L' Tanya Likely can be categorized, but she cannot and will not be put in a box. She fits in the category of women who have had to fight all of their lives to rightfully have what is rightfully theirs. The women who fight with integrity, and win based on grace and principles. They're not afraid of truth, for it is truth that has made them free. They are set free from the bondage that many still walk in today. They are set free from the lies that they are a product of their environment. They embrace that freedom, they respect that freedom, and they share that freedom with others through their testimonies.

Likely Productions began as a desire from a broken heart, which later became a vision.. Now the healing process has begun.

L'Tanya (Payne) Likely is the daughter of Ruth Ann (Hardy) Walker and Ernest L. Payne. She was born in Sanford, Florida on February 29, 1968. As a young girl she was raised by her mother and grandmother in a small town called Booker Town. She attended Wilson Elementary from Kindergarten to fourth grade. She finished elementary at Goldsboro Elementary for fifth grade. She attended Sanford Middle School sixth and seventh grade, but then transferred to what was called Lakeview Middle School at the time, and finished her middle school years there. (Now Millennium Middle School) Ninth grade she attended Crooms Jr. High School, and she was a part of the last ninth grade class to attend Crooms High School. She finished out her high school years (10th-12th) at her Alma Mater, Seminole High School. She graduated in the Class of 1986. After graduating she started attending Florida A & M University.

She had to take classes at a Community College her first year at FAMU . After her first year of college something happened. This something made it very difficult for her to return the next year. (Her past revisited her in her present.) All of this was written to show the importance of VISION Magazine today in her life. This journey is one that L'Tanya (Payne) Likely has decided to share with others through the vision that God has given her.

The Bible says that God gives us the desires of our hearts...but first He must prepare our hearts to receive it.

L' Tanya Likely is a living testimony that even against all odds she still made it. Let's rephrase that! Against all devils she still made it. God promises in His word that He will take that which the enemy meant for our bad, and He will turn it around for our good. God deserves all the glory. "Vision" is more than a magazine. It's a ministry. I stood at the well, and I received the water of life. Enjoy Vision, and email me about your experience with reading Vision magazine.

L'Tanya Likely
Editor