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I honestly cannot put into words how I feel about death and knowing that death is all around me. I have lost family members, friends, mentors and role models. I have tried to stay away from social media for a little while to focus more on my mental health and my kids. 2020 has been a rude awakening. This is the first year that I doubt everything...well...almost everything. But because of my doubt, I took a step back from my podcast, my business, and my blog. I needed to take some time to re-evaluate, restructure, and challenge myself to take a break. Everything that I was doing started to become overwhelming and created more stress than peace. Although I am still active with my projects, I am not overextending myself as I have grown accustomed to do. When my grandmother died and we laid her to rest in October of 2019, I just knew I had to pull myself together and continue building my brand. I just envisioned myself becoming stronger; mental, physically, and emotionally. These past fe

  There is something about music that moves us. For some it is just the beats that come together in harmony and for others, it is all about the lyrics. People hear a song and it makes them think of romance, a bad breakup that they want to forget or a song about empowerment.  Music is the heart and soul for a lot of us. It is the universal language for us all.  Lady Bain has been through trials and tribulations in life that she is alive to speak on, and she does it through her music.  “Sometimes it takes a tragic event to get your attention. And to re-route you to where you will be the most effective in your life.” Lady Bain is an R&B sensation coming out of Detroit. In an era when so many artists try to stake a claim to be ‘real’, Lady Bain has walked a path that makes her more ‘real’ than most. Just four years ago Cassandra Bain was a hard working Detroit police officer who found herself in a near fatal car accident. It ended her career and tragedy struck again when she lost the

     A little business advice can take us a long way, wouldn’t you agree? As the unemployment number rises, people are trying to become more creative with ways to make money. Some people are turning to stocks, real estate, starting a business, writing books, etc. We all have the desire to want more and might be doing some research on how to get started.  I recently had the pleasure of interviewing a Business and Financial expert, Solomon RC Ali.  Solomon has over 28 years of business and finance experience, he uses his expertise to build up disadvantaged and minority entrepreneurs. His prominent voice and influence have helped minority businesses secure intellectual property, raise funding for start-ups, bring products to market and scale their businesses. Solomon RC Ali excels in working with professionals to negotiate acquisitions, financing, loan and acquisition analyses, the implementation of corporate stratagems, along with sales and marketing techniques. Solomon is on track t

Create A New Finale By: Traci Neal - Christian Spoken Word Artist & Youth Speaker   Everyone has struggles, challenges, pain, and pressure. If any of you were like me, you just thought the easiest way to cope with it all is simply to run away from your problems. Well, many times in life, I felt like I could not go on. Still, God creates a new finale.  I will not bore you with major details of my obstacles because there were many. I am going to give a summary of them. I want you to walk away from my story, hopefully believing God can create a new finale for you as well.  Shall we begin? In elementary, middle, and high school, I survived bullying, low self-esteem, suicide attempts, and domestic violence. By early college years, I overcame rape. While an adult in my late 20's, I experienced the tragedy of losing a guy I thought I would marry. He died from a brain injury. Throughout my young and older adult years, I had been trying to become an elementary school teacher. But, I cou

Haley Nicole Jeffries is an actress, dancer, model, podcast host, and an entrepreneur. She has a new show set to launch in July and a t-shirt line coming soon with a mission to spread love and peace around the world. She is almost 7 years old and has the heart and energy of an old soul. Some would say, she has lived this life a long time ago and is back to bless this world with her positive energy, a voice for the children and her contagious smile. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Haley for this interview and her responses were incredible.  Check out the full interview below:   Which nickname do you like the best, Haley Nicole, Haley J or do you have a different nickname?   I like the nickname Haley J because my mom wrote it on a vision board and I really like it.   What is your happiest memory?   My happiest memory is going to the water park in Nashua, New Hampshire. I love when it is summer because we always go somewhere. What advice would you give to parents?   I thin

I recently had an interview with Pro Media Mag. Check out the interview: Nikiya “NikiMarie” Rodriguez is the Podcast creator of NikiMarie Radio and Financial Consultant for a non profit institution in Long Island, NY. We recently got an opportunity to interview her for our magazine. Pro Media Mag : First of all tell us about the start of your professional career. NikiMarie :  The start of my professional career began almost fourteen years ago. I started as a Financial Aid Officer and began consulting once I received several requests regarding Financial Aid. Whether I was providing services to my family or friends, if you had a plan to attend College and wanted to know about affordability, I was the go-to person and getting several referrals. Pro Media Mag : Who or what inspired you to launch NikiMarie Radio™? NikiMarie  : I was inspired to launch NikiMarie Radio™ after my postpartum depression and social anxiety diagnosis. I had my daughter in 2013 and three months later, I was prescri

The world is often impacted with sadness when an icon and legend dies. Legends who have created or paved the way for new talent to emerge from the shadows. They are often brought to light by genius artist or visionaries who have an amazing talent for sight and sound. As we mourn the death of another legend, we must remember what he was able to bring to the world of R&B and Hip-Hop. Harrell helped promote acts such as Mary J Blige, Heavy D and also launched the career of mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Born in Harlem, raised in the Bronx, Andre Harrell (September 26, 1960 – May 8, 2020) was the founder of the record label, Uptown Records. Harrell also served as president/CEO of Motown Records. He was the first half of the hip hop duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde. Harrell is perhaps most known as the man that turned Diddy into a music mogul. When he was a teenager, Harrell and Alonzo Brown, his high school friend, formed a rap/ hip-hop duo named Dr. Jekyll (Harrell) and Mr. Hyde (