According to my exclusive interview with the cast members, Tasha Smith (Angela Williams) and Michael Jai White (Marcus Williams), the success of the Season 3 premiere of "For Better or Worse" on OWN this past Wednesday, can be contributed to Tyler Perry's family oriented work ethic.
The premiere episode at 9 p.m. Wednesday grabbed more than 1.5 million total
viewers, and grew to 1.6 million total viewers with its second episode, pushing
OWN to its most-watched Wednesday night in the network's history.
#forbetter
Check out highlights from the exclusive interview with Tasha Smith (Angela Williams) and Michael Jai White (Marcus Williams) here:
Recently I attended a NYC Business Solutions Workshop for Wellness Professionals around the topic of "CrowdFunding." I had previously heard about crowdfunding, through Kickstarter and Indigogo. Crowdfundingis raising money by offering rewards to your existing community. You
can leverage your already inspired supporters to fundraise for your
mission through their own personal networks online, through social
media, and through email. At the workshop, I was introduced to Lucky Ant which has successfully helped Yoga professionals to raise funds. Pictured ; Jonathon of Lucky Ant, Ava of Yama Talent, Nina of Paraiso Adventures, and Jeff of NYC Business Solutions
Early this morning my friend shared a post on my profile page - "Try
just for one day to release everything up to the Universe. Watch what
happens!" Hmmmm - Spiritual food for thought, as I balance my life
between the media arts, the healing arts and the finance of it all. I really wanted to embrace crowdfunding in a spiritual way. I discovered this articleLetter To The Universe.Yes, I wrote my letter to the universe, then... I let go and let God.
At this same event I metfellow Yogini, Cailin Callahan, who blogged about the sentiments of the event, that I also share... here is an excerpt: Ava of Yama Talent made the statement of the night, "My landlord doesn't take Karma." Let that marinate for a minute....
As much as I love yoga, healing, wellness and offering up insight...I
have to keep reminding myself to not just 'give it away' for free. My
skill, my passion, my "product", is valuable- and learning how to be
compensated for that appropriately (and feel okay with that) is
something that I am working on. It's not 'having too much ego' to want
to grow your yoga business or to have high aspirations in your field- so
long as its coming from your heart space. I don't want to reach more
and more people so that I can be well-known. I want to reach more and
more people because I have an infinite amount of love and devotion that I
want to share...feel the NEED to share. It was a great night of
networking and insight into growing yourself as a brand.(READ MORE)
Future plans are in the works with the panel experts from the workshop. I'm encouraging my supporters to sign up on my FRESH START FOR FALL WITH YOGA FLAVA page to be the first to find out about how they can receive a FREE YOGA FLAVA SESSION ONLINE PERSONALIZED. The Free session will be a bonus reward for the first 10 people to purchase rewards from my crowdfunding campaign, that will be launched on Tues. Sept. 10th. Stay tuned for more details of the campaign.