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My friend Felicia and her sisters made a valiant run in MTV's Top Pop
Group and now they are trying to get their Myspace pageviews up. As
of this post the have 150,793 page views and 88,594 plays. If you
haven't already done so, please check them out and support them on
their journey.
History
Lukas and I met at UCLA in 2004. He worked with me at the UCLA SHAPE program as a tutor. He's a dope poet and we both hail from Oakland, CA. He just took the leap and moved to New York to pursue his passion. Together, all 664 of us should be able to support him on the things below.
Top Passions:
writing poetry, hip-hop, journalism
Next Level:
Turn his passion for writing into a career
How You Can Support Him:
- Send him some feedback on his first publication titled "A New Patriotism"
- Check out his blog at http://www.38thnotes.com
- Put him in contact with editors of magazines, websites, and other publications
- Send him internship opportunities at VIBE, XXL, or Rolling Stones magazines
- Let him know about any freelance writing opportunities
Visit his Mylinia.com profile here.
Felicia and I met at UCLA in 2004. She used to work with at the SHAPE program as a tutor at one of our sites in LA. In addition to a pop group artist she is also a talented graphic artist (http://www.feliciart.com).
Check out Felicia, Nadia, Celia, and Daria from Jazmin on MTV.
To view click here:
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/
Watch clips:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?
Casting Special airing on MTV: Friday 8/28 @9pm Pst
For tickets to live taping:
http://www.1iota.com/events,
On August 19, 2008, President Bush made a speech and acknowledge Daryn Dodson, one of my best friends and roommate from business school. Daryn currently works for Idea Village in New Orleans helping entrepreneurs grow successful businesses. Check it out...
"I am inspired by people like Daryn Dodson, who I met at a dinner here last year. Daryn was studying at Stanford Business School when Katrina struck and felt called to come to New Orleans to help. He joined Idea Village – a program to support the city's entrepreneurs and stimulate economic growth. Through Idea Village, Daryn has brought other MBA students from the Nation's top schools to help solve some of the greatest business challenges facing the city and to help spread the entrepreneurial spirit." - President Bush (To read the full speech, click here)
Support Daryn on his journey via Mylinia.com by giving him advice or recommendations.
My Friends is a new section of my blog where I will be highlighting my friend's successes. If you are my friend and have any successes that you would like to share with my reader, please let me know.
Oftentimes, our greatest strengths come to us so naturally that we don't even acknowledge them, but fortunately our friends do. With this post "Reminders To My Friends", I want remind my friends of their greatness by sharing my observations of them with them. I encourage you to affirm your friends by pointing out the the abnormal things that the do that amaze and inspire you. We each have a unique super power that will give us insight to our purpose and we must all commit to helping each other discover our individual purposes in order to save our world.
This Month's Acknowledgments:
To Selome: A family tree for her ability to sustain and build family that transcends physical divisions (ie age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc)
To Detavio: An open ear for his ability to listen to people (ie friends, customers, etc) and distill the pain and message
To Mike: A bag of fertilizer for his ability to cultivate relationships up, down, and across, and form lifelong partnerships
To Jason: A customer service award for his ability to consider all of the possible scenarios when measuring the quality of a product or service
To Angelo: A unlimited cell phone plan for his ability to relate and talk to anyone (ie all ages, genders, races, educational levels, religions, etc)
To Daryn: A chance to be on Jeopardy for his ability to ask the right question
To Andre: A megaphone for his ability to say a lot with a little
This Month's Reminder To Myself:
From Jason: Jullien, you have a unique ability to see what's unique about people and encourage them to do more of it.
From Mike: Jullien, you have an abnormal capacity to care for many people deeply at once
This Month's Reminder To Everyone:
Back up your hard drive. Our hard drives store some of our greatest creations (ie songs, writings, plans, art) and inspirations (photos, videos, etc). Please back them up. Don't say I didn't tell you so.
