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It’s Growing Season!
Check out today's Daily Deposit! It’s May which means it’s graduation season but not just for students! It’s also graduation season for...

MichelleRena
May 25, 20231 min read


A tribute to my greatest female influencers
Happy Self Care Sunday! It's so funny to me! I will have all of these grand plans for posts, actually write them out, and forget to post...

MichelleRena
Mar 5, 20234 min read


Meet Yarnell Williams-Long, CEO of EEMC Consulting, LLC
I love that social media helps to connect people who otherwise might not ever get the chance to get to know one another. My timeline is...

MichelleRena
Jan 5, 20222 min read


Meet Amari Cooper Ferguson, Toddler Author and Future Paleontologist
A few months ago, before I got sick I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the most adorable kids ever. His name is Amari Cooper...

MichelleRena
Jul 30, 20213 min read


Small Business Gem: Get to Know Park Place Payments
Attention Business Owners!!! Are you looking to maximize your small business earning potential? Park Place Payments is a women-owned...

MichelleRena
Feb 27, 20212 min read


Meet Dr. Sherman Green, CEO of Strategic Directions, LLC
It is always a pleasure interviewing my classmates for features on the blog. This interview was extra special because Sherman Wendell...

MichelleRena
Feb 19, 20212 min read


Happy Monday!
It’s February 1st and this marks the start of Black History Month 2021! I love Black History Month always have, always will. However, it...

MichelleRena
Feb 1, 20211 min read


Happy Kwanzaa Day 7 Imani (Faith)
IMANI — FAITH: To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of...

MichelleRena
Jan 1, 20212 min read


Happy Kwanzaa Day 6 Kuumba (Creativity)
Kuumba: the commitment to being creative within the context of the national community vocation of restoring the people to their...

MichelleRena
Dec 31, 20201 min read


Happy Kwanzaa Day 4 Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
Today is the fourth day of the Kwanzaa celebration, and it is focused on cooperative economics. In our kinaras, we light the middle,...

MichelleRena
Dec 29, 20202 min read


Happy Kwanzaa Day 3
Ujima (oo-gee-mah) collective work and responsibility. let this serve as a reminder that we are each other’s greatest allies. Let us...

MichelleRena
Dec 28, 20201 min read


Happy Kwanzaa Day 2!
Self-Determination/Kujichagulia To define the world in our own image and interest, placing African people and our history and culture at...

MichelleRena
Dec 27, 20201 min read


Happy Kwanzaa!!!
On this fabulous African American festivity, celebrate all seven days a bit differently. 1st Day of Kwanzaa December 26 (Umoja means...

MichelleRena
Dec 26, 20201 min read


Meet Dr. Erica Davis, Dope Black Pediatrician
So when I was a little girl, I was obsessed with everything about the young woman who was then known as, Erica Thomas! She was smart,...

MichelleRena
Dec 23, 20202 min read


Meet Jamie Evans, CEO of Destination Success Academy
If there is one thing that I have learned from living in the Muck...it is that teachers are serious about their calling. In the six years...

MichelleRena
Sep 12, 20201 min read


Book Review: Informed Consent by KC Mills
"Our commitments to those we love sometimes cloud our ability to truly exist. It's so easy to fade into the shadows trying to be what others need us to be."
Monica Odom
6 hours ago3 min read


Sneaky little bum foot...
Remember, when I was working out every single day! Listen, the way I have had to cut back on regular life things simply because I couldn't walk...like for real walk...has been the absolute worst. I pushed through for most of 2025 and it wasn't until I dropped a dumbbell on my foot in late September and there was no more pushing it until later. So I had a keratoma removed from my foot today after nearly a year of hobbling around and walking like Viola Davis in Fences… I tried

MichelleRena
7 days ago2 min read
Life Comes At You Fast...
Honestly, I am in a mind space where all I can express is gratitude for how far God has brought me. So much has happened in such a short time span. I am struggling to find a way to write this current chapter which is weird. But whenever it begins to flow freely, I will let it. I won't hold back. Until then, I will just keep posting. I met with my therapist last Friday and she expressed how proud she is of me. I told her that she is phenomenal and I am grateful that she helped

MichelleRena
Feb 161 min read


Book Review: Implied Consent by KC Mills
Skylar is his plus one to a wedding, and his ex, Shelby, is in the wedding party. Sir...why didn't you tell her this?!?!
Monica Odom
Feb 163 min read
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