No more stuff in my Pocket
In the words of Wendy Williams, how you doing ?
I have some sad news for you. Are you ready?
Due to some much needed traveling, and a few deadlines, this will be my last newsletter for the month. I will however be back in your inboxes next month so don't you worry.
In the meantime, please do a few things: first follow me on Twitter so you don't miss all my random tweets about the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos documentary that will be airing March 18th on HBO. Secondly, if you like wine, make sure to visit my friend Chasity's new website, WinewithChas.com.
For my last hiatus ask, please share this here newsletter with your friends and ask them to subscribe--if you love it however, I can't donate gifts to you quite yet for your help.
That being said, over the weekend, I had the chance to go through and clean out all my Pocket so this week, there are tons of reads. Let me know your thoughts, and what's catching your interest this week.
I always find these articles to be pretty interesting and informative. Some of the stats in the article made me raise a brow, but I really appreciated reading the portion about people from BAME backgrounds (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic). They laid out how some of the lack of diversity is the fault of senior leadership and needs to trickle down to HR and the hiring process.
"People from BAME backgrounds (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) filled less than 2 in 10 (13.8 percent) of all agency jobs in 2018, up from 12.9 percent the previous year, according to trade body Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s study of its members in the U.K. The progress is even slower in the C-suite where just 5.5 percent of roles are filled by people from BAME backgrounds, up from 4.7 percent the previous year."
The saga of Elizabeth Holmes continues to get better, and better, and better. In the book, Bad Blood and the podcast The Dropout, it was mentioned that Elizabeth’s deep baritone voice was fake. This article speaks to that, but boy, she’s a fraud all the way around. Don’t forget, March 18th the documentary about Elizabeth and Theranos will be on HBO—my friend Stephanie and I are going to watch and my mouth is already salivating from all the tea I’ll be sipping.
I feel like I always talk about Aminatou in some variation because she's one of my favorite girlfriends in my head. I always love how open and candid she is about what she's talking about, and one of the topics I like that she talks about is money. She's always very honest, and transparent about her finances in terms of making money and wanting to be rich.
I'm overly obsessed with Lena Waithe let's just put that out there. She's extremely talented, smart, witty, has a great sense of style, and amazing cheek bones. I love how authentic she is and how she constantly pays homage to those who came before her. She always acknowledges her road to success and how it didn't come easy. This article was so good--not only was the interview great but sis looked amazing in the spread. She's kind of my girl crush so yeah.
"I just don't want to make things that are forgettable. I want to make things that make you feel something and, as long as it makes you feel something, that's all I care about."
"The moral of the story is that there's nothing I cannot do. With a little bit of help, a little bit of resource, a little bit of swag. I'm gonna get there."
I felt so much of this interview. I think Ari and I would be friends. She said if she were to travel back in time, she would go to 1970 to see Marvin Gaye because he “was fine as hell and potentially single.” And one of her biggest insecurities is whether she would be a good mom. This is something I think about often for whatever reason.
This is definitely going to get made into a movie at some point because crazy.