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The Perfect Red Lip

Posted on June 3, 2017June 3, 2017 by Ahtis

I was recently late for a friend’s birthday celebration dinner because I couldn’t find my favorite matte red lip stain.… Read more The Perfect Red Lip

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My weekend was all about black girl magic. ✨ The celebrations continued for @mzhewitt01 birthday. 🎂 S/o to @keys_rebelle on the beat that lasted through all of my ripping and running. 💋

Currency Conversations is changing our own narratives about money. 💰 Women have asked me how old my children were when I started to talk with them about money. The truth is that we’ve always talked about money...not from a place of lack or guilt but about choices. At the age of 3-4 when they asked for an ice cream cone from the truck, I explained that we could buy a half gallon of ice cream and have 8 cones for the price of one cone at the truck. Simple conversations like these guide them to make choices that often times means foregoing immediate gratification in favor of a greater benefit later on. As they got slightly older, I explained how I made sacrifices early to purchase my first home at the age of 21 and the compounding effect that it has had on our ability to own our home today, live abroad, travel, and enjoy certain luxuries. ⚖️ I talk with my kids about our financial goals, college, retirement, travel, etc. and how we save and invest to achieve these goals. We talk about the financial mistakes I, and others have made; not from a place of judgement but of learning. We also talk about the healthy habits that we can adopt to stay on track with our goals. 🗣 The point is, it’s never to early to start talking with our children about money and whether we’re talking about it or not, they are learning from our example. Many of us didn’t learn these lessons growing up. We often learned from our own mistakes, and with that can bring shame that silences us, but we need to break that. To quote @lynnettekhalfanicox , “we should make sure our children start where we leave off and not where we start.” The best way to ensure that is to have these Currency Conversations with our kids. #currencyconversations

Slept with the fishes and lived to tell the tale...see what I did there (we slept in the hall of oceans) 😉 🐠 Chase had a wonderful behind the scenes experience after hours with the T Rex 🦖and Oceans 3D 🐙 exhibits at the @american_museum_of_natural_his with @jackandjillbrooklyn . I’m not gonna lie, I wasn’t excited about sleeping in a sleeping bag on a cot in a big hall with a bunch of strangers but he got to live his best life and I even learned a few things 💙

This staycation is giving us a chance to get reacquainted with some cool places right in our backyard, like the Brooklyn Museum. S/o to @mssylthomas for organizing us to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit...I think Mexican x Museums is our new thing.

The 24 hour instatory expired but this ponytail and fresh sun-kissed skin needs to live in perpetuity #staycation #outofoffice

We hope to see our ATL peeps tomorrow as @chelsea_chats talks about starting conversations early about saving, investing, and starting healthy financial habits.

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