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In continuing on with the things I learned that I summarized in Life Lessons from the Playground, let’s talk gratitude! Say Please and Thank You This is where we teach gratitude to our kids, and the awareness that not everything comes to us “just because”. I loved this because when my precious Ethan (terror 80%…

Life Lessons from the Playground – Say Please and Thank you

September 23, 2021

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This past week I was a guest on the Kim Jacobs Show, and we had a lot of fun talking about my journey and my passion for helping people live their potential and calling. Check it out below!  

Living Your Calling on the Kim Jacobs Show!

September 17, 2021

Kim Jacobs Show
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Quite a while ago, I did a presentation at a fantastic networking group on Innovation, Creativity, and Facing Fears. The hosts distilled some of the talking points in a video that, when I watched it, I was surprised at how much it helped me! In going through my resources and media, I found it again,…

Snippets on Innovation – 4 feet 8.5 inches

September 2, 2021

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I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them.  A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just everything about it, but the last few months, I’ve been pondering about cadres. What’s that,…

Small Band of Revolutionaries and Shawarma

August 27, 2021

Small Band of Revolutionaries and Shawarma
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A while back, I wrote a post about lessons I learned while I was a learning development teacher, and how some of these lesson are quite applicable in our current day to day and business lives. As I shared and got feedback, I found that there was more to the story, and many more people…

Life Lessons from the Playground – Sharing

August 19, 2021

Life Lessons from the Playground - Sharing
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Keep On Last month, I spoke at a ribbon cutting gala, and I included this incident I experienced some years back about how we should keep going, and not turning back. I had so many people tell me how much it made an impact with them, I decided to share it with you! Very often…

Keep On

July 15, 2021

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Hope on Display Posted on 4 March, 2018 As I travel the hope journey, I contemplate the very familiar verse, “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’” – Jeremiah 29:11 (NASB). I began reading that…

Hope on Display

June 25, 2021

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I recently had the privilege of being on a podcast with John Sanchez of On RAMP to Success, a group dedicated to helping people with self-development. “Speaker and coach, Akpene Torku Sims, embodies the true meaning of an Ezer, a strong person who protects and delivers; a strong ally. She inspires people to find that Ezer…

On RAMP to Success – Akpene Torku Sims

May 21, 2021

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One of my favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland (aside from “We’re all mad here”) is a conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat: Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” In a world and society that has so many options, many paths, and many “new and improved” innovations, it’s easy to…

Where Do you Want To Go?

March 22, 2021

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I had the privilege to speak with Iyman Bradwell-El, founder of Dabi’s Daughter on topics such as business etiquette, reputation, and the like. Dabi’s Daughter is an organization developed to teach young women the ropes of succeeding in the corporate world through theory and through practice. They are open to all young women, but their…

Business Etiquette with Dabi’s Daughter

December 23, 2020

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