Billee Howard Wants You To Be Ahead of This Economic Evolution!

Hi Love!

Billee Howard is a veteran marketing strategist that has created WE-COMMERCE: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy, an amazing manual for navigating and understanding the new sharing economy.  Howard will help readers interpret this economic evolution, explore the new laws of creative Darwinism, and understand this rapidly shifting marketplace where culture and commerce are colliding like never before. In her book which is set to release December 1st, Howard explores:

·       The new golden rules of business, including cultivating and encouraging maverick talent and making change a core business competency;

·       How to adapt to the laws of creative evolution or ³We-volution,² including learning how to incorporate your next generation into every aspect of your business;

·       Why leading brands need to see themselves as artists of business first, and agents of commerce second;

·       She evolves the notion of what's next - beyond ³sharing² to the core tenet of we. This is a thought grenade book on the global economy itself and not just the leading companies in it who are succeeding ­ her approach is global in its POV that others have not touched on.

·       Ways to (re)design our business models in harmony with the ideals and mandates of the we-economy in order to amass a huge and passionately loyal community.

Howard is an astonishing role model for women and has been helping organizations and individuals to produce, envision, innovate, and create passionate dialogues with their target communities for over 20 years.

To learn more about Howard please be sure to purchase a copy of her book this Winter.

--Love Rae

Let Peggy Mangot Teach Your Family How to Invest

Hi Love,

Meet Peggy Mangot, an entrepreneur and mother of three who left her job at Google to launch her own company called SparkGift. SparkGift is an all digital investing platform that makes it easy and affordable for your family and friends to give and receive investments as gifts. Just think about it. This amazing company provides the perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and much more.

By making it as easy to gift-give $50 of Apple stock as gifting a $50 iTunes gift card, Peggy realized her goal of giving anyone who would rather give gifts that appreciate in value rather than depreciate in value, end up in a landfill, and/or go completely unused (like so many gift cards) the ability to gift stocks and mutual funds with ease.

Honestly, SparkGift is a genius idea. As an easy and affordable way to learn about money and large transactions, SparkGift is definitely an innovator in technology. Additionally, there are more awesome features you can learn about below:

- SparkGift can gift an investment ranging from $20 to $1,000 in mere minutes.

- SparkGift can gift-give stocks and index funds, including fractional shares.

- SparkGift can create an online gift registry for the stocks and index funds of their choice.

- SparkGift can schedule an investment gift to be delivered (via email) on the day of the holiday or occasion (birthday, graduation, Bar Mitzvah, communion, wedding shower, baby shower, anniversary, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.)

- SparkGift will teach young people about investing by showing them how their gifted investments are growing, encouraging them to make additional investments with money from their allowance, part-time job, etc. and helping them value investments over "stuff".

To learn more about Peggy Mangot and her digital investment company please be sure to check out sparkgift.com 


--Love Rae

The Year of Viola

Hi Love!

How to Get Away with Murder's Viola Davis is really taking over television. So far in 2015, she has won a Golden Globe and an Emmy -- which is an outstanding achievement for women all over the world. By breaking the glass ceiling for African American women in the entertainment industry, she is paving a way for minorities to also having promising careers in Hollywood.

Let's Check Out Viola Davis at her best:

To give a few facts about her life to put her recognition into perspective I wanted to share the info below:

1. Previous to this year she was nominated for two Oscars.

2. She was born on her grandmother's farm in South Carolina during the 1960s, a very difficult time for African Americans in America. After her birth, her family moved to Rhode Island which opened many doors for her and sparked her interest in acting.

3. Neither of her parents were rich (in 1965) when they moved to Rhode Island but they were able to send her to Rhode Island College and New York City's Julliard.

4. How to Get Away With Murder is unlike any other show on television. With high-ratings and a story line which includes Viola as the lead actress, this show confirms that truth is philosophical.

5. Viola Davis is one of the best actresses on this planet -- there is not one role that she cannot play.

--Love Rae

Fresh Off The Boat Season 2 - Fall TV Premiere

Hi Love!

Fresh Off the Boat is returning to television. This show captures the upbringing of Eddie Huang as his Asian family moves from D.C to Florida into a predominately white community. Eddie, loves hip hop and a variety of cultures but struggles to fit into his new suburban community. Although Eddie is the main character, I cant stop admiring his mother, Jessica Huang played by Constance Wu.

Fall in love with Jessica Huang ( Constance Wu) and her most inspirational one liners:

" No one seems to appreciate, how I'm good at everything I do"

"You know what gives me nightmares. Our bank account. Stephen King should publish my checkbook."

"School is too easy"

"Which one says I'm rich enough to be invited but not rich enough that you can ask me to donate money?"

"I don't know what this wife's problem is. If my husband had a big house like Jack Nicholson, he could put an axe in any door he wants to. Why? Because we have 500 other doors and a maze."

I can't wait for this new season and the advice Jessica Huang is going to give. 
--Love Rae

Happy Birthday Angela Simmons!

Hi Love!

In celebration of Angela Simmons birthday lets look at her year in totality.

7 Times Angela Simmons Inspired Us This Year as an Actress, Executive Producer, Fashion Designer and Philanthropist

1. Although she has tons of success at the sweet age of 28, she lives in a one bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.
2. After launching her Pastry shoe line with her sister Vanessa, Angela has now created "Foofi" a clothing line based in Manhattan.
3. She stars in a film called " Supermodel" which is will release in 2016. Although it focuses primarily on working in the fashion industry it also covers a deeper and darker side of the industry. Supermodel puts the spotlight on racism. 
4. She launched GirlTalk Takeover, a health and fitness group as part of New York City's Boys & Girls club.
5. She executive produces " Growing Up In Hip Hop" a new docu-series that reveals the lives of hip hop legends and their children who have grown up in the entertainment industry.
6. Growing her hair waist length and promoting healthier hair products and protective styling tips.
7. Exposes her Instagram audience to a beautiful and safe side of Haiti that the media refuses to portray. She remains fearless in everything she does. 

Foofi

I am excited to see how this line expands and you should be too. Her style is impeccable 

-- Love Rae

Big Frog Revolutionizes T-Shirts

Hi Love,

Meet Janet Carmichael a loving mother turned T-shirt designer. Her company Big Frog, creates individually tailored T-shirts that are changing the way we view apparel.

After rising to the top of the insurance industry as a corporate executive for 25 years, the mother of two was ready to trade in her business suits for T-shirts. Feeling burnt out and disenchanted with the corporate world, the 51-year-old breadwinner of the family was ready to act on her dream of entrepreneurship and success shortly followed.

In search for a business opportunity, Carmichael was determined to pursue something with an in-demand product/service that allowed her to fully engrain herself in the community. Since this discovery, she now operates two Big Frog locations in Franklin ad Mt. Juliet TN; grossing nearly $1M in sales. Seeing such success, Carmichael has plans to expand her business very soon. Check out her work below:

Perfect events and celebrations, Big Frog T-shirts are for everyone! Click the link to see more http://www.bigfrog.com/9/for-business.html

--Love Rae

The Opening of the First "Maui Super Salon" in Ohio!

Hi Love,

Did you know the teeth whitening industry is a multi-billion dollar industry?

Get to know Dayton, Ohio entrepreneur Nikki Swisher, founder of Maui Whitening:

Swisher founded Maui Whitening out of a personal experience she had in teeth whitening coupled with an entrepreneurial spirit.  Prior to Maui Whitening, Swisher spent five years as an elementary school teacher and started her first business in the evenings and on weekends, while teaching 2nd grade.  She became a stay-at-home mom after her two children were born.

Passionate about helping others start and cultivate their own business, she launched an Internet and digital marketing company in 2008 and built a flourishing client base that mostly featured start-up small business owners and businesses that needed a makeover in their marketing. Maui Whitening (www.mauiwhitening.com) stemmed from unsatisfactory personal experiences with teeth whitening and a sharp mind in marketing with those years of experience in helping startup companies.

Nikki Swisher, launched Maui Whitening with one Washington Township location in January 2014. It is now regarded as the fastest growing laser teeth whitening dealership-based company in the United States with 65-plus locations sold in the company’s first 18 months. Salons can be found in 22 states, and those numbers are growing monthly.

Maui Whitening’s teeth whitening gel and equipment are produced in  Food and Drug Administration registered facilities. A 20-minute teeth whitening session is $99, a 40-minute session is $149 and a 60-minute session is $179. A 60-minute session can result in whitening teeth as much as 20 shades brighter in only an hour.

Maui Whitening stores require between 500 square feet and 1,200 square feet, and can be operated by one or two employees. The cost to open a location is under  $10,000. The dealership agreement includes all the equipment and supplies to open a two-station salon, along with  marketing materials, and support.

Swisher is diligently focused on continuing to grow the number of locations and states for Maui Whitening. In the next 30 days, she also projects the opening of the first “Maui Super Salon” at the Cross Pointe Center in Dayton, Ohio, where the company is headquartered. The concept will offer teeth whitening, lash extensions, Botox and fillers. Swisher is confident there will be a nationwide market for the “Maui Super Salon” concept  too.

To learn more about Maui Whitening, please visit their website.

-- Love Rae