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The Ebony Cactus magazine Vol 5 Number 3 March 2006 Fourth Anniversary Edition Ex Varietas Prosperitas (From Diversity Comes Prosperity) Inside: T. J. Leake Joins Ebony Women CEOs Cactus The Donald’s New Apprentice BizTools by Loretta Huff Women CEOs Sherry Fields Warm Spirit, Inc. Mitti A Fields Arabella’s Total Skin Care Studio Mitti A Fields www.TheEbonyCactus.com http://www.THEEBONYC ACTUS.com Vol. 5 No. 3 March 2006 2 Previous page (left arrow key) Next page (right arrow key) Life Strategies Read Consulting THE EBONY CACTUS • Branding • Corporate Training magazine • Small Business and Media Services • Charter School Special Eduction Liaison With 74 editions totalling more than 2,200 pages archived, Providing service to small businesses and The Ebony Cactus is organizations since 1989 the single largest, free, non-governmental on-line, source of information on P.O. Box 24982 minority businesses Tempe Arizona 85285 in the Southwest United States* Office/Fax 602-437-8852 Mobile: 602-821-8191 Email: [email protected] www.TheEbonyCactus.com Click here for Podcast *According to our estimates Angela Brooks Principal Consultant/Owner Now offering Internet Marketing Solutions • Professional • Ethical • Driven • Successful and Podcast Consulting [email protected] http://www.THEEBONYC ACTUS.com Vol. 5 No. 3 March 2006 3 Previous page (left arrow key) Next page (right arrow key) March 2006 elcome to the March 2006 edition of The Ebony be the maverick Multi Level Marketing Monarch-Sherry Fields. Cactus magazine. W WOMEN CEO’S - Mitti A. Fields-Arabella’s Total Skin In This Edition: Care Studio Page 28 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 4 Arabella is a lyrical comedic opera by Richard Strauss that Staff was first performed in 1933 at (Sächsische Staatsoper) an Contributing writers opera house in Dresden, Germany, one of the most famous in the world. Arabella’s is also the name of one of the finest, independently owned Total Skin Care Studios in Arizona. NEWS & VIEWS Page 6 Prologue (Op-Ed) Beyond the Box (Op-Ed) INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Page 31 Letters Moving Up News ON THE AIR Podcast: Page 32 SnapShots Carole Coles Henry Director of the City of Phoenix Equal Opportunity Department BIZ TOOLS Page 17 Recommendations from Phoenix Arizona’s recently Manifest your Hire, Inspire and Fire Power completed third disparity study (2004 and 2005) have By: Loretta Huff resulted in significant changes in the City’s Minority Women Small Business Enterprise (M/W/SBE) ordinance which many SUCCESS STORY Page 19 fear will cripple the established M/W/SBE programs. City Dr. Randal Pinkett. Trumps new Apprentice officials however disagree. In the first in a series of 3 By: Lloyd Kam Williams podcasts, Director of Phoenix’s Equal Opportunity Department Carole Coles Henry details the recent WOMEN CEO’S - Sherry Fields-3 Diamond National Vice changes in the City’s Minority and Small Business programs and how the City will continue its commitment to minority President, Warm Spirits Inc. Page 25 owned business. Since 1999, Warm Spirit (Co-Founded by Nadine Thompson and LEGAL Page 33 Artist/Entrepreneur Daniel Wolf) has increased its revenues to a projected $20 Million plus for 2006. It’s done so chiefly by incorporating its unique spin of Multi Level Marketing, recruiting 20,000 savvy consultants nationwide and by bestowing generous monthly commission checks totaling millions to the consultant teams. A leading factor in Warm Spirits growth could http://www.THEEBONYC ACTUS.com Vol. 5 No. 3 March 2006 4 Previous page (left arrow key) Next page (right arrow key) Staff Contributing Writers The Ebony Cactus magazine is published by Ebony Cactus magazine Inc., Angela Brooks CEO and Publisher George B. Brooks, Jr. , Ph.D COO and Editor PR/Marketing Life Strategies Consulting Sales Staff Graphics/ Art Lloyd Kam Williams is a syndicated film critic whose articles Magazine: Dr. George Brooks Jr. appear in 100+ periodicals around the country. Following many years in WEB the art world and practicing law, the long-time Princeton resident President of Emerald Harvest Consulting, LLC, Loretta Love Karl Rothweiler started writing reviews in 1996 for a rival paper published across town. Huff is an Executive Coach and Organizational Effectiveness In addition to his legal background, he has degrees from three Ivy Proofing Consultant. In addition to being an author and speaker, she is a Staff League schools: a BA from Cornell, an MA from Brown and a MBA from seasoned corporate executive with experience in a variety of The Wharton School. So, he is able to apply a wealth of both life functions including market research, financial services and experience and education to his insightful, entertaining critiques. Mr. human resources. She has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology Williams lives in town with his wife and step-son. Lloyd may be from Howard University and an M.B.A in Finance from the contacted at: [email protected] University of Chicago. Loretta can be reached at 602.454.7787 or [email protected]. http://www.emeraldharvest.com/ To Reach Us Mail: P.O. Box 24982 Tempe, AZ 85285-4982 Phone: (602) 821-8191 Fax:(602) 437-8852 Publisher: [email protected] Editor: Photography [email protected] Angela Brooks Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. Subscribe T. J. 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Brooks, Jr.: Editor Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained Ex Varietas Prosperitas! (G. Brooks, 2006) A Personal Letter Our Readers: From Diversity, Prosperity! It’s been the most wonderful and painstaking nine-year process I can Though proactive leadership is necessary for proper planning, ever remember. This season, in 1997, I made a decision to change my important social actions are only sustainable if there is a clear life and influence the lives of others. No, I was not a prestigious economic benefit at the end. For example, the environmental and social university graduate, had no blue- blood lineage or family of nobility from benefits of using cleaner alternative fuels have been known for years, Africa. I possessed very little. Few believed in my ambitious aspiration only recently as the price of gasoline spiked have the alternative fuels to connect people from all across the world, educating them on the begun to catch on. The move towards supplier and workforce diversity opportunities before them in business. Some even laughingly called me is apparently following the same trend. an Oprah Wanna Be. However, I did have plans. My dreams of grandeur were never in detail opened for discussion early on. Most only knew that Last month we reported on the supplier diversity program of the MGM- I liked the notion of being a businesswoman. Tome, based on the Mirage. In summary that program discovered that a strong diversity television adaptation of success, they seemed to have it all and all program maximizes the opportunity to find successful business together. That was my familiar -billboards to television and commercial solutions thus giving the company a competitive advantage. In a similar images of women who didn’t look like me. vein, a 2003 study from Ohio State University presents evidence of a positive relationship between diversity-promoting activities and future How does one begin when there is no beginning? As I saw it, I had no cash flows (for story click here). It seems we may be now reaching a other choice. I had daughters who needed to see their mother in a tipping point regarding race and equality in this nation. positive light..They needed to know that, Yes, it can be done! According to en.wikipedia.org, a tipping point is when forces Adversity is all around us. Developing a practical strategy for convene so that one small occurrence can cause a sudden great sustainability will keep you during times of adversity. Here are my keys change. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back. For to building a successful business amid adversity: example, when Morton Grodzins’ landmark study on integrating neighborhoods in the early 1960s discovered that at a certain point, - Be Bold - Be Inventive when "one too many" black families arrived, the remaining white families - Be Gracious - Be Involved would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called - Be Educated - Be Strategic that moment the "tipping point." (en.wikipedia.org 2006) . - Be Prayerful - Be Yourself News Tipping Points can have positive or negative effects. Today minorities This month, Ebony Cactus Magazine enters its fourth year of once again have a chance to tip societies movent in a positive direction & publication as an online magazine. Our focus is Women CEOs. Thank if they seize the day as did the bus riders in Montgomery Alabama in you from the bottom of my heart for your encouragement, constructive 1956. The concept is simple, the wider the pool of new and different criticisms and requests for our community leadership and professional thinking the greater the opportunity to find unique business solutions Views involvement.