Bella Magazine November 2013 | Page 7

“gorgeous hair is the BEST revenge” “I love inspiring women Is blogging helping you grow professionally and if, in what ways? Blogging has been a great outlet for me to express my creativity. It’s been a wonderful source of income for my family, especially with my husband being a full time student. I can’t believe how far it has come and I am so blessed to have it! My blog has given me the opportunity to learn about beauty and fashion, write for babble, learn how to model, learn photography, all about computers and self-publishing. Blogging really has forced me to educate myself and learn about new things every day. to believe in themselves and if I can give them that extra confidence they need to feel that much more beautiful, then I’ve done my job!” What are your next plans? What do you plan to achieve/finish by the end of this year? My album was released at the end of October. I was working on it for a year and a half so that is what I have been looking forward to most. The New Braiding Handbook will be in bookstores in May of 2014. Hours and hours have gone into it so I’ll be happy when it’s out for people to learn and grow from! I’m excited for my husband Brian to finally have a job and to be finished with school. I’m just happy to have my readers and my family. Excited to start a new year, who knows what’s in store! You are already working on your second book, this time a professional one, covered by a whole team of people working on it. Yes, it’s so exciting! It’s going to be similar in a way, there will be step by step pictures, but the styles are all new and a quality is going to be fabulous. I can’t even tell you how amazing this book is going to be! You have also started to coach women who want to lose some weight. Tell us something about it. After struggling to lose weight after my second baby I was really discouraged. I had worked so hard for an entire year, eating right and exercising and I was still 20 pounds to my goal. So when I saw my friend’s success with the program I now coach for I decided to give it a try. After losing 20 pounds in 6 weeks I decided to share the program with everyone because it changed my life so much. You also sing, very beautifully! Have you been doing it professionally? Yes, a lot of people don’t know that I actually sing. It’s the one thing I feel was a God given talent! For 15 years I was professionally trained and sung throughout the highschool and college. I decided to give my music career up to get married and have children, the best decision ever. I actually am debuting a religious album. It’s called Believer and 7 out of the 12 songs are originals. It’s been fun writing and recording this past year. Something I’ve always been passionate about. Excited to share my music with everyone! 6