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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So You Were Sure You Aced the Interview but You Didn’t Get the Job – Now What?

A friend and I were talking recently about her job search efforts. She had recently gone on an interview for a job she was well qualified for and was subsequently called back in for a follow-up interview. She was sure she would be offered the position, and confessed to being taken aback when the hiring

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Women Small Business Owners – Is Now the Time for You To Step Out on Your Own?

Business ownership is a wonderful accomplishment for anyone, but it seems that women business owners are enjoying an exceptional period of growth and success when it comes to starting and running small and medium sized businesses. There are a number of federal programs available that can assist woman-owned businesses. Federal contracts can result in secure

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Meet DreamGirl Trezanay M. Atkins: Creator and Lead Strategist at tma| The Brand Infringement Firm

  1. We met at the most recent Blogging While Brown Conference in NYC. Before meeting you, I had no idea about the work that you do as an intellectual property litigator and to be quite honest, I still feel I need a tutorial. 🙂 Please share with us, what does it mean to be an

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3 Ways To Kick Start Your Own Personal Brand for Professional Growth

  When it comes to career advice, more and more people are talking about “building your personal brand.”  Essentially, your personal brand is your reputation. The term can mean anything from the smaller scale of making a name for yourself on the job by engaging in idea sharing and doing a little self-promoting, to a

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Fab and Frugal TV Debut: How To Believe & Drink Your Own Kool-Aid (VIDEO)

Hey Frugalistas, If confidence is something that you struggle with, might I recommend a dose of Kanye. Yes, Kanye West–the man with an ego the size of a several large stadiums combined. I say “dose” because all of you need is a little of what Kanye has to make you feel entitled to abundance and goodness.

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