When I began my journey as an entrepreneur, I met this big, “chocolate” guy (Phillip Ashley Rix) covered in tattoos. Someone told me he was the chocolate man, and I soon learned that he was much more. Going from an ordinary college student who knew nothing about chocolate to become a well-known designer of the […]
No, I did not get excited when I signed up for an 8 am history class every Tuesday and Thursday morning. I was not a morning person nor a history-lover. Although Dr. Beverly Bond did not make it easy for me to get up early, she did make me enjoy and appreciate history. At least […]
The older I get the more I appreciate and want to know more about the history and the people who make an impact on it. One of those people is Coach Shirley McCray – the first female coach of a men’s football team. A fellow University of Memphis graduate and one of the people who […]
It’s funny when you meet someone who has “known” you for 20 years. Because I’m on a mission to impact as many youth and young adults as possible with the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education Curriculum, I am always connecting with educators. When I sent a connection request on LinkedIn to Marcus […]
Just when I thought I wore a lot of hats. I met someone (Sha’Quille Fuller) who wears a few more and maybe bigger hats. Yet he still made time to volunteer one of his many talents to the fundraiser I created for the S.O. What! Foundation. Which is how I met Sha’Quille Fuller, taking pictures […]
It’s interesting when the first time you meet someone is at your own house. That’s where I met Margaret Rhodes when she came to support a fundraising idea I was trying out at my house. Since then that fundraiser has become a big annual event that our supporters look forward to each Valentine’s Day weekend. […]
Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be able to call my boss’s boss’s boss my true friend. He (Len Hostetter) was my VP at FedEx with a manager and a director in between us. But after I published my memoir, Len Hostetter heard about it and to my surprise, […]
Several years ago I was asked to join the board of directors for a new non-profit charter school that wanted to come to Memphis, Pathways in Education. We had a small board of only three, and when one of our board members had to leave the board DeAndre Brown joined us. He became a part […]
People don’t have to support you. That was very apparent to me as a young mother and even more apparent when it really got tough raising a teenager. But it also became painfully apparent when I became an entrepreneur. Then, someone, I had known since college and reconnected with when we both were honored as […]
