Dominique Da Diva and Chey Parker, two powerful and prominent national radio personalities based out of the Washington, DC metropolitan area, will launch the fourth season, episode one of their popular podcast, entitled, “Diva Unfiltered,” on Friday, January 13, 2023, at 10 am ET via YouTube. Dominique and Chey, a popular comedic radio personality duo, will continue to share biweekly via their podcast, unfiltered and uncut insights on entertainment, relationships and pop culture, while also featuring conversations with celebrity guests.
The “Diva Unfiltered” podcast will target women of color who’ve “graduated from college, mastered their professional field, and still go to the hood and get their hair and nails done,” say Dominique and Chey. “Black women are not monolithic. We are iridescent. We birthed the culture. And we are unapologetically unfiltered.”
In season four, episode one, this dynamic duo of Dominique and Chey have designed a podcast in a talk show format, which delves into the chatter surrounding Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez as well as a plethora of other culturally trending topics. After finding a new home at the Creative Space in Hyattsville, Maryland, Dominque and Chey are more than ready and are super excited to share with the world, their wit, comedic timing, and knowledge of hip hop, augmented by their love and respect for the “culture” on their bi–weekly “Diva Unfiltered” podcast platform. In addition to discussing hot trending topics, they’ll be debuting their merch line and highlighting businesses in each episode. Click here or on this YouTube Link (https://youtu.be/QKNvVk6rosI) to watch this amazing podcast.
Dominique and Chey are both engaging, motivational speakers, teachers and event hosts. They are well versed in a myriad of topics including, but not limited to, women/female empowerment and leadership, HBCUs, Black Women in Media, Entrepreneurship, Blacks and Female Entrepreneurship, just to name a few. Both ladies are available for appearances and interviews regarding the “Diva Unfiltered” podcast, speaking engagements as well as sponsorship opportunities as it relates to the podcast/show. You can follow both radio media personalities on all of their social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at @dominiquedadiva and @iamcheyparker. Please email Carla Welborn at cmwelborn7@gmail.com or call 240.475.7283 to discuss directly.
About Dominique Da Diva: Dominque Da Diva is a syndicated radio personality, who can be heard simultaneously, daily across seven markets within the United States, co-hosting “The QuickSilva Show with Dominique Da Diva,” from three to seven pm ET, Monday through Friday. Dominique can also be seen as a contributing host on the Emmy-nominated Fox 5 Good Day DC morning show as well as on the #1 rated Lion Lunch Hour Fox 5 DC show. Full of personality and comedic one-liners, Dominique continues to exemplify what Beyonce’ means when she says, “a diva is a female version of a hustler.” She’s graced stages alongside prominent celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Tyler Perry, Kendrick Lamar, along with our beloved 44th President, Barack and Michelle Obama. The media diva is a humble recipient of MSBC’s 2016 Rising Radio Star Award as well as an honoree of Diddy’s DeLeon 100 Trailblazer Award 2017, featured in Billboard Magazine.
About Chey Parker: Chey Parker is a media personality and entrepreneur who has worked in media and entertainment as a writer, editor, producer, and on-air talent for more than a decade. A Hampton native, Chey graduated graduate magna cum laude from Howard University in 2013 with a degree in broadcast journalism and political science. She has worked with several heavy-hitting media outlets, including C-SPAN, the British Broadcasting Company, Radio One, iHeartMedia, and PBS. Chey Parker is currently a media personality for 93.9 WKYS in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region, taking over the airwaves in the midday on Saturday and Sunday. You can also frequently hear her in other day parts on the station, including weekday middays and nights. Expanding her airwave takeover, Chey also cracks the mic every week day from 10 am to 3 pm for The Midday Connection on 101 Jamz in Charlottesville. Most recently, Chey was a co-host on 93.9 WKYS’s hit show, “Angie in the Morning,” and host of her own late-night show and digital beauty show on all Radio One platforms, “Inside Chey’s Boutique.”
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Kimberly Nguyen is pleased to announce that her debut collection of poems, Here I Am Burn Me, which won the Jack McCarthy Book Prize, was published today by Write Bloody Publishing. Nguyen is proudly joining a growing number of Vietnamese-American poets making an imprint in the industry, including Hieu Minh Nguyen, Paul Tran, and Ocean Vuong.
Here I Am Burn Me is a space-themed poetry collection that examines family, intergenerational trauma, gender, and race in the context of the larger universe. Through poems that bend time and space, Nguyen confronts the sources of her pain head-on and looks towards a future where healing is not only possible but inevitable.
For more information about the book or about Kimberly, visit www.kimberlynguyenwrites.com or contact kimberly@kimberlynguyenwrites.com.
About Kimberly Nguyen
Kimberly Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American diaspora poet originally from Omaha, Nebraska but now living in New York City. Her work can be found in diaCRITICS, Hobart, Muzzle Magazine, The Minnesota Review, and others. She was a recipient of a Beatrice Daw Brown Prize, and she was a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2021 OPEN and New Poets Awards and Palette Poetry’s 2021 Previously Published Poem Prize. She was a 2021 Emerging Voices Fellow at PEN America and is currently a 2022-2023 Poetry Coalition Fellow at Urban Word NYC through the Academy of American Poets.
About Write Bloody Publishing
We publish and promote great books of poetry every year. We are a small press with a snappy look, dedicated to quality literature that is proud to be printed in the USA. We are not a printer; we are a sweet publishing house located in Portland, OR. Since 2004 we have launched 135 titles and 85 ebooks. We are grass roots, DIY, boot strap believers who believe that great poetry changes people for the better. We believe authors should make a living and a way to do that is to create broad fan bases built from heavy touring and great looking books. Our authors are captivating at live readings and are incredible on the page to read. Our employees are authors and artists so we call ourselves a family. We publish some of the top selling, living poets in the United States.
Liam “Akiba” Wright, who started his career writing and directing the feature film Ex Cathedra which is currently available on Amazon Video, led creative marketing agency Banter Media for over ten years before making the pivot this year.
“I realized that scaling a marketing agency isn’t efficient. For every new client, you need to hire more staff, and if you want to look after them, the growth isn’t reflected in the bottom line. I worked harder and harder each year, and I personally didn’t see the rewards. Since I pivoted into journalism and consultancy, I’ve increased my monthly income while also reducing my stress levels no end.”
Wright, also known as “Akiba,” has written hundreds of articles for the web3 publication CryptoSlate and several pieces for the well-known financial outfit Benzinga. Wright’s experience in technology, design, business, finance, and content creation through leading Banter Media has positioned him to create detailed articles which have received millions of views this year. For example, Akiba, created a breakdown of why business owners may wish to consider moving back into employment in today’s economy.
– Wage inflation is finally coming through, so any business with high staff costs and low margins will struggle in the coming months. – Running a business is not suitable for everyone. You do not have to be a founder to be an entrepreneur. – Understand your worth; experience in running a company is hard to come by, especially a successful one – Accept that some businesses will view you as overqualified for the position and may pass even though you are a perfect fit – Practice creating a pitch that helps explain why you want to go from founder to employee – this will be the biggest hurdle – If you do not have ties to VC funds, it is likely that you can earn more working for a funded tech company than slowly and organically running your own business
“At 36, I felt like I was getting too old to reinvent myself. However, when I finally stopped listening to the outside noise and asked myself what I truly wanted to do, the answer was simple; write. So I started writing, then I reached out to people in the industry, and now I can work from my laptop anywhere in the world.”
The journey from film to agency Akiba had his first film, Ex Cathedra, accepted to Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2008. After that, he worked with several well-known brands on music videos and commercials before officially starting Banter Media, a full-service creative marketing agency based in Manchester, UK. Banter Media won agency of the year awards several times, working with brands such as Nike, Converse, Umbro, Vimto, Colgate, and Manchester United. Akiba was also a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2015.
Pivoting at 36 to content creation In 2016 Akiba began downscaling Banter Media to focus more on digital consultancy, stating that “running an agency without taking advantage of your customers by overcharging them for work they should be learning to do themselves simply isn’t sustainable.” After several years of respite from the cutthroat world of agency life, Akiba began writing again. Today, he writes for CryptoSlate daily and commented, “It’s amazing working as a crucial cog in a much bigger team. I’m not in charge, and I can finally accept that is something I am ok with. We spend too much of our lives obsessed with work. It is ok to admit that you don’t need to be a business owner to be successful. I actually make better money now than I did when I ran the agency because I always wanted to pay my staff the most I could afford, which affected my salary as a result.”
Akiba has a growing following on both Instagram and Twitter, where he shares news, updates and advice on the web3 industry and macro-economic issues. Akiba is also the co-founder of Hop Pole Studio, one of the top YouTube channels for music production news and education.
Conclusion Akiba went from a multi-award winning marketing agency owner to a journalist working for a web3 scale-up and states, “I’ve never been happier. My work and life balance are finally settled, and I can enjoy life without worrying where the next client will come from.” Akiba is available for speaking engagements, panel moderation, interviews and article commentary. He specializes in web3, blockchain, digital media, video production, writing, journalism, gaming, metaverse, NFTS, and most aspects of creative media.
Thoughts can be difficult to navigate at any age. Offering loving guidance to children as they sort through their thoughts empowers them to choose well in what they say and do.
In her debut book, Bax and His Bubbles – All About a Kid and His Thoughts, award-winning author, pharmacist, and mom, Dr. Sonia Amin uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to provide a simple method to help foster healthy thinking. Amin begins Bax and His Bubbles with a “Note to Grownups” giving them encouragement on how to use this valuable tool in their toolbox. She also includes discussion questions at the back of the book to open the line of communication and spur further conversations.
Children will love the delightful illustrations as well as the relatable storyline. Adults will feel equipped to have a simple strategy to remind their child of the next time they are holding onto negative thoughts or have difficulty letting go of lies they are believing about themselves or of others.
Dr. Sonia Amin is a wife, mom, pharmacist, and award-winning author in Central Florida. She has a passion to inspire and encourage everyone she meets. Some of her favorite things include snuggling with her kids, dark chocolate, and deep-tissue massages. For more information visit www.soniaeamin.com
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For Filmmaker and Creator Alyscia Cunningham, filmmaking has allowed her to share powerful stories through the lens of a Caribbean American woman. To celebrate National Women’s History Month, Cunningham will launch, “Let’s Talk BIPOC Women Creatives in Film,” a self-renowned project to teach BIPOC female filmmakers the ropes to funding their ideas for filmmaking projects. Beginning March 2, Cunningham will open registration for interested individuals to participate in a one-hour virtual introduction to funding film projects.
Cunningham has a long history of successfully navigating the film industry with over eight years of experience earning over $70,000 in funding. Cunningham used the funding to create her award-winning project, “I Am More Than My Hair,” which has been featured in HuffPost and Forbes, just to name a few. The project required an approximate $40,000 to execute. Thanks to funding resources like, IFundWomen of Color, American Express, and Women In Film and Television, Cunningham was able to place her film in over 20 film festivals, ultimately landing her project in a six-month solo exhibition inside of a Maryland museum.
“Because we’re in a new year, I wanted to use this time to help other creatives introduce new ideas to the film industry,” said Cunningham, “this project will help more creatives understand that they don’t have to have a ton of money to tell powerful stories, and how important it is to continually lend their talents to the culture of the film industry.”
To date, there are less than eight percent of BIPOC filmmakers, according to McKinsey and Company. Research shows that the barriers of BIPOC talent in film and television equate to economic fallout and are currently facing a lack of solutions for creating a more equitable, and inclusive workspace. About 92% of the film industry is led by 92 percent white film executives. On average, an independent film production cost over $250,000.
Cunningham has a passion for changing the narrative and wants to start by helping other BIPOC women access funding for their own film projects. The primary focus of the event will teach participants how to position their brands to access multiple forms of funding as a filmmaker. This will include how to obtain 501(c)(3) status through fiscal sponsorship, crowdfunding, fundraisers, and grants. The project is currently running as a pilot to gain interest in further details to successfully navigate the film industry’s landscape. For those who are interested, registration is currently open and can be found by visiting the “Events” page on Cunningham’s website www.alyscia.com.
The event is scheduled to begin on March 31 at 12:00 pm until 1:00 pm. For more information, email nfo@alyscia.com or visit www.alyscia.com.
Her House Media Alyscia Cunningham 301-244-9658 www.herhousemedia.com
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