The Dr. Vibe Show™

Lauren DeLisa Coleman is a socio-economic digitalist who studies and consults on the convergence of Gen X and Y with digital specifically mobile and the impact on business and society. She is the champion of the "smart power movement" (15 - 34 year olds ) which encourages this ages group to use mobile technology to empower themselves During this podcast, Lauren provide her takes on the CNN program Black In America 4 and the current state and what Blacks need to do to advance in the world of technology. http://www.ldcoleman.com/ (Website) @mediaempress (Twitter) http://www.ldcoleman.com/radio/ (Lauren's hip podcast series that examines the convergence of pop culture events with emerging tech and and business.) connect@ldcoleman (Email) http://www.linkedin.com/in/LaurenDeLisaColeman (Linkedin)

After her great participation as a panelist at The Media Huddle's "Follow Me" event this past Wednesday evening, we realized that we have a great interview with Cher Jones of Socially Active that we had not posted yet. So, here is our interview with Cher that we did back in August. Cher is involved in many things. Some of these are: running her own company (Socially Active), senior communications coordinator for the city of Toronto, host of a tech show, a regular contributor for the last four years for the "Steve & Chris Show" on CBC, writing her first book, "Procrastepreneur". She specializes in communications planning and social media training strategies. During our interview, we chat about a number of subjects including her wanting to in front of the camera since she was four years old, some of her background and involvement in journalism, being involved in social media before it was called social media, current state of Black bloggers in Toronto, the need for more Blacks in social media, communications and PR positions and what can be done to change it, why did she start "Socially Active", some of the best social media platforms for business and where did she find time to do everything she does. You can connect with Cher via: http://sociallyactive.ca/ (web) @itscherjones (Twitter) http://ca.linkedin.com/in/itscherjones (Linkedin) https://plus.google.com/104247244277846042314/posts (Google Plus)

Jonathan Sprinkles was voted "The National Speaker Of The Year (United States) and is the author of ten books. His mission is to inspire outstanding performance in each person he meets. He grew up very shy, stuttered and had stage fright. He became a leader while attending the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, Jonathan worked at Dell Computers for 2 ½ years as a sales rep. went to Toastmasters. In May 2002, he quit his job and been speaking around the world ever since. During our chat Jonathan tells us where did he got his drive from, how his parents taught him education and street smarts, his struggles as a student until his junior year in college, some important books that he read when he was younger, how he appeared with Magic Johnson on a billboard, how he met Dennis Kimbro, what working in the corporate world taught him, the day he left the corporate world, how did he start writing books, how "Get Off Your But and Make It Happen!" happened. Jonathan also answers some questions, talks about various parts of "Get Off Your But and Make It Happen" and provides suggestions on how to thrive in a challenging economy www.jsprinkles.com www.getandstaymotivated.com @jsprinkles (Twitter) http://www.facebook.com/JonathanSprinkles?ref=ts (Facebook) http://www.youtube.com/user/JonathanSprinkles (You Tube)

Music industry veteran, Stan Sheppard, recently wrote an article titled, 'Is Black Radio Helping To Destroy Young Black Men And Women? We had the opportunity to interview with Stan in which he talks about his father"s (Bucky Sheppard) career in music which included working at the first Black record company in America, Vee Jay Records, developing the careers the carreers of great R&B artists such as Chaka Chan, Barry White, Stephanie Mills, Lionel Ritchie to his own career where he has worked with R&B artists such as By All Means, The Temptations, Gerald Alston, The Pointer Sisters and The Jackson Family to rap artists such as DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg, Musiq Soulchild. Stan held the position of A&R Director at Motown Records for five years. He is currently on projects by the artist Kokane and DJ Battlecat's debut album. He continues to educate young people about the music business. Stan's email address: [email protected]

New Jersey entrepreneur Larry "Lak" (pronounced LOCK) Henderson is the co-founder, CEO, recording artist and co-producer of Smart Music Entertainment. Since 2007, Smart Music has created high-quality educational hip-hop music.Their blend of educational lyrics and underground hip-hop beats makes learning fun, accessible and more modern for a new generation of young people who are drawn to hip-hop music. Their new CD, Lesson One: Hip-Hop and Education, uses rap lyrics and today's hip-hop beats to teach students U.S. history, geography, health, politics and African and African-American history. Larry has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a specialization in Africana Studies and Labor Studies from Rutgers University. During our interview Larry talks about various subjects including his hip-hop journey which started in the third grade, the importance of knowing the business side of the music industry, why did he decide to combine education and hip-hop, his thoughts on the effects that hip-hop has on young people, his he thinks about the current American education system, messages for Black men and the future of hip-hop.