Mid Week Free Event: Laugh Out Loud Wednesday at Linger Martini Bar

WHATS FUNNY LIVE presents Tomorrow at the LINGER MARTINI BAR ****A SPECIAL EVENT**** National Headliner GERALD KELLY FROM THE BRONX, NEW YORK. 


The hottest Wednesday night Comedy Show/Afterparty just got HOTTER! Beautiful PPL, hilarious Comedians and Drink Specials — This event will reach capacity. Doors open at 7pm-Show starts at 9pm…..Get there EARLY!!! Hosted by one of Chicago’s  funniest Comedians Torris Brown featuring sounds by DJ Mike


Linger Martini is a beautiful lounge great for couples or a simple night out with your friends. Free admission, very reasonable drink prices and plenty of seating room. 


The Mr. and I will be there front and center.


See you Wednesday!!!




Gerald Kelly Comedy Clip






Tired of Getting Distracted from Your Long Term Goals: Tips for Staying Interested in Succeeding

How to stay motivated and focused in the longer term?
Source: www.planetofsuccess.com



Tips to stay focused #1Set daily and weekly priorities:
If you want to stay focused on your goals it is necessary to set priorities among your daily to-do-list from: “Very Urgent & Important” to “Not Urgent & Not Important”. This allows you to 1) safe timeand to 2) keep being focused on the tasks that are really important throughout your day. This easy to use but very effective prioritizing system should definitely be considered if you aim to stay focused on your goals and objectives.

Tips to stay focused #2 Motivational patterns
The motivational sources that have helped others to stay motivated have the high potential to let you stay focused and motivated as well. Try to find a mentor or role models that are living the lifestyle you desire to create. Every one of them has established patterns that have the potential to work for you as well. You don´t even necessarily need a mentor to find positive role models since you can also find them in books and movies.

Tips to stay focused #3 Organizing
The organizing of tasks allows you to reach a maximum of efficiency in your daily life. Try to keep a clear focus with a well-organized system in order to organize your professional and personal life.

BET Awards Edition of Mommy Makin Moves

So many FLY mama’s at the BET Awards 2012!! If you thought it was hard to be an amazing mom and look like a fierce vixen you were wrong.

LaLa Anthony, Beyonce, Solange, Brandy, Monica, Faith Evans and did you see Chaka Chan? These women looked beautiful with no effort.

They are living proof that it’s not easy having it all but they don’t appear to be trading it for the simple life any time soon.

Are we teaching our Daughter’s to be BAD Bitches

I’ve sang my fair share of Bad Bitch athems. Listening to the radio and all I hear on black stations are stripper songs by every rapper out that say they want a bad bitch with a nice butt, long hair and now she needs to be independent. Lupe Fiasco’s “Bitch Bad” tells a story of how our young men grow up to degrade “Bad Bitches” and how our young girls learn to embrace it. You may think those songs are just songs and video’s but when children have nothing to compare and contrast the images with, we create Bad Bitches and The Men that Disrespect Them. Message!!!!

Black Folks Money is Good Enough to Take but Not Good Enough to Target



Isn’t this a slap in the face. I don’t know any other race that spends and creates trends like the black consumer but the media outlets we frequent are being over looked by major brands. 


Why? If we’re going to buy it anyway than why waste the money  advertising to us. Black folks want to keep up with the Jones’s or the Carter’s should I say. Are we too trendy to advertise to? 


Psychology of Luxury Brands on African Americans.


Networks thrive off of advertising. When advertisers refuse to look at the networks target market as a credible source of income it creates financial strain for the network. In other words brands are cool with us buying their products as long as the world doesn’t know about it. 


Advertisers Urged to Use More Black Media

Source: New York Times 


On Monday, BET Networks, Black Enterprise, Johnson Publishing (the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines), the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and others will join with media-buying agencies to introduce a campaign intended to educate advertisers about the importance of black media and its increasingly deep-pocketed audience.


Called #InTheBlack (using the Twitter hash tag), the campaign will begin with print advertisements in major newspapers (including The New York Times) and trade magazines like Broadcasting & Cable and Adweek. It will expand to a long-term joint effort that includes social media and direct outreach to marketers.


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Being professional even during your side hustle

Here goes a brief rant.

Don’t you highly dislike when your beautician gossips telling all her business and the business of everyone she’s come in contact with in her whole life. Small conversation is one thing but these folks tell addresses and dates of incidents. That’s just too much for the work place. Yes, the beauty shop is a work place.

Why is it ok to push professionalism to the side during a hustle that you govern yourself? Professionalism should not only exist when a larger corporation is enforcing the standards, Right?

Your customers don’t care that you sell purses out the trunk of your car or Jewelry out your house. They deserve to be treated like they’re shopping at Nordstrom’s or on Rodeo Drive. They deserve top notch quality service. 

Your customers talk a lot believe me. When you make them feel good they’ll go tell it on the mountain.. That’s what you want. Word of mouth business is the best marketing for a small biz owner like yourself.

Do the right thang. Be a respectable adult that understand there is a time and place for everything. That includes gossip. Spreading people’s personal business is a No No, but if you do could you at least have the decency to do it behind closed doors with a limited number of people.

It’s already hard to build a customer base. Don’t sabotage your success by talking too much about the wrong thing.

Remember your hustle has the potential to become your bread and butter. It may even open you up to bigger and better opportunities. If you’re ratchet attitude and lack of professionalism is bolder than your products it could be grounds for failure.

Professionalism: It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.”




-Mommy Makin Moves

Experiencing the Best of Chicago – Chicagolicious, Groupon and Living Social

Hey Now,

Style is starting to be my favorite network. Tia & Tamera and now Chicagolicious, I’m charged!!.

While I can see the drama brewing I can appreciate the drama in that setting. It’s a salon. Come on, all salon’s as far as I know have their fair share of gossip, pettiness and back stabbing. That’s the nature of the beast. It’s expected. What I didn’t expect was to be looking at my city through elite eye’s.

AJ Johnson & Staff

Chicagolicious brings the Chicago flare to TV. I admire the stylist that have come from small towns or rough neighborhoods to the big city to make a name for themselves. (Now if only the people that live here could be so successful.)

Chicagolicious is exposing us (Reality TV Junkies) to fresh events and people in Chicago. Like Groupon and Living Social that exposes many to activities that we’d never even known existed. Chicagolicious is putting the city on to a lifestyle that seems out of reach for so many.

I’m looking forward to the guest, hair styles, events and more. Let me see what those sew-in’s look like. You know we’re always looking for a mean weaveologist.

2 Mommy Makin Moves Thumbs Up.

Check out the Chicagolicious preview here

People Change When They Feel Like It: Yes that includes your baby daddy/mama

The best marriage advice I’ve received is the person you’re with NOW is the person you’re marrying FOREVER. Don’t expect them to magically change into whatever imaginary person you have in your head. This same advice is true when having children with someone. I keep having the same conversation with people thinking that after a baby enters the picture everything will get better. 
Children are a beautiful blessing but they add responsibility. The person you sleep with that doesn’t call you back after, gives you excuse after excuse, doesn’t work, doesn’t go to school and doesn’t buy you anything, doesn’t talk about future plans with YOU. That’s who you want to have a child with? Think about it. Parenthood is a lifetime commitment. 

As I always say “Don’t make your life harder than it has to be.”

No Nightclub Shoes in the Office – What Not to Wear to Work, Ladies Edition

Back in the day when all the skirts were long it was much easier to navigate women’s attire. Oh boy, these days in a time where anything goes, young women are at a lost as to what to wear to church, work or to dinner. 


Shine has put together a cheat sheet to determine what’s a Go and What’s No No for the office. 

As dress codes loosen up and temperatures rise, we’ve noticed women pushing their work attire to the limit. We started wondering: are tank tops fair game? And how can you tell if a skirt is too short? Every office environment has its own set of fashion rules, so we checked in with Katherine Power and Hillary Kerr, the ladies behind the popular fashion site “Who What Wear” and the helpful new handbook, “What to Wear, Where” to get the scoop on general wardrobe guidelines for the work place. Here are their seven fashion don’ts for the office.

1. Nightclub shoes
“We always say not to wear anything to the office that you’d wear to a nightclub–that includes extreme platforms or overly edgy shoes. Keep it timeless with a modest heel in classic shapes like a peep toe, pointy toe, or even a wedge, which can be easier to walk in. If you want to play with trends and your office environment calls for a more creative style, go for color or print, but just keep the shape conservative.” 

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