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Multi-media personality, Women’s advocate and entrepreneur

As a media professional for 15 years, Monique Caradine has worked in every aspect of the business–including television, advertising, public relations and radio.  In 2004, she embarked on a new endeavor by launching Momentum Media Group, a media development and consulting company.

Momentum specializes in media training and publicity consulting for female executives and entrepreneurs.  Momentum also produces radio and TV programs in Chicago and Atlanta.

Throughout her career Monique has proven herself to be media visionary.  For two years (2004-2006), her company independently produced and funded a weekly television program.  Currently, Monique is the host of a new community affairs TV program called “Perspective,” which airs Sundays on FOX affiliate WPWR My50 in Chicago.

In 2003, Mo ended her tenure as host of a daily, award-winning talk show on Chicago’s only black-owned radio station, WVON 1450 AM.  Known as Mo in the Midday, she discussed a wide range of issues.  She also interviewed such notables as Tavis Smiley, Patti LaBelle, Maya Angelou, Magic Johnson, Queen Latifah, Les Brown and many more.  Mo in the Midday was twice named Best Midday Talk Show in Chicago and Monique was also recognized three consecutive times by TALKERS Magazine as one of the top 100 radio talk show hosts in the nation.

Monique has appeared as a frequent guest on the nation’s largest television and radio networks, including CNN, FOX News and National Public Radio.  She has also been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Defender, N’DIGO and a variety of other local and national media outlets.  Monique is known as a gifted speaker and workshop presenter and has delivered keynote addresses to local and national organizations.

Throughout her entire career, Monique Caradine’s mission has been to use the media as a platform to empower, enlighten and inform audiences.   She is a respected media professional, and women’s empowerment advocate.  As she puts it, “my goal is to enrich lives, open minds and push boundaries.”

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2008 was full of life changing events already for Jennifer. Laid off from her corporate job right before the holidays, Jennifer recently made the decision to stop interviewing for another corporate gig and follow her dream to become an entrepreneur. Initially, she found success with a network marketing company, Isagenix. Her work as a Nutritional Cleansing Coach was much more rewarding and working closely with people across the globe in a team environment was much more fulfilling than working as a corporate employee.

As an entrepreneur, Jennifer realized there are many ways to generate income so she decided to indulge in her favorite past time, event planning. Her first event, Would You Marry You? quickly sold out and she realized that she may be on to something. Thus JenniferDent Events was created. JenniferDent Events focuses on bridging the gap in people’s live by briging from where they are now to where they want to be. JenniferDent Events motivate, uplift, educate and encourage.

Over the years, Jennifer learned the importance of generating multiple streams of income. In addition to her Isagenix business, and her event planning company, she also owns investment properties in the Philadelphia area.

Her professional success and accomplishments has not hindered this entrepreneur from serving. She lives by the biblical quote, “to whom much is given, much is required.” She is extremely active in her community and church, First African Baptist Church in Sharon Hill, PA. In church, she sings on the choir and serves as a ministry leader of a group for high school girls entitled G.U.E.S.S. (Girls Understanding Education Success and Society).

In the community, she is the founder of the Philadelphia Minority Professionals GIVE BACK Meetup organization. This group was established in April 2008 with the purpose of bringing together professionals in the Philadelphia area who are committed to empowering the community by giving back to charitable causes. The group membership continues to grow daily and is close to 300 members strong.

Jennifer is looking forward to the future where she has plans to empower and encourage people worldwide through JenniferDent Events.

www.jenniferdent.com

jennifer@jenniferdent.com

Office: (856) 346-8172

She is a true entrepreneur and a Black Genius. Enjoy this interview with Jennifer Dent [display_podcast]

Every Monday, the Black Genius Network tells the story of black success in the words of the entrepreneur. Look for another black Genius Network interview next Monday, Feb 23,2008

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During February the Black Genius Network is featuring black women entrepreneurs and we are honored that Delores Pressley agreed to do the first interview on the month.

DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker and Personal Power Expert, is one of the most respected and sought-after experts on success, motivation, confidence and personal power. She is an international keynote speaker, author, life coach and the Founder of the Born Successful Institute and DeLores Pressley Worldwide. Her story has been touted in Glamour, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, First for Women, Essence, New York Daily News, Ebony and Marie Claire. She is a frequent media guest and has been interviewed on every major network: (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) including America’s top rated shows; OPRAH and Entertainment Tonight

DeLores’ client list range from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, including Procter and Gamble, Roche Pharmaceutical, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Caribbean Association of Administrative Professionals (CAAP) and the FirstEnergy Corporation. She has authored Clean Out the Closet of Your Life, Believe in the Power of You and Renovate Yourself. She has received many awards and recognitions for her work. Her newest project is producing,Speak for Hire, an educational and promotional program for speakers around the world.

During our conversation Delores tells us her story, how she created success in her life, how she started her business and what she had to do to get on the Phrah Winfrey Show. Enjoy our interview with Delores Pressley, Success Coach and Personal Power Expert.

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I met Veronica Conway on Twitter, her ecommerce diva, Regina Baker added me to Veronica’s Twitter and we started following each other. Veronica and I scheduled an interview and she sent me some background information. One of the things she sent me was called The Black Paper and the other The Black Mastery Program. I read the Black Paper (amazing) and on Christmas Day I bought the Black Mastery Program. The program is a continuing blessing in my life.

Veronica is a strong black woman, fierce, smart, and determined to help black people defeat blame and victalk talk.

Veronica is also a successful entrepreneur, visionary and founder of three coaching companies, including the Black Professional Coaches Alliance, the only coaching organization dedicated to the transformation of people of African descent. She is the co-founder of Phenom Consulting International, a company that provides life and media strategy for the entertainment and athletic industries. She has coached everyone from truck drivers to CEO’s athletes, artists and celebrities. Veronica has more than 3000 hours of personal, business and financial coaching experience. Veronica is a certified coach, as well as a certified hypno-therapist and master certified NLP practitioner. She is a Master Business and Financial coach, a seasoned facilitator and a certified mediator.

Learn more about Veronica’s fascinating life and and how The Black Mastery Progam  can help change your life. Get more info at The Black Paper

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David Bullock has done it all and continues to do it all. He started as an engineer, became a salesman where he grew his territory to  $120 million dollars in sales. Now David is a successful profit engineer.

David Bullock is multi-channel business development specialist with a concentration in internet marketing. He formerly worked in industrial robotics sales with customers including Nissan, Honda, Mercedes and BMW. His experience of building a “brick and mortar” $150,000,000 sales territory is augmented with a complete understanding of online lead generation, ecommerce and local lead generation. This practical understanding is especially timely considering our current business climate where our businesses must utilize all resources to compete and prosper.

David has been featured in Direct Marketing News (2006) and Black Enterprise Magazine (March 2007) and most recently in November 2008 for tracking the successful implementation of social media by the President Elect Barack Obama. The Barack20.com documents, in real time, the strategies and tactics employed by the campaign and then moves to make those technology applicable to the small to mid sized business. The site blueprints the successful use of social media to engage, captivate and motivate customers using readily available tools and platforms.

David is a certified Business Professional, Search Engine Optimization Specialist, Ecommerce and Adwords Pay Per Click Instructor (Technical Editor - Adwords for Dummies - Sept 2007). Further, he a faculty writer for the The Net Effect a publication that is focused on practical strategies for business utilizing the internet to create revenue. And, was voted one of the Top 50 influential Men In Social Media. He has been a featured speaker at BlogWorldExpo, BlackEnterprise Entrepreneur Conference. Currently David has a book in the works that will chronicle the successful execution of social media to grow businesses.

Enjoy this interview about how David is manifesting success in his life.[display_podcast]

www.DavidBullock.com

www.SeoRainMaker.com

www.Barack20.com

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I was recently reading David Bullock’s blog and he posted this video which absolutely drives home the benefits of the Black Genius Network in my opinion.

The video describes how quickly information is changing the world and how overwhelming all the change can be. David titled his post  “Lead Or Get Out Of The Way” but I see it differently. I say “Learn quickly or get out of the way”.

This video drives home the need to learn quickly and the best way to learn quickly is from each other. If your goal is to have a successful life, you can’t use the old ways of learning. You have to learn success strategies and tactics quickly from people that are using those tactics successfully today. That’s what learning quickly means to me. Learn from each other, don’t assume that the success skills you have or had will still work. Join the Black Genius Network snd discover new success strategies, tactics and skill quickly.

Check out the video and tell me what you think and discover the secrets to success from entrepreneur John Lawson

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Then tell us your story

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I learn so much from these interviews and when we get near the end my standard questions is “What are the 3 Most Important Factors in Your Success. My goal in asking that question is to draw out the strategies that successful black business people use.

John’s 3 Keys to Success where; (here my interview with Black Genius John Lawson)

1. You must have Integrity.
2. You have to take action
3. You have to believe.

Success leaves clues and John gave us specific instructions for being successful. When John talks about having integrity he means that successful people have a value system, that they are consistent and can be trusted, their word has meaning (as best as possible). John is also absoultely right when he says you have to take action. There is an old African proverb “If you want to eat, you must move your feet”, moving your feet is taking action. All results start with some action.

Lastly John says “You gotta believe”. When you get on a plane, can the pilot see the destination? No, he has a detailed plan, he takes action (flying the plane) and he believes (yes knows( that if he follows the plan he will arrive at his destination just like thousand of other planes and pilots. Success is the same, you may not see the destination but if you follow the plan, they keys to success outlined by John, than success is inevitable.

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I’ve decided that I will dedicate to posts to little known African American success stories and  in honor of President Elect Obama, I want to start with a politician. The Hiram Rhodes Revels Story. 

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the 1st Black United States Senator. He was elected during Reconstruction when US Senators where elected by the state Senate. Senator Revels served as the Senator for Mississippi for one year from 1870 to 1871. 

Senator Revels was born in Fayetteville, NC, his father was a freeman of white and black heritage, his mother was white of Scottish heritage.  He attended numerous church schools after being home schooled.

Senator Revels became an AME minister and worked in many states ending up in Natchez Mississippi. During Reconstruction, Senator Revels was elected alderman in 1868.  As far as anyone can tell Senator Nevels had never voted, never attended a political meeting or made a political speech.

In January 1870, Senator Revels gave a remarkable prayer to the Mississippi Senate. John R Lynch reports that Senator Revels prayer made a profound impression upon all who heard him. It impressed those who heard it that Revels was not only a man of great natural ability but that he was also a man of superior attainments.”

In 1870 Senator Revels was selected by the the Mississippi Senate to fill one of the two seats in the US Senate. That seat had been vacant since the Civil War.

Immediately after his election, Senator Revels was challeged by the Senate Democrats (most blacks where Republicians) about whether it is legal for an African American to be a US Senator. The southern Democrats argued that black men born before the passage of the 14th Amendment where not citizens so they weren’t able to be US Senators.

Revels supporters argued that the Dred Scott decision (this was the basis of the argument that Senator Revels wasn’t a citizen) only applied to full blooded Africans and since Revels was both black and white the Dred Scott Decision didn’t apply.

Senator Revels eventually resigned the Senate and was appointed President of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University).

Senator Revels was an African American success story, the first black US Senator and the 1st Black person in the US Congress.

There are many ironies in this story, Revels was mixed like President Elect Obama and he faced similar challenges. Hope you enjoyed the story.

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Like many of you the election of Barack Obama has affected me in what feels like a profound way. Like you, I rooted hard for Senator Obama, worked in the campaign got up early to vote and cried tears of joy about results. 

That was Tuesday, when I woke up on Wednesday I felt like I had a renewed responsibilty to do and be better. A better husband, uncle, mentor and friend. I felt like the bar has been raised for us brothers and I want to embrace that feeling. 

Thats why as of today, I have revivied the Black Genius Network with one focus - Celebrating African American success and telling those stories. I am hoping to use this forum to tell our success stories in every area. Business, Careers, Life, Family. I am hoping to interview successful blacks and tell the stories and focus on our succcess. 

Thats where I need your help. If you have a success story, or know someone that has a success story, lets tell the story.  Email me at success@blackgeniusnetwork.com, with your story and we will schedule and opportunity to conduct an interview and will post that interview here and other podcasts sites. 

Email me today and lets tell the world about the success of African Americans in every walk of life.

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AS the world gets more connected the challenge to step up and compete grows stronger. We need to understand that their is a globe of people that are hungry for opportunity in every aspect of life. This video is an example of that hunger in the sports world. My thanks to Rae Dawn Chong for the post on Facebook.

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