The Philippe Matthews Show

Do you know why a cat is said to have 9 lives? It doesn’t have to mean they die and live over and over again. It has something to do with their nimbleness or flexibility. Even if they jump or fall from a high place, they can shift the position of their bodies to guarantee a safer landing. 

 

It’s actually the same thing with us, humans. We only have one life to live, and yet it’s littered with too many challenges sometimes extremely large we feel it’s the end of us. But no, like cats we can have multiple lives—resurrect from the slump and end up the winner. 

 

Take, for example the life of Andrew Ross.

In data provided by the National Association of Women Business Owners, about 10 million firms all over the country are now owned by women, generating close to $2 trillion of income in 2008. Moreover, no less than 40 percent of privately held companies are now being owned or controlled by the ladies. However, only 20 percent of huge enterprises, those that earn about a million dollars or more a year, are handled by women.   What do all these statistics say? That women can be just as headstrong as men when it comes to opening and running a business—but then to dominate the market still requires a lot of work. This is the objective of Odette Laurie.   Who Is Odette Laurie?  Read Full Story...

Clara Barton, Mary Boykin Chestnut, Elisha Hunt Rhodes—all these women will never be forgotten. They may have been already gone, but their great roles during the Civil War are immortalized for the years to come. But then again, there are still plenty whose bravery and valor have never been honored, more so explored. A courageous woman of today decided to tell such tale.   The literary industry has been graced by the likes of My Haley. Born in South Charleston, West Virginia, she grew up to the stories and guidance of her grandmother. Then she later moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she finished college and eventually moved on her master’s and doctorate degrees, especially in African American Studies and Communications. It was during this time that she caught the attention of an up-and-coming prolific author Alex Haley. He had a deadline to beat, and he was not even halfway through. He therefore needed someone to help him out: My came to mind. She therefore spent a lot of days co-collaborating with Alex Haley on Roots, which catapulted him to fame and led to a mini-series.   They got married and became a formidable writing team, collaborating on more projects until Alex died. My was left to tackle her own work, and the result was just as magnificent as the Roots.  Read Full Story

Congratulations! You have reached the pinnacle of success. Now what? A lot of business owners, CEOs, and other corporate bigwigs find themselves in a dilemma or perhaps a crossroad: what should they do next after they have achieved their initial goals? Worse, many struggle on how to keep the momentum, realize more profits, and retain the best minds in the business.

It is never easy to run a company especially if you do not have the right training, guidance, and leadership. Fortunately, there is one person who is going to be patient but aggressive enough to show you how: Debora McLaughlin.

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Jessica Cox was born without arms in Sierra Vista, Arizona, in 1983, and yet her list of accomplishments easily surpasses anyone who’s born with a complete set of limbs. Nobody really knows what caused her condition except that it was an unusual birth defect.   Her parents and their extended families first expressed their apprehension and even helplessness for the small newborn Jessica. Inez, her mother, was particularly worried on who will take care of her when she grows up. Her father, however, never shed a tear. He believes she can do greater things—he was absolutely right.  Moving Her Feet   To be truthful, Jessica and her family didn’t have a well-paved road ahead of them. But Jessica, who had now grown into a beautiful teenage girl, was very persistent. After her powerful dance performance at school, where she received some of the loudest applause, she trained for dance for more than 10 years. Before she even graduated high school, she had already earned a black belt for taekwondo under the tutelage of Jim Cunningham.  Read Full Story...

What is one of the worst things that could happen in your life? If you’re going to ask us, it’s the realization that even at your old age, you still haven’t figured out the meaning of your existence—the ultimate purpose why you’re still here. Being in such state makes you feel less fruitful and needed. It doesn’t come as a surprise therefore why despite of everything that you have, you still have a huge want.   Figuring out who we are, what we should be, and how we can contribute to the world and humanity isn’t easy; but Larry DiAngi has made it his sole commitment to guide us.  Who Is Larry?   Once upon a time, Larry was one of us—fleeting in a vast space of nothingness. But what makes him different is that even when he was still young, he already felt or recognized the insignificance. It went on for quite a while that he felt hopeless, depressed, and desperate. Yet because he was able to see the problem early on, the solution also didn’t arrive late.  READ FULL STORY...

Do you know that a lot of businesses, especially small ones, are prone to die within the next 5 years? You can blame it on a lot of things, such as lack of funds, not enough profit, or very little customer base. However, if you study all these reasons, they point out to the root cause: poor marketing strategies.

 

Though the lifeblood of the business is the revenue, it’s the marketing that sustains it. These days, when more people are engaging in enterprises, there’s no more room for slacking. You need get it done and do it perfectly or correctly. In other words, you need the professional guidance of an A-rate PR expert like Melanie Rembrandt.

 

Melanie Rembrandt is a veteran in copywriting. She graduated in the University of California Los Angeles School of Theater, Film, and Television as a magna cum laude. She then joined the corporate world handling public relations, among other things. This gave her the opportunity to work among some of the biggest names in the world, like companies that belong to the Fortune 500. This she did for many years.

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What does it take to be an entrepreneur? Do you really need to have a very unique business idea? Studies and even experts suggest that the concept comes second only to value proposition and aggressive marketing. In other words, your idea can be as similar as the others but still end up on top because you’ve positioned it very well in the market.

How about capital? The truth is there’s no business when there’s no money—you can’t avoid not to invest. Nevertheless, today you have plenty of options where to get the funds. You can even borrow the entire startup costs (though it’s not advisable). Perhaps talent? Talent can be both innate and acquired, the latter of which means you can teach yourself skills and knowledge.

What is it? The simple answer is your mind-set. A lot of brilliant people are stuck rotten in full-time jobs they despise, small enterprise owners are struggling to keep themselves afloat, and many are scared to take that huge step to financial freedom all because they don’t have the “entrepreneur mind.”

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Venus versus Mars, male versus female, and men versus women—since time immemorial these two human species need to battle for everything, whether they like it or not. In the process, it leads to a variety of biases and even misconceptions about the opposite sex. There may be no such thing as pure equality between us, but there can be understanding. When you know more about the other, you begin to learn how to communicate more effectively; tolerate or, better yet, accept each other’s differences; and learn to appreciate each other’s presence and contribution in society.

 

Dr. Louann Brizendine has made it her mission for several years to understand how the brain works for the woman and the man, and her discovery leads to so many things including some of her advocacies.

 

To be able to impart a very thorough knowledge and explain deep concepts to terms that can be easily understood, Dr. Brizendine underwent a very rigorous and tedious training. She attended some of the biggest and most prestigious schools in the country such as Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, where she obtained her residency. Before these, she completed a Neurobiology degree in the University of California Berkeley. Currently she’s a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of California-San Francisco and a practicing neuropsychiatrist.

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While a lot of people spend the rest of their lives figuring out their purpose, highly acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, and children’s book author Diane Namm has always known that she wants to delve in the world of literature. So she took the necessary steps to ensure she can reach her dreams and inspire others to do the same.

 

From the moment she saw Braveheart, she believed that she was meant to be a female filmmaker and screenwriter. She then spent a huge part of her life running toward it. She polished her writing by creating several teen novels and film scripts, which allowed her to find her own voice along the way.

 

She first worked in New York City under several publishing companies such as Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap, and MacMillan Publishing as a writer and editor of children’s books. On the side, aside from authoring children’s books, she was developing stage plays.

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