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Happy Birthday R.L.

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

R.L. and girlfriend Lena Chenier

Loved Lena’s Steve Madden shoes

I had a great time last night hanging out with R&B crooner Robert “R.L” Huggar member of the group Next. The private dinner party was held at Uptown Lounge and given by his beautiful longtime girlfriend Lena Chenier. It was filled with his close friends,manager,and family. He received a blingy gold watch from his longtime manager/best friend Lance Kragness.I was not aware that R.L. was a songwriter too. He has written songs for Jaheim, Lloyd, and so many others. I loved the song Wifey and use to hand dance to that song all the time. Even Lloyd stopped by to wish him well!

Mr.& Mrs. Cabbell, R.L. and Lena

Singer Lloyd and R.L.

Lloyd,R.L.’s Mgr Lance and R.L.

Lena and I

Cheers, love my Josefa Laguna flower!

We had a great dinner that consisted of, Crab cake basil anglaise,gumbo shots, salad, brandied filet mignon, Creamy sherry tilapia and for dessert blue velvet cake. Now you guys see why I cant loose weight. Everything was really tasty! The chef for the night was Cynthia Bailey who’s co owner of Uptown Lounge. She looked very haute to be a chef lol. If I was cooking meals, I wanna look like that too ha! Cynthia also gave R.L. one of her favorite signature drinks, that looked tasty!

Brandied Peppercorn Filet Mignon

R.L. mingling with his guest

R.L. singing, wow still got pipes!

The evening was fun and R.L. danced to Michael Jackson and even got up to sing a song. We had so much fun and I want to thank R.L. and Lena for the personal invite. Enjoy the pics!

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Ladies Who Launch recap!

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Yesterday was the Live Ladies Who Launch event! The event was held at The DeFoor Centre in Atlanta,Ga. Ladies Who Launch is the first new media company to provide resources and connections for women entrepreneurs. I remember taking the incubator workshop a couple of years ago and I learned so much on how to run and market my business. In my class there were 10 womenpreneurs and we still keep in touch today. I ran into my classmate Leslie Grant who owns, Chickin Feed LLC, she launched her Co. in 2007. Chickin Feed helps families understand the basics of healthy eating.I’m so proud of Leslie and her company is doing very well. She has appeared in all sorts of magazines and has appeared on the Rachel Ray show!

Leslie Grant(Owner of Chickin Feed) Me, Melissa Steele

I saw my buddy Angela Stalcup who is the Market Director of Ladies Who Launch. She looked fabulous and also owns The Curvy Life! Her company has created conversations about our definition of beauty and attractiveness and is challenging the unrealistic standards of the female body so prevalent in modern media. I also saw my instructor Traci Long who has now become the CEO of Ladies Who Launch! I’m so proud of her, Woot!

Traci Long and I

I also saw the Founder of Ladies Who Launch Victoria Colligan, we are both from Cleveland,Ohio. She started Ladies Who Launch in 2002. She is also, Co Author of the book, Ladies who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship and Creativity as a Lifestyle. I remember seeing her on The Today show, and thats when I wanted to sign up for a class lol.

Founder of Ladies who Launch, Victoria Colligan

The event took place from 9-5pm with featured speakers like, Claire Jason Co Founder of PZI Jeans (and my sponsor) lol. There was a Product-Launch panel, Author Power Hour, in which I met Author: Debra Shigley, she wrote, The Go-Getter Girls Guide: Get what you want in Work and Life(and Look Great while your at It). We are Facebook buddies and I finally got a chance to meet her lol. Next was The Fresh Entrepreneur,then my session called, “Launching Live Tv”. In this session, I had the opportunity to interview Corinna Allen from CBS Better Mornings and Holly Firfer, freelance Anchor for Cnn.

Me,Corinna Allen,Holly Firfer

During that time we discussed how we landed jobs on tv,which Holly and I explained that we were accidental journalist lol. Corinna shared fun stories about how she got started on local tv in her hometown and covered nuclear waste and Holly shared stories about covering hurricanes back in the day lol. Holly and I felt like we’re dinosaurs in the media world now because of all the technology out now.

After our session there was a Break Out Session with experts,Door prizes and closing remarks. It’s such a great event to go to and I highly recommend you guys check it out next year! They do the do the workshops all the time and the live event is yearly. Thanks to Ladies Who Launch for having me back for another year.

It was also great to meet soo many wonderful women in business at the event too many to mention but keep doing your thing! Happy Launching! And a special shout out to Josefa Laguna (Amour Bijou) for making my custom pink rhinestoned flower,everyone loved it! Check out pics below!