Celebrating The Year of the Horse with Dr. Ming Wang on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join us on Living Your Best Life Radio with Genma Holmes as well gallop in the Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, with Dr. Ming Wang, founder of Wang Vision Institute.

On Saturday, February 1, 2014 tune in to hear Dr. Wang discuss local, national, and international observances of the nearly two week celebrations of the Year of the Horse as well as the customs and history behind holiday.

Dr. Wang will discuss Asian Americans and other minority groups becoming more involved in U. S. life and how changing demographics of the country can bring economic opportunities for entrepreneurs who are open to embracing changes.

Dr. Wang will also discuss how we can live to give now and how charities can be the key to closing the health care gap for the medically undeserved. Listen as he shares his passion for serving those who cannot afford medical care and how his faith plays a major role in providing those services.

Living Your Best Life Radio, radio that empowers, inspires, and motivates you to live your BEST life can be heard on 760AM in the Middle Tennessee Region, on Tune In Radio, streamed live on the web at UStream.TV  on Saturdays from 9:00-10:00am CST and on military bases.

More About Chinese New Year 

The source of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Philippines, and also in Chinatowns elsewhere. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors.

More About Dr. Ming Wang

 Dr. Ming Wang is a uniquely qualified corneal refractive surgeon. He hold a Harvard Medical School and MIT degree (magna cum laude, 1991) as well as a doctoral degree in laser physics. He is both an accomplished scientist and a talented artist.

As the founding director of the renowned Wang Vision Institute in Nashville, TN, he excels in his profession as a compassionate ophthalmologist who cares deeply about his patients and continues to strive to give them the best eye care possible.

As an accomplished research scientist, he has made worthwhile contributions to various areas of molecular biology (see Nature, 360, 606, 1992) and ophthalmology including being a principle investigator of an NIH grant on amniotic contact lenses and the biotech company that he cofounded with Vanderbilt, EyeVU.

As a talented artist, passionate about ballroom dancing and music, he brings to people around him a sense of joy for rhythm and movement, the appreciation for fine art and many romantic and beautiful melodies of life.


 

HBCU Digest and Creativity Moves on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes as we profile organizations and leaders who lead by example. With extraordinary acts of kindness and charitable giving that help countless lives daily, these organizations and leaders embody "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Throughout 2013 listeners will hear from presidents of organizations who are global change agents. We will also hear from CEOs of social enterprise businesses who are changing communities and college educators who are taking their students out of the classroom and into surrounding neighborhoods to learn and serve others.

On Saturday, June 8, 2013, tune in to hear Jarret Carter, founder of HBCU Digest and The Center HBCU Media Advocacy, and Jacob Weiss, founder of Playing by Air and Creativity Moves.

Carter will share about the upcoming Inaugural HBCU Media Summit and the 3rd Annual HBCU Awards that will be held on the campus of Jackson State University. Tune in to hear the list of nominees and why Carter took a leap of faith to start HBCU Digest and the need for more HBCUs to be proactive in media literacy.

Jacob Weiss will also share about his leap of faith last to create a vehicle to help socially conscious entrepreneurs and individuals connect with causes and non-profits that help create change in communities. Weiss with share how he started with Playing by Air, an entertainment company that performed for many cancer patients and cancer organization. With Playing by Air garnering national and international media coverage, Weiss wanted to share his passion for helping others with the community at large.

Carter and Weiss have become "go to" individuals in their fields. They used their entrepreneurial skills and passions for unique causes to create events to share their knowledge. Their events, HBCU Awards and Creativity Moves, are helping others to change perceptions, connect with like minded people, and become more educated by bringing individuals together to think outside of the box.


Tune into 760AM in the Middle Tennessee Region, streaming live on line at UStream.TV and on military bases on Saturdays from 9:00-10am CST. 

More About National Media Week

 

Jackson State University will be the host site for the inaugural National HBCU Media Week, to be held June 27-29, 2013. Two major events, the National HBCU Media Summit and third annual HBCU Awards, will cap off a week of national forums, celebration and training in the areas of media literacy and development for America's 105 historically black colleges and universities.

Designed to engage the national HBCU community in media literacy and development, the National HBCU Media Summit will provide best practices in media culture building from HBCU communities from around the nation. Through dialog with practicing journalists, administrators, PR professionals, faculty and students, the Summit assists in providing a focused, national media strategy for HBCUs.

More About Creativity Move

Creativity Moves inspires, empowers, and connects local individuals and organizations to make a difference through a spirit of creativity, entrepreneurship, and giving back to the community.

It is a movement that celebrates and nurtures partnerships between creativity and causes, generating awareness, support, and transformation for entrepreneurs and local communities resources. The same passion that drives entrepreneurs and creative growth also fosters a desire to give back to meaningful causes and non-profit organizations.

Creativity Moves recognizes and partners with a wide range of local leaders and organizations who provide services and support to the community throughout the year. A guiding philosophy of Creativity Moves is to support and work collaboratively with other local initiatives for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and community-based programs.

Creativity and the spirit of giving back are common threads that tie our cities and organizations together, and we hope that each of you get involved as a partner, collaborator, leader, supporter, and active participant in your community.


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Robert Knowles on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes as we count the down 2012 and prepare our mind, body, and spirit for an exciting year of Giving Abundantly and Living Life to the Fullest in 2013. 

Tune in on Saturday, December 29, 2012, to hear  author, speaker, and real estate maverick, Robert Knowles, as he shares lessons from his book "Miracles 101". Knowles, a master story teller, will share how miracles are occurring everyday in our daily lives. "You can live on Madison Avenue or Skid Row; you may have a degree from an Ivy League School or the School of Hard Knocks: there's an area in your life where you need a miracle!" Listen as Knowles share from his many experiences with church building projects, that could only been a miracle to get off the ground. 

 
Knowles will share how a disastrous church building committee experience led him to form his business, Arks, Inc., multimillion dollar real estate consulting firm that builds churches all over the world. Hear him talk about an experience that nearly kept him out of church and what it took to get him back into building churches again.  

Knowles will keep you entertained with his wit and his transparency while holding nothing back about what it take to work with a committee, in and out of the church. Tune in for a show that will make you laugh, put a smile on your face, and have you wanting to use your God given talents for the greater good in 2013 while restoring your faith in humanity.
Living Your Best Life can be heard on 760 AM in the Middle-Tennessee Region, military bases, and streamed live on U-Stream.TV from 9-10AM CST.
 

More About Robert Knowles
 
Robert Knowles is founder and president of Arks, Incorporated. He attended Pembroke State University and the University of N.C. Wilmington.

Robert has over 20 years of real estate development experience, 18 years experience in consulting, financing, designing, and building churches and has been involved in many entrepreneurial endeavors during his business career.

He is also founder of Accumulated Resources of Kindred Spirits, a not for profit company that has worked to improve the lives of many in Africa, India and the United States. He is the author of Successful Church Building and is an invited speaker at church conferences and seminars on how to build churches without losing your members. 


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Small Business Roll Call

As a small business owner, I try to support other business owners not only by being a customer but by promoting others to do business with brick and mortars, online, and service based companies.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills, with Yuri Cunza, David Tiller, and Genma Holmes

According to the Small Businesses Administration:

•    Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
•    Employ half of all private sector employees.
•    Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
•    Generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years.
•    Create more than half of the nonfarm private GDP.
•    Hire 43 percent of high tech workers ( scientists, engineers, computer programmers, and others).
•    Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
•    Made up 97.5 percent of all identified exporters and produced 31 percent of export value in FY 2008.
•    Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.

Saturday, November 24, 2012 is officially Small Business Sunday. For the third year, millions of Americans are being encouraged to shop small by purchasing goods and services from small business owners.

Small Business Saturday is an American shopping holiday held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. First celebrated on November 27, 2010, it is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature big box retail and e-commerce stores respectively. By contrast, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local.

In 2010 the holiday was conceived and promoted by American Express via a nationwide radio and television advertising campaign. That year Amex bought advertising inventory on Facebook, which it in turn gave to its small merchant account holders, and also gave rebates to new customers to promote the event.

 American Express publicized the initiative using social media, advertising, and public relations. At least 41 local politicians and many small business groups in the United States issued proclamations concerning the campaign, which generated more than one million Facebook "like" registrations and nearly 30,000 tweets under the Twitter hashtags #smallbusinesssaturday (which had existed since early 2010) and #smallbizsaturday.

I believe that small business owners must lead the charge by promoting and spending with each other first. To celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship, Living Your Best Life will announce the business owners that leave their company info in the comment section beginning Saturday November 24, 2012 through December 31, 2012 on air to encourage their listeners to spend with small business during the holiday season. It is my way of showing my appreciation for the small business community and helps jump start my "Year of Living and Giving".

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