Tyra Banks x Arise Magazine
The new issue of Arise Magazine is out filled with tons of great features. Make sure you check out my interview with visual artist Njideka Akunyili. Get a sneak peek here. – LOM
My Global Hustle
Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overscheduled? Work More!!!
As we enter into the 4th Quarter and begin to wrap up 2012, I'm sure there will be many moments of reflections. Particularly, when it comes to our career choices, many of my friends & peers are in a space where they want to take control of their destiny. How do we do that? Some are  working towards these goals 1 step @ a time in the form of – "Side Hustles". No one can surivive in NYC (especially) w/o having some type of side hustle, whether it be a catering business to making widgets.Â
My buddy CC shared with me a piece from Wired Magazine that asserts that "Side Hustles" are actually a necessity for personal and career advancement. Who would have thought the answer to being overworked was….. MORE Work. Check out this article. I found it to be really insightful. Let me know what you think.-LOM
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You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected, because you keep trying to have it all—or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it’s not working. The way out? Work more. Hate to break it to you, but career and home aren’t the only poles. There is another: all those beautiful, disregarded side projects.
Does that make you want to pitch your desk lamp straight into my face? Fair. But that itchy desire only means I’m right. Obviously, neglecting your family and home eventually gets them both confiscated by people with clipboards and badges. But if you want to be a maker of things—or at minimum avoid a quietly desperate life in front of the television—you have a responsibility to head down to the workshop. Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.
Rethink Your Assumptions About Opportunity in Africa
"There are children starving in Africa. Eat your peas."
Surely I am not the only person whose first impressions of Africa were shaped along these lines. Whether it was your mother excoriating you about wasting food or an advertisement for Oxfam showing malnourished babies, the earliest impression of Africa many of us have received is of deprivation.
While that's still a reality, it is by no means the whole reality. More importantly, it is not the reality that will have the greatest impact on Africa's future, and yours.
Freedom Fighter: Yinka Shonibare By Larry Ossei-Mensah & Carinya Sharples (Arise Magazine)
Here is a link to the interview that I did with the incomparable visual artist Yinka Shonibare for Arise Magazine. Read here. Enjoy! (more…)
