The Celebration

What is your definition of success? How has your definition consciously or subconsciously been influencing your decisions? For many of us, success has been defined for us by our parents, our society, and our culture. Without realizing it, we have been consciously or subconsciously striving to achieve a bar of success we may not even believe in anymore.

Let’s end 2018 intentionally by determining for ourselves, fully aware, what success means. While achievement is heavily stressed in our culture, often reflecting upon what creates fulfillment and true happiness is left behind.

This week’s experiential episode will engage you in creating a holistic perspective of success. After listening to this workshop, you will be empowered to attain a realistic, accurate and updated vision of how you want to measure the life you’re living.

Empathy, communication, and providing value are the cornerstones of a successful business. In this week’s episode, I share with you an empowering tool you can use to create content, and copy language to connect with your audience.

Rather than trying to guess what your customers, audience, or community wants to hear, why not use their own words? That’s what is at the heart of the 3 Star Review marketing tool. It provides you with a template you can use to both articulate what stands out about your product, service or project, while at the same time, addressing any objections or concerns people may have.

If you ever find yourself struggling to write compelling sales copy, grants, marketing materials, or how to market yourself, this is the episode for you!

Having a vision for your life is a powerful motivator. Have you intentionally taken the time to reflect upon the standards you hold yourself to? This week’s episode is an interactive workshop that walks you through the process of creating ideals and mottos you want to live by.

For example, a few of the Ideals to Live By that I created for myself are:

Courage Over Fear.
Creativity Over Regurgitation
Consistency Over Perfection

Throughout 2018, these have been the mottos that have guided my life. As we get ready to close out this year, I wanted us to take a chance to reflect upon these past 12 months. That way we are ready to jump into 2019 with purpose and clarity.

I hope you enjoy this week’s episode!

On this week’s episode of THE Celebration, I interview Mary Vin Rose from the Cable TV series ‘Healthy Living in the Bronx.’

Mary advocates for self-love and mental health, and she uses her platform to highlight people and organisations assisting people in the Bronx to live their healthiest lives.

During our time Mary shared on how to be courageous and follow your dreams despite fear. It is so clear how much she loves her community, and ecstatically describes how the Bronx is a friendly place that is aspiring to become healthier. Mary passionately believes people should invest in the Bronx and its residents.

Listen joyfully to her stories in this inspiring and empowering session.

In this week’s episode we interview entrepreneur and author Isaiah Swift.

His book “Unlock Your Greatness” 8 Ways to be Successful in High School and Beyond teaches students how they better prepare for the real world after they graduate, and provides them with valuable insight as to how they can find volunteer, internship and scholarship opportunities in their community.

A Virginia native, Isaiah was awarded a full academic scholarship to attend Norfolk State University and study Business Finance. He is also brand ambassador for clothing design company Fresh Prints.

During our uplifting session, Isaiah shared the inspiration behind his book, his journey to being courageous, the people he looked up to along the way and always making sure our work ethic matches our vision.

Check it out!

This week on THE Celebration, we interview Goddess Adina, whose mission is ‘to hold a space so sacred that all that enter it find themselves busting self wide open to see a whole new array of possibilities’.

Goddess Adina is an Author, Performance Artist, Yoga Therapist and Healer. She was generous enough to share her thoughts on the difference between faith and religion, change being your only constant, and owning your power. Goddess Adina strongly believes this is the year and season of owning your voice, truth, fears and insecurities; time to take all of that in, and stamp on it.

Check out this vulnerable, open, self-reflective, baring-it-all kind of episode.

On this week’s episode we welcome Asiya and Jameela, aka the epic hosts of the Sugarcoat Free Podcast. These black Muslim millenial women navigate topics like mental health, pop culture, love and religion while spreading inspiration and really bad jokes.

During the interview we explored self-care, being Muslim, loving ourselves, as well as being courageous, open and true. They dropped wisdom you can write down and immediately apply to your life to improve it and bring more perspective.

We bring this week’s episode from India - where we have the pleasure of interviewing Indian born, Florida based queer activist/poet/scholar Sam(ira) Obeid. Sam’s work has sent her to the heights of the national slam poetry competitions at Women of the World Poetry Slam and Southern Fried, as well as other national venues.

In this week’s episode she tells us about her journey back to India, and we breakdown concepts like intersectionality, the binary, what the spectrum looks like, activism, women who raise us, the power of women as leaders and teachers, as well as the end of Sam’s story of courage. She also shares 2 awe-inspiring poems with us.

Check it out!

Social Enterprise maverick Christy Innouvong co-founded Thailand based non-profit Courageous Kitchen - which empowers refugees with food education. In this week’s episode we talked about Christy’s journey to Bangkok, discovering her roots, learning more about her family history and the way Courageous Kitchen has transformed lives.

Christy’s work and recipes have been featured by Bangkok 101 Magazine, Travel + Leisure Asia, Worldfoods, and Buzzfeed, as well as ongoing collaborations with nationally recognized Chefs and Social Media Influencers. Christy considers herself a global citizen, and she is passionate about seeing and saving the world.

Follow Courageous Kitchen on their website and facebook

Poet and editor Alex Sullivan is studying the ways religion and and culture interact, with a focus on postcolonial and diaspora studies. So it was no surprise when our conversation this week went into the areas of interfaith work, and big vocabulary words like intersectionality.

This is also Alex’s birthday week so we couldn’t resist talking about cool magic spells, and some really terrifying things like reading poetry OUT LOUD.

Alex has her BA in both Religious Studies and Social Science, and is currently doing her Masters at NYU’s Center for Experimental Humanities. She edits for GSAS literary journal Caustic Frolic and believes there’s beauty in everything and she is always looking for it.

Check out this week’s beauty-full episode.