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10 Affirmations To Start Your Day

How often do you stop to affirm yourself? To look yourself in the mirror and remind yourself how powerful you are? Not sure where to start? Here are 10 affirmations to repeat to yourself today- and throughout the day as needed. 1. Today, I choose my own peace, joy, and happiness. No one else can […]

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Don’t Let Your Day End Without Doing This

I don’t know exactly what time you’ll actually sit down to read this, but my hope is that you made it here just in time for a much needed reminder to do something SOLELY for you today. It doesn’t have to be huge (but it can be). The only requirement is that you do it […]

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Are You Okay, Sis?

I love being a Black woman. I wouldn’t change it for the world. But one of the things that I find so irritating moving through this world (ahem, country) as a woman of color is how fucking overqualified we have to be in order to move forward sometimes. While I am so excited to see […]

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Make The Decision To Get Free

Earlier this week I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a video of Lena Waithe’s acceptance speech at Black Girls Rock. I, of course, stopped to watch it and over the next 2 minutes got my entire life. She told a story of how she finally felt free enough to cut off her locs. […]

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It’s Time for a Soul Stirring Adventure

Adventure, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Before I had children, my idea of adventure was always something grand, similar to my Senior Trip after high school graduation, when I went on a road trip through Yosemite, Mammoth and Lake Tahoe with some friends. I’m still astonished my parents let me go […]

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The Secret To More Friends & More Money

I have a question for you— What do you need in your life to REALLY start to living the carefree, adventurous life you crave? Is it more money? Is it having friends to be adventurous with you? Maybe letting go of the guilt you have when you consider putting yourself FIRST? Recently, I was interviewed […]

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Does It Feel Like Something Is Off?

I often semi-joke that being in the parenting a newborn stage makes me stupid. If you’re a Mom, then you definitely understand how very real the struggle is with “Mom Brain.” For example, about a month after I’d given birth to Baby J,  I was pretty insistent to my husband that the yard tool is called […]

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Put This On Your Calendar…

If you’re in the Color Outside Facebook Group or follow us on Instagram, then you know that we’ve officially named this Saturday, June 30th as #GetOutsideDay. We’re challenging ourselves to spend some time outside this week— in whatever way that suits you. You can GO BIG and take a strenuous hike. You can take it […]

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Red Table Talk Is My New Jam

A few weeks ago Jada Pinkett Smith, along with her mother, Adrienne, and daughter, Willow, launched a Facebook TV Series, Red Table Talk. In it, they discuss and explore issues that plague women and girls, each sharing their own generational perspective. Only, they do it with a lot of humility, openness and honesty that allow […]

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What’s your WHY?

WHY do you want to live a more engaging, colorful, adventurous life? In order to keep moving forward on any big dream or life change, you must have a substantial compelling vision — a WHY. Your WHY should be monumental. It should be something you care about so deeply in your gut that it will propel […]

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