Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on not knowing as much as she thought about life, sex and pregnancy.
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How to Avoid Teen Pregnancy

Because I was not sexually active, neither I or my parents probably thought they needed to talk to me about how to avoid teen pregnancy. If you had told me I would join the teen pregnancy statistics at age 15. I would have called you a liar.…
Summer Owens and Miriam DeCosta Sugarman
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Becoming a Part of History- The Miriam DeCosta Sugarman Marker Dedication Ceremony

There are not many moments when you're invited to be a part of history. Last Monday, I had the honor of speaking on the program for a major moment in University of Memphis history. As part of the University of Memphis' initiatives to Eradicate…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on developing an attitude for success.
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How Teens Can Develop an Attitude for Success

When I was younger, I didn’t have the best of attitudes. I was stubborn, often disrespectful, and focused on having my way. In other words, I didn’t have an attitude for success. But that all changed when I started to understand that my…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on self-love.
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Practice self-love to grow in self-realization

Without a doubt, the teenage years are tough from an angle of self-love and self-realization. For some, it’s even more challenging because not only are they struggling with discovering who they are, they are also trying to learn how to love…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on positive people power.
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Why you need positive people around you

If you aren’t spending time with positive people who uplift you and motivate you towards achieving your goals, you are doing yourself a big disservice. As a 15-year old, I was careful to make friends who have similar priorities to mine. That…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on how to make a good impression.
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5 Easy Ways to Make a Good Impression at Work

Make a good impression! Put your best foot forward, and be respectful. That’s how I might summarize my life lessons on how to show up well at work. And my time volunteering at my mother’s job – the mental hospital, taught me those life…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on how to show appreciation
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How to show appreciation beyond thank you

Show appreciation for others, no matter what your job is. My job as a volunteer at the mental hospital wasn't necessarily the most exciting. My work involved lots of filing, shredding papers or doing deliveries across the hospital campus.…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on how to make a difference.
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7 Simple Ways to Make a Difference at Work

Your work, no matter how small, can make a difference. At this point in the story from my memoir, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I was volunteering at the mental hospital where my mother worked. I was…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on overcoming your fear of the unknown.
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3 Ways to Overcome Fear of the Unknown

Can you overcome fear of the unknown? Absolutely. This lesson came alive for me while still volunteering at my mom’s job at the mental hospital where she was working. The campus, in my opinion, was huge with several buildings all over the…