What I Learned From My First Failure In Business — STARTING OUT Once upon a time, I decided to start a business. I worked in retail and was intrigued by the idea of starting my own t-shirt company. I was like, “How hard can it be to sell some shirts?” So, I did some research and watched some online videos. Then, I…

How to Leverage Your Skills — Working sucks. That’s not up for debate, it’s facts. But what sucks even more, is working a thankless job. If you’ve ever worked in customer service, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. You have angry, asshole customers, poor management, and sometimes long hours. Don’t even get me started about…

Do I Have To Be The One To Break It? — A Think Piece — Lately, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of being successful. I’ve been watching Youtube, reading online forums, listening to sermons, and scheming in my head about what hustle will be my big break. It’s that bad. In the process of learning, I’ve come across the phrases chosen one, and generational…

A Literary Venn Diagram United States citizens are big on freedom. There’s no hiding that. In the past years, we saw anarchy throughout the country that resulted from the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the shooting of Jacob Blake. Cities around the country burned as people took to…

How I Used Canva to Manifest my Goals — I learned about Canva through one of my past job working at a University. They used it to create flyers for campus events. It was so easy to use and I created an account for my personal projects. As a visual learner, I think of Canva as a great tool…

Get Into Cool Events For Free Back in my 20s, I was definitely a concert junkie. I went to a ton of events. And if you know anything about concerts or live events they can get pricey. So, I figured out ways to get into events for free. …

I Joined The Twitterverse — A Short Rant I was reading a Medium article about the #IHadAWhiteFriend issue and I wanted to see the comments. Mind you, I have not had a Twitter for a whole minute. The last time I had one, I used it for a gig to…

3 Reasons Why the Black Sheeps Kick Ass The holiday season is the worst time of year if you’re the black sheep of the family. You’ve picked yourself up and got your life in order. Now it’s time to sit and banter with the same people that did everything to…