You might know her smooth and sultry voice if you are a listener of the Own Your Power Radio show or if you listened to HOT 105 in South Florida.
Karen is celebrated for her engaging personality and her in-depth interviews. Lionel Richie boasted, “Karen has the magic.” Tyler Perry says, “I love being on Karen’s Show, she does the best interviews.” She has welcomed into the studio Tyler Perry, Sherrie Shepherd, Lionel Richie, Jay Z, John Legend, Simon Cowell, Jamie Foxx and Suze Orman to name a few.
We like to call her the VOICE of Own Your Power! 
Karen has been a member of the OYP family since 2007. She’s the CEO and founder of Karen Vaughn Media and most known as Radio Personality, Lifestyle Blogger and Voice-over Actress. Find out what she loves what she does!
Simone
How long in business?
10+ years
What does your business do?
It provides voices for commercials, promos, trailers and radio shows.
Our blog is a resource for working moms and women.
Any interesting fact you can share about your industry?
Broadcasting is great fun, but there is a tremendous amount of work that you don’t see going on behind the scenes.
Most popular problem you help people solve?We make your brand shine! We assist companies by delivering the best voice that fits their product or service.
Time management and organization. With my lifestyle blog for women, http://www.workingdivas.com, we provide working moms and women with smart tools — from work-life balance tips and motivation to money management and organizing your stilettos! Women have to find ways to manage daily demands and still achieve happiness in their lives. It’s where career, motherhood and fashion collide with a dose of inspiration for your last good nerve. Feel me?
How do you stay motivated?
Taking precious moments of ME TIME, a sista needs to regroup and re-energized. Plus, it is important for me to keep positive people around me. This business can be full of drama on and off the mic/camera. My family and friends keep me grounded, stress-free, and happy.
Your biggest pet peeve in business? When someone doesn’t know their product or service. At that point, you know that are only in it for their check. You have to have a passion!
One thing you would change if you could?
I wish I could take care of all my business projects in 30 hours a week. Famed actress and comedian Carol Burnett only worked 30 hours a week during the years she produced “The Carol Burnett Show.” She has stated she was a mom and didn’t want to spend her time working; she wanted to be a mom. She was driven and persistent about what she wanted — Carol went for it and succeeded!
What’s your favorite area on www.ownyourpower.ning.com? Barter and Radio Show. Keep the great information coming, Simone.
You know the expression; “You can’t take it with you.” … well, if you could, what would ‘it’ be?
My Blackberry. I can run my business and household with a press of a button. I call it my Momberry. Now, if it could only cook for me!
It’s sadly time for your last meal on earth…what would it be?
Oh my … a large pizza from Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in my home town of New Haven, CT. Their pizza is amazing and arguable the first makers of Pizza in America.
Have you used Social Networking to gain new contacts/business? If so, what have been any results?
Facebook, NING, and Twitter have all been good for me. They wonderful sources for networking and building my brand.
If you could do it all over again, what is the biggest mistake you’d avoid next time around?
Not having the confidence in myself to go forward in a career in TV. I was approached by a producer from MTV earlier in my radio career and had a great opportunity that I didn’t pursue. If you ever have the chance to move forward, it may be GOD moving you forward. GO for it and don’t let fear manifest!
What was your last barter and what was if for?
I bartered with a friend of mine who owns a video production company. I wrote and voiced his commercial and he, in turn, professionally video taped my interview with Sherri Shepherd from The View.
What’s in your CD player/iPod right now?
Sade – Solider of Love Thank GOD, Sade is back!
If you could have superpowers, what would you want?
I would love to merge the superpowers of Wonder Woman and Samantha from the TV show, Bewitched. I would be one multi-tasking working mom that can problem solve business issues with a twitch of my nose, block the drama with my gold bracelets, and still have dinner on the table by 6 PM — all while rocketing in my stiletto boots and rolling in my invisible jet. Talk about…Fierce, Focused, Fabulous!
Get to Know Karen! Add her as a friend in our network HERE.
Check out her sites:
Karen Vaughn
www.WorkingDivas.com
fierce.focused.fabulous
Long time friend to our network, amazing coach, and dynamic speaker… Gabrielle is in high demand from our members. Many remember her from our Own Your Power Retreats and our Biz Conference and now she’s back!
We have the pleasure to have her pass through on her national book tour to Miami to share with us some tips from her book.
Gabrielle Bernstein, a leading Gen Y motivational speaker and life coach, guides readers through her dynamic “ing” Equation: Rethinking + Moving + Receiving x 30 days = Changing. The ~ing Equation is designed to bulldoze negative thought patterns and create positive change, achieving this in 30 days of affirmations, physical activity, and meditation.
The author’s methodology is a sure-fire way to guide readers to“get out of their own way” and start loving—and fully living— life. The unique inclusion of physical activity helps readers to shift the way their body responds to their minds. Each activity offers an opportunity for the reader to experience a state of flow that cannot be accessed idly sitting in front of their computer screen.
Anything but a dry, how-to manual, Add More ing to Your Life is a fun, hip guide for a new generation.
Pay It Forward
“Be a shining example of giving back. Community service, mentoring. or charity is a positive way of helping others and supporting a cause you’re passionate about.” Simone Kelly-Brown
Daily Om is one of my new favorite websites that I think you guys might enjoy as well. I was pleased to get a nice little bonus as well today when I visited. You can get one too! There’s a FREE BOOK EXCERPT download waiting for you called…LEARNING TO LIVE.
Choose the words you sp
eak with carefully as they are more powerful than you know.
Words carry energy and this gives language its power and its potential to heal or hurt. Most of us can remember a time that someone sent a word our way, and it stuck with us. It may have been the first time we received a truly accurate compliment, or the time a friend or sibling called us a name, but either way it stuck. This experience reminds us that what we say has weight and power and that being conscious means being aware of how we use words.
The more conscious we become, the more we deepen our relationship to the words we use so that we speak from a place of actually feeling what we are saying. We begin to recognize that words are not abstract, disconnected entities used only to convey meaning; they are powerful transmitters of feeling.
For the next few days, you might want to practice noticing how the words you say and hear affect your body and your emotional state. Notice how the different communication styles of the people in your life make you feel. Also, watch closely to see how your own words come out and what affect they have on the people around you. You may notice that when we speak quickly, without thinking, or rush to get our ideas across, our words don’t carry the same power as when we speak slowly and confidently, allowing those receiving our words time and space to take them in. When we carefully listen to others before we speak, our words have more integrity, and when we take time to center ourselves before speaking, we truly begin to harness the power of speech. Then our words can be intelligent messengers of healing and light, transmitting deep and positive feelings to those who receive them.
Did you know your house can make you sick? I never realized how important fresh air was until I noticed everytime I visted someone I would get SICK. I thought it was a cold I was catching from the weather change (since I was traveling from Florida to NY) , but it turns out I am allergic to mold. I was diagnosed and then when I went back to their house I saw in the shower vents they were full of MOLD and lint.
Unfortunately, in many homes, especially apartment buildings there is only so much you can do. However, there are some tricks you can implement to clear the air in your home. I found a cool article to share with you all…so you can take a nice deep breath of fresh air in your home!
Simone
by Sloan Barnett, author and green expert
Clean air is as vital inside your house as it is outside. Unfortunately, the air quality in many of our homes is worse than that of the air we breathe when we’re outside. Try these tips for reducing the number of toxins you and your family breathe in every day, and for small ways you can help reduce air pollution.
Your family could be exposed to dangerous toxins and chemicals by many of the ordinary, everyday things around your house. How can you protect them and still make your home the warm, welcoming place it’s always been? Sloan Barnett, author of Green Goes With Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet, offers these suggestions.
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