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10 ways to attend a conference without being there.

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With so many empowerment workshops and conferences popping up all over the country, there's no way you can attend them all.   Matter fact, unless you hit the lotto, anyone who even tries will go broke trying to do so.   I heard of  a  organization called  Blogalicious  in 2016.  When it came across my timeline, it was RIGHT AFTER they had their conference.  I went to their site, their Facebook page, Twitter, and IG.  I fell in  like   with the organization from the start.  I had made up in my mind that 2017 was going to be my first year.  I so desperately wanted to attend a conference called  Blogalicious  in Miami this year.     At first the timing was perfect for my schedule.  That is until we found out that my sisters due date was close to it.  Not only that, my only brother was coming home from his deployment in the Middle East in October.   So I d...
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Take it to the table. THE RED TABLE

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So I don’t know how many of you guys have heard that Jada Pinkett-Smith has started a show on Facebook called Red Table Talk  which aired today,  Monday, May 7, 2018  she does the show with her mom, Adrienne  and her daughter Willow.    The very first show was geared toward motherhood. She gave us a little peak into her life by sharing with us an interview that she had with Sheree Fletcher who is the mother of Will’s very first child, Trey.    This show drew up tears and brought back so many memories of when my family dynamic changed as I went through a divorce my ex-husband.  After he remarried, I can remember a particular incident where my ex-husband allowed his wife to take a role that I felt was out of bounds. There was a time where my son got sick at school and he went to the nurse at the school and they felt that he needed to be dismissed and go home.    I was at work so my son called his dad an...
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10 steps to Effective Networking

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10 steps to Effective Networking       Lately I’ve been attending networking events that tend to be more of a speed dating or meet and greet kind of thing.  I’m finding that they are anything but networking for business.   So I stopped going because I felt that it just worth my time.  I was expecting to be around business minded people with a like mind that wanted to connect with other entrepreneurs for the various reasons of sharing their services, getting encouragement to push through the toils of starting a business, or to gain knowledge and tips or ideas or how to keep a business afloat.  So because I wasn’t finding this, I stopped going.   Years later, my little sister invited me to a networking event with a group that she is connected with.  So I figured I would give it a try – again.  This particular organization had already been in existence and had decided to do a Launch Networking party and go public at ...
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