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Creating Confidence and Transforming Lives: Meet Santia Bailey
Santia was born and raised in Durham NC. The youngest of three children and has a degree in Information Systems and I am a Cyber Security Project Manager. A serial entrepreneur Santia has a passion for changing the world, in her words. “One Vagina at a time.” Santia started in the Personal Care / Spa […]
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22 Women Making Pretty Moves in 2022: Meet Cassandra Hill
To be a woman who makes “Pretty” moves you must first understand the gift you hold within and next understand how to utilize it. When fulfilling God’s plan is calling on your soul, you can rely on speaker, author, entrepreneur, and holistic wellness influencer Cassandra Hill to give you the right words to answer His […]
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Dr. Taryn Rose, Orthopedic Surgeon Turned Shoe Designer
Dr. Taryn Rose is an orthopedic surgeon turned shoe designer, who married fashion and function in 1998 and changed the footwear industry forever. Her idea of being dressed with a sense of well-being touched a nerve with women from coast-to-coast, creating a dedicated following for her numerous collections. A formally trained surgeon, Dr. Rose witnessed […]
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It’s all in the Stratosphere, Meet CEO Lauran Grant
Combining her love for the skies and the ground, Corporate Flight Attendant, Atlanta Entrepreneur and Yogi Lauran Grant has launched her Yoga apparel brand, Stratosphere41. “I started S41 to build a community that truly strives for not only inclusion, but celebration of all yogis. Growing up, I always felt excluded from the wellness community as a Black […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: Tuning out Negativity
Negativity is like a disease that spreads all over the world and people spread it to others without thinking about it first. The one thing about negativity is, it can’t be cured unless its being covered by a gratitude of positivity. Easy to believe? Nope! I’m with you on that one because as easy as it is to spread negativity, it is much harder to spread positivity. Why is that? some of you may wonder. A lot of people enjoy seeing others suffer in their own problems, trauma, and struggles without a care in the world to uplift them with encouragement and speaking positivity in their situations. There is more bad than good; at least that’s what I see on the evening news. We are all sick and tired of living in a world filled with hate, violence, and negativity.
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: The 3 Different Types of Stress
Do you often find yourself stressed that it’s starting to become a regular pattern? This month is Stress Awareness Month where I wanted to highlight the three different types of stress. Acute stress can be caused by a car accident, loosing a loved one, witnessing/being a victim of an attack or even being diagnosed with […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: April is National Stress Awareness Month!
Many people may say stress is a bad word and truth be told, it can be very bad and lead to all types of things like health problems, trouble sleeping, emotionally and mentally exhausted and the list goes on! But with stress you don’t always have to focus on the bad stressors, but the good stressors we definitely want to look at. Nobody has time for frustrations, anger, exhaustion and body aches. What is stress you might ask? Stress is the feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with mental or emotional pressure. The sound of that sounds stressful, but there are way to detox and to reset your mind to focus again. Did you know that April is Stress Awareness Month?
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: 10 Ways to Boost Your Mental Health
A lot of people don’t realize how important your mental health is. It’s always in constant rotation and a reminder that you need to slow it down a bit. For instance, if you deal with a mental illness and have certain things that may trigger you, try to diffuse the situation or get out of […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: When to Let Go
Have you ever experienced some things in your life that was traumatizing and you just couldn’t let go of it? How did you handle the situation? Or was it handled at all? Letting go sometimes is very hard and can be mentally/emotionally draining if it is something that may acquire more time. I can think […]
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Self-Check One Two One Two!
Welcome to Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl and I want to say thank you for stopping by to my column where I will be talking about everything mental health, self-care and more! Let’s talk about self-care because I feel like self-care is very much needed in today’s society. I want to ask a question […]
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