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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...

STOP Learning!

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I know you're like......... With the exception of the last 4 years, I have been in school since kindergarten.   I am what you would call a professional student.  It's almost like I have become addicted to learning. I start a program, I complete the program and then I sign up for another one. I'm Sure that my grade school and junior high teachers would be shocked. After graduating high school, I went to college. I came home pregnant and still enrolled in community college until my belly was too big to fit behind the desk.  I delivered my bouncing baby girl and then After that, I went to and graduated from trade school. I worked a bit, raised my daughter some, got married, had another bouncing baby (boy) and I went back to school. From there I graduated with my associate's degree, raised the children while working part-time and then went right back to school.  It was only through the turmoil of going through a divorce that school had to go on pause. I...