This episode talks about Vell's first Cruise. This special episode covers Vell's Virgin Voyage experience, crashing on the first day, the amazing food, and more.

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This episode talks about Vell's take on the differences between a chance and a choice.

The Good Read for this episode is The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday.

The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. As Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Ryan Holiday shows us how some of the most successful people in history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—have applied stoicism to overcome difficult or even impossible situations. Their embrace of these principles ultimately mattered more than their natural intelligence, talents, or luck.

If you’re feeling frustrated, demoralized, or stuck in a rut, this book can help you turn your problems into your biggest advantages. And along the way it will inspire you with dozens of true stories of the greats from every age and era.

What's Popping in Vell's World consist of Black artist not supporting the Elon buying Twitter, Kyrie situation has us wondering is Ye was right?, Cora Faith Foundation, and more.

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Vell's shares is condolences to Takeoff's family and friends. 

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This episode talks about Vell's take on Kanye West White Lives Matter.

The Good Read for this episode is The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team by John C. Maxwell.

Lack of self-awareness is the single greatest obstacle leaders face in their development, effectiveness, and advancement. Dr. John C. Maxwell will help any leader become more self-aware, focused, and confident.

With fifty years of leading and teaching experience, influential leadership expert and speaker John C. Maxwell can help you become your best leadership self.

In The Self-Aware Leader, Maxwell teaches you how to:

What's Popping in Vell's World consist of Black artist not supporting the Grammys, Halloween Horror Nights, It's Florida Atlantic University, and more.

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This episode talks about Vell's balling on a budget.

The Good Read for this episode is Tax-Free Wealth: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes by Tom Wheelwright. After 31 years… Major Tax Reform — and what it means to you True overhaul of the tax law only happens about once every 30 years. In the past 75 years, the U.S. tax law has only seen three major revisions; one in 1954, the next in 1986 and most recently at the end of 2017. I have been fortunate as a tax professional to be heavily involved in the last two reforms. In 1986, I was a manager in the National Tax Department (NTD) of Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst Young). My primary responsibility during my three years there was to create, teach and administer tax courses to the Firm’s U.S. tax professionals. Just as I arrived in the summer of 1985, I discovered that much of NTD’s resources were being devoted to following the tax reform bill that had been introduced that year. This gave me, as a young tax professional, some amazing insight into the legislative process as well as the horse trading for tax reform. President Reagan wanted two things; simplicity (the 1985 act was call the Tax Simplification Act of 1985) and he wanted it to be revenue neutral (no net increase to the deficit). It took another year before bill was finally passed as the Tax Reform Act of 1986. (Simplicity took a back seat to other goals of the reform.) In 1986 the big winners from tax reform were individuals, with significantly lower tax rates, insurance companies (who got by relatively unscathed) and businesses. The big loser was real estate investors (the passive loss rules were used as a last-ditch effort to make a “revenue-neutral” bill. The result a few years later was the Savings and Loan debacle accompanied by a massive real estate depression and the government bailing out real estate through the RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation). Fast forward 31 years to 2017.

What's Popping in Vell's World consist of Nia Long UPDATE, Delux Magazine's 2022 Power 100, Hurricane Ian, and more.

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This episode talks about Vell's upbringing and what made him the person he is today.

The Good Read for this episode is Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts. When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of positive responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience. With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship.

What's Popping in Vell's World consist of All American, Nia Long, Play Station 5, and more.

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Horrible experience with Delta Airlines at LaGuardia Airport's Delta New Skylounge. 

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This episode talks about Vell's great expectations vs great responsibility.

The Good Read for this episode is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past—the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham, and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella—and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives.

What's Popping in Vell's World consist of Sweetie Pie’s Trial, Serena retires, Bank of America launched a pilot program and more.

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Hello Velliens,

I hope this message find you well. It has been a dark year for me. I wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of you for rocking with me during these times. I am really trying to push through and get back to tho cheerful Vell you all have grown to love. I have learned from the many times before that most times we have to put a pause on some things and that is OK. Thank you all for pulling through with me and we will get back to a weekly basis soon.

Peace and Love.

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Hello Velliens,

I hope this message find you well. It has been a dark year for me. I wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of you for rocking with me during these times. I am really trying to push through and get back to tho cheerful Vell you all have grown to love. I have learned from the many times before that most times we have to put a pause on some things and that is OK. Thank you all for pulling through with me and we will get back to a weekly basis soon.

Peace and Love.

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Email [email protected] with any comments, questions, or concerns you would like mentioned in our upcoming episodes. To sponsor an episode send us an email. Don’t forget to subscribe, tell a friend, and follow on all social media platforms. You can leave a voice message and become a monetary supporter for as little as .99 cent on the anchor.fm.