Meet Dream Girl: Toyia T. Taylor, Performing Artist & Founder of we.app (act.present.perform.)

Toyia Tynae Taylor is Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the Week. I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Taylor back in 2004 when we were working together at an educational company. I remember the day that she had to leave the company due to a technicality. She called me and told me that it was

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DreamGirl: Marilyn Louis, Artist and Renaissance Womyn

Meet Marilyn Louis, Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the week. Marilyn is young, intense, and creative (don’t just bypass Vulvas of Color, a tribute to the beauty and power of our va-jayjays showcased below) and I had the pleasure of meeting Marilyn at the Soup N’ Swap event held in December of last year. Like

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Dream Girl Friday: Ellen Bodkins,Founder of Ellen B Beauty/Face The Day NY

Ellen Bodkins is Fabulous N’ Frugal’s DreamGirl of the week. She is a make-up superstar, a dream chaser, and the founder Ellen B Beauty & Face The Day NY. Her story of  first doing her friend’s make-up in college  to now running her own business is inspiring. How did makeup become your passion? I got

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How to Touch Your Tantra: Interview with Lisa of LifeBliss Solutions

Back in 2007, I was a hot mess: without focus, pinning over some dude, and holding residual anger from a lifetime of accumulated disappointments. But luckily, I knew I needed help. I also knew that I did not want to go the traditional, sterile counselor or therapist route. What I did not know,though, was what

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It Takes A Village To Raise A Mogul: 5 Tips To Awaken The Financial Genius In Our Children

Give Me Your Lunch Money When I was in fourth grade, I rented out my erasable pens for $0.25 each as the class transitioned from writing in pencil and in print to writing in script and in pen. By the time I was eleven, I had moved on to peddling posters from Right On magazine

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Be Happy That You Didn’t Get That Job

Be Happy That You Didn’t Get That Job Being Fired Before Hired One of my goals this summer was to be working some place else before September rolled around. Can I tell you that I made it through four interviews for one position, only to have the final (fifth) interview and be turned down for

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