I had such a great time at Karen Taylor Bass’ Power Brunch event last week. She’s a PR badass! As a Queens girl that is tired of having to trek to Manhattan for a little culture and sophistication, I was so impressed by Bass’ choice of venue—Pa-nash, a Caribbean restaurant with an exquisite layout and
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Martine is a powerful writer because she exposes her vulnerability. Her writing is like a long glass of lemonade. Refreshing. Quenching. I gain so much wisdom from her thoughts and observations. I am so happy that she is in my sister circle. I reached out to her because I wanted to give you chance to
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Many people would never take a road trip without a GPS or map, but often operate their lives without a plan or a goal. Just like in road trips, you need to take the time to plan, prioritize, and determine where you are going if you want to hit your destination. Without the plan or
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In her book, Women Don’t Ask, Linda Babcock conducted a survey of graduating business school students and found that there was a 7.6% difference in salary between men and women. One of the interesting findings was that 57% of men negotiated their salary while only 7% of women attempted to negotiate. Think about it. If
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I took the day off when I found out that Tiphanie Yanique and A. Naomi Jackson, two up and coming Caribbean writers would be sitting on a panel at Columbia University in honor of the “Year of Baldwin.” Yanique is a US Virgin Islander and Jackson is a Brooklyn-born writer of Antiguan and Bajan ancestry.
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If I could, I would marry Barbara. But I can’t. Barbara is one of the best cooks that I know. Barbara has a deep passion for using food to bring joy and she is great at it. I wanted to showcase her talents here. She is definitely a “chef to watch”, especially when it comes to
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Earlier this year, I introduced you to Karen when I wrote about how her speech at a networking event inspired me to continue to build this blog. In her speech, she aptly reminded us to “make your dreams so big that they seem laughable.” Can you imagine? Your dreams being so huge, mega, and badass,
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FREE Women’s Empowerment Tool: The Break Up with Broke Toolkit Almost a decade ago I found myself less than enthused with the real world. It was a monotonous kind of existence—get up, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, eat, sleep, rinse and repeat. Prior to, I was a student. In those days I had
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I look forward to Britni’s Monday Motivations. Her messages of inspiration and motivation always seem to come right on time. I was hesitant about posting this interview because I messed up and it’s late (5 months). You can’t see me in the interview, only Britni, which would be fine with me, but I just thought
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Tia is like the Olivia Pope for the world of higher education. She cleans up big messes. I reached out to her a few months ago to find out exactly what she did and I was amazed that she so seamlessly integrated her passion for communications, people of color, entrepreneurship, and community empowerment into one.
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