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My Fight for Life After My Near-Death Experience

My Fight for Life After My Near-Death Experience
“You could be the next Barbara Walters,” my mom told me growing up. It wasn’t long before I believed her. Writing since an early age and with sportswriters and poets already in the family, I lived my childhood with great certainty and confidence that I would naturally become a writer and journalist. I had a…
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A Whole New World After Captivity

A Whole New World After Captivity
Growing up, I couldn’t resist playing like an everyday child. I ended up breaking and fracturing my bones a total of 21 times. I have a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle bone disease. While my doctors made it clear that I was not to be involved in sports or activities that could…
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How I Accomplished the Impossible in 90 Days

How I Accomplished the Impossible in 90 Days
I belong to a women’s CEO professional accountability group called Make it to a Million (MITAM). We collaborate, support, energize, inspire and mastermind with each other for the purpose of growing and building our businesses. Sprinkled all over the country, we meet bi-weekly over the phone to update on progress reports. Four times a year, we meet in…
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How Adversity Made Me Stronger

How Adversity Made Me Stronger
During World War II, the Empire of Japan occupied the Philippines from 1942 to 1945. I was only four years old when my village was decimated. I remember the first time I heard the terrified screams of our neighbors, “The Japanese are coming!! Run!!” Papa quickly grabbed my 2-year old sister Teresita and firmly commanded us…
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