Dr. Madelaine Gomes is a former corporate leader who, like others who needed something more, walked away to find her true self on the impact path. She is a mindset alchemist, metaphysician, and healer. Her strong feelings about helping Africans learn how to create the kind of mindset that brings sustainable progress in living well caused her to found the …
Dr. Christine Kozachuk Helps Girls Achieve Education to Win at Life
Dr. Christine Kozachuk was a child bride with babies on each hip + 1 by 18 years of age. Abused, and without completion of education, money, or transportation, she took off to find a new and better life for herself and her children. She found a new and better life through education. It is now Dr. Kozachuk’s mission to help …
Elaine Sugar Helps Children Find Their Voice and Build Self-Esteem
Elaine Sugar is the Founder and CEO of Kids More S.U.G.A.R., LLC. She’s on a mission to help teens learn about financial basics and discover their own voice. She wants children of all ages to learn that they are valued, and she accomplishes her mission through programs and podcasts, which are being happily embraced by her community. The local Police …
Jeanette Johnsen of FarmingAcademy Talks About the Education Platform That Pays its Educators
Jeanette Johnsen lights up when she talks about sheep – yes – sheep. Raising them has been a long-awaited childhood dream and one that has morphed into a mission to provide education in farming and all things agriculture to learners around the world. Her new platform, FarmingAcademy, is the solution she’s founded. More than an educational solution, it is also …
Fill Your Mind with Namara: Meet Nancy Lazaro, UNSDG Advocate and Writer From Tanzania
“Passions,” a word I would relate to extreme contentment in one’s tasks, is a direction towards your God-given purpose on this earth. Negativity blocks the work that the passion would’ve done. So many of us have passions within us that the world shuns out and calls useless. Making your passion a reality creates a life that is characterized by joy. …
Feature: Dr. Jacqueline King Launches Black Women Empowered Media Platform
Dr. Jacqueline King is the Founder and CEO of Black Women Empowered, Inc., a multi-million participant network connected through various social media platforms. Initially begun as a spiritually-based means of helping people in crisis, the network has evolved into a large and growing media platform to disseminate encouraging, positive, and yes, fun, content that continues to hold strong to its …
Fill Your Mind with Namara: What’s So Good About That?
Namara Lwansa is a young student from Tanzania whose speaking and writing talents have already started carving a leadership path for her in areas of Africa. The youngest Frontrunners League member is now the first African blogger in the new section of this magazine dedicated to African Influencers and Innovators. Fill Your Mind is Namara’s contribution in blog form, often accompanied by video interviews …
Feature: Saray Khumalo Climbs Peaks to Raise Education in South Africa
Saray Khumalo is a remarkable young woman mountaineer and adventurer who is on a mission to climb the world’s highest peaks in order to raise funds to build libraries and offer educational opportunities to areas of South African in need. She’s accomplishing that mission quite well, as the first black African woman to summit Mount Everest. That’s not the only …
Empowerment By Namara Lwansa of Tanzania
By: Namara Lwansa (Featured Photo is Namara interviewing Miss Nankondo Mnyone) When you were a kid left at home in charge of your siblings, what was your initial reaction? What did you feel? Or when your boss at work gave you an important office assignment to take control over, what ran through your mind? I bet you felt empowered. According …