The Real Life Willy Wonka – Phillip Ashley Rix S.O. What! Success Story
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…
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…
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…
From Custom Suits to College Hoodies: Len Hostetter S.O. What! Success Story
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…
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,…
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…