Yesterday, I Embarrassed Myself, Today I’ll Be Better: A Messy Guide to Overcoming Your Worst…I’m going to tell you something about myself that I’m finally ready to admit after years of denial…ready? Here goes.Sep 11, 2024Sep 11, 2024
The Hero’s Journey Sucks: Why Your Struggles Are Linked to Your PurposeAs a person who has navigated a fair share of seemingly unfair circumstances and challenges, I’ve asked the question “why me” a lot. I…Jun 8, 2024Jun 8, 2024
Nickelodeon, Bad Boy and Other Disappointments: How to Navigate Tainted NostalgiaAs a hip-hop and pop music loving, pop-culture fascinated, Nickelodeon Golden Age-watching millennial, the last few years haven’t been kind…Apr 15, 2024Apr 15, 2024
Dad….The Career Coach I Needed All AlongMy Dad was a teacher, a government worker, an executive at one of our nation’s biggest corporations. He also ran a successful real estate…Oct 21, 2023Oct 21, 2023
Driven But Visionless: How I Overcame My Inability to Set GoalsIs it weird to say - nay, shyly admit that until recently, in all 33 years of my life, I had never really set a real long-term goal for…Jul 25, 20231Jul 25, 20231
High-Functioning-Not-Okay: The Millennial Mental Health ExperienceI know because I’ve gone through it…Apr 14, 2021Apr 14, 2021
Globally Mildly Depressed: How Our Creativity & Motivation Has Been ImpactedI’ve had several conversations with a number of people over the last few days and the general consensus is that our inspiration…Jul 2, 2020Jul 2, 2020
We, The Triggered: Why Social Media is More Draining Than UsualThe interwebs used to be a scary place because you didn’t know what kind of creeps, pervs, perps, unsubs, frauds and crazies were lurking…Jun 28, 2020Jun 28, 2020
The Character Name TestIf a TV show doesn’t pass the character name test, methinks it’s doomed to fail. Just what is this test? Find out here!Jan 30, 2019Jan 30, 2019
How to Use Content Marketing to Position Yourself As An ExpertThe world of client service can be difficult to navigate and succeed in. Your prospects are inundated with thousands of marketing messages…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
The Real Reason You’ve Hit a Ceiling in Your GrowthThe path to success is like a roller coaster, sometimes you go high and sometimes you go low. There is something that’s even more…Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
Life After Coffee: A Case for CaffeinelessnessFor any coffee fiend worth their beans, the words you see above are likely blasphemous and horrendously nightmarish to imagine as an actual…Jul 25, 2017Jul 25, 2017
This Summer’s Gonna Hurt Like a Motherf*****Summer, the time when all my highly held standards of TV viewership slide so I can watch the sudsers, the sillies and all the other shows…Jun 20, 2017Jun 20, 2017
An Attempt to UnblockIf this blog makes it to the published page, it would the first of at least 20 unfinished, barely fleshed out or totally unwritten thoughts…Dec 28, 2016Dec 28, 2016
Journalism Behaving BadlyForget shedding light on injustices, inequalities, and speaking for the downtrodden. Forget the morally necessary role as the fourth…Aug 18, 2016Aug 18, 2016
It Is What It IsmAt face value, it’s often easy to assume that the same forces act upon us and influence our behavior but the human existence, however…May 24, 2016May 24, 2016
Lemonade, No Lies Told Then and Fighting the Pressure to be PerfectThe myth of the perfect woman is one of the most widely told and believed lies that’s also dangerous and likely to cause harm to the…May 3, 2016May 3, 2016
Texturism: Colorism’s Hairy Cousin?The awful truth behind skin bleaching is a racist media’s promotion of aspirational skin tones for black people. It echoes in the words of…Feb 18, 2016Feb 18, 2016
Blame it On the Boogie: A Love Note to DiscoWhen disco was, by my heavy understatement, a craze, and the soundtrack to an age of liberal coke sniffing and Studio 54, it would still be…Jan 29, 2016Jan 29, 2016