Living Your Dash in Style: Your Legacy of a Significant Life.

Join Dr. Culbreth for Living Your Dash in Style: Your Legacy of a Significant Life.

Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm EST on

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The topics will focus on living life to its fullest, pursing your dreams, rediscovering, reinventing and redefining you as you travel on your journey to the what next stage in life. Food for thought: Are you living a fulfilling life – one that will note your dash as extraordinary and significant? Are you happy? Do you know where you are going to?

Topics:

What Really Matters
Living Your Dash in Style
Rediscover, Reinvent and Redefine You
Embracing the What Next Stage
Celebrate, Embrace and Empower You
Home
Live Your Dream
Do You Know?
One Day at a Time
Leave a Legacy of a Significant Life
Ready, Set, Go

Link to the show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/complexitylive/2015/08/14/living-your-dash-in-style-your-legacy-of-a-significant-life

NGWCC’s New Resources Page

National Girls & Women of Color Council, Inc. (NGWCC)

Greetings

The National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. has added a Resources page to the NGWCC website. The page contains resources for girls and women of color. If you would like to have your business, book, or other resources (fitness, health, beauty, magazines, nutritional, consulting business, etc.) listed on NGWCC’s Resources page, please visit our website, complete the NGWCC Resources Form and submit! We will contact you shortly.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Continued Success!

Dr. Culbreth

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Jealousy Is A Wasted Emotion

Jealously is one of the most wasted emotions that humans experience because it has no purpose. Instead of wasting energy being jealous or envious, spend time enhancing and improving yourself. Jealous and envious women thrive in negative environments and radiate negative energy. Fabulously fifty women of color thrive in positive environments and radiate positive energy.

When you allow yourself to become consumed by jealousy, your psychological, emotional, physical and social well-being may become unbalanced leading you to act, react and interact negatively – and without warning, you suddenly find yourself stuck on a page in the book of your life, an abyss, or the murky waters of envy, spite, and anger.

You focus on embracing other women of color and being supportive. You clearly understand that you will meet women who may be more creative, smarter and prettier than you are, have better bodies, prettier hair, larger homes, better opportunities, class and style, or women who have embarked on awesome careers. Embrace them while embracing you, and never allow yourself to waste time or emotions dwelling on negativity. Giving someone the evil eye glare, being a crab in the barrel, making nasty comments, or being mean-spirited, all limit your ability to live a fulfilling, happy and significant life.

Lift each other by celebrating, embracing and empowering each other through words of encouragement, support, and unity. Cheer each other on and be the inspiration needed to conquer the negativity of jealousy.

You are too busy living life fabulous to waste time, energy or thoughts that are not conducive to your overall well-being!

Reference

Culbreth, D. (2014). Living Life Fabulous at Fifty: Affirmations for Women of Color.

On Being Bigger, Better and Bolder!

Being bigger means that you are the bigger person who takes the high road at all times and that you are the bigger person when dealing with adversity, disagreements, and difficult people. You understand that being bigger means standing firm in your convictions and calling attention to issues that affect girls, pre-teens, teens and women of color worldwide.

Being better means that you are better person today than you were yesterday, last week, last month or even last year. You have learned valuable life lessons from your experiences and now use them to make you a better person. You read and research issues affecting girls, pre-teens, teens, and women of color throughout the world and work to make the world a better place for them.

Being bolder means that you dare to be different and dream of being a trailblazer and torchbearer for girls, pre-teens, teens and women of color who will break down race and color barriers impeding girls, pre-teens, teens, and women of color across the board.

Your ability to be bigger, better and bolder will enable many girls, pre-teens, teens, and women of color throughout the world to believe that they too can break down race and color barriers and be a part of the change that is needed in this world. You are bigger, better and bolder. Think it! Believe it! Be it!

Nominate Extraordinary Girls and Women of Color

As we celebrate, embrace and empower girls and women of color, the National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. (NGWCC) and I Am Beautiful Global, Inc. are seeking nominations of girls and women of color who have and are making history as trailblazers and torchbearers in their own right. Selected Nominees will be featured in the special thematic issue of the Journal of Colorism Studies (JOCS), Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color, under the section, Girls and Women Making History.

Nominees demonstrate character, commitment, perseverance, determination, strength and resiliency. They inspire and empower girls and women of color to achieve their dreams and to reach higher ground. Nominees may be students, parents, seniors, business leaders, lawyers, artists, writers, organizational leaders, administrators, educators, health workers, politicians, change agents, role models, mentors, clergy, founders, community activists/leaders, social workers, visionaries, volunteers, employees, etc.

We are very interested in receiving nominations of seniors who are unsung trailblazers and torchbearers within communities of color.

The deadline for submissions is August 30, 2015. Please complete the Girls and Women of Color Making History Nomination (below) and submit to nominees@ngwcc.org.

Nomination Form Girls and Women of Color Making History

(Microsoft Word Doc)

Join NGWCC: Be A Part Of The Change Needed For Girls and Women of Color!

National Girls & Women of Color Council, Inc. (NGWCC)

The National Girls and Women of Color Council, Inc. (NGWCC) is growing and we are excited about our growth. We will hold our organizational conference call in May and would like to have our Board of Directors and Task Forces ready to launch. Our goal is to build a membership base that includes members from every state as well as international representation. Our success is determined by your involvement, commitment, and interest in being a part of the change needed for girls and women of color worldwide. Accordingly, we are seeking Chairs to lead the following Task Forces:

Open Task Forces

Art
Education – Higher Education
Fundraising
Mentoring
Career & Professional Development
Research
STEM
Global
E-Newsletter (new)
NGWCC Journal (new – The Task Force Chair will serve as Editor-in-Chief)
Campus (new)
Membership (new)
Parenting (new)

Filled Task Force Positions:

Health/Nutrition
Criminal Justice/Incarceration
Grant Writing and Non-Profit Management
NGWCC Writer’s…

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Keep the Faith

Having faith in you is as crucial as breathing. With each breath that you take, your body prepares to take the next breath. Likewise, having faith in you and your potential prepares you to continue your journey in life with confidence. You know that each passing moment and experience is preparing you to successfully navigate the murky waters, the shallow waters, and the deep waters with confidence and grace.

Psychic Prisons

As a fabulously fifty woman of color, it is important for you to understand that you live in a society that may not always embrace the beautiful hues of skin tones, hair textures, body shapes, or cultures of women of color. Sometimes people use negative stereotypes and negative perceptions of women of color and try to force you to identify with them or make you believe that you are inferior and that they are superior.

If you begin to believe the negative stereotypes, they can affect your self-esteem, self-love, self-identity, self-pride and self-respect, resulting in you becoming trapped in a psychic prison. As a result, you will begin to display negative attitudes, negative behaviors, and negative thought processes that can lead to you making choices that may defer your dreams, diminish your hopes, and destroy your ability to live life fabulous. Psychic prisons thrive on negativity.

Do not believe the negative stereotypes because as a fabulously fifty woman of color, you are so much more than the negative thoughts, words, or beliefs of people who cannot see the beauty in women of color. To avoid becoming trapped in a psychic prison, consider the following:

Learn and embrace the Principles of Living Life Fabulous
Believe in yourself with every fiber of your being
Think and practice positive thought processes
Apply the Principles of Living Life Fabulous philosophy to your life everyday all day.

Remember that you are not inferior, less worthy, or insignificant because of the color of your skin. Show the world that you will not be a victim or trapped in a psychic prison because you are just too awesome to allow yourself to be trapped by the ignorance of others.

Show and Tell

Tell your children/grandchildren that you love them and show them at the same time so that they continue to grow, not only knowing that you love them, but feeling loved. When children feel and know that they are loved, they will not look for love in the wrong places and from the wrong crowd.

Show your children/grandchildren that you love them in little ways that mean the most. A hug followed by “I love you” can build confidence and inspire. Become personable with your children/grandchildren and instead of texting them to say I love you, tell them in person and look into their eyes when you do so that they see the certainty in your eyes.

Motivate them with words of encouragement and remember that elaborate gifts are not substitutes for quality time, love, attention, or affection. When you show and tell, your children/grandchildren will know what love feels like and in turn, they will grow understanding what giving, receiving, feeling, and knowing what love is.

If you have not done so today, show and tell your children/grandchildren that you love them! Words and actions are powerful!

Reference

Culbreth, D. (2014). Living Life Fabulous at Fifty: Affirmations for Women of Color.

Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color: Call for Submissions

National Girls & Women of Color Council, Inc. (NGWCC)

In 2015, we are celebrating, embracing and empowering girls and women of color by launching the National Girls and Women of Color Council (NGWCC). Accordingly, in collaboration with I Am Beautiful Global, Inc. and NGWCC, the Journal of Colorism Studies (JOCS) is inviting essays for a special themed issue of JOCS titled Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color.

Join us in celebrating, embracing and empowering girls and women of color. The special issue of JOCS will also be available for purchase in print through Complexity Publishing, LLC. The online version of JOCS is available online and is free.

Call for Submissions

Deadline: Extended to May 1, 2015

The Journal of Colorism Studies (JOCS) is accepting essays for a special thematic issue Celebrating, Embracing and Empowering Girls and Women of Color for publication in Volume 1, Issue 2. We are particularly interested in essays that include but are not limited…

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