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Talk Tuesday - Being Mary Jane

Where do I start.... Tonight was the season finale to one of the best shows EVER to air on BET, Being Mary Jane. This show resonates with people on so many levels. It's raw straight up truth that we don't like to deal with in our own lives, but we are more than willing to watch it play out on television. Mary Jane is a woman that many can relate to on so many different levels.  She is a successful career woman who seems to have it together on the outside, but has flaws like the rest of us. She finds herself falling for a married man, Andre, who omitted the fact he was married AND when she did find out, she finds it hard to break it off with him.  Then there is David....A sometimes off and on again love that she is getting to get over.  MJ is a women who is in the prime of her life and she to is trying her best to get it right.  But what exactly is right? Why do we depend on everyone's definition of happiness instead of going with what makes us happy? As women we are ...

Talk Tuesday - Invest in you first

Tax season is upon us and there will be many "IncomeTax Ballas" displaying that money all over the social media sites. But what happens when that money is gone... then what?  There are some who will take that money and blow it on materialistic things that happen to be popular at the moment. Then there are some who will take that money and be responsible with it. Some will save or pay off/down some debt. When your not use to having money is easy to get caught up with spending it in the moment. I not saying you shouldst treat yourself, I'm a saying be smart with your choices. I was a single parent up until I married my husband in 2002. As a single parent who didn't recurve any assistance, and working for Uncle Sam, I had to make better choices with my money. If I could take ball anything in my life, it would be not knowing the importance of saving money and spurning it wisely. I've made my mistakes with money, as most people have, but as I've gotten older my cho...