00:00empower you really ties into the message of essence we hope to inspire you and empower you
00:11to live your best life so we brought together experts in all kinds of fields health and
00:17wellness love and relationships finance and they're all talking to you today and giving
00:24you great advice and things that you can take home and apply to your day-to-day life
00:28in the summer months we really don't want to fight with texture whether your hair is relaxed like
00:33the kids or natural like Lauren's it's best really to just go ahead and work with your texture and use
00:39texture because with heat and humidity it's just so much easier to hold a style that way I'm all
00:45about wrapping your hair up protecting it at night with silk silk not satin silk because cotton rubs
00:53your hair so not only does it dry your hair it will also rub the style of the curl out of it
00:58the silk will hold the style it will keep the hydration and moisture in your hair and it will
01:04also keep your ends from getting dry and split after the biggest loser what did you go home how
01:09did you kind of integrate all the things you had experienced into making sure you stayed fit when
01:14it came to working out you know that was the most difficult thing because I do have a three-year-old and
01:19I am a business owner and so what I decided to do was to make sure I made working out part of my
01:26every day life I planned my workout sessions in the same way as I planned my boardroom meetings meaning
01:34it was on my calendar it was on my to-do list we have a sense that we need to be healthy and that food
01:40should be healthy but we really do not think about food as being medicine food is actually treating and
01:49preventing disease we think about food as comforting it tastes good I need to have food if I'm hungry
01:58sometimes food can be we feel it's addictive all of these ways we think about food but not really in
02:05the sense of taking something into our mouths so it actually helps to treat prevent and cure disease I
02:13I just had this conversation my girlfriend what do you feel about like should a woman help build a
02:19man up to the man well hold on hold on hold on hey this ain't your seminar the hell you answering the
02:26question for should you help build a man up let me explain something to you ladies the average man that's
02:36not where he wants to be in life the missing link is oftentimes a woman a woman is the difference maker
02:47you don't understand your power now with you being the possessor of that and that's not the only thing
02:55you got to build character and everything but when you put that together with what God gave you you are the
03:01missing link to what can take a man from here to there it happened to me I was going along fine I had
03:11some talent I was moving along in my career but after 2005 look at my life it's because of a woman a woman
03:21changed the whole game for me you are that woman to some man out there you've got to understand that so
03:29should you help build a man up you may be the only thing that can build him up I needed to buy my son
03:35Pampers and I went to the ATM and I went to get $20 out and in order to get $20 out you have to what
03:42you got to have $20 in I had $11.42 in the bank and I had to wrap my son in a towel for two days
03:54and I remember that second day I became bankrupt that day I became more committed to the woman I was
04:04becoming than I was to the woman I had been that day so I just stopped by to ask is today your day
04:13I'm happy to be involved in this initiative that provides African-American women an opportunity to
04:19become entrepreneurs and grow their own business look at just a sample of our success stories what
04:26you don't see in this picture is how busy these Nexercisers are and what other challenges they
04:32have in their lives yet they are losing weight and keeping it off because they finally found something
04:40that motivates them to be consistent we are onyx which is the first total beauty destination dedicated
04:48to black women we create a beauty box that goes out once a month it includes four beauty products
04:54plus a fifth that you get to select yourself and then you can go back to our website and actually
04:59learn how to use these products then when you find something in your box that you absolutely love
05:04you can come right back to our store and actually buy it in its full size and now our winner is
05:10Boomi Otomari to Nexercise Verizon understands that in order for us to reach our full potential we have
05:23to be connected to a strong network and so that network not only applies from a telecommunications
05:29perspective but it applies to a personal network as well everything that we've been told about how to
05:36pitch yourself is wrong people don't understand how to speak about what they do in a way that
05:43entices people to want to learn more let me explain if you are a teacher you don't just say I'm a teacher
05:51you say I'm building the next generation of leaders so what you want to do is say what you do not based on the
06:01word not based on the efforts that it takes but based on the results that you get we are always
06:07looking for gifted talented individuals who have a strong value proposition that they want to share
06:13with us we have lots of opportunities for those who are looking for either a job or a career change opportunity
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