by Leesa Renée | Oct 24, 2016 | Black Women Innovate
This quote came to me after my coach challenged me in a coaching session. When I told him that one of my core values is freedom, he said: No, it’s bondage.” I was stumped… How could that be? So, my coach spent the rest of that coaching session...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 20, 2016 | Black Women Innovate
I finished watching Season 1 of the Netflix produced series called Marvel’s Luke Cage. I have quite a bit to say about the series, but for now, I want to focus on one character. Her name is Mercedes “Misty” Knight and she’s a Harlem NYPD...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 18, 2016 | Innovative Ideas
I love profiling people who take something, improve it, and become a category of one. So, when I stumbled upon the Cholofit Workout, I was gleefully pleased. Cholofit is led by a man named Creeper… He’s a Latino man who’s a former gangbanger and...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 13, 2016 | Innovation Fails
I love watching movies from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. I consider this period to be the Golden of Film (seems like I’m not the only one to think this). There’s a curious thing I noticed in some of the films of that era… Most of the actors spoke in a...
by Leesa Renée | Oct 12, 2016 | Innovative Ideas
The number of shopping centres being abandoned is well documented. While it’s a North American habit to tear down older buildings, some are seeing the beauty in using the abandoned buildings for something else. Some are being turned into hospitals; others, into...
