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Black Girls Rock!: “It Was Such A Surreal Moment as a Photographer!”

Having a blog like Fabulous N’ Frugal gives me the power to make change and empower in my own little neck of the internet. FNF Fam, I want to introduce to Nastassia Davis, a photographer and a “black girl who rocks.” She had the privilege of being part of such a powerful movement happening among

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5 Ways Your Gender Could Be Affecting Your Pay

We often hear about how women are still, inconceivably, being paid less per dollar then men. The blatant underpayment is a residual of institutionalized sexism that is an ingrained part of this country’s history. But what you may not know is that there are a few other ways that your gender may be affecting your

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Top Interview, Resume, and Coverletter Tips from DreamGirl Aisha Taylor Co-Founder of TAYLORmade Professional Career Consulting

I had the pleasure of connecting with Aisha at the New York Urban League’s Young Professionals 1st Annual Women’s Business Expo in August of this year. Her confidence and expertise in the areas of interviewing, career transitions, and self-employment were impressive. As such, I wanted to introduce you to her. TAYLORmade Consulting is the quintessential

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Meet DreamGirl Dominique Morisseau: Creative Artist & Playwright of Detroit ’67 and Sunset Baby

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dominique Morisseau, the creative artist (poet, playwright, actress, young adult fiction writer) responsible for Detroit ’67 and Sunset Baby, two plays which brilliantly showcase the stories and narratives of the people with which Dominique is most familiar—African-Americans. As Dominique so aptly phrased it, she writes and is inspired by

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“Make Your Dreams So Big that They Seem Laughable” and Other Advice for Juicy Living

This past Monday, I hosted my first event with Simply to Empower as the Mistress of Ceremony! It was super duper fun! I had the chance to meet entrepreneurs, work on my public speaking skills, and be inspired by the buzz of ambition in the room. The best part of the night was that I

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MeetDreamGirl Ginger Founder of Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

Ginger does not know this, but I have been cyber stalking her for about two years. 🙂 No, seriously, I subscribed to Girls Just Wanna Have Funds because I loved that her message about financial empowerment to women was fiery and timeless. I mustered up the courage to interview Ginger this month and I am

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Meet DreamGirl Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche: Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Personal Finance Expert

It is so cool when you reach out to someone and they are warm, receptive, and inviting. When I reached out to speaker, author of The One-Week Budget, and the personal finance expert Tiffany Aliche, we ended up not only having an awesome DreamGirl session, but ended up  planning a MEGA event with three other

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Black Girl in Paris: Meet DreamGirl Shola Adisa Farrar- Actress, Entrepreneur, and Editor at Healthy You Now.com

DreamGirl Abiola Abrams “introduced” (via email) me to Shola, the Editor at Healthy You Now when I started this blog. I automatically assumed that Shola lived in New York City, but when I learned that she was managing the site from…. Paris, France, I was like, “I NEEDS to get the details on how she

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What Do You Know About Susu?: How Susu Trained A SisterGirl To Become a Goal Digger

by Natasha Gordon Let’s talk about the background on susu:  susu is a system of saving found throughout the Caribbean and coming from our roots in West Africa. It is form of cooperative economics. Susu is made up of groups of family members or friends, each of them agreeing to paying, or “throwing”, a specified amount of

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The Law of the Hammer: 5 Tips to Diversifying Your Knowledge Base

Doctors seeking to provide the best care possible to the ill that they serve—who have only exposed themselves to Western Medicine—only have tools to diagnose and medicines to address symptoms rather than to cure, if they fail to expose themselves to other ideologies of health and well being. Therapists trained only in Freudian concepts know

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