By: Dove --- Author, marketing guru, wife and mom - Jamilah Creekmur is proving that a modern day woman really can have it all! In January 2010, the 34-year-old go-getter ventured out from the 9-to-5 world to start the Harbor Digital Group consulting firm, and just released her first book Raised by the Mistress in August. Balancing a career and family life is never easy, but Creekmur makes ...

By: Jenny Buccos, with intro by Tati Amare **travel videos not by Jenny Buccos --- In between planning trips for her award-winning multimedia projects designed to educate youth on the world’s cultures, histories and people. As the founder of ProjectExplorer.org and director of over 200 short films for students, Jenny Buccos actually finds time to do some leisure traveling. Jenny has visi...

By: Bridget Baggett of UnleashMagazine.com --- Being a dog in the 21st century isn’t such a bad thing anymore. As recently as a decade ago, flea and tick prevention bordered on archaic. Horrible flea collars that made Fido’s hair fall out, sprays that made both you and him cough and sneeze, God-awful shampoos that sent him running under your bed, leaving a sudsy trail of bubbles all over y...

By: Darrell W. Butler ACE, NFPT, ISCA Certified Personal Trainer --- When my friend Carmen came back from her trip to Miami last weekend, she returned with more than just a deeper tan and some tacky souvenir t-shirts. She also came back with a few horror stories about her experiences at some of the local gyms that she utilized while she was down there. At the first gym she visited, one o...

By: Jesse Fairfax --- New York is generally considered the absolute mecca for east coast living, but upon crossing the Ben Franklin Bridge leaving New Jersey, there lies another metropolis in Philadelphia. An often overlooked hotbed for engaging happenstance, the city has birthed celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Joey Lawrence, Eve, Pink, Jill Scott, comedian Kevin Ha...

By: Siddiqu "The Personal Trainer" ACE (American Council of Exercise), NFPT (National Federation of Personal Training) Certified Personal Trainer, IHSA Certified Coach, and Boxing Fitness Trainer --- I was training a client recently, and he was complaining about the price of reduced sugar yogurt and how eating healthy was really expensive, and I get that a lot from people. "Being in shape an...

By: Dove --- Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus, his wife Shanté and their daughter Cori appeared on The View today (Aug. 6) to discuss 11-year-old Cori's battle with the incurable autoimmune disorder lupus. Diagnosed at just 6-years-old in 2005, Cori suffered hair loss, hives and rashes, weight loss and problems with joints in her fingers. Fortunately, treatments at UCLA medical center and a foc...

By: Ryan Jackson of UnleashMagazine.com and Dove --- During the summer months when we are experiencing the hottest days of the year, not only do we need to take appropriate precautions for ourselves, but for our dogs as well. How do we keep our pets safe? It seems like common sense, but it's striking how many people still don't understand that extreme heat and over-exposure to the sun can caus...

By: Dove --- After years of seeing his weight fluctuate and then grow uncontrollably, 29-year-old Paul Slayton knew he had to make a serious change. Known to most of the world as Houston rapper Paul Wall, Slayton set aside fame to make a decision that would best benefit his life and family. As a resolution for 2010, he opted for gastric sleeve surgery on New Year's Eve, and has since lost ov...

By: Darrell W. Butler ACE, NFPT, ISCA Certified Personal Trainer --- In many ways, the relationship between man and machine can be even more intimate and personal than the relationship between a man and his wife. You ask a man his anniversary date, and watch the beads of sweat form on his brow as he struggles to “carry the one,” but ask this same man how many miles his Mustang gets per g...