Author: Roze Goes
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Clocking In: Why the Early Shift?
Because I remember what it’s like to be pulled, but unsure of the direction. I still feel like that now. I have walked into a series of helping roles, jumping headfirst into connecting, facilitating, teaching, and burnout. The Early Shift is for those becoming. A space is for the ones just starting—Or starting over.Or starting…
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Goodbye Grandma
Marking the passing of a wonderful woman. I am named after her. I still live in the blessings of her prayer.
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(Self) Love in the Time of Corona Pt.1
Hustle if you can. Rest if you can. But grow you must. Learn you must. Try to remember to be kind to yourself, sure, but apply pressure. A light choke.
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Marie Kondo that Vision Board!
You’re likely stuck in the house. Time is melting away, and you’re clinging like hell to the remnants of your sanity. Order has gone, and the police are trapped in the sewers. A charismatic villain is occupying your living room. Nope, that’s Batman! If you’re not in a Christian Bale film, you’re likely social distancing,…
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Happy Birthday LeVar Burton!
If you’ve ever taken a look inside a book, you owe someone a “thank you”. That someone is LeVar Burton. For so many, on so many Saturdays, he and the Public Broadcast Station took us to far flung locales and caught us up in people and plots. LeVar Burton is a Time Lordt. Afro-futurism and…
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Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!
With over 10 books and a lifetime worth of experience, Angela Davis is one of the greatest to ever do it. Teaching, leading, writing, and always challenging. She is the ultimate #wcw 🤤😍
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“4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication”
This one is going to seem like a no-brainer. It’s not.
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4 Lessons Adulting Has Taught Me!
Sometimes, adulthood is just making bad decisions (or ones that just feel bad) and sticking with them. Whether it’s seeing out a terrible job, paying all your bills early and leaving yourself nothing to live on, or eating lackluster Pinterest salads for the rest of the week. Sometimes you just have to suck it up…
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#Throwback Thursday Deliberate Action
Life is a generous teacher; giving you multiple opportunities to to learn lessons and retake tests.
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Happy Valentimes Day!
Love your self. Black, white, alone, in a relationship, sorta short, freckly or what have you.
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I’m Addicted to Instagram!
My Matrix is STILL Instagram. It has me firmly spinal cord pumping #FOMO and #fitspo directly into my brain. It simultaneously connects and isolates me. It binds us with tangible proof of our shared experiences, celebrates our differences in culture and cause; all the while discreetly creating clones. 📠
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TIRED of Being Broke: No Money, Mo Problems!
I get it. I’m a quasi-recent grad. I’m young. I “should” be broke. It’s expected. I devoted my first few years after graduation to service, and the non profit sector is so named for a reason. Got it. BUT I’m still broke. Still proportionately the same amount of broke.
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