Acclaimed author, syndicated columnist, and entrepreneur Farrah Gray offers readers Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out (HCI) just in time to help them keep those so-often abandoned resolutions for the New Year. Raised in the projects on the south side of Chicago, Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of 14.
Gray began his entrepreneurial, personal and civic development as a stellar young citizen at six years old selling homemade body lotion and his own hand-painted rocks as bookends door-to-door. At age seven, he was carrying business cards reading “21st Century CEO.” He went on to foster companies as diverse as a venture capital fund to food manufacturing.
His rise from poverty to international renown as an entrepreneurial icon and preeminent power speaker has inspired millions around the world and is now available to readers in Reallionaire; Get Real, Get Rich; and The Truth Shall Make You Rich. Gray’s books have been translated into Russian, German, Polish, French, Korean, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages with book sales in Africa, Australia and Europe and in Central and South American countries. Grays books have also become required reading in university classrooms at Harvard and Princeton, among others.
Gray has extensive experience advising readers about personal and professional matters. He is a syndicated columnist with the National Newspaper Publishers Association federation of 200 weekly newspapers reaching more than 15 million readers. As an AOL Money Coach, Gray gives daily leadership, personal and professional development, diversity, strategic planning, creativity, and financial management advice to millions of AOL subscribers.
His sense of social responsibility motivated him to create the non-profit organization, The Farrah Gray Foundation, which focuses on inner city community-based entrepreneurship education and provides financial assistance for students from at-risk backgrounds to attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He donates his speaking engagement honorariums, which can be upwards of $15,000, and the proceeds of his book to his foundation.
At the age of 21 in recognition of his ingenious economic mind and distinguished commitment to values such as leadership, integrity, and scholarship, Gray received an Honorary Doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Allen University. He holds Keys to the Cities of Dallas, Shreveport, and Cincinnati. He has also received Proclamations from the Governors of Illinois and Nevada, the Mayors of Louisville, Kentucky, Chicago, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Wilmington, Delaware, and St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. Dr. Gray’s Awards include The National Urban League Whitney M. Young Jr. Entrepreneurship Award, The Alabama A&M Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Award, and The Davidson College Love of Learning Lifetime Educational Achievement Award, Central State University Award of Appreciation for contributions made in the area of entrepreneurship, NV Magazine Vision Award, and the American Red Cross Award of Appreciation.
Reallionaire is available online and in bookstores everywhere. Learn more about this inspiring figure at: www.Farrahgray.com
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Bill Clinton, (Former) President of the United States of America: “I know Farrah Gray and we have discussed his future. His motivation determines what he will do. His attitude determines how well he will succeed at making a difference.”
O: The Oprah Magazine dubbed Farrah Gray an “all-star” with “priceless advice.”
Suze Orman, New York Times Bestselling Author: “You are just the best and the real thing.”
Good Morning America:“Farrah Gray is the ultimate American success story.”
ABC 20/20:“America’s Reallionaire.”
CNN:“Farrah Gray the youngest African American of his generation to make his mark on Wall Street and to become a millionaire.”
MSN.com placed Farrah Gray on its 2010 Young Tycoons List along with Mark Zuckerberg.
SocialTerrain, Inc., a social networking group of which Ringdahl is President/CEO, recently launched DirectoryCentral.com, an online business directory that connects businesses to customers via social media. This innovative system allows businesses to use the larger social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for communicating new products, updates, blogs – even coupons.
SocialTerrain, Inc. was founded in 2008 to develop tools to integrate social networking with businesses. DirectoryCentral.com, working directly with SocialTerrain, will allow businesses to post information on the directory that can automatically be sent to all its followers on the social network sites. By reaching millions of potential customers, small to mid-sized local businesses will be able to intensify their online marketing efforts.
What makes this system unique is that it integrates the communication with other social networks between the consumer and business and provides a centralized marketing platform to get the best results. This efficient and well-designed service, provided at no charge to either business owners or consumers, is a simple process that is proven to work! DirectoryCentral.com not only gives business owners a way to increase their visibility on the internet and not be overshadowed by larger companies, but also provides a way for them to reply directly to customers who have posted reviews or questions on their profile, thereby reducing the time needed for a business to communicate with its customer base.
DirectoryCentral.com goes way beyond what typical online services have offered in the past. With its simplicity, it has made the process a virtual ‘one-stop marketing solution.’ With over thirty million active businesses online that are just waiting for their owners to claim their profile, the process is as simple as 1-2-3! A business owner goes to the DirectoryCentral.com website, finds the business name, clicks on the link, and goes through an easy verification process that allows the profile to be set up usually within 24 hours. This will allow the business owner to link up their various social media accounts to their DirectoryCentral.com account – and they are off and running! If a business is not already listed, no problem, just add it!
Keeping in mind that good business is all about customer service; DirectoryCentral.com has made it equally simple for customers to use the site. They just search for a business by name or category in a particular city, click on that link, and be presented with a location map, reviews, and even coupons, for that business. A customer can also post a review, become a fan, or even message that business directly.
DirectoryCentral.com links business owners to customers in what is probably the most efficient method available on the web today. For more information, please visit http://www.directorycentral.com
Almost everyone has experienced the painful coming-of-age feelings that high school tends to invoke. Coupled with drastic physical changes experienced by teenagers, the pressures and demands of high school can seem overwhelming and eternal. Now there is a guide to help students overcome these powerful feelings. Just in time for the holiday season, First Day to Finals: A Guide to Surviving High School (George House Publishing) is Brittany Camp’s gift to all those teenagers who feel the all-too-familiar pressures of coming-of-age in high school.
Camp wrote First Day to Finals to help prevent bullying, encourage healthy self images, discourage drug and alcohol abuse, and combat peer pressure. Camp’s goal is to help other teens survive and transition into healthy and productive post-high school lives. The book works like a journal and allows students to choose their own ending in each chapter. The book also features artwork by Kathleen Arendt, whose tragically young death inspired Brittany to write First Day to Finals.
Brittany Camp graduated from Carroll Sr. High School in 2010. As she pondered her project for the Girl Scout Gold Award, Camp knew exactly what message she wanted to deliver. She is proof that students can survive high school and that life does continue. Brittany is currently a freshman at the University of Arkansas. She tours middle and high schools encouraging students to support each other through the various challenges of high school life.
In order to help prepare students who will soon face the challenges of high school, Camp donated several copies of the book to her own high school and she invites charities to coordinate with her to sponsor students and schools to receive copies of the book. She is also donating a portion of the book’s proceeds to the Carroll Independent School District (CISD) special needs department.
First Day to Finals is available in bookstores everywhere and online. Visit this inspiring young writer’s website at: http://www.firstdaytofinals.com .
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Darla Chupp, school counselor, “Brittany is truly an inspiration and I feel certain this book can and will help thousands of students build a firm foundation to happy, fulfilling lives: from developing a healthy body image to knowing what an appropriate dating relationship should look like, and so much more!”
The life of cats and dogs on this idyllic island is bleak. The local government has a despicable solution–population control by electrocution! Her organization has become one of hope; dedicating itself to rescuing and caring for these abused and discarded animals through spay and neuter clinics, fostering, and adopting.
Alison has spent ten years working with and supporting other rescue groups in the Yucatan. While continually addressing the big picture she has re-housed over four thousand animals, placing them with individuals and rescue groups in the US and Canada. In 2005 she received the Doris Day Animal Kindred Spirit Award and was invited to the first ‘Forum on Small Animal Over-population’ in Mexico City.
Isla Animal’s programs are run totally on donations. It’s Alison’s goal to educate pet owners and provide them with free services and basic supplies, such as food, flea and tick medication, shampoo, collars, leashes and medical supplies. On a typical day she has thirty to forty dogs at her house; most of them are sick and scared from a life on the streets – and these are the strong ones! Islanders drop the dogs off or tie them to her gate, or tourists find them by the side of the road. It takes time and love to get these animals ready for a good home but Alison is prepared to take care of each and every one until she can send them to a better place. Isla Mujeres is a tourist destination so the animals are considered unsightly and are eliminated in an effort to create a more pristine vacation destination. Alison is sure that if tourists knew what was truly going on they would want to do something about it.
Isla Animals desperately needs additional funding so that they may continue their wonderful work. Donations can be made via check, payable to Alison Sawyer, 1750 30th St., #197, Boulder, CO 80301, with ‘Isla Mujeres Animals’ noted on the check, or directly through PayPal. Please visit their website at www.islaanimals.org for more information on this incredible organization and how to alleviate the plight of these desperately mistreated animals.
Alison Sawyer Current is also the author of an intriguing novel, No Urn For The Ashes (Bayfire Press Publishing), and generously donates the proceeds from her book sales to further the care of her extended feline and canine family.
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Ascot Media Group is providing public relations services to this humane organization at no charge in their attempt to help these animals in Mexico.
Once Barack Hussein Obama took office he made it shockingly clear by his words and actions that he did not believe in America as an exceptional nation, a Christian nation, or a nation of economic free enterprise. In his book Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm (Elderberry Press, Inc.), William Davis Eaton does a superb job of outlining the totalitarian intent of the President’s programs, and the Liberal roots from which those programs have grown. The result would be an America based on Marxian Socialism and the Nazi and Italian Fascism of the last century—a Socio-Fascistic nation.
Eaton’s book expertly depicts how the student riots of the sixties generated a Civil War designed to destroy a great American nation. This decades-long war began on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in November 1964. The Free Speech Movement, the FSM, of rebellious students aimed to question authority with the intent to destroy authority. They succeeded at Berkeley and the war against all authority moved on to prepare a cultural desert for the Socio-Fascist monster now taking shape to move in and occupy.
After the 2008 election, agents of this ‘full-fledged war’ against America moved rapidly from idealistic campaign rhetoric to the consolidation of raw power – economically, politically and morally – in its push to control the daily lives of the American people. Their aims are no different as a result of their stunning defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections. Only their tactics will change.
Obama’s ‘ghost government’ of as many as three dozen Czars is hidden from the public and has been given unaccountable authority without congressional approval. Both the Health Care Act and the Financial Regulation Act provide stunning regulatory powers to faceless regulators hidden deep inside a growing warren of agencies. Climate Czar Carol Browner threatens to declare CO2 a toxic “greenhouse gas” in need of her attention. That’s the gas all animals exhale when they breathe and that plants in turn make into oxygen that seems helpful to the animals.
The liberal assault against America has infiltrated the public school system, affected mainstream media, the arts, universities, the environmental movement, organized labor, leading elements of science, and much of the judiciary and federal bureaucracy. It has destroyed or corrupted ideals and institutions affecting religion, sexual relations, the family unit, the rule of law, and patriotic loyalty – not to mention the persistent efforts to denigrate and even mock the value of human life. Massive growth of government power is promoted at the expense of individual liberty. The Obama Administration shows its Fascist stripes in its attempt to suppress any form of communication that supports opposing views.
Eaton’s book suggests there are no longer two political parties of the center, gravitating around accepted core values. There is today in fact no longer a true Democratic Party. The Democrats have been reduced to a front organization useful as a cover for President Obama and the Socio-Fascistic Czars of his shadow government that have captured the Party. Obama has effected a coup d’etat, and the new Tea Party Senators and Congressmen will have difficulty learning how to deal with those who still call themselves Democrats. Conservatives have for years allowed themselves to be bullied into hiding their faces and speaking softly the politically correct words. So in Congress they readily give apologetic assurance that they, too, are compassionate, and really want to work with the other side. But there is no compromise with a revolution; it is either victory or surrender.
It was the terrifying vision of America being methodically destroyed that ignited the firestorm response of the Tea Party movement and awakened the “sleeping giant” – the silent majority of true Americans, who are silent no more. On November 2, 2010 the Tea Partiers and others they have also awakened struck a powerful blow in defense of liberty and country. The Tea Party speaks primarily of taxes, mountains of debt, and similar urgent causes, but their movement has opened up the scars of the culture war as well. The book Liberal Betrayal reveals how profoundly the liberals have turned against their country, how deeply the roots of liberty have been poisoned, and how difficult the task of restoring freedom and liberty at all levels of society will be. Thanks to the Tea Party, America is returning to its core values and repudiating its soulless disbelievers
The author of Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm is an attorney, a professional arbitrator and former professor. He has taught at several universities including San Jose State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in political science. In a previous book, Who Killed the Constitution / the Judges v. the Law, Dr. Eaton dissected judicial usurpation of power, sharpening his scalpel for the liberals!
Night Owl Review:“…vivid account of 60’s campus turmoil by Berkeley prof…
National Review of Conservative Books:“Forceful prose…should be a hit with Republicans.”
The Nation in Review:“Should be a hit with Republicans.”
Jack Of Alltrades Amazon Book Review:“Not every day a Berkeley professor attacks the liberal elite, but Eaton has pulled it off here – and with gusto. Tea Party believers will want to read this!
Time Magazine called Bob Marley the Artist of the 20th Century, but to Ky-Mani Marley he is “Dad.” The reggae superstar died when Ky-Mani was just 5, but nearly 30 years later, Marley still looms large in his life, as seen in Ky-Mani’s new memoir, “Dear Dad” (Farrah Gray Publishing).
“I told my story from my heart and soul. After writing the book and reading over the first edit, I didn’t realize some of the stuff I had bottled up inside of me. So this book, for me, became therapy,” Ky-Mani said. “If I was to follow in my father’s footsteps, then what would they say? ‘Oh, he’s trying to be like his dad.’ Then if I take a different path, they say, ‘He’s supposed to be like his father.’ So you can’t please everybody. I just have to be true to myself and true to my art and do what comes naturally to me.”
“Dear Dad” is an arresting narrative of a son who was locked out of his iconic father’s estate after his death. Ky-Mani and his mother Anita Belnavis left Jamaica for the United States, where he was forced to survive the poverty-stricken, predator-infested streets of one of Miami’s most violent ghettos, Liberty City. Ky-Mani was initially estranged from his siblings and cut off from any financial benefit by the Marley estate executor.
From that crucible came the Ky-Mani Marley you see today – musician, actor, author, philanthropist and a father himself. He has recorded four studio albums (ranging from reggae to hip-hop), was nominated for a Grammy Award, performed to sellout crowds (one concert was beamed live to 36 countries), and has been cast in several major feature films, including “Haven,” which starred Bill Paxton and Orlando Bloom. Ky-Mani and his good friend Julian Lennon were jointly named Philanthropist of the Year by Prince Albert II of the Monaco Foundation, Better World Awards.
Some of Bob Marley’s words echo through the years with new meaning for Ky-Mani: “The harder the battle, the sweet of jah victory” … “One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain” … “Don’t forget your history nor your destiny.”
“Dear Dad” is available online and in bookstores everywhere. For additional information visit the website http://www.kymani-marley.com .
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BBC:“Fascinating book.”
Washington Post:“….an arresting narrative about life as the exiled child of a musical and social icon.”
AOL:“…an absorbing read.”
Miami Herald:“The book details Marley’s complicated relationship with his half-brothers and -sisters, some of whom enjoyed lavish lifestyles.”
USA Today:“Ky-Mani Marley incurred favor with the crowd…”
Fortune Magazine: Richest dead celebrity: Bob Marley (2009)
In The Purple Light (Publish America), Tony Taylor tells an all-too familiar story of a young man who started out smoking weed and then graduated to snorting cocaine and becoming an addict. His is the story of so many young people today who escape into a haze of drugs, hoping it will dull their senses so they won’t feel the depths of despair they have sunk into. But this story is different; through a life-changing experience Taylor was given a second chance and, with the help of God, managed to turn his life around completely.
Still describing himself as a ’work in progress,’ Taylor’s life changed after he had hit rock bottom at the ‘ripe old age’ of twenty-six. At the lowest point in his life and praying to God to help him change it happened – Taylor saw the purple light that came to him in the form of a cross and crown. In an instant, he was a changed man. That was the night he saw Jesus and he was shown how to wear the purple light whenever he wants to give glory to Him.
Believing that people can be called at any time, Taylor knows he has been called and while he believes he is not at the level he once was when he first met the glory he is constantly working his way back up there – one day at a time. He has written a beautiful ballad called ‘Wear the Truth’ that is about the night he met the glory of Christ and saw the purple light. This meaningful music can be heard on his website at http://www.thepurplelightbook.com .
Knowing that he ‘served the devil for several years’ in his addiction, Taylor understands first-hand how the lost souls of the world feel. It is truly an inspiring story of a man who nearly destroyed himself but instead was rescued by God’s love. The Purple Light contains passages of events that have never been heard of before as Taylor struggles to piece together the enigmatic finds he discovered on his path to recovery and happiness.
This remarkable man is a living example of the power of the human spirit. Tony Taylor is now happily married with a young son and lives in Lynchburg, VA. For more information visit his website at: http://www.thepurplelightbook.com
