Amplify Method™ press run.
Get the Journal at the MasterclassHow We Advocate
These are not ideals. They are legal and ethical standards every healthcare provider must uphold — and that every patient deserves to know by name.
Your symptoms, concerns, and experiences deserve attention and documentation. "I want to make sure this is in my chart today."
You have the right to understand every procedure, medication, and treatment before agreeing — in plain language, with time to decide.
Seeking another perspective is not disloyalty. It is good medicine. Any provider who discourages it is worth questioning.
You own your health information. You can request, review, and correct your records — and providers must respond within a defined window.
Informed refusal is as valid as informed consent. You may decline any treatment — and your provider must document and respect your decision.
When care falls short, you have channels — hospital patient advocates, state licensing boards, and federal agencies. Using them is not confrontation. It is accountability.
"I advocate for myself. I trust my body. I deserve to be heard."
The Amplify Method™ · Amplify Noire™
The SBAR Method
SBAR is the communication framework used in clinical settings worldwide. Amplify Noire adapts it as a patient tool — so your provider hears exactly what you need them to hear, in the order they need to hear it.
Upcoming Event
A Masterclass Event · Amplify Noire™
A healthcare self-advocacy workshop designed exclusively for Black women in the Durham and Triangle area. Intimate by design. Transformative by intention.
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