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Be Inspired: Miss Delaware- Bald & Beautiful

Growing up in Delaware, I wanted to share the story of Miss Delaware who suffers from Alopecia and speaking about it to increase awareness. Watch the video clip and be inspired! Watch CBS News Videos Online

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Lifestyle Change: Day 66 of 70 – Exercise, Exercise, Blah, Blah, Blah

So, again, here I am keeping it real with you. When I’m feeling down about worklife or homelife, I don’t feel like exercising. Its crazy because I usually am a great workout person. But there are days, and I’ve had a few recently, where I don’t feel like picking up a barbell or looking at [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 65 of 70 – Emotional Eating is So…

So, in the beginning of this Lifestyle Change, I was very optimistic to get my greediness under control. I was doing so well. Notice I used the word “was.” Well, I’ve hit a few bumps in the road. Some stress has entered my normally blissful life and now I’ve noticed that I eat more when [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 64 of 70 – Act Like You Believe

The greatest lesson in making the transition from author to award winning filmmaker is how I act on a daily basis. For years and years, I’ve written screenplays that I believe are quite good. But, I registered them with the Writer’s Guild, told a few people about them and didn’t really act on them to [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 63 of 70 – Leave No Stone Unturned

I was recently speaking with a college student about my audience reach on Facebook. He looked at my facebook profile and said under no uncertain terms, “You need more friends.” My numbers were somewhere around 1,400 and he said, “I needed more friends.” I thought to myself, “Who is this lil college student think he’s [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 62 of 70 – Being the Odd Colored Crayon

Sometimes I think I could write a book about my life and call it, The Adventures of the Odd Colored Crayon. That’s always who I’ve been. In times when the crowd wanted to sit and clap, I wanted to stand and cheer. In times when people wanted to ignore issues, I wanted to paint the [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 61 of 70 – The Power of The Think Tank

I have about 5 key people that are part of my Think Tank. They help me with various aspects of my businesses. Since I run a publishing company, a marketing company and a film/tv company, I’m often in need of sounding boards to bounce ideas. I used to work as if I was on some [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 60 of 70- Let Go & Let God

My Aunt Valerie who recently passed away had a favorite saying. It was, “Let Go and Let God.” She was always telling folks who had a problem to “Let Go & Let God.” She was encouraging us not to worry about stuff and let the higher power move our mountains for us. But the slogan [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 59 of 70 – Life is tough!

Life is tough! I mean you get up every day, you work as hard as you can and you hope that you reach your goals. YOU HOPE. It doesn’t always happen. Sometimes you fall short of your goals. Sometimes you just fall. But the key is all of this is… Here’s my breakthrough of the [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 58 of 70 – What’s the point of relationships?

I’ve been reading too much of my twitter feed lately. I’ve been seeing so many tweets about relationships asking such questions as: Why get married? Why be committed? Why date? There’s been so much negativity spreading about relationships. Quite frankly, I think the media is hard on relationships. I think to learn what the point [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 57 of 70 – Is It Possible To Outdo Your Best?

As I sat down to write yet another book, I found myself hearing voices in my head. The voices said things like, “Can you do better than Retaliation?” “Can you do better than The Blueprint for My Girls?” “Can you write better than you’ve ever wrote before?” I wanted the voices in my head to [...]

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Lifestyle Change: Day 56 of 70 – Purposing Your Twitter

When I first started using Twitter a year and a half ago, I was so excited to be connecting with people who I would have never met otherwise. I looked to follow people who had similar interests as mine. So I followed writers, authors, activists, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, speakers, etc. It was like going to [...]