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EPISODE #87 This Fantastic Fellas Friday we celebrate Bryant T. Marks, Ph. D., Founder and Chief Equity Officer of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Morehouse College.  Dr. Marks did a special entitled Hidden Bias of Good People, and I thought it would be a road map to uniting America.  We need to help everyone recognize the bi...

EPISODE #86 – On this Wonderful Women Wednesday, we celebrate Women’s History Month and do a call-in interview with NMYNURSINGVOICE Founder and CEO (Grady Memorial Hospital Trauma ICU Nurse) Sherrell Collins.  Boss Expo Event – March 27, 2021 from 1-5 P.M. at 4849 Old National Highway, College Park, Georgia.  If you want to register a vendor table, go to nmynursingvoice.org   Download any of the l...

EPISODE #85 While I'm taking a break from Marvelous Motivating Monday until May 1, 2021, I could not forget to say to ALL of the women from around the world HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY?  LINKS BELOW FOR: APPLE, GOOGLE, PANDORA, AND SPOTIFY.   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladiespromotingtransparentadvocacy/id1526382637 https://www.pandora.com/podcast/ladiesprom...

EPISODE #84 This Fantastic Fun Fellas and Female Friday we celebrate COMING TO AMERICA 2.  We open the episode with a rare interview of Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall on Jimmy Kimmel Live and then play the smash hit off the soundtrack called “I’m A King” by Bobby Sessions and Megan Thee Stallion.  Vulture.com says Megan Thee Stallion is the Real Royalty On New Song as she states she is a Queen, and...

Episode #83 - Wonderful Women IN UNIFORM Wednesday – We celebrate First Black Female Brigade Commander 21 Years Old Sydney Barber and Philadelphia’s First Black Female Firefighter Battalion Chief 39 Years Old Lisa Forrest (BLACK LADIES IN UNIFORM BEING THE 1ST). Both women had two different career goals before they landed in these historic roles, and both care about giving back to the community an...

EPISODE #82 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – We celebrate Nominee for Deputy Secretary of Treasury Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo.  In honor of Black History Month, if confirmed, he will be the First African American/Nigerian Deputy Secretary of Treasury.  He came to America as a baby and was raised in California.  More than qualified for the role, in November 2014, he was nominated to be Assistant Secre...

Episode #81 - Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate Naomi Osaka, who is a champion in so many ways.  She has won the following championships:  She's won 2018 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2020 US Open and 2021 Australian Open.  Did you know she is also an advocate for social and racial justice?  Her second love is being a fashionista and is on the cover of Vogue magazine.  She is also just a n...

EPISODE #80 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday - Continuing celebrating Black History Month, we celebrate Daniel Kaluuya on his amazing acting roles; from GET OUT, BLACK PANTHER, QUEEN SLIM amongst many films, and now JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, playing the role of Fred Hampton, Sr.  A New York Times article said The Ku Klux Klan arose after the Civil War and orchestrated a campaign to effectivel...

EPISODE #79 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – We celebrate 4-STAR General, now Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin, III.  In honor of Black History Month, we honor the First African American Secretary of Defense.  Here is his military history:  Years of service : 1975–2016, Battles/Wars : War in Afghanistan ; Iraq War , Awards : Combat Action Badge ,  Expert Infantryman Badge , Education : Auburn...

Episode #78 - Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate Actress/Director Regina King. She is the recipient of several awards , including an Academy Award a/k/a Oscar, a Golden Globe Award , and four acting Primetime Emmy Awards , the most for an African-American performer THAT’S BLACK HISTORY. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.  Her career is so lon...

EPISODE #77 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday – We continue celebrating Black History Month.   Since it is President’s Day, I wanted to celebrate a Black Congresswoman who represented well as a Manager of the 2nd Impeachment Trial of the 45 President of the United State.  We celebrate Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett of U.S. Virgin Islands.  Her presentation was powerful, as were all of the mange...

EPISODE #76 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – We celebrate Houston Texan’s Michael Thomas.  A major problem with many Americans is basic financial literacy and it is because often timed children are not taught about savings accounts and paying bills and taxes.  Michael Thomas is known for his work on the field as a safety for the Houston Texans, but he also runs a free youth football camp that teac...

EPISODE #75 This Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate Princess Sarah Jane Culberson, Lady of Bumpe.  In America, she is known as a Dancer, Public Speaker, Humanitarian, Actress, Philanthropist, and now she adds to her adjective description Princess.  Adopted by a white family in West Virginia as a baby, she decided to find her biological roots, lo and behold, the investigator found her family...

EPISODE #74 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday – We continue Black History Month talking about Jennifer King, the NFL’s first Black Female Assistant Coach for The Washington Team as an Assistant Running Back Coach.  She was quoted when interviewed by ESPN as saying:  "It's so important to open the entire pool of applicants when you have a position, so far historically in football, it's only 50% of...

EPISODE #73 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – We celebrate Dr. Ibram X Kendi.  Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.  He is an Author, Professor, Anti-racist Activist, Historian of Race and Discriminatory Policy in America, Director of the Center for Anti-racist Research at Boston University, just to name a few things he is.  For theses reasons and more, I want to celebr...

EPISODE #72 - This Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate Wanda James who represents current Black History. She is a former Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, former Colorado campaign manager, worked on President Obama’s National Finance Committee, appointed to Los Angeles Small and Local Business Commission amongst other things.  She is the Founder & CEO of Simply Pure Dispensary.  Wanda is an advoca...

EPISODE #71 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday – We start off Black History Month talking about Harriet Tubman.  Did you know Harriet was a conservative?  I didn’t.  Is putting Harriet on the front of the $20 bill, but leaving Andrew Jackson, known as a racist President, on the back honoring her or disrespecting her legacy?  Black Rutgers Professor and Author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Dis...

EPISODE #70 - This Fantastic Frenzy Friday – We celebrate How Reddit Message Board Effected Stock Market and Turned it into a Frenzy.  If you’re one of the thousands, maybe tens of thousands, who made money this week from the GameStop ramp, this is for you.  What is Reddit – a website co-founded by Serena Williams Husband - Alexis Kerry Ohanian who is an American internet entrepreneur and investor...

EPISODE #69 - This Wonderful Wellness Wednesday – Mental Illness/Health Resources  I want to introduce the men to the newly created resource app designed strictly for men.  Co-Founder of Tethr Addison Brasil says that Tethr is the world’s first peer-to-peer support community app for men only.  He said it helps men with “everyday life stability.”  Did you know that 75% of most suicides are men?  Th...

EPISODE #68 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday – We celebrate and learn more about Amanda Gorman.  We open the episode listening to her August 6, 2020, debut of her poem Black Daughter Pointillism and interview on Kelly Clarkston Show.  We let you hear some of many of her amazing poems and end the episode with her interview with Anderson Cooper the night after the inauguration.  This 22-year-old H...

EPISODE #67 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – We celebrate Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman.  Officer Goodman escorted Vice President Kamala Harris to the inauguration on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.  Who is Eugene Goodman?  He is a Maryland native who served in the Army as an infantryman for more than four years, leaving with the rank of sergeant in December 2006 after a year in Iraq.  He has...

EPISODE #66 - This Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate HERSTORY – Two legendary women, Ruby Bridges and Kamala Harris Making History.  Have you seen the captivating silhouette of civil rights trailblazer Ruby Bridges’ shadow as a 6-year-old walking historically with Kamala Harris?  Photo went viral after the announcement that the Biden campaign had won the 2020 presidential election. It was c...

EPISODE #65 - This Marvelous Motivating Monday – We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. (“MLK”).  We open with Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday Song and Chadwick Bozeman’s Class of 2018 Inspirational Graduation Speech followed by MLK’s Be Phenomenal Speech.  Pay attention to the blueprint of your life that he describes. Look up the meaning of 6, 5, and 65. Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-Ap...

EPISODE #64 - This Fantastic Fellas Friday – Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb and William Penn who is founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania , now known as the State of Pennsylvania.  He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom , notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans.  Here is a quote from Willi...

EPISODE #63 - This Wonderful Women Wednesday – We celebrate New York Attorney General Letitia James.  A native New Yorker who does things for the community and stands firm on facts when it comes to the law.  In an interview with Marie Claire, she was asked: Did you always want to go into public service?  Letitia James:  “I read a book called Simple Justice : The History of Brown v. Board of Educat...