Qiana

Mother's Day is only four days away, and this fact was the first thought that I had when I woke up this morning. For almost a week, I have been hearing my guy friends receive those polite reminders from their mothers. While my girl friends have been working on landing Saturday and Sunday spa appointments for their mothers. I fall somewhere in between those two groups on the spectrum. I can be the absentminded planner. So I woke up today in a slight panic. I ran through the usual list of... Read Full Story

Have you ever heard someone talk about “being what you are” versus “telling what you are?” For a long time, I didn’t understand the difference. A wise person was kind enough to provide me with an easy-to-understand example. She said, “A truly wealthy person does not have to run around talking about their fortune. However, you can pick “new” money out of any crowd. They yell their bank statement to anyone who will hear.” A lesson like this was the last thing on my mind when I arrived at my... Read Full Story

Last week, I was reading through a series of tweets. The second tweet that caught my eye was one from Fila Toning mentioning that they were looking for new faces for their 2011 campaign. In less than 48 hours, I had thrown my hat in the ring for consideration. What would be the result of taking a spur-of-the-moment risk? I was hopeful, but I was also prepared to add it to my list of “actions taken towards my goal.” I have learned in my soccer adventures that sometimes I take actions to create... Read Full Story

When I was a little girl, one of the things that I remember the most was my grandmama’s ritual of making cornbread. She made it from scratch with the cornmeal, eggs, oil and milk in same square pan. The cornbread wasn’t sweet, but it was just good. Sometimes if my grandmama wanted to pull a fast one on everybody, she would put raisins in the mix to give it a little sweetness or add corn and jalapeños to give it some Mexican flair. Well, just before I left to LA, I guess I had a nice and... Read Full Story

I think the last time we talked I was in New York. Well, let's consider these next few entries a brief longform commercial. I haven't gotten around to London or Lisbon yet! However, I just presented at the ultra amazing, ultra cool TEDxGreenville . So let me give you a brief sneak peek of what I was up to the morning of my presentation. For a grand occasion such as this, I didn't want to feel or look ordinary. So, I enlisted the help of Katie Cotton , a LA trained makeup artist who happens to... Read Full Story

I have to say that technology makes it so easy to live a glamorous soccer adventure with entrepreneurial endeavors. Here’s a quick example for you. While my Amtrak trained sped past the snow covered hills, I was able to make the final changes to a newly designed business card, handle a few important business calls, research the closest Fedex location to The Mave Hotel and coordinate my print job with a sales clerk at that specific location. As you can see technology was working with me to... Read Full Story

Some people have a space issue when they check into a NYC hotel room. Personally, space is the least of my concerns. I have stayed in some interesting places, and so I set my standards according to the location. The Mave provided me with clean, crisp and modern accommodations in a space the equivalent of a shoebox. It was tiny, but the shower was fairly sizeable considering remaining area. Here’s the video as I promised! Read Full Story

There is nothing that happens by chance in our universe. Everything unfolds according to higher laws - everything is regulated by divine order.. For the record, I do actually believe the above statements. Do I live every moment adhering to that belief? Of course not, it’s so simple that it gives me quite a challenge. My journey to Europe began on January 31st, and it was by no means the day that I had planned to leave Atlanta. According to “my” schedule, I was going to breeze into the Big... Read Full Story

Although I don't think that I will be ever to fully calculate the value of my Face-of-Opportunity Contest win with British Airways , I can say that it has been a calling card form promoting my mission of making soccer more commonplace in the United States. At the top of the year, I notified the executive producer of The Michael Eric Dyson Show about my national award win. This email set into motion a whirlwind of events that landed me in the Georgia Public Broadcasting studio on the Friday of... Read Full Story

Happy 2011! We are 13 days into the start of an amazing year, and I hope that you are taking all those small actions and steps that can have you right where you want to be. I keep what you call a reminder, tracking, accomplishment list that documents all of the actions that I take each year to help me capture the goals that I have set for myself. There have been times when I felt as if things were stagnant, and I realized that this is a great way to put things in perspective. Sometimes we can... Read Full Story