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BOSS TELE-SERIES: Featuring Dr. Kamala Uzzell As Seen On Oprah's (OWN)

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Free Your Mind! (Prepare For A New You In 2013) Change and activity provide excitement in life. Without the stimulation of change, such as new experiences and new relationships, life would be pretty dull.  However, too much change can lead to stress. Stress is an emotional and physical response to events in our lives, resulting in unpleasant feelings such as anxiety, tension, and strain.  Stress can take a heavy toll on our mental health and overall well-being. Join me for this informative tele-seminar as I discuss some of the causes of stress and outline for you 7 sure-fire ways of effectively managing it and taking care of yourself! Meet Dr.Kamala Uzzell,   Ph.D, LPC, NCC, DCC, ACS Dr. Kamala Uzzell, a licensed therapist, professor, motivational speaker, and life coach, is the President and CEO of SOLAY Counseling & Research Center, P.C. As the CEO of one of the leading mental health practices in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park area, she provides services t

Four Steps To Being A Great Leader From Chief Brand Officer of "Jamba Juice" Julie Washington

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 As Chief Brand Officer of Jamba Juice and President of Talbott Teas, Julie Washington is responsible for the strategic development and management of Jamba’s marketing and the leadership of Jamba’s newest company acquisition. It’s a big job with long hours, but at the root of it all is Washington’s passion and commitment to serve others.  “In marketing anything can change. The consumer changes, the economics changes, the product offerings change. Change is constant so you have to have a passion for marketing,” she says. “You have to be consumer-centric.”  Throughout her longstanding career, Washington has climbed the ranks, allowing her intuition to guide her and making sure she learns lessons along the way. Washington shares her advice on becoming a great leader with  The BOSS Network : Find a great mentor “One thing that would have been helpful is if I had a mentor early in my career. I am a strong believer in mentors. Other people might have been able to helped answ

Failing Forward - How to Bounce Back in 4 Steps: Recover from Failure with Class and a Smile By Dorothy Enriquez

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Have you ever noticed the closer you are to your dreams or goals the more scared you become? Fear of failing is crippling for many people.      Failure  was  one of my biggest fears. As 2012 comes to a close, I realized I've come  face to face with every single type of failure I used to worry about endlessly. My mind constructed the worst case scenario. With every failure I faced, it was never as bad as my imagination had depicted it. I realized there were two things paramount in every failure, mistake and downward spiral: my faith and tenacity. I don’t just fail and roll over. I go kicking and screaming. What does that mean? It means I fail  forward . If I keep getting back up after every fall, I feel like I haven’t  really  failed. I’ve made a mistake. And to err is human.     My dad says throughout the course of life everything that happens, good or bad, has consequences. My job is to learn from every scenario. If it’s good, keep repeating whatever I did to make that e

Beauty Does Lie: The Untold Stories of Autoimmune Diseases By Courtney G. Smith

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Courtney G. Smith is a woman who taken her diagnosis of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis (MG) and used it to empower women. Courtney was first diagnosed with MG in April 2001. She founded Control Your Auto Productions, Inc. in April 2006 and began filming the award-winning documentary   Beauty Does Lie: The Untold Stories of Autoimmune Diseases  June of that same year.  Beauty Does Lie  explores the lives of 7 African American women living with various forms of autoimmune diseases including lupus, multiple sclerosis (MS), Sjogren's syndrome, pernicious anemia and myasthenia gravis. The women explain their emotional and physical difficulties of living with chronic, potentially debilitating diseases while dealing with the ignorance they encounter in society due to their healthy outer appearances. In spite of their daily battles with their autoimmune diseases, these women are able to triumph and live fulfilling lives.  Beauty Does Lie  also features commentary by highly re

How To Feel More Energized At Work By Althea McIntyre

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None of us want a career where we are dragging ourselves to work each day, wishing we could just stay in bed and under the covers because we’re bored, exhausted, drained and lack motivation to do our jobs. When you are not energized by your work, you are not as effective, productive and impactful as you can be. When we are energized by our work, our careers are more fun and fulfilling. If you want to feel more energized at work, the first place for you to start is to notice your energy throughout the day. Notice your energy It’s important to  begin to notice your energy levels while at work  because it will tell you where your natural gifts and talents are, where you’ll succeed most in your career, and the career success plan that will work best for you. You need to know the aspects of your job that have you come alive and produce your best work. Notice which work activities get you excited and you want to work on immediately. Notice the days you jump out of bed because

5 Fantastic Ways To Tell People How Fabulous You Are …Without having To Actually Say a Word By Jenny Garrett

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  I recently attended a fantastic women’s networking event, it was an intimate setting where we dined together and shared our achievements and goals. As we moved around the table introducing ourselves, I was a little surprised when one of the attendees introduced herself as follows: ‘I am a brilliant stylist, I know I am, people have told me so.’  I thought this was great because as women I don’t think we sing our own praises enough.  There could be many reasons for this, such as:   Messages you were told as a little girl about being good and not standing out   It could be just that you don’t recognise your unique qualities and skills and take them for granted   You think people will know how good you are without you telling them Your potential: clients, colleagues, suppliers, bosses are unlikely to recognise how good you are without you bringing it to their attention.  However perhaps you’re not quite at the point of being able to speak about yourself in such bold

Respect: BOSS Ladies Rule! By Reneé Lowe

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The word respect gets thrown around loosely and often trampled over. This has always been a concern for me as a BOSS Lady. In my past 9-5 life, it was often hard to get the respect that I felt I was due. I was also very careful about what my reputation was in the boardroom. In Public Relations, these things are key, to keep your brand moving and shaking like a well-oiled machine! I have had clients who needed extreme crisis management to repair their reputation and some who needed to re-vamp their image, to gain more respect for their brand. In either situation, you have to remember to be diligent and press towards your goal, despite the roadblocks. There are always those that will lurk in the background only to tear you down on previous mistakes or failures and this can be very dangerous when building respect for a brand. Personally, I don’t believe that anyone’s past should dictate their future and that is why people like me, do the job that we do. We can take a battered bran

How To Stay Engaged With Your Virtual Network In three Easy Steps By Malla Haridat

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If you are a member of the BOSS network, I’m sure you know already the value of networking.  But how do you continue to engage people after meeting them?  I know I’ve come home from events with a ton of business cards - excited to have met so many great people and wondering how I’m going to stay in contact with allllll of them.  When you factor in networking with all of the other things going on in your business, it can be overwhelming! So here are three things I do that help me stay engaged.  Each of them is manageable - 15 min max.  And they really help me stay in touch with contacts outside of the first meeting. Email a LinkedIn contact I’m sure most of you have a LinkedIn network.  But how many people have you emailed/messaged your network in the past month? Especially someone that you haven’t spoken to in the past six-nine months. I started doing this recently.  I made a commitment of contacting two people each month.  People that I haven’t heard from in th

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE-OWNED TV/FILM STUDIO FACILITY OPENS IN GEORGIA

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-- Open Rivers Pictures, Inc. launches Open Rivers Studios, a 16,000 sq. ft. facility in Fayetteville, Georgia. -- Tammy Williams Founder/CEO of Open Rivers Pictures  Atlanta, GA   (BlackNews.com) -- Open Rivers Pictures makes history today with the launch of Open Rivers Studios, the first African American female-owned television and film studio, and post-production facility in the state of Georgia. The focus of Open Rivers Studios is creating, developing and producing original content including; documentaries, comedy series, children's programming and sitcoms. "With aggressive growth across the digital platform, and the launch of several cable channels targeted to the African-American community, it makes great business sense to grow Open Rivers Pictures in the direction of developing more original content within our own facility, to service these individual distribution outlets," says CEO and founder, Tammy Williams. In addition, Open Rivers Studios is avai

Six Tips for Promoting Your Business on Facebook

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As of 2012, there are over one billion Facebook users. How many of them could be your next client? Chances are you have a personal Facebook account. That's great for connecting with friends, relatives, and finding new social connections. But as an entrepreneur, if your paying prospects are hanging out on Facebook, you are missing an opportunity without a Facebook Page for your business. When choosing to set up your Facebook business page, here are six ways to get it right: 1. Connect Your Page to Your Blog/Website Presumably, your business has an online presence elsewhere - a website, blog, or some such. On your site, it's a good idea to set up a link to your Facebook page and vice versa. This allows visitors to your site to easily connect to your Facebook page. And your Facebook friends can easily find your website (you can do this by adding a link to your website in the Basic Information section of your Business Page). Facebook is known as a familiar n

We Are Inspired By This BOSS Zara Green: Join Us Thursday, October 25th At 7pm ET For A Live #BOSSChat

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  Zara D. Green is an author, speaker and trainer specializing in personal growth, resiliency development and individuality advocacy.  Founder and Principal Owner of A2Z Personal Development Enterprises, a multiplatform media company focused on the creation of personal development products, live events and communications. Green is best known for helping others to understanding individual temperaments as a key factor of healthy, productive life management, in order to empower them to make their Next Decision Better™. She is also known for her popular Grown Is Sexy™ and PooNannie Principles™ content and products, which focus on teaching healthy relationship choices founded on love of self, respect of others, and taking personal responsibility for securing both. For women in particular, Green has garnered a passionate and local following for her teachings on helping women to proactively make H.E.R. ™—Honor, Esteem and Respect—a non-negotiable priority in order to secure happy a

The female breadwinners survival guide By Jenny Garrett

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* Struggling to balance a budding entrepreneurial business with being Mom? * Torn between family commitments and work? * Thrust into the role of breadwinner when your partner has been laid off, retired or become ill? * Non-existent work life balance?   You are not alone, around 40% of women in the US are the breadwinner, and the number is growing. There’s been a lot of talk about the ‘End of Men’ and women being ‘The Richer Sex’, but it’s not all power suits and top jobs. Rhonda, a successful businesswoman, working in a male dominated environment, with a child under one year old sums up the challenge of being the breadwinner eloquently: “By being a working career woman or career mom, I’m trying to get the best out of both worlds. I’m trying to be true to who I am, not to who other people want me to be or what people think people I should be. And that is difficult” Jenny Garrett, executive coach and author of Rocking Your Role, the ‘how to’ guide to success fo

BOSS Entrepreneurs – Ready to take a walk on the “skinny branch” in 2013? By Malla Haridat

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As a women’s entrepreneurship coach, I am a big believer in setting goals and creating plans to execute on those goals.  But alongside the goals and plans, you have to be willing to step away from the day to day for brief periods and assess how the business is delivering against your long term vision.  What do you see for your company in the next 10, 20 years?  What are you doing to reach that goal? It’s too easy to get bogged down in the day to day work and become comfortable with your current income.  I just spent a week with my bookkeeper to get several expense reports finalized.  (And I consider myself semi organized!  Lol)  When you have a steady stream of clients or customers, it’s a common trap to focus only on the “get done now” tasks. Even if your sales are not where you desire, you can still get too focused on the daily work of finding immediate customers.  How often do you spend pitching to larger clients that require a ton of research, relationship building, and