In Episode 1, Michelle Matthews Calloway of theswirlworld.com tells us all to stop sitting by the phone or waiting at home for Mr. Right! Dating options are endless if you would just open your mind. Watch the excitement in the video now!
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Anita Washington, M.Ed. & M.B.A., CEO & Founder of That Anita Live, LLC, host of the TV show That Anita Live and The Emotional Happiness Podcast with That Anita Live provides a platform for women to learn, laugh and more importantly heal emotionally by learning from the challenges and successes of others.
A former school and community agency counselor and creator of the 7-Step Method, Anita’s helped guide people from the ages of eleven to fifty through their own life issues, personal transformations and professional endeavors. With an old soul and a comedic, honest voice. She uses many southern colloquialisms and colorful expressions to unwrap personal stories of surviving a homicidal alcoholic father, a mother in denial and four physically and emotionally abusive brothers and relates them to guiding principles and healing techniques.
Through her powerful and uplifting interviews at ThatAnitaLive.TV and The Emotional Happiness Podcast women get to see and hear real women with resourceful stories living relentless lives after life's most devastating events. Through her charismatic and compelling speaking, Anita helps women use the tools and resources they already have to reveal and release success blockers such as childhood trauma and family dysfunction so they can build self-confidence, boost their self-esteem and feel free to live true to their own personality, spirit and character.
In her newly released ebook, 7 Simple Steps to Beat Emotional Baggage, Anita shares actionable techniques that will walk women through letting go of the past and rising above the glass ceiling to reach higher levels of success and satisfaction in life.
From nine-to-five, Anita is a Senior Acquisition Support Specialist, possessing over nineteen years of performing and administering program management and cradle-to-grave commercial and federal contracting activities for acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to over $2 Billion. She has progressively worked her way up the federal acquisition lifecycle and commercial supply chain through various positions from pre-award and requirements definition to commodities buying to contract close-out. In her career, she has mastered the art of transitioning to level-up.
Anita is a graduate of Limestone College, Virginia State University, and Strayer University with a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Guidance & Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Contracts & Acquisitions. You can find Anita online at ThatAnitaLive.com, Twitter, Periscope, Instagram and Facebook. Her handle is That Anita Live on all four social media platforms.
A former school and community agency counselor and creator of the 7-Step Method, Anita’s helped guide people from the ages of eleven to fifty through their own life issues, personal transformations and professional endeavors. With an old soul and a comedic, honest voice. She uses many southern colloquialisms and colorful expressions to unwrap personal stories of surviving a homicidal alcoholic father, a mother in denial and four physically and emotionally abusive brothers and relates them to guiding principles and healing techniques.
Through her powerful and uplifting interviews at ThatAnitaLive.TV and The Emotional Happiness Podcast women get to see and hear real women with resourceful stories living relentless lives after life's most devastating events. Through her charismatic and compelling speaking, Anita helps women use the tools and resources they already have to reveal and release success blockers such as childhood trauma and family dysfunction so they can build self-confidence, boost their self-esteem and feel free to live true to their own personality, spirit and character.
In her newly released ebook, 7 Simple Steps to Beat Emotional Baggage, Anita shares actionable techniques that will walk women through letting go of the past and rising above the glass ceiling to reach higher levels of success and satisfaction in life.
From nine-to-five, Anita is a Senior Acquisition Support Specialist, possessing over nineteen years of performing and administering program management and cradle-to-grave commercial and federal contracting activities for acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to over $2 Billion. She has progressively worked her way up the federal acquisition lifecycle and commercial supply chain through various positions from pre-award and requirements definition to commodities buying to contract close-out. In her career, she has mastered the art of transitioning to level-up.
Anita is a graduate of Limestone College, Virginia State University, and Strayer University with a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Guidance & Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Contracts & Acquisitions. You can find Anita online at ThatAnitaLive.com, Twitter, Periscope, Instagram and Facebook. Her handle is That Anita Live on all four social media platforms.
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Loved every bit of this! I can say I was down with the swirl before I even knew what that meant; the first person I’d ever dated was a Korean boy. (We connected on what was important to us then – snacks and cartoons.) I’ve never yawned and hopped out of bed declaring,”I’m going to snag a different-colored dude today!” – I was just lucky to have a family who never taught me I needed to stay in a box.
This bizarre phenomenon of loyalty and guilt is extremely common with African-American women, particularly those who 1) have low self-esteem; and 2) have never been traveled outside of the United States. I love that she mentioned Eve because she’s a prime example of how we are capable of finding quality partners when we’re not limiting ourselves. See also: Janet Jackson, Serena Williams.
The fact is: race is purely a construct. We were meant to mix (which is why genetic disorders are so prevalent in white families who attempt to remain ‘pure’, but that’s a story for another day). As Imagine Me said, try dating other ethnicities! You might marry within or outside of your own (if you choose to marry at all) but along the way you may learn more about yourself. Live long and prosper 😉
Wonderful perspective! Isn’t it lovely to grow up being exposed to all races and religions.
I concur %. My father was not happy when I brought a Caucasian man home, but I was happy. We did things together, that some men see as soft. Needless to say, it did not work out, but I am always open to the idea.
If you stay close minded, how will you ever know whether you like dating another race or not. That is like saying, I don’t like Dove soap or its harmful to my skin, and you have never tried it. One of my favorite sayings, “You cannot give me a chicken box and a half and half and think I will be okay with that everyday. I need variety.”
You will never know until you try. If nothing more, you can say that you tried it, but did not like it. Even then, try again, as no one particular ethnicity is the same. Try dating multiple Caucasians, Asians, Mediterraneans, so on and so forth. Happy Dating in the Swirl World.
A closed mind is indeed a selfish one. LOL! Retta you are a hoot!