history Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/history/ S.O. What! Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:26:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 history Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/history/ 32 32 152051023 This Black History Month, Make Your Own Mark https://summerowens.com/blackhistorymonthspeaker/ https://summerowens.com/blackhistorymonthspeaker/#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2023 02:39:10 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23221 Imagine the impact on the world if more people worked to leave a legacy. When I started my career and became the first marketing manager for the NBA Memphis Grizzlies, I had no idea I was making history. However, when I initiated the effort that resulted in creaing a $110,000 endowed scholarship at my alma […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/blackhistorymonthspeaker/feed/ 0 23221 3 Lessons Learned from 36 Years of Powerful Women of Achievement Stories https://summerowens.com/women-of-achievement/ https://summerowens.com/women-of-achievement/#respond Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:47:55 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22200 Exactly 10 years ago, I became a part of the Women of Achievement sisterhood. It was and has been one of the greatest honors of my life as I sat with women I admired including my African American history professor from a decade earlier, Dr. Beverly Bond. As a brand new author who had just […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/women-of-achievement/feed/ 0 22200 Sharing the Storyteller’s Story: Deborah Clubb S.O. What! Success Story https://summerowens.com/deborah-clubb-s-o-what-success-story/ https://summerowens.com/deborah-clubb-s-o-what-success-story/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2022 07:00:20 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22019 When I published my memoir in 2010, I had no idea the opportunities (and challenges) it would bring to my life. One of the first was when I received the Women of Achievement Heroism Award. That’s when I met one of the founders of Women of Achievement and someone I would soon grow to admire, […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/deborah-clubb-s-o-what-success-story/feed/ 0 22019 Dr. Beverly Bond S.O. What! Success Story https://summerowens.com/dr-beverly-bond-s-o-what-success-story/ https://summerowens.com/dr-beverly-bond-s-o-what-success-story/#respond Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:50:30 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=21992 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 […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/dr-beverly-bond-s-o-what-success-story/feed/ 0 21992 Can You Be Happy Being Last on the List? https://summerowens.com/can-you-be-happy-being-last-on-the-list/ https://summerowens.com/can-you-be-happy-being-last-on-the-list/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:24:55 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20077 On January 20th, I sat like most of America watching history being made. Regardless of one’s political views, the fact remains that a woman and of color was in the position of Vice President of the United States. Something my mother and certainly my grandmothers never thought they’d live to see. But I did. I […]

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