Stacey Ferguson :: Building Empires Is My Jam

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{Sponsored} Summer Cooking w. Chatterbox: An Unexpected Avenue for Conversations #TalkEarly

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Every time we're in the car running errands, and Things 1,2 and 3 are chattering away: yelling, asking 5,000 questions, singing to some song on the radio that I feel so uncool for not knowing - I try to take a deep breath and instead of screaming at them to be quiet, remind myself that, soon enough, they won't be saying a word.  With Chatterbox starting 5th grade (today!), I'm hyper-aware of the fact that she is a full-fledged tween and with that means the gradual transition to private, mono-syllabic teenager.  I want to enjoy the constant chatter while I can.  Over this past year, I've noticed that the long-winded conversations have slowed down with her and that I have to pry more - which totally makes me annoying.  But I've found that, if … [Read more...]

{Sponsored} Sangria + Yoga = Love: My #BlogHer14 #NamastEppa Party Recap

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The Eppa Sangria Sundown Soiree, in collaboration with Soybu and The Whole Planet Foundation, was my first event of BlogHer14, and it set the tone for my entire weekend!  You couldn’t have asked for a better ambiance: good music, yoga, tasty bites and toasting to friendships, new and old, over a cool glass of sangria. And I do mean cool. Seriously, how awesome is that dispenser?!   I’m not a big wine drinker and I hardly have time to labor and make my own sangria like my ace, Jazzy Jonez, so Eppa Supra Fruta Sangria with its screw cap and blends of super fruit could truly make my soirées the life of the party.  Eppa is the only certified organic premium bottled sangria and each glass contains as much as 2x the antioxidants found … [Read more...]

A Revelation About My ‘Telephone Voice’ and Why You May Need to #RefreshYourFunny

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This post is part of a paid campaign sponsored by the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. Ever since we were dating, my husband used to tease me about my "telephone voice."  This was the voice that he said I "put on" when I got on the phone.  I used to totally ignore him about that (still do), because I really and truly didn't notice a change in the way I spoke during phone conversations.  Sure, I knew that I can get loud on the phone, or I can talk the other person to death - I'm a Leo after all - but even in those gregarious moments, I was still 100% Stacey, so what was the big deal? That was until my eldest made a remark not too long ago.  I can't remember her exact words, but we were heading to an event or … [Read more...]

{Sponsored} I Have My #BestTeacherEver to Thank for My Blogging Career

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This post is sponsored as part of the Teach for America #BestTeacherEver campaign. You know how you can trace certain happenings in your life back to specific events in time?  The more I think about it, the more I'm sure that I can pinpoint the pivotal time period in my life that was the deciding factor between me taking Path A or Path B.  It was circa 1999 and I was a first-year student at the Howard University School of Law.  I was both over-the-moon excited and scared to death of this new and ambitious journey ahead of me - after all, for the previous 4 years majoring in Television and Radio Production, I was CERTAIN that I would have been holding a boom mic on somebody's television set by the fall of 1999.  But, there I was, sitting … [Read more...]

Three Cheers for Instant Gratification! Order Online and Pick-Up In-Store w. Office Depot Omni Channel

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We're in the thick of holiday season and I've been crossing items off of my Christmas shopping list left and right thanks to making friends with the Internet and doing the bulk of my shopping online.  This is the first year in recent memory where it's 2 weeks before the holiday and I'm 90% done with buying gifts - oh what a feeling!  I took advantage of Black Friday and Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday sales and...now the waiting game begins. You know.  Waiting for your order to process.  Waiting for your order to ship.  Waiting for your items to be delivered. It's a whole lotta waiting!  If you're like me, and you need instant gratification - or maybe you're simply in a hurry - or maybe you'd like to pad your budget a little by … [Read more...]