Be inspired by the wisdom of your elders and motivated by the enthusiasm of the young.

A candle cannot light itself. We are all dependent on one another.

A habit of gratitude can shift your focus from the what if to the right now.

When we express gratitude for life (& it's many lessons), regrets about past and worry about future begin to disappear.

Gratitude is an inside job - it's a consciousness from which all things flow.

Connection starts with you. Don't wait for someone else to take the first step.

As an entrepreneur, Isha Edwards is known for her role as brand marketing manager and owner of EPiC Measures, LLC (EM). Through EM, Isha has garnered recognition in small business commerce, media, and music in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. From working with Grammy award-winning recording artists and producers to being a continuing education instructor, Isha’s reach is as broad as it is deep.

An advocate for social responsibility in media, Isha uses her position to influence business leaders and content creators to further positive change in society, particularly among youth and young adults.



Here is our Q & A with Isha:

1. What does leadership mean to you?
Leadership entails providing vision as well as facilitating and furthering group cohesiveness. To be in leadership is to oversee and be a good steward of all resources. It also means to demonstrate through action more than words.

2. How do you incorporate leadership as well as the essential habits of character (gratitude' responsibility' integrity' unity & service) into your family' business' life?
It takes integrity, being selfless, intuitive and grateful to want what’s best for and actively do your best for others. As a business owner I lead by serving or meeting the needs of clients, contractors, associates and my community. I “on purpose” look for ways to empower people around me to excel personally and professionally.                           

3. What impact do you think character has on children? On communities?
Character is reputation. Through character, trust is established. Children who demonstrate great character through adulthood will help make a stronger, safer society.

4. How can children affect leadership?
Like blank canvases, a child will only reflect what others see. Leaders should consider how what they do and say may define a child.

5. What is one thing you could recommend to others so they' too' can bring character to life?
Perspective has everything to do with your position in life. In order to exhibit character, you have to weigh your values and maintain a moral position.


For more about Isha Edwards, visit: www.ishaedwards.com.

It's the appreciation of the little things that make life extraordinary.

What would you do with a second chance? 

Little did Julie Papievis know that a quick trip to the mall would send her straight to the gates of heaven and back. After her divorce, she struggled to find purpose in life, but a reckless teenage driver caused an accident that would force Julie to reexamine her existence.

After sustaining a traumatic brain injury from the accident—an injury with only a 4% survival rate—Julie finds herself on heaven’s doorstep, greeted by her two grandmothers. Although she wants desperately to follow her grandmothers into heaven, she is told that her body will heal, and to “go back and be happy.”

When Julie wakes from a month-long coma, she finds herself paralyzed. As an athlete, she finds this hard to swallow, but her memory of heaven and what she experienced there have given her new meaning and a new will to recover and get more out of life. Go Back and Be Happy chronicles her amazing journey toward healing—a journey that ends with a 5K race, a triathlon, and an incredible spiritual turn-around.



Here is our Q & A with Julie:

1.  What does leadership mean to you?

Leadership to me means actions more than it means descriptions. A person who is a leader displays qualities that allow and enable people to reach their own potential. That it is not about them, but about what they can in fact bring forth from others around them. I believe that is how you can be the best leader.

2. How do you incorporate leadership as well as the essential habits of character (gratitude' responsibility' integrity' unity & service) into your family' business' life?

Again, refer to #1. Yes I agree that incorporating the essential habits of character; gratitude, responsibility, integrity, unity & service into your family & business life is essential to displaying good leadership through empowering others through some of the experience and knowledge learned through life experiences.

3. What impact do you think character has on children? On communities?

I think that the elements of character is absolutely essential for especially children, as they need/can learn those traits early in life to carry them forth in a more up-right manner to be able to have the confidence to hold their heads high in a world that tends to value less important traits. If their communities have an abundance of leaders who have those same good values, then the community will continue to strengthen itself and its children.

4. How can children affect leadership?

Children's minds are open sponges :) It begins with teaching them responsibility. They have the keenest ability to view situations with an open mind and heart and can bring those ideas forth to the adults that they come in contact with.

5. What is one thing you could recommend to others so they' too' can bring character to life?

People need to step outside of themselves and their comfort zones. That way people more easily show their gratitude is when in fact they feel more grateful for what in fact that they have "achieved" whatever that may be in their lives; work with others to promote service and unity in their lives.


For more about Julie, please visit http://www.gobackandbehappy.com/

"Do or do not. There is no try." ~Yoda