The GaptoothDiva show is a weekly podcast filled with entertainment and creative motivation about today's mental health and lifestyle issues and how they affect us. Host, I’esha “GaptoothDiva” Hornes uses both humor and honest dialogue to touch on topics related to Mental health and culture/personal issues relative to our friends in the community, join our interactive conversation and weigh in! Be sure to check out my official website for articles, videos, and lifestyle content at http://www ...
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5 Great Reasons to Stand Up For Yourself: Life Hacks
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Stand Up for Yourself – to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticized or attacked In this episode, I discuss five reasons to stand up for yourself to defend your ideas, rights, & to gain the respect of others, in this podcast episode. Although in the past, I would usually clap-back hard, my methods were not always as co…
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How To Transform Women Into Leaders Like A Professional w/ Dr. Shantell Malachi
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Check out my interview with Dr. Shantell Malachi of Richmond Virginia, Founder & Executive Director, Dress for Success Central Virginia, Chief Executive Officer at SheEmpowers™ International, Author of “Career Couture: The Modern Guide to Redefining Your Career” available on Amazon, 2012 Style Weekly’s Top 40 under 40. We chop it up about empowerin…
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The Best Proven Start-Up Strategies for a Creative Retail Business
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Interview with Creative Start-Up Strategist for Retail/Service based Entrepreneurs, Sonja Merritt- Thompkins of www.Sincerely,Sonja.com. I chat with Sonja Thompkins, who has spent the last 20 years working, owning & operating 4 businesses, including a Day Spa Salon and 3 Brick and Mortar Boutiques, as a licensed Cosmetologist and working as a Self …
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Monday Jumpoff: Stop Caring About What Other People Think & Trust Your Gifts
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I get so tired of hearing about amazing people with so much potential, succumbing to peer pressure and the opinions of others. We live in a society so afraid of being teased, clowned, and humiliated in public, that people will stifle their own creativity vs. be judged. In this episode of GaptoothDiva's Monday Jumpoff, we discuss ways to start belie…
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GaptoothDiva Girl Power Week ft. So Proper Ent's Ms. Proper
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Ladies stand up and show out!! We have a fire line up this week dedicated to empowering and motivating our female demographic. In support of Female MC's, we have two of Richmond's hottest on the air to tell us about their experiences and their music. May 3rd the mic goes to Ms. Proper, a vicious monster female lyricist who creates music and does bu…
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Interview w/ Mark Curry Author of "Dancing With The Devil"
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Tonight it’s going down on GaptoothDiva Radio. We are talking and discussing the music industry’s high and lows with former Bad Boyrecording artist and songwriter, Mark Curry. Mark Curry is the author of Dancing with the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop and we have read the book and are fully aware of the trials and tribulations Mark …
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Life & Love Advice from Author Tony Gaskins
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GaptoothDiva talks with Author and Motivational Speaker Tony Gaskins on how he decided to change his life around, and dedicated his work to inspiring and motivating others to do the same. This family man and hard working author touches lives everyday via twitter and his speaking engagements. However, how does he manage a life with his ministry and …
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Interview w. ZeeBey (Community 50/50) ft. William Shifflett
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Tonight on GaptoothDiva Radio we discuss generational curses with Expert William Shifflett, how do we stop them, where do they come from, and do people really believe they exist. Also we talk about a fantastic program out of Virginia called Community 50/50 founded by Zenobia Bey (Zeebey). We touch on how she plans on making her mark on the communit…
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16 Universal Principles Women Need to Know w/ Patricia Davis
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Patricia is the author of the award-winning Harlot’s Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece, and The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know. As founder and editor-in-chief of the non-partisan HS Radio e-magazine and podcast, Patricia loves encouraging new writers and interviewing other “Renaissance people”.…
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Update Interview w/ LaDonna Smith Author of “I Married Satan” Tonight 03/24
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For four and a half years author LaDonna M. Smith thought that she was married to the man of her dreams but the marriage turned out to be a four and a half year nightmare, which God made disappear in moments. On August 14, 2003, LaDonna got married to a man she was prepared to spend the rest of her life. However, after days and months of physical, …
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The Boaz Factor…When You Are Ready For the Right One! w/ Author Elder Brenda Bradley
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Knowing who Boaz is will free you from looking for love in all the wrong places. You will be encouraged, remembering the priority is not you finding him, but him finding you focused and determined. Found, but not Chosen? For women currently in a relationship, knowing who Boaz is will save your heart from putting more time into something that will n…
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Featured Artist of The Week, Petersburg’s Own BONAVIL
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BONAVIL’S (Brothers Offering New Age Values in Life) blends fluid raps with Southern soul and an old school Swing combining to create what they call Juke Joint Hip Hop Soul. From the little county Petersburg, Virginia BONAVIL is passionately committed to cultivating a new diverse musical workforce through the different production sounds of Choir Bo…
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Interview w/ Creators of Urban Adult Cartoon Bullyvard & Official Freeze (CUE)
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As demonstrated by the success of Adult Swim; the adult-oriented cable television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network, cartoons are not just for kids.. And childhood friends Carlton “Piper” Marshall and David “Divine” Plummer have created “ Marshall and Plummer born in Brooklyn, but grew up in Queens, NY, are the creative partner…
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Featured Artist of the Week Diallo Tonight 1/20
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Diallo is an artist/producer, songwriter out of Richmond, Va where he is considered one of the pioneers central Va Hip-Hop scene with a track record of quality work that spans two decades. Over the course of his music career Diallo has collaborated with and produced for the likes of Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Skillz, Harold Lilly, Illa Ghee and Dj Khale…
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Featured Artist of the Week, Jay Bizz of VA Tonight 1/13 at 9pm
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Ahmad Jamaul Bizzell a Richmond based rapper better known by his stage name J Bizz is the definition of determination. His ambition and his relentless approach to his craft has him poised to step onto the national stage. J Bizz’s music speaks to the masses, not only does he explore all aspects of music but he possesses a unique ability to convert e…
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Interview w/ The Authors of Brother to Brother: Motivation for Young African-American Men
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Brother to Brother: Motivation for Young African-American Men is the family’s first major release that is already garnering top-tier support. In 2003, Lloyd Young developed and implemented a funding strategy for the Indian Creek Correctional Center substance abuse treatment program. This one-thousand-bed correctional facility, solely dedicated for …
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Interview w/ Ryan Capitol, Author of “Bigger Than Me: An Untold Story of Sex and Love Addiction
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You all heard the stories about Tiger Woods, Charlie Sheen, and Jesse James, and have made your opinions about their secret lifestyles and whether their lives of sex addiction and lust are worth forgiving. Well, GaptoothDiva talks with Ryan Capitol, Author of “Bigger Than Me: An Untold Story of Sex and Love Addiction”, a confessed recovering sex ad…
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Interview w/ Featured Artist of The Week Black Liquid
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?The past year alone has been madness for Black Liquid and his team who has opened for Bone Thugs N Harmony, Snoop Dogg, Icon The Mic King, Doodlebug, Band Belief, and Photosynthesizers, killing 50 other shows all around Richmond Virginia as well as in North Carolina & Washington D.C. Black Liquid has a video up on VladTV that is currently over 16,…
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GaptoothDivaRadio - Interview w/ Lez, Author of "A Lesson Learned" Tonight 11/16 @ 9pm
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GaptoothDiva chops it up with Lez, Author and Publisher of “A Lesson Learned”, a life-like illustration of a young woman from Richmond, making hard life decisions on quest to support herself and her child. GaptoothDiva picks her brain on the self-publishing process and ask how new writers embark on the process of putting their first book on the mar…
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Interview w/ Danny Kofke, Author of How To Survive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher's Salary
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Do you want to leave your current job, but you're too afraid of struggling on uncertain income? GaptoothDiva will discuss finances, fear of career change, and budgeting for your family with Danny Kofke. Learn to: • Retire with a sizeable nest egg • Teach in a foreign country • Own all of your possessions—including your cars and house • Invest in Ro…
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Interview w/ Dangerous Lee Activist & Author of Keep Your Panties Up and Your Skirt Down
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How Educated Are You About Safe Sex? Keep Your Panties Up and Your Skirt Down has Six Erotic Tales of Safe Sex Titles: The Safe Sex Kit Past Life Blues Self Love and Pain Elderly and Edible An Honest Ho Dating Dangerous Lee Also includes: HIV Fact/HIV Fiction Definitions About the Author Dangerous Lee lives in Burton, Michigan with her daughter. Sh…
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Going Hard in Your Hustle No Matter What & Interview w/ Richmond Rap Phenom Official Freeze 10/12
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GaptoothDiva gets it in with rap phenom and lyrical professional Joshua Reed aka Freeze, one of Richmond's hottest MC's from Charged Up Ent. His charismatic persona and well thought out delivery puts him at the top of most list of hot up and coming artist in Richmond, Virginia. We will ask questions about persevering in your craft, how to hustle ha…
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Interview w/ Suzanne A. Roberts Author of The Under Cover 10 - Tonight 9/30 @ 9pm
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About the book… The Under Cover 10: The Unwritten Rule For Failed Relationships is an instructional book that teaches basic techniques about expressing oneself sexually. The book brings to life, verbal and nonverbal expressions of intimacy, while awakening untapped sensuality. The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between mental and verbal sti…
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GaptoothDiva Radio - Interview with D.O.E. The Paperboy Tuesday 09/21/2010 @ 9pm
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The interview you missed in August is now tonight!! The dynamic contrast between D.O.E and his character counterpoint. The Paperboy highlight the ironies of the everyday struggle concerning self respect achieved through personal enlightenment verses the respect one feels from ones peers on a more material and superficial level; an eternal struggle …
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Interview with Richmond Rap Group Fam Thick Thurs. 8/5/10 @ 9pm
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GaptoothDiva gives the Cap City an opportunity to get familiar with Richmond Rap Group Fam Thick, discussing main stream hip-hop, rap culture in the cap city, and how diligence in the industry is the only way to reach the top. FAM THICK is the one of the most diverse, energetic and exciting Southern hip hop groups to have picked up a microphone in …
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