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Daresha is an award winning writer, director and producer for film and TV. Daresha made her first film at the age of 16 years old. She casted actor, Isaiah Washington in one of her early narratives film projects.    She has been in the industry for over 25 years. We spoke about her journey. Daresha expressed her honor to be gifted to tell such amazing stories such as "Chavela" and "Mama Bears" amongst the many others movies that she has made. She also produced segments on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.  "I believe in the power of film to effect social change and I don't limit myself to any particular style of genre. I move fluidly between film and television, comedy, drama and documentary in both Spanish an English." Daresha Kyi website: https://www.dareshakyi.com/ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1407080/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daresha.kyi Twitter: https://twitter.com/Daresha11 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dareshakyi/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daresha-kyi-12a7091   She is

Amalie Jahn is an USA TODAY best selling author, blogger for the Huffington Post and Southern Writers Magazine. Amalie is a TED SPEAKER on "Kindness." She shared her approach to offering kindness on twitter and the interesting results. Amalie calls herself an ad hoc advocate but I beg the differ. Amalia works locally on human rights issues in her community to fight towards human rights issues. She works with her local "Black Lives Matter Movement", Incarceration, voting rights issues and she donates her proceeds to various proceeds. Website: www.amaliejahn.com Facebook: @AmalieJahnAuthor Twitter: @AmalieJahn Instagram: @amalie.jahn.official Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Amalie-Jahn/e/B00C3H3TWO hn

Earnest Winborne is a 40 year veteran in the Television and Entertainment Industry. Earnest shares his journey of being a little boy with a dream to working the red carpets.  Although, Earnest and I share the last name we only met a few years ago on Facebook. We are sure that we are related because our families derive from the same place.  At eight years old, his grandmother's friend took him to see "Bungles the Clown" and at that moment he knew that he wanted to be in TV. He drew a picture on the garage of stick figures with cameras.  Earnest started his career at worked his way up from a number #56 network all the way to working on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, The Insider / Entertainment tonight just to name a few. The lessons nuggets that earnest shares as he tells his story is applicable to any industry that you're working. "You got to be hungry," Earnest Says.  Website: NoMoreDownLow.TV Twitter: @WinborneTV Instagram: @WinborneTV