LA TANYA HAS A BUCKET LIST THE SIZE OF THE GRAND CANYON!

SHE HAS A BUCKET LIST!

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This 55 year old is one amazing gift to the world! La Tanya Lynn lives life fearlessly and with intention. In this episode of my podcast, she shares how she goes about creating and maintaining an ongoing a bucket list! She doesn’t waste time getting bogged down with the many problems that she has or has had, she just goes to her Bucket List, focuses on a new goal and directs her energies in a different direction.

A single mother of two college educated adult children and three grandchildren, LaTanya has defied all limitations of “it’s too late,” or “I’m too old” to achieve strongly desired goals! Go, La Tanya, Go!

NEW EPISODE: MARVINETTA PENN

NEW EPISODE!

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In this episode, you get to meet Marvinetta Penn! Known for providing rigorous theater and dance training to girls ages 5-18 through her organization Global Girls, Inc., Marvinetta has exposed her protégés to international performance and travel to Ghana, India and England. These powerhouse girls also got to do a Master Class with the cast of Hamilton!

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WRITER, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCE: BEATRICE WATSON!

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Bea shares how she has involved the community in her original productions!

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YOLANDA: A PHENOMENAL SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST

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Yolanda Yarbrough Franklin, is a phenomenally gifted artist who has become known for her abstract work and for creating works in plexiglass. Self-taught, Yolanda shares the role spirituality plays in her work, along with sharing with us the number of accolades she has received through her exhibits at The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) and the DuSable Museum Of African History and Culture in Chicago.
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KAREN GRAHAM: Bold Enough to Get Her Doctorate at Age 61!!!

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This week I Interview Karen Graham, who at the fabulous age of 61 is working on her Doctorate in Nursing Research! She shares why it was both exciting and scary to go back to school. Oh, and by the way, Karen has been the chief architect of creating protocols for recruiting African Americans to participate in Alzheimer’s research.
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SHE TURNED A PROPERTY INTO A BED AND BREAKFAST!

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Learn how Valerie Avery Hargrett left a lucrative career to open a bed and breakfast and establish a relationship with Airbnb! She also shares the various ways in which she has reinvented and herself and her plans to keep growing.

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THE ONE WHO IS A SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR! IDEAS, IDEAS, IDEAS!

In Episode 10, I Interview Beverly Colar-Credelle, who shares with us how to monetize and parlay your gifts and talents! A serial entrepreneur, Beverly discusses how she has created multiple businesses that have allowed her to always have income coming in during periods of layoffs, work stoppages and slow business. #thisidoforme

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Celeste K. Jones is an attorney with 25 years of service advocating for vulnerable senior citizens in Cook County (Illinois).  In this episode, Celeste shares exactly what Guardianship is, why someone would need a Public Guardian and what is required to be appointed a “Guardian Over The Person” and “Guardian Over The Estate.”

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SHE AND STUDENTS BUILD LATRINES IN GHANA, NICARAGUA AND PANAMA

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In this episode, I Interview Phyllis West, M.S.W., MPH, PH.D, a Professor at Govenors State University in Illinois. She is known in the academic community for being an Activist-Scholar who has a demonstrated record for working with communities of color around the principles of healthy living.

She shares with us the work that she is doing with Public Health Brigades, which involves leading groups of students to countries like Ghana, Nicaragua and Panama. It is there that students have established legal clinics, built latrines, upgraded plumbing systems and other projects that work to improve public health systems.

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RACIAL TRAUMA IS EXHAUSTING! REALLY EXHAUSTING!

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RACIAL TRAUMA IS EXHAUSTING!

In this episode, I interview Yvonne D. Hawkins, M.A., M.Div (Ph.D in progress), who talks about Racial Trauma and her cutting edge coaching business. She specifically addresses:

1. The concept of white-body supremacy and how racialized trauma works;
2. How collective, body-centered healing practices are part of the Black tradition;
3. Culturally competent strategies that go beyond Western-based and individualistic   tools for our well-being;
4. How Managing stress is not the same as healing