What Happened When I Told It
When I started writing my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, I just wanted to tell my story.
Mainly, I wanted to encourage every teen mother not to give up herself, not to quit high school, and…
How My Life Became a College Course
When I walked onto the campus of the University of Memphis as a freshman and mother of a two-year-old in 1997.
The last thing I ever imagined was that I would one day be a professor on that same campus. When I chose business as my degree the…
Summer School- Class 5: Unhide and Go Seek
Three weeks ago, I started a short series with a few tips to help us make the most of our summer "break".
This summer, this Summer will hold Summer School with a focus on using this season to keep moving forward.
The other day was Life…
Summer School- Class 3: The Purge
Two weeks ago, I started a short series with a few tips to help us make the most of our summer "break".
This summer, this Summer will hold Summer School with a focus on using this season to keep moving forward.
Last week, I focused on…
My Crazy Journey to Entrepreneurship
I call myself the Accidental Entrepreneur.
She’s 95 and Fine! Celebrating My Grandma
If I'm blessed to see 95, I want to be exactly like her.
5 Simple Ways to Support an Entrepreneur You Love (or at least Like)
But I like to assume the best and that generally, people want to support us crazy entrepreneurs but don't always know how.
You Can’t Unthrow the Pebble
Too often, we don't truly assess the situation, ask people closer to the situation their perspective or insight, and we toss our pebble not considering the waves that will be created. Too often we toss a pebble of insult or lack of support and don't realize or perhaps don't even care that ten ripples out, we've created a disaster.
SO It’s Christmas…Be a Gift
For the past few years, I have struggled with having the "Christmas spirit".
I have longed for the excitement that I used to have as a child or at least what I felt five years ago when I hosted my family (my grandmother, her twins including…