Dr. Beverly Bond S.O. What! Success Story
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…
Coach Shirley McCray S.O. What! Success Story
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…
Marcus Heaston S.O. What! Success Story
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…
Photographer, Father, Future PhD: Sha’Quille Fuller S.O. What! Success Story
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.…
Margaret Rhodes’ S.O. What! Success Story
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…
Prisoner to Pastor, DeAndre Brown S.O. What! Success Story
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…
Joann Massey S.O. What! Success Story
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,…
5 Lessons from Appearing on CNN HLN
After publishing my first book, I was shocked when I checked my Facebook inbox and had a message from CNN's HLN.
It was 11:00am, and they wanted me to do an interview at 4:00pm...via Skype.
I called the contact in my inbox and excitedly agreed…
Andy Dolich S.O. What! Success Story
It seems like it was just yesterday that I landed my first job out of college.
It was with the Memphis Grizzlies in their inaugural season in Memphis.
Well, it was actually 20 years ago.
But I remember so many details very vividly including…