Business
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Some Scary Yet Awesome News from Natasha
This is the first time in a long time that I have started a journey in my career where I’ve been scared. It’s such a huge thing and I’m scared. But dang it I’m running with it anyway! My parents didn’t raise a punk, so I’m putting on my big girl trunks and doing this!…
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More Awesome News From Natasha
Okay folks, so here’s some more news that I haven’t shared fully with everyone: Paradigm Life Fitness LLC Earlier this year I launched Paradigm Life Fitness, LLC (PLF) as an answer to those who kept asking me, “when are you going to relaunch your training business?” Many of you don’t know that I first started…
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Great News From Natasha
I am thrilled and excited to share some amazing news with all of you. Some of you know that I am a very private person and can be very secretive when I am working on things, or going through issues. So for the past several months I have been very secretive about certain aspects of…
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Life is Like American Football
By Natasha Foreman Bryant, MBA Today in my Breaking Bread post I shared a prayer that used a football analogy, and I think that this conversation is appropriate to use outside of a spiritual or religious setting, to include our personal and professional lives, regardless of your religious or spiritual beliefs. So I’m sharing a…
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Happy 22nd Anniversary to Operation HOPE
Today marks the 22nd year that Operation HOPE has been serving communities throughout the United States and abroad. It has been both an honor and a privilege to serve with my Operation HOPE family for the past four years as a HOPE Corp volunteer, and now as an Advisory Board co-chair for HOPE Business In…
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A Day in the Life of One Entrepreneur
By Natasha Foreman Bryant, MBA As I get older and more mature I am realizing that although I should give myself more “breaks” and be less obsessed about fitting everything in every single day, I also need to have more structure in my professional life if I want any semblance of “balance” in all areas…
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Do You Know Who Invented the Products You Use?
By Natasha Foreman Bryant, MBA I love learning new things. So I get excited when I learn facts about people, products, things and places that I sometimes take for granted, for instance, I use Crest toothpaste, sometimes drink Folgers coffee, I like to pop in Bounce fabric softener in my laundry, and before I stopped drinking…
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Invest in Your Life and Purchase Real Money Answers For Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game With or Without a Man.
A book review written by Natasha Foreman Bryant Let me start off by saying that this may not be like any other book review you have ever read. Okay, now that I have prepared you, let’s do this! I absolutely love Real Money Answers For Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game With or…
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Small Business and “ObamaCare” as Reported by The New Yorker
Check out the post I wrote for Foreman & Associates, LLC about the latest article published by The New Yorker. The article addresses ObamaCare and its impact on small business, and our beloved United States of America. I look forward to receiving your feedback on both articles! http://wp.me/p11NVc-6T Copyright 2013. Some Rights Reserved. Natasha Foreman…
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Stella & Dot, and Me
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it’s also my birthday month. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Stella & Dot will be donating 100% of net proceeds from their Breast Cancer Awareness boutique line to the Noreen Fraser Foundation. Last year Stella & Dot raised $185,000 to help the Foundation fund a lab at…
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ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act, Which is Your Preference?
By Natasha Foreman Bryant First let me start off by thanking my friend and colleague Steve Woodsmall for sharing the video link below with me. I know that the headline of my post has probably left all or most of you scratching your head. I’m hoping that it does and that you have not already…
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Travel: Business or Pleasure, I’m Packed and Ready to Roll
By Natasha L. Foreman Since I was a child I have enjoyed lugging a bag through the airport, or hopping into a car, and taking a road trip. It has always been a sense of adventure for me as I wondered what I would see and experience. I love snapping pictures and I’m a self-proclaimed…
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While Others Question Her Net Worth I Salute Her Journey and Accomplishments
By Forbes calculations ($660 million), Folorunsho Alakija, is not wealthier than Oprah Winfrey. But the Forbes calculation has been disputed, with the number $3.3 billion replacing it and topping Oprah’s $2.7 billion. Now here’s the deal, I honestly don’t care who has a higher net worth. I am just proud to highlight another woman, of…
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My Response to John Hope Bryant’s Article “If Bill Gates Were Black”
By Natasha L. Foreman, MBA I wanted to share my thoughts regarding John Hope Bryant’s brilliant article that was posted on and by Bloomberg BusinessWeek today. I also wanted to have a healthy dialogue with those individuals who showed their lack of critical thinking skills before they reacted, and quickly responded in the negative,…
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Investing Time in Self is Critical
By Natasha L. Foreman, MBA I needed this loooonng retreat to recharge, rebuild, refocus, reconnect and recommit to my goals and to my life. I can’t give to family, my businesses and to my community if I’m totally drained mentally, emotionally and physically. I can’t practice what I preach if I’m feeling bankrupt on the…