I wrote an article for The Daily OWN, a wonderful website that uses the lessons of Oprah and the Oprah Winfrey Network as a platform to engage in valuable discussions on self-confidence, introspection, love and light. Every year, The Daily OWN hosts a life-changing weekly bootcamp with articles on different topics and themes. The creators [...]

I wrote an article for The Whirling Blog in September 2012 about Paulo Coelho’s incredible, soul-stirring book The Alchemist and how it changed my life! You can read the full article HERE. Several months ago, my dad gave me a copy of Paulo Coelho’s life-changing book The Alchemist. Knowing how much I loved Oprah’s Lifeclass [...]

In June 2012, I wrote another article for the incredible Positively Positive about the power of You Tube videos to inspire and uplift us! I talked about my regular You Tube Inspirational Video Crawls (watching inspiring You Tube videos back to back, such as videos from the Ellen DeGeneres Show). The article including all of [...]

I am a contributor on Eric Handler’s luminous website Positively Positive. One of the first pieces I wrote back in June 2012 was on Lee Hirsch’s new documentary film “Bully” and the link to the article can be found HERE A few weeks ago, I watched Lee Hirsch’s new documentary film, Bully, which is heartbreakingly [...]

Sorry to be radio silent for so long, but I have been writing quite a bit for a few incredible websites and wanted to share my work here too. The Whirling Blog run by Gene-Manuel Whirling published my piece on Oprah’s Lifeclass and lessons on gratitude in June 2012. You can read the full piece [...]

Over the past few weeks, I have wanted to write a post about the experience of attending the Lifeclass tapings in person on April 16 in Toronto. When I sit down to reflect on that day, I am overcome with a flood of emotions and memories about the cathartic, amazing experience with Oprah, the Lifeclass [...]

Over the past few months, I have been thinking a lot about the power of gratitude. After attending Lifeclass in Toronto on April 16 and watching the Season Finale of Oprah’s Lifeclass (Topic: Gratitude) on April 30, the notion of gratitude has captured my heart and consciousness in new, vivid, indescribable ways. For the past [...]

As part of the Finale for Lifeclass Season 2, live tweet-ups were organized across North America, thanks to the brainchild of OWN Viewer Sandy Abrams and the commitment of OWN viewers around the United States and Canada, in the following cities: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Toronto/Burlington, and Ottawa! The events were [...]

“India takes hold of your senses the moment you arrive and it never lets go.” – Oprah I was thrilled when I heard that Oprah was traveling to India to film episodes of her weekly series Next Chapter on OWN, because I knew that she would bring the same reverence, precision, and evocative questioning that [...]

After participating as a Skyper in the Lifeclass Season 2 Premiere in St. Louis, I was contacted by the wonderful Amy and Nancy Harrington who run a fabulous website called Pop-Culture Passionistas where they share inspiring, fun, engaging stories about pop-culture news and events. Amy and Nancy were both in attendance at the Lifeclass tapings [...]