All Entries in the "Spirituality" Category
FraserNet CEO Commits $350 Million To Help Black Students Build Their Personal Networks
George C. Fraser, Founder and Chairman of FraserNet, Inc. and the PowerNetworking Conference makes nearly a $350 million dollar commitment to help Black students build their personal support network of relationships. The program is entitled; TheYESNet; The Youth Empowered to Succeed Network. The Network’s goal is to provide 1 million Black students (ages 17-25) with free and easy access to critical contacts and other networking products and services over the next 5 years. A student membership is valued at $349 each, but will be underwritten by FraserNet, and provided free of charge to students 17-25 years old.
Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA
The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]
Celebrate Haiti’s significant contribution to our world, as you give.
In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti’s vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today — as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust
If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… [...]
Race Relations and the Illusion of Difference
Like Katrina, the faltering economy has placed everyone in the same boat and in some parts of the United Stat es this has served to break up some racial barriers. Very few families have been able to the escape this recession with its’ massive job loses and the devaluation of stock portfolios and property values. [...]
Simmons’ Post – Def Comedy it’s Not.
So my question to you is how do we go about changing the conversation to one that proclaims there is an abundance of love and caring in the world and we need not wait for the worst to happen before we honor and respect each other
Create Extraordinary Results in a Global Community
“If you can make it here you can make it anywhere” is an expression native NYers love and they may be right. New York City is dynamic, exciting, results-oriented, competitive, “gutsy and heartsy.” Here’s exciting news for anyone who wants access to the technology for creating extraordinary results in a global economy (and who doesn’t [...]
There is No Substitute for Having Happy and Positive Thoughts
Being positive when life is not looking like you imagined it would be is hard and requires a great deal of courage. Courage because it is difficult to ignore the headlines. This Sundays New York Times had at least four non empowering lead stories above the fold on its front page. TV and Radio is [...]
Powerful and Positive Coverage of Our Women’s Event
Our friend and colleague, journalist Floyd Galloway, wrote a wonderful piece in the Arizona Informant about our Positively Powerful Women Celebrate Event in April. Our goal for this annual event is celebration of women founders of legacy organizations — those who see their vision as compelling and take action on what they see as a [...]
President Obama and Our First Family
I along with many millions of Americans and people around the world celebrated the election of our new President Obama. Historical for us all! How empowered I was to hear his acceptance speech with my friends at the election party Carly and Chuck Vivian had. This, as I say when speaking to corporates about generations, [...]
