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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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6 years late(r)...
Has it really been 6 years? Did it really take 6 years to get here? The intersection of Jhene Aiko's 2020 Chilombo album release and now six years later, Westwide Whimsy with me IRL!

MichelleRena
Sep 125 min read
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I Didn't Make It...
So I said I was gonna write in May, but I didn't make It. The entire month of May, I navigated the challenges of my own mental health and the mental health of those around me and I didn't have the capacity to write about It. I fought the fight alone most days, but those who check on me constantly, like Mon, and the K-Squad, saw the spiral happening in real time and finally my homegirl said when are you going to call your therapist because this isn't you friend! My therapist c

MichelleRena
Jun 13 min read
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2026 - Revelation
Once you know, you can't unknow. So be careful when you ask for things to be revealed, if you aren't prepared to deal with the revelation.
Monica Odom
May 81 min read
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Book Review: The Bridge Back to You by Riss M. Neilson
Favorite quote: "I never really did fall out of love. I just learned to live without her."
Monica Odom
Apr 302 min read
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