by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Learn + Grow
I find myself listening to podcast more and more these days! They are completely free, filled with wisdom, and such a great way to get educated on something without reading. I listen to podcast dealing with spiritual things, business things and even stories for my kids. Today I want to focus on podcast that will help empower and encourage you on your business venture! Here’s my top 5 podcast for girl entrepreneurs!
- Build Your Tribe: Chalene Johnson
Chalene focuses on how to build your team for the greater good!! She teaches us the numbers matter, but people matter most and how to cultivate them and create an amazing community!
- Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield
Amy Porterfield is a marketing powerhouse! If you need some help with marketing give her a try!
- Boost Your Sales & Lifestyle with Lisa Sasevich
Lisa teaches us how to grow and boost sales that in turn help us grow and boost our lifestyle! If money is your goal, she’s your girl!
- Mixergy—Startup Stories with 1,000 plus Entrepreneurs
Mixergy is awesome because you get multiple stories and perspectives from all kinds of entrepreneurs.
- Happy Black Woman Podcast with Rosetta Thurman
This one is awesome because it’s the only podcast I’ve found that is designed to specifically empower black women! Rosetta is so cheerful and wise and inspirational!
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
We live in a high-tech digital world that is only going to get more digital with the coming generations. We can order our groceries online and have them delivered at our house, we can text people instead of picking the phone up to call them, and we can even deposit checks into our bank accounts with our phones thanks to technology. If we wanted to, we could avoid human contact all together. We are the generation of likes, apps, retweeting, connecting, friends and emoji’s. While there’s an abundance of screen to screen interaction, face to face interaction is dwindling and with it depression, anxiety, and discontentment are on the rise (everydayhealth.com)
So is this screen to screen interaction really connecting? How do we move with the times but keep the simple act of communicating and really connecting with each other alive? People need people. When we start replacing real conversations and language with text messages and emoji’s we’re creating gaps for the enemy to come in and attack individuals. We need to remember that no amount of connecting online can take the place of actually connecting and getting together with people to be present with them and be a shoulder to lean on or to share a laugh with is crucial.
With our gadgets it’s easy to hide. It’s easy to appear one way but actually be the complete opposite. It’s easy to mask real issues that need to be dealt with. So how do we get back to basics here? Here’s some tips on how to start connecting with the people you love and strangers 90’s style.
- CALL YOUR FRIENDS
Yes, we mean actually pick up the phone and check in on your friends! Once a week make an actual phone call in which you are interacting with someone without texting or through a social media outlet.
- LEAVE YOUR PHONE IN THE CAR
If you are going out to lunch or a movie with a friend or your boyfriend, LEAVE THE PHONE. It’s okay. You don’t have to capture every moment. Be present. Give whoever you are with your full, undivided attention. They deserve it and might even need it.
- Dare I say, GET RID OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Okay, you don’t have to get rid of all the outlets, but maybe try giving up or deleting the app on your phone for a day or two. Watch how this will free up your time and challenge you to connect in different ways. The world will keep spinning if you aren’t tweeting, trust me.
- WRITE A LETTER
Yes. Go get some paper and a pen and write a letter to a friend! This is a good way to brighten someone’s day and an excuse to go to the post office and interact with humans.
With love and big smiles,
torrie
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Lifestyle+Culture
Dear 20 something soul,
Something #5
LAY IT DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS
Okay, so despite me telling you to not worry about what others are doing, worrying is unfornately a BIG part of our twenties. If it’s not worrying about one thing, it’s worrying about something else. Our twenties are filled with questions that stress and worry us to the core, for example but not limited to:
- Will I get the job?
- What preschool are we going to send the kids to?
- My car broke down and I have no money to fix it, what am I going to do?
- Do I want to go back to college?
- What’s my passion?
- How do I get out of all this debt?
- Will I ever be able to buy a home?
- Do I have cute clothes for the fall?
- Am I parenting right?
- When will I find my husband?
Ladies, I’m sure you can relate to one or more of those worries. But guess what, not one of us can add on a day to our life by worrying ourselves. I want you to meditate on Matthew 6:25-33. I love the way to Message paraphrase puts it:
“If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.â€
“Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.â€
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, and God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.â€
Trust that word sisters. Meditate on it and let it live inside of you until you truly learn to not worry about a thing!!
Till next time,
20 Something Soul
by Torrie Oglesby | Oct 20, 2015 | Learn + Grow
This week’s #GIRLBOSS: Kennesha Buycks
What makes her #GIRLBOSS certified: She is the creator of Restoration House Interiors, a mommy of 4 beautiful children, and a daughter of Christ working overtime to give Him all the glory with everything she puts her hand to. Through her platform she encourages and reminds women that who they are matters and what Christ wants to do through us matters even more!
You were made to do something amazing here. Don’t doubt it for a moment. Who you are matters. Your story matters. Your message matters.
-Kennesha Buycks
- Speak Your Truth
A lot of people sugar coat things on Instagram or only show you the best parts of their days, but Kennesha speaks and shares her truth with no apologies and it’s absolutely refreshing. Through posts about her hair or posts about her day she is always honest and transparent!
- Make a SELFIE a SELF REFLECTION
When Kennesha takes a selfie she makes sure to make it something that effects everyone. It’s not just her gorgeous face and a silly caption, but a moving caption and a thoughtful one that makes you reflect on yourself as well. Even with a selfie, she manages to turn our eyes inward and upward.
- Always create
Kennesha’s feed is filled with moments of creating! She’s an interior designer so it’s who she is. She creates beauty with her food, her hair, her clothes, her designs, her decoration and not to mention her beautiful family!
by STRONG | Sep 21, 2015 | Learn + Grow
The views of others often plaque our minds, our very spirit. They tie up our dreams and strip us of our purpose. Their ability to do that doesn’t reside in its truth, it relies on our acceptance of it.
On last night 3 amazing actresses received awards in honor of the ability to excel in their respective profession, Regina King, Uzo Aduba and Viola Davis. Viola Davis in fact literally making history as the first black actress to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama. Their greatness in an arena that has omitted their talents could no longer suppress the phenomenal presence they continuously pour out on television screens week after week after week. As we reflect on this day and stand proudly with them to celebrate the monumental achievements they so deservingly received, lets not forget to be present in the fact a moment like this exists. Lets not allow their accomplishment to be a hashtag in remembrance of the a night that will eventually fade. Instead, let it be a sobering reminder that we have to create, support, empower and inspire each other. We have to lift each other on the climb and show up places that don’t always accept us or have opportunities for us to shine. Nonetheless, we must continue to recognize the importance of our presence in those place to create the change we want to see.
There are times when you will not have the connections in place to get you where you would like to be, but you have to push through anyway. The beauty of progress isn’t who gets the reward it’s the understanding that on the shoulders of the winners stand more winners that have laid the pathway and the ground work for events/moments that are far too rare.
So, today tap into your own magic, celebrate someone else’s and get back to work… because there are too many hurdles to jump to stop now. When we welcome acceptance, but fail to acknowledge the problem, we become part of it. Thank you to the women that take hits everyday and keep moving forward into greater. There is so much more to come, but today Viola Davis, Regina King and Uzo Aduba we salute and celebrate with you as you stand in the greatness we have recognized long ago!
Be Inspired,
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