Addiction and recovery
Certified Addiction Recovery Coach, New York Certification Board, 2014. Graduate of the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy, 2014. Author of Behind the Mask: The Hidden Struggles of a Functional Addict.
COREY WESLEY / SPEAKING & MEDIABOOK COREY
Speaking & Media
I spent 18+ years in front of rooms as a corporate trainer at Pershing (BNY Mellon) and Fiserv. I’m a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach. I’ve built brands from nothing and taught myself every part of it. If you’re a producer, a reporter, or planning an event, here’s what I talk about.
Building a brand from scratch
Founder of Milton Wes Art, Flirtatious-T, Kinkster NYC, OVAH MAG, and ULM NYC. Created products seen on Whoopi Goldberg and Kendra Wilkinson. Reached my Kickstarter goal. Built e-commerce businesses from the ground up. Self-taught.
Leadership and training
18+ years training people on systems, leadership development, and employee education in financial services. Author of Empower to Lead and The Art of Saying NO. Guest speaker for college fashion and marketing courses.
Art and the cost of being seen
Creator of Unapologetic Faces, which debuted at Goddard Riverside in March 2026.
- Harlem World Magazine
- New York Weekly
- Brown Style Magazine
- Harlem Times
- HX
- Edge Publications
- Next Magazine
Through ULM NYC and OVAH MAG I interviewed TV and reality show personalities and DJs, including Michelle Visage, TS Madison, Funky Dineva Ross, and DJ Mark Farina.
See the interviewsHear Me Talk - The Twisted Truth Podcast
The Twisted Truth came out of me coming into my own. The more sure of myself I got, the more I saw I'd taken on experiences, opinions, ideas and behaviors from my mother and other family members, things that were passed down to me that I no longer believed. Some of what my mother said I kept, but I shaped it to fit the era I'm living in. We take on beliefs from family and friends that don't apply to us. When you live the way I've lived, you realize we make up a lot of the stories. Some of what we believe isn't true, or it was true for a specific time and doesn't apply to a new generation. I wanted a platform to debunk that, or at least give people food for thought.
Corey Wesley is a Harlem-based artist, author of seven books, Certified Addiction Recovery Coach, and former corporate trainer with 18+ years at Pershing (BNY Mellon) and Fiserv. He is the artist behind Milton Wes Art and the series Unapologetic Faces, the musician Rex Wes, and the host of The Twisted Truth podcast.
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