It’s Really Just that Simple: A Series

March 29, 2011

Photo Credit: The Raggedy-man on Flickr   “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” — Leo Babauta Not too long ago, when riding in the car with a friend, we came to a stoplight and I noticed a young woman crossing the street. Dressed nicely and seemingly on her way [...]

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Video: March Hair Length Check

March 9, 2011

To say I have been on hiatus is a bit of an understatement. Ah, all of the Think & Grow Chick adventures and revelations that I must soon share! While I work on pulling this blog out of its comatose with fresh posts and videos on my business, finance, and personal adventures, I figured the [...]

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Working Hard at Taking it Easy: My Mantra for 2011

January 21, 2011

I smiled as I received the text because it was the culmination of one heck of a Christmas vacation. “I love you too, sweetie. This your first time being 22. It gets a lot easier as you get older, I promise.” –Mom We had gotten off of the phone not too long prior to her [...]

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It’s Not About Being Naughty or Nice—It’s About Hard Work

January 1, 2011

Photo Credit: Clay Larsen The winter holiday season is by far my favorite. With the fall school semester ending just in time for a much needed break from all my academic rigor, I love coming home to my mom’s cooking, my brother’s jokes, and two weeks of wide open, unstructured time. While rhapsodizing over how [...]

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Why Money Can’t Buy Me Happiness

December 3, 2010

Photo Credit: Tantek I remember the first time I realized that money would never buy me happiness. I was sitting in my room; going over my bank accounts, perplexed by how there always seemed to be barely enough cash to cover my basic expenses. Irritated that I hadn’t been shopping in weeks or bought even [...]

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The Accidental (Hair) Minimalist

November 12, 2010

If you were following me yesterday on twitter, then you might have seen my tweet declaring my love for “the pineapple method” and the subsequent twitpic showing the best “second-day” hair I could have every hoped for. For those of you who are unfamiliar, basically, the “pineapple” is simply a way to maintain your natural [...]

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Interview: Maneandchic.com Founder Kai Speaks on Hair, the Blog, and Professional Life

November 10, 2010

Maneandchic.com was one of the first blogs that introduced me to this online, natural hair community. From her humble beginnings in 2007 as a natural hair novice with nothing but a blog and a dream, I have watched Mane & Chic founder, Kai, attain 3 years of amazing growth with both her hair and the [...]

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Podcast: Rosetta Thurman on Non-Profits, Blogging, and Life as a Happy Black Woman

November 8, 2010

I’m very excited to share a recent interview I did with the wonderful Rosetta Thurman. For those of you who don’t know, Rosetta is a phenomenal young, black woman who is taking both the non-profit and blogging worlds by storm. Having just released her first book, How to Become a Non-Profit Rockstar—50 Ways to Accelerate [...]

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The Story of a Black Girl and Her Finances—Michelle Singletary

November 3, 2010

Many readers have been asking when the heck am I going to get part 3 of the “Story of a Black Girl…” financial series out. It is coming, I promise it is coming! To hold everyone over, I thought I’d share a short clip that I recorded this weekend while in New York at the [...]

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The Un-Fussy Natural: Myth or Mandate?

October 29, 2010

Hey everyone. Today’s post will be a super quick one because I am out traveling (more info about why in a future post) and do not have regular access to internet. As we’ve talked about on this blog before, there is much discussion among Naturals about whether complicated care is necessary to maintain our natural [...]

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