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I am a question person.  I am that person you probably fear taking to the movies because I need to know MORE!  I love books, long walks to the freezer for ice cream, and something that makes me create more wrinkles on my face and go hmmm?  So why not share some of those hmmm things with you and brighten up your Sunday here on the podcast!  Oh, I also found a new creamer for my latte that I may just have to transition to since PEPPERMINT MOCHA is MIA!

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Deana

On a Sunday all I want to do is bother my husband with... THE LIGHTING ROUND GAME OF QUESTIONS!!!

Yes, I love a good on the spot question game and so thankful for elfster.com for providing me with their awesome sauce, shooting from the hip questions...hmmm now who can I interview next and ask these super fun questions...or maybe once a month just play this game with someone.  I love it!  Well friends happy Sunday and remember to join me every Sunday 12 noon for more ways to 4.0 life here on the podcast...and if you love it be sure to rate, review, subscribe and tell your friends, family, the clerk at the store...everyone!

Thanks

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Deana

Happy Father's Day, Happy Summer, Happy SCHOOL IS OUT!

Phew, now I have time to snuggle my son more, not wake up and head to the computer, and have a little more breathing space in my day.  Join me every Sunday here for another great episode with special guests throughout the month, a featured co-host (hint hint) and just random moments always by me!

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Deana

Hello everyone and Happy Sunday.  I am dishing out on some sweet things today and how I love finding a great app that I secretly wish I created.  So with all my obsessions of natural skincare I am spending so much time researching ingredients to make sure what I am putting on my face is the good stuff and not, well yucky.  I have come across an app that is my new best friend (dear best friend this is just an app calm down) that does all the work for me in minutes!!! Oh yeah, I am back with the second part of my podcast for la book so enjoy and make sure to subscribe, rate and review!

Thanks ya'll 

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Deana

The world is changing and we need to turn to important friends and family that can truly guide and educate us to the matters that matter most.  I reconnected with a friend who wears so many hats, dedicates time to event planning, being a mother, wife, dating and relationship online contributor for a magazine, and stars in a reality show.  However, today a hat she wears since birth and she carries so strong matters very much to her and others.  

I invited Sadie to my podcast to help educate myself and my listeners on what matters to a black woman.  What words mean to a black woman, and what support means to a black woman.  I asked her about things I might say that could be wrong and how can I correct them, and she guided me.  We for sure laughed with TikTok talk, husband and dating talk, and how thankful I am to have her in my world.  It's not as hard or scary as it seems to just ask and communicate to learn.  

Be sure to follow Sadie on TikTok and understand why she is a strong woman with words of wisdom + an awesome TikTok.  @awwsuga 

With online shopping becoming more and more popular and well, Yelp, I can not tell you how much I FEAR the validity when it comes to how many stars or lack there of determine a purchase.  I mean is this person getting free swag and paid to say all this great stuff, did someone only try the product for a day and not see results and raged online?  Either way I have serious commitment issues when it comes to online shopping because of these reasons, and I tend to sit with a product in my cart for days as I research all over the internet to find some validity in it all.

So yeah, another OCD mark on me, but I can't be the only one.

Xx

Deana

WOO-HOO! 50 episodes deep and I am feeling fabulous.  Look, I have spent 10 years as a blogger/vlogger and that is no easy task, especially now with a toddler running around because mainly I want to be with him 24/7 before he tells me to take a hike.  I picked up my mic and started recording in April of last year, and now 50 episodes is a major accomplishment + I get to talk to myself just in case no one is listening...but you are so THANK YOU!

I wanted to share my 50th episode with the love I have for Netflix and how it truly is giving me such noteworthy shows to watch.  Do I secretly want to be on the set of Gossip Girl and wear all the clothes...YES! But at the age of 36 almost 37, I guess I would be too old to play a college kid...psst. I can still be a super senior college kid if you guys make a movie.  Anywho, enjoy this episode of some of my favs as well as the ones you guys voted on!

Oh... and thank you for always tuning in.  Means a lot ya'll and... hello Morocco!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all!  Another year as a mama to one crazy little boy.  Keeping the episode light and simple today with our travels to cupcake heaven yesterday, next week's episode all about Netflix, and my adorable little son taking the mic at the end of this podcast.  

Xx

Deana

Throwing it back to the vinyl days Chet Tart had the drive and passion from early on to know what it takes to get to where he wanted to be.  Working 3 jobs as a TV engineer, disc jokey and producer of a talk show, kept Chet motivated and driven to get to where he is today.  Bumping into big name people, collaborations, buying a radio station, and having some of the greatest people call him for advice is because he did something right.  Chet Tart lived by something that we all should and that is to ask yourself what are you going to do to get to your goal and be careful, you are the product of the 5 people you hang with.

It wasn't just luck, it was time spent learning, making oneself public and in the know, and sleeping on the floor from one job to the next because that was the drive and passion.  That is what got him the Emerson College Hall of Fame award, that is what got him more radio stations, that is what got him memorable interviews with noteworthy people, and that is what got him what he wanted and who he wanted to be.

Chet's Podcast: Influence Today with Chet Tart & Dr. Terry Lyles