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Lessons Your Best Friends Teach You – Get Smart!

By |July 17th, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens, For Young Adult Women, uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

After transferring from Coastal Carolina University to Ramapo College of New Jersey, where I presently attend, I now know a thing or two about best friends in college. Most of us have best friends from [...]

Get Smart and Create your Own Sparkle!

By |July 17th, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens, For Young Adult Women, uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman Stress, Anger, Anxiousness, Negativity... There are millions of things that bring negative thoughts and emotions into our lives, [...]

I Am Adopted : A Get Smart Gal Finds Love Within.

By |July 9th, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens, For Young Adult Women|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The giggling of the kindergarten students subsided and the teacher called out the next name for "Show and Tell."  I stood in the center of the circle, anxiously waiting to reveal my big secret.  I had [...]

Get Smart about Your Natural Beauty

By |July 9th, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens, For Young Adult Women, uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

We live in a generation that strives for absolute and total perfection. One of the ways that society has assisted us in trying to reach this impossible goal is by makeup. I see commercial after commercial advertising [...]

How Can You Live a Healthy Life? Get Smart Now.

By |July 9th, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens, For Young Adult Women, uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” – Audre Lorde Living a healthy lifestyle is not exactly at the top of everyone’s [...]

Get Smart about Choosing the Right Major

By |July 2nd, 2014|Categories: College Students, For Leaders & Mentors, For Teens|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

In the midst of college applications, standardized testing and finishing high school, numerous people used to nag me with questions like “Have you picked a major for college?” and “What do you want to do [...]