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  The Conversation with Hill Harper, NAACP award-winner and NY Times Bestselling author

  Chocolate Pages

  Date / Time: 9/10/2009 10:00 PM UTC

  Category: Books

  
  

  In his first book for adults, the NAACP award-winning, New York Times Bestselling Hill Harper sparks honest dialogues about the crisis in African American relationships.
  Only 34% of African-American children today are raised in two-parent households. That is down from 1966, when 85% of black children were raised by two parents. Harper brings a variety of issues out of the shadows in THE CONVERSATION: How Black Men and Women Can Build Trusting Relationships (Gotham Books, September 8, 2009; $20.00)
  see www.theconversationonline.com

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  Original Air Date: 2/26/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  Stephen Pierce, author of "Make Real Money on the Internet" & Cathy Holloway Hill, Life Coach

  These two power houses believe you create wealth by creating value. The focus of this show is about MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD and creating money on the internet. No matter what your race, you can Live YOUR Dream, and have a Life by Design – RELYING ON GOD. If you seek true success, this show is for you! These two authors will share their secrets and talk about their life-changing books and how the internet helps you achieve your goals.
  Cathy Holloway Hill, Chocolate Pages Network member of the month
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• Date / Time: 2/26/2009 7:56 PM UTC

  Meet Stephen Pierce and Cathy Holloway Hill

  

  For many, Stephen Pierce’s name is synonymous with “success.” Recognized as one of the world’s leading Internet marketers and Business Optimization Strategists, Pierce wears several hats when it comes to his businesses. Not only is he the CEO of Stephen Pierce International, Inc, and the mastermind behind DTAlpha, he is a coach, facilitator, and a Certified Accelerated Innovation Trainer. He is also considered one of today’s top authorities on creating rapid wealth using the Internet. Says Pierce, “Creating wealth is not just in what you do… it’s in how you do it.”
  

  
  

  Stephen firmly believes that every one of us not only has the right to enjoy more of what we want in life, but that we also have the ability, right now, to make it happen. Stephen is constantly drawing from a deep well of personal experience when it comes to shaping his visions into concrete plans of action.

  Working from a background of homelessness and bankruptcy, he has since built a tidy empire of companies, programs, products and practices that have brought him enormous success, and he now tirelessly works to bring what he has learned to companies and individuals around the world. After starting with nothing, Stephen understands that we all have an inborn organic gift to create wealth and that we just need to know how to “discover it, harness it and unleash it.”

  
  

  Pierce is committed to creating possibilities for himself and for others, and it is this commitment that has taken him around the world to reach audiences that cannot come to him. He serves as a keynote speaker at events across the globe - from the US to the UK, from Australia to Asia, and everywhere in between. His dynamic speaking style is a welcome breath of fresh air to the participants at the seminars and events Stephen addresses, and he is always direct, to the point, and no-nonsense. His instruction is based on time-tested, proven, solid techniques coupled with his motivational, humorous and down-to-earth method of delivery.

  Discover the missing puzzle of

  "The Secret"

   

  Whether he’s one-on-one or speaking to a room of hundreds, Pierce intuitively knows how to reach each and every person he comes into contact with and help them to tap into the ideas, strategies and knowledge they need to reach success in their business and personal lives. Stephen’s many clients span a broad spectrum of business models. Whether he’s coaching Ford Motor Group or training a first-time Internet entrepreneur, Stephen is instinctively capable of devoting his efforts to design an optimized plan that will chart a path to success.

  
  

  For thousands of people all over the world seeking success, Stephen Pierce has been the answer. He will be your answer, too, when it comes to unleashing your own personal power to create wealth.

  Create value, to create wealth. http://stephenworldtour.com

   
  

  
  

  Strong Brilliant Women Realizing Their Dreams.....

  Certified Career Consultant, Life Coach, Radio Talk Show Host

  Cathy Holloway Hill "Some Leaders are BORN Women"

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  C. Holloway Hill Enterprises is a personal and professional development organization specializing in technology consulting, career consulting & life coaching.

  As an EmpowerMentor and Certified Life Coach, Cathy Holloway Hill is passionately committed to unleashing your brilliance by offering technology consulting, career & life coaching, seminars, workshops, motivational, and keynote presentations to design the life you desire. With over 20 years of experience in technology, business, management, career/life coaching, mentoring, and leadership, Cathy brings a passion to her work that is uniquely hers. She will emPOWER you to live your LIFE BY DESIGN CREATING YOUR ROADMAP TO SUCCESS:

  
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• Original Air Date: 2/19/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  Media Ministry Trends Today: Phil Cooke and Hajj Flemings discuss how to "Brand" Faith

  Phil Cookes advises ministries like Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and others and now he pens "The Last TV Evangelist" which reveals the history of religious broadcasting in the US & how it's come to the current situation. Hear the skinny at how the industry works, from radio, to television, and the Internet. Also, Hajj Flemings is the Detroit author of Brand YU. He will discuss about personal branding and how important it for Christians to really understand the world of social media and how to be an effective witness in a digital world. Both blog and Twitter! The Last TV Evangelist: Why The Next Generation Couldn't Care Less About Religious Media and Why it Matters (March 2009) is a timely guide to the digital media revolution that's transforming how this culture communicates.
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• Date / Time: 2/19/2009 5:35 AM UTC

  Meet Phil Cooke and Hajj Flemings - Branding Faith!

  A Catalyst for Change

  According to former CNN journalist Paula Zahn, filmmaker and media activist Phil Cooke is rare - he's a working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. in Theology. Christianity Today magazine calls him a "media guru" and his blog at philcooke.com is considered one of the most insightful resources on the web on issues of faith, culture, and media. Through his company, Cooke Pictures, based in Burbank, California, Phil advises many of the largest and most effective non-profit and faith-based media organizations in the world, and speaks at workshops, seminars, and conferences on a global basis.

  Phil speaks to issues related to faith and the media, and has been interviewed extensively during the controversy surrounding subjects like the release of The Da Vinci Code, Christians who boycott Hollywood, the moral issues surrounding network TV programming, the place of values and meaning in media, and much more. He brings a new perspective to the issues of faith in the media and public square.

  He’s appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Many of his projects have been placed in the permanent archive on the History of Broadcasting at the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University, representing landmark work in family and inspirational broadcasting.

  His production and consulting company: “Cooke Pictures,” works specifically with non-profit and religious clients, and as a founding partner in the commercial production company “TWC Films,” he also produces national advertising for some of the largest companies in the country – giving him a unique perspective on both religious and secular media issues. TWC Films produced two TV commercials for Super Bowl 2008 and unveiled the Chevrolet Volt in the national broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in China.

  He is the author of the nationally known e-mail newsletter Ideas for the Change Revolution, a bi-monthly journal filled with media research, creative concepts, and production resources, available at philcooke.com/signup.

  His online blog at philcooke.com features insight into issues of media and faith, and his book: Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Non-Profits Impact the Culture and Others Don’t is changing the way non-profit and religious organizations use the media to tell their story. He's lectured at universities like Yale, University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and is an adjunct professor at the King's College & Seminary, and Biola University in Los Angeles. www.philcooke.com

  About  Hajj Flemings...author

  
  

       Hajj E. Flemings is the author of ‘The Brand YU Life ‘.  The Brand YU Life, LLC. specializes in personal and corporate brand management consulting, training, and seminars. Hajj is a dynamic, energetic speaker, author, and transformational trainer who connects with his audience to challenge them to reach their hidden potential.  He has been featured on radio, TV, print, and even the internet impacting people globally with his message of brand management, brand value, success, and leadership.
  

  He travels nationally enabling leaders, employees, ministers, entrepreneurs, students, and sales teams to convert their fears into fuel for their passion and their brand. His branded customers include the General Motors Minority Dealers Association (GMMDA), the Ford/NAACP Youth Summit, BlackEnterprise.com, the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), the University of Detroit- Mercy, Michigan Technological University (MTU), and Davidson College to name a few.

  Hajj is also a managing partner of Broken Chains Design Group (BCDG), a graphical design firm.  His clientele includes Skechers Footwear, George C. Fraser, Lear Corporation, various universities and churches with his work being featured in GQ, Men’s Health, Details, and Slam magazines. 

  Hajj, a collegiate basketball player turned adjunct lecturer at his alma mater, MTU, wrote the personal brand management curriculum which he teaches.  He has a B.S. in Mechancial Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a MBA from Lawrence Technological University. He was recognized as a George C. Fraser- Frasernet Top Achiever and was honored in Who’s Who in Black Detroit.  He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Detroit Black Expo (IDBE) and the Lear Entrepreneurial Center (LEC) Advisory Board. He resides in Michigan with his lovely wife Kasandra.

  www.twitter.com/hajjflemings and www.hajjflemings.com

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• Original Air Date: 2/12/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  Who Has YOUR Heart? Got hurt? Able to Love again? Let's talk about it!

  Whether you are struggling in your marriage, dating situations, friendships or business relationships, you can have peaceful, productive and fulfilling relationships. Guests actres CeeCee Michaela, Founder of The Godzgirl Network and Project Marriage now, Relationship Realist and Lifestyle Enhancement Coach Tanya White and Vince Hudson, Cover Girl Marketing Manager! Stop your relationship reruns that are ruining your life!
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• Date / Time: 2/11/2009 11:28 PM UTC

  Meet CeeCee Michaela, Tanya White, Vince Hudson

  

   

  Cee Cee Michaela…was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina. She did her first movie at the age of nine. By the time she was twelve, she was singing in four octaves and four languages. At 17, she received one of the most prestigious scholarships to the North Carolina School of the Arts double majoring in Dance and Classical Voice. She played the late, great Gregory Hine's little sister on Broadway by the time she was 21 years old. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music in which her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theater was Fedex'd to her stage door as she had already landed on Broadway before she could finish her last two months of college. While she graced the stage of Jelly's Last Jam with over 550 performances with Mr. Hines, Ben Vereen and Phylicia Rashad, Ms. Michaela continued her studies while in New York and graduated as one of about seven African-American students in an all white conservatory! She also starred in the Broadway hit, Smokey Joe's Café as well as several television shows such as: All My Children, The Fresh Prince, Chicago Hope, The Steve Harvey Show and Strong Medicine. But she is probably BEST known for her character of (Yvonne), the police officer and William's Fiancée, on the UPN hit comedy “GIRLFRIENDS”, executive produced by Kelsey Grammer. She also played the role of (SIMONE) in the movie, “HAIR SHOW”, starring along with Mo'Nique executive produced by Magic Johnson and has been seen on TBN's “PRAISE THE LORD” on numerous occasions.
  
   In 2003, Cee Cee Michaela wrote her first book entitled : I Wish I Had Known:101 Nuggets for Healthy Relationships and she has an Inspirational CD, which she wrote, arranged and produced that was #6 on the Gospel charts in Europe. She copyrighted her first song at eighteen years old and an now she has almost forty songs located in her ASCAP catalogue and she is the owner to all of her masters, rights and publishing. Her music has scored some of the top shows in America such as:Party of Five.
  
   She is the owner of several businesses: Driven By a Vision Records, Pop The Trunk™ Productions, Cee Cee Michaela Ministries and the GodzGirl/GodzGuy Network™, a (501 c 3) non-profit organization that promotes abstinence and purity which all function successfully despite the fact that she spends over half of her time away from the office conducting empowerment workshops with a powerful life changing message to teenagers and adults across the world. She has been invited to speak at some of America's top organizations, churches, schools and universities and has been successful in motivating the secular as well as non-secular.
  
   She has received numerous awards and proclamations from several states for her tireless efforts in empowering and educating our youth. Ms. Michaela teaches life skills classes to teens which incorporate: purity, beauty, purpose, leadership, wisdom and excellence. She is also the founder and host of the annual HOLYwood Retreat, a 2-day summer get-away for teens and their parents and in 2003, she came out with her purity ring design which is extremely popular among teens as well as adults and is the highlight of her infamous all white purity ceremonies. Hew website is: http://www.ilovetheyouth.com/

  Here is a visual of a few of her many accomplishments through the years!

   

  2001 Her CD! She sings!	2003 Her Book, She writes!	2005 Her ring! She has Jewelry!
  2006 cover		2007 cover

                 

                     2008 Mission Trips! 

                                 Godzgirls goes to the Nations!   
  
  
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  YES YOU CAN HAVE DRAMA FREE RELATIONSHIPS! Whether you are struggling in your marriage, dating situations, friendships or business relationships, you can have peaceful, productive and fulfilling relationships. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE THAT RELATIONSHIPS HAVE TO BE DIFFICULT! In her 2 bestselling books, Relationship Reruns & How To Deal With A Difficult Woman, Relationship Realist & Lifestyle Enhancement Coach Tanya White gives you the secrets you need to find rest from your relationship mess!  CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE PEACE YOU HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR!   WORK THAT LOVE STRATEGY GIRL: P&G marketing guru offers tips on branding yourself for a successful relationship. By Mona Austin / mediamindedpro@yahoo.com      *They say it all started in The Garden of Eden.  The common communication disconnection between women and men that ultimately led author John Gray to conclude that we’re from two different planets (Mars and Venus) is mutilating relationships across the nation.      The relationship forecast looks especially bleak for a large majority of African American women.      According to the New York Times 70% of Black women are not married and 42.3% have never been married.       Compared to 57% of Whites only 34%of African Americans wed, and by the tenth year nearly half of those marriages are over.       White women, Hispanic women and even more Black men marry than Black women.*      This data has some single Black females worried about whether they will ever jump the broom, does Black love have a chance anymore, and if so will they find a love that lasts?       Relationship Coach Vince Hudson’s answer is a firm “yes” to all of the above! Hudson is the Marketing Director for Cover Girl Cosmetics, North America.  He is convinced that experiencing a healthy relationship is possible beyond fantasy land.   All a girl (or guy) really needs to succeed in the relationship market, he believes, is a mental make-over and a little brand focused strategy to attract and keep the man of her dreams.      After years of listening to complaints from friends, drifting through articles about split-ups and the raging divorce rate in America, coupled with personal experience, Hudson surmised that, just as products that don't live up to the claims on their label fail, people will never find their soul mate as long as they are presenting a false image of who they are.       He’s confident that women should be optimistic about holy matrimony in their future plans because throughout his successful career he has consistently seen strategic thinkers win.      “The ladies at my job,” -- most of them professional, in or approaching their thirties and never before married -- “were constantly asking me about relationships and I began to notice these patterns.  I started to explain things to them in marketing terms, telling them that they are the brand and their light bulbs went off,” the 16-year marketing vet shares about how he got started.  As rapper Jay Z's self-proclaimed biggest fan, he too has a way with words, so he decided to "break it down" in those terms to the masses. What a girl wants      In a market over-saturated with women, honing a competitive edge is crucial. To do so, Hudson emphasizes the importance of delivering brand clarity and at seminars imparts a 4-step process that applies basic marketing principles to assist singles in quickly assessing and eliminating potential time-wasters.       Do you really know what you want in a man?  More importantly, do you know what you don’t want in a man?  A woman’s mind, heart and mouth must be synchronized in order to get the results she desires in any situation, including the area of love and relationships.  As a relationship coach Hudson emboldens women to look into the mirror of introspection, determine what they want and need in a man and to make sure that the image they project communicates their expectations. That’s brand clarity.  She must also understand the true definition of love, found in the Holy Bible (1 Corinthians 13). Missing this piece of the puzzle—not knowing the meaning of love-- is one of the top reasons hearts are broken.  What a girl needs (and how to get it!)      Here are some of Hudson’s tips on avoiding relationship pitfalls to take you into this season of love and romance refreshed: Q: What is the #1 thing a woman must know about her personal brand to be effective in the marketplace of love? A: She has to ask herself what is my point of advantage in the point of difference.  In other words, why would anybody care about me vs. another brand? Q: What do women need to do to attract the right men? A: You gotta think about it like business and have a strategy.  Being strategic is more important than anything.  Girls that are strategic will always win over girls that aren’t which is why Microsoft came out of nowhere on IBM and Apple came out of nowhere on Microsoft.  Maximizing your demand in the market is really what it comes down to.  Q: What mistakes do women consistently make in relationships? Most women that I observe do either of two things: 1. They make poor choices and that’s getting all wrapped up in men that aren’t all wrapped up in them.  2. They decide: I’m giving up and I’ll let fate take its course. In business neither one of those strategies has ever worked. Q: How can a woman find and maximize her demand with the man of her dreams? A: It’s not about you being smart, beautiful, witty or rich. It’s about you being strategic and that means nothing more than making the best decisions to get the most happiness for your brand on the market.  Michael Franks has a song that says what good is a song if it ain’t in my key?  He’s gotta be as into you as you are into him and if it’s not mutual to the point that the connection is divine, then that’s not your soul mate. You gotta de-select those who are not the one to increase to odds of finding the one. When you narrow down your options you’ve got a greater chance of connecting with the right person. Q: What is the question a woman must ask to ensure that she is targeting likely prospects? A: What is the key benefit I desire or the thing I’m looking for in a mate that will help me de-select others?  Get the stuff you know won’t work out of the way.      They may also need to get a proper definition of what a relationship is.  It’s more than that feeling and those butterflies; love is beyond the butterflies and the bling.  Those things are necessary but not sufficient, because they don’t sustain.  If you change what you are looking for you change what you get, so if you look for short term attributes, you get short term relationships.      These principles about relationship strategy meet you where you are in your life. You can be an empty nester, a 21-year-old or a divorcee.  To go from heartbreak to healing, Hudson suggests keeping a positive outlook, knowing there is someone for everyone.       The budding author affirms, “You can always keep your brand growing ...”       Plus, keep in mind that products are improved and frequently re-introduced to the marketplace “new and improved”.       Once you’ve obtained sufficient “product knowledge” adapting these strategies from the brand marketing guru, may even prepare you to re-connect with someone from your past.  “You can re-launch as long as you are clear about what made it fail the first time,” advises Hudson. (And of course, it he’s single too.) But before you move forward with the next suitor, go into it realistically acknowledging there is a 50/50 chance it could work—or not!       In Hudson’s opinion, “Soft and cheap failure is a good thing.  That means date; get some experience and understand how you all relate. Get data points that will help you make decisions down the road. And remember: All roses are not relationships, all kisses are not contracts. (That came from a popular poem.)”      Vince Hudson anticipates completing his first book on love and relationships this year.      Ultimately, Hudson hopes to inspire singles to engage in healthier dating experiences and courtships with increased potential to turn into life-long unions.  *Numerical data taken for the "Soulmate" documentary.

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• Original Air Date: 2/10/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  Omar Tyree talks about The Equation: Applying the 4 Indisputable Components of Business Success

  New York Times & Essence bestselling author Omar Tyree serves up some good stuff on this special Chocolate Pages show talking about culture, community and connections in the literary world. His new non-fiction book, THE EQUATION, is a groundbreaking formula that looks at how all business is an art. The book will help business people rethink how they manage their art form and help businesses accelerate their productivity by creating a corporate culture driven by passion and zeal, as art is. Omar Tyree talks about his success as a writer and his plans for the next phase of his career. www.omartyree.com
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