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…
Young Summer Owens now on a mission to stop bullying
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They Called Me Boy and Beaver: 3 Tips to Stop Bullying

When I decided it was time for me to share my story of how I became a teen mother yet beat the statistics, I began to reflect on my life. And how I got to a place where my self-esteem was so low that I felt that just because this boy told me…
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When Silence Doesn’t Make Sense

When I was asked to issue an official statement on the racial injustices many African Americans are currently facing and have for too long, I was ready. I didn't know what I would say and could barely verbalize how hurt. And even afraid I felt,…