Bethlehem, PA native Elle Conard has worked in politics for over 20 years. Elle has worked with Patti Bruno and Kevin Branco on their current and upcoming runs for local office, both of whom has influenced Elle’s new TV series, “WE 5”.
Premiering this Fall, “WE 5” shares the story of five ordinary citizens who are suddenly thrust into the national spotlight to lead the country. The series will feature the award winning talents of Eric Roberts and Chad Dudley.
Bringing west coast and east coast, north and south together; Producer Elle Conard has pulled together a cast of seasoned actors and film newcomers. Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts will join Eliza Simons and Keaton Simons in “WE 5”, making their first appearances as members of the same cast. The series will also include actors Cougar MacDowall and Christine Price, along with NFL Athlete Paul Butler, and film newcomer Parker George. Filming is scheduled for early April 2021.
Vaughn Rian St. James plays the character Sarge BB.
Crime Fiction writer /producer Teddy Hayes and Atlanta based entrepreneur Donna Lefont recently joined forces to present a streaming hip hop drama called DABLOCK.
In 2013 Teddy Hayes had an idea to create a crime drama based around the hip hop culture.
He set the location in Miami, gathered a group of local actors and made 13 episodes designed for the internet. At the time Google news wrote that his idea could generate millions in revenue that was lost by a music industry because of file sharing. The reason being the drama was designed to discover and help market new hip hop as well as acting talent.
In this drama, each episode can be designed to introduce new musical and acting talent performing in the hip hop club where the drama is set.
To make this work Teddy knew it would require technology working along with the design that he intended for the drama. But soon he faced a major snag, which was simply that idea was ahead of its time. The technological capability that was needed to make it work was lagging behind. In 2013 smart phones with 4 and 5 G capability had not yet taken off and saturated the marketplace. Also streaming and affiliate service platforms were still in their beta modes. As a result Teddy put the project on the back burner.
However, as time progressed and technology developed, Teddy found himself where he always hoped he would be, which is in the position to offer audiences and talent a chance to see both new drama and music together in one package.
The popularity of new artists and actors is a unique selling point because it will allow for new music artist and acting talent anywhere in the world to participate in DABLOCK. Unsigned musical talent can participate by way of video inclusion and unsigned actors can become part of future casts.
In addition, the marketing effort will also include an affiliate component that allows for affiliates to earn cash by referring DABLOCK on to other potential viewers.
Donna Lefont who has 25 plus years experience working in the entertainment and film industries, previously working in marketing and sales for Turner Broadcasting and in theatrical exhibition with Lefont Theaters in Atlanta. She immediately recognized the value of the idea and joined with Teddy as a co-producer to present and promote the drama series via her growing community at her foodfilmmusic.com website based in Atlanta Georgia. “Timing is everything and now is the time to think and explore outside the box opportunities, reaching audiences in the new virtual frontier with direct to community engagement experiences.” says Donna.
Leading the DABLOCK cast is Miami based actor Vaughn Rian St. James who plays the powerful female drug dealer Sarge BB. Sarge BB becomes the driving force behind a group of friends who decide they want to bring hip hop and R&B music into their neighbourhood by transforming the local bar into a music club called DABLOCK.
“DaBlock was a lot of fun to make.” Says Vaughn “Sarge, my character says and does thing I wish had the gumption to do. It’s kind of cool to see a woman navigate her way through a business that can eat you alive. It will be interesting to see who survives getting in Sarge’s way.”
Teddy Hayes thinks that moving DABLOCK into circulation on the streaming platform will be the answer to those thousands of unsigned rappers, singers and actors that are waiting for their break into professional show business. DABLOCK will start streaming in April 4, 2021. https://www.foodfilmmusic.com
USA, March 24, 2021 Having a website is important for business owners of all sizes, especially when you look at the amount of people who shop online and look for local businesses. However, not all small business owners have a website, which means they are missing out on important revenue.
46% of small business owners do not have a website. Are you shocked? You should be. That is a shocking figure when you know that 5.13 billion people own at least one mobile device, and 4.57 billion people have access to the Internet. But what is more concerning is, 1.8 billion people shop online at least once a year and the value of online shopping equates to $2.8 trillion.
So, why is it that 46% of the 5.94 million small businesses in the UK and 31.7 million in the USA do not have a website, especially when experts have revealed that having a website could increase revenue by 54%?
According to research, not all business owners understand the benefits that a website could bring them. While others believe having a website built for them is too expensive or time consuming. Every small business no matter what they do should have a website. A website does bring more revenue online, but it can also increase their brand exposure which helps more potential customers find them.
I do understand why people believe having a website could be expensive. Some websites can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. But now, thanks to a new website design company called Designs By MOT, having your own website does not have to cost a fortune.
Designs By MOT can provide a pre-built website for just $97. The American based company is helping small business owners, especially female business owners get online. It is a very clever idea and is already helping small business owners to increase their revenue and exposure. Not only do they provide a website that can be easily customized, but they also migrate it onto the customers hosting package for free.
I was very interested in this new concept, so I decided to sit down with Designs By MOT and learn more about what they offer. Here is what they had to say.
1. First of all, please introduce yourself.
a. Hi, my name is Taylor Lewis and I help entrepreneurs design their website and bring their ideas and unique personalities to the digital life.
2. You are the founder of Designs By MOT, how did you come up with the idea?
a. As a web designer myself, I saw how inefficient and expensive it was to hire a designer or developer when you are in the beginning stages of your business and still working out all the details. I wanted to empower business owners to get over the obstacle of launching their website and provide the opportunity to be able to continue the maintenance and updating themselves.
3. You say that you can provide a website within 24-hours, how is that even possible?
a. They are pre-built websites that business owners just need to adjust the colours, font, copy, and images to their own branding style!
4. One thing that really surprises me about your service is that you will also install websites onto a customer’s hosting package, why was it important for you to offer that service?
a. It is important to offer this because trying to install a website and make sure everything is set-up correctly when you have not done it before can be tricky. We wanted to remove that obstacle all together.
5. Some hosting companies will install the website for free, but some do charge and can be as much as $70. So, my question is, how can you offer to migrate a website free of charge?
a. We found a way to make it efficient to transfer the websites with no cost to the customer.
6. Let’s stick with the topic of money. You charge just $97 for one of your websites, come on, I mean $97 for a ready-made website, how is that even possible?
a. The websites are already built when you purchase one, so you are not paying for the designer’s time to create the website all at once. It is more of a cost share with other entrepreneurs.
7. You build the website and then install it, and you say that people can then customize their website if they want to change it, but what happens if someone does not have any programming experience, can they still customize their website?
a. Absolutely! They were built to be changed easily and quickly without any code at all!
8. I have come across a lot of websites where people have paid a few thousand dollars for them and they have been heavy and slow, do you optimize your websites for speed?
a. Yes, every website is optimized for speed from the theme chosen to the design itself.
9. Talking about optimization, do you get the sites ready for Google. What I mean is, are they SEO friendly, or does the person who buys your website have to get an SEO expert to make them search engine friendly?
a. 100% search friendly! However, you still need to add the content that will rank the website! It is always a good idea to use the free Yoast SEO plugin to get your feet wet on learning how to rank your website in search results.
10. A lot of business owners don’t have a website because they believe it is too expensive, do you think with your service it will encourage more people to have a website, so they don’t miss out on important sales?
a. Very much so and that is one of our goals, to make sure the websites are accessible for entrepreneurs no matter where they are in their journey. The mission of Designs By MOT is to provide the easiest WordPress websites to implement for business owners.
11. Besides the price, what would you say the biggest advantage of your service is compared to someone hiring a website designer to build their website?
a. That is a great question! The biggest advantage is the opportunity to learn your website inside and out in a guided format that way you minimize the cost of hiring designers every time you need to change something!
12. You have a lot of ready-made websites currently available on your platform, will you be adding more websites?
a. Yes, each quarter we plan to release at least three new websites! The current website that is being designed is a lawyer-based website!
To learn more about Designs By MOT, and to see the range of pre-built websites, please visit https://designsmot.com/
About Designs By MOT
Designs By MOT provides stunning fully functional websites that are built for conversions and sales with completely customizable features without needing any code in 24 hours or less! They are priced at $97.
USA, March 25, 2021 Crowd Control Company, an online retailer based on Long Island New York, has developed an innovative range of customer guidance products that assist retailers and other organizations with on-premises visitors social distancing in their waiting lines.
The Covid 19 pandemic and the need to manage social distancing has made the management of customer flow a top priority for all organizations with on-premises visitors. People standing in line will naturally space themselves about 2ft apart. To keep a regular 6ft spacing, customers need guidance on where to stand. Further, the 6ft spacing triples the floor area required for a customer waiting line (queue) so space planning becomes more complex and the need to layout a well-planned queue becomes more important. In fact, facilities that may not have used a queue system for waiting customers prior to the pandemic now find that this is essential to effectively managing social distancing.
As a national online retailer of equipment for pedestrian guidance, customer queuing and restricting access, Crowd Control Company (CCC) responded to the almost overnight demand for products to manage social distancing and customer queues by both modifying existing products and introducing new items to meet the needs of their customers. As experts in the field of queue management CCC were well placed to lead the market in developing social distancing capability into the queueing product range. As Fabio Montella of Crowd Control Company explains “In order to get customers to self-regulate their spacing you need to provide two elements, first visual guides on where to stand and second, a simple, clear explanation on what to do.”
Crowd Control Company’s first development was the now ubiquitous floor sticker printed with a simple “stand here” type message. When laid out at the correct 6ft spacing these stickers create a ‘steppingstone’ pathway for customers to follow. Stickers are quite effective on their own, but when used in conjunction with barriers to form the queue the effect is significantly enhanced. CCC is one of the country’s largest suppliers of retracting belt barriers and traditional rope stanchions used to form customer queues in airports, retail stores, cinemas, and other types of public venues. To support the message provided by the floor sticker and as an alternative for areas where the flooring may not allow for the use of stickers, CCC launched the Social Distancing belt option on its barriers. This product is a 13ft long belt with bold distance markings for two 6ft spacings. Able to be ordered with any of CCC’s over 40 models of retracting barrier, the Social Distance belt option has proven to be extraordinarily popular and is currently among the company’s best sellers.
With two visual spacing guides in place the next element of a successful social distance management program is the explanation of what the customer is expected to. While supposedly self-explanatory, the stickers and printed belts alone are not always enough to generate the required behavior in waiting customers. Simple, bold signage positioned at the start of the queue is a critical element in triggering customers to maintain the unnatural extra spacing required to keep people safe. “The wording must be emphatic in tone and kept simple as long text passages are often left unread.” Says Montella. “Drawing on our experience in customer guidance signage, we designed a series of signs that use simple wording and diagrams to explain how to use the stickers and printed belt guides”. CCC supplies these signs on post top adapters that can be fitted to most brands of retracting barriers and rope stanchions.
Montella concludes by saying “We are proud that we have been able to assist American companies in meeting the demands of keeping their facilities open and their customers safe during the most challenging times in a generation.”
Businesses and government facilities interested in more information in social distance products are encouraged to contact Crowd Control Company immediately. Crowd Control Company can be contacted via their website www.crowdcontrolcompany.com
About Crowd Control Company
CCC is an online seller of a wide range of barriers and associated products for customer guidance, queue management and restricting access. Offering the widest range in the industry CCC specializes in providing a one stop shop for customer guidance and queuing equipment as well as barricades for crowd management in large scale outdoor events.
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Lil Eazy-E will release “It Ain’t Over” on March 26th. He is a star of “Growing Up Hip Hop” and the son of Eazy-E.
USA, March 24, 2021 Lil Eazy-E, born and raised in Compton, California, is the President of Rich & Ruthless Records and Rich & Ruthless Cannabis, a business investor, hip hop music artist, and son of legendary rap artist, Eazy-E.
Lil Eazy-E was raised within the music industry alongside some of the most prominent West Coast rappers. Growing up in the music studio gave him a firsthand introduction in vibing with artists of many genres and multifaceted producers. These experiences led to developing his love and passion, to not only be a music artist, but also a businessman.
Currently, Lil Eazy-E is overseeing the operations of Rich & Ruthless Records, Rich & Ruthless Cannabis, and starring in the WE TV Network series, “Growing Up Hip Hop”, featuring the next generation of Hip Hop Royalty. Rich & Ruthless Records is an entertainment and business development firm for musicians and producers of all genres,
providing artist development, branding, music/production licensing and administrative services.
Lil Eazy-E is set to release his next single, “It Ain’t Over”, off of his debut project, “TBA”, on March 26, 2021, which is the anniversary of his father’s passing. “It Ain’t Over” is inspired by Lil Eazy-E carrying on his father’s legacy and letting the world know his father’s spirit will live on. A follow-up video for, “It Ain’t Over” will be released on April 7, 2021 in honor of “Eazy-E Day”, which the City of Compton honors in the remembrance of Eazy-E.
Artist gains massive fan following with his vibrant beats and unique style
USA, March 19, 2021 March 19, US: 24Kay, the artist from Lithonia, Georgia, is setting the world of hip-hop on fire with his inimitable style and beats that have already made their mark with fans.
Born as Kendrick Fludd Jr. the artist always believed that music is the soul that unifies the world. His journey on the scene began in sixth grade as he started writing his own rhymes. His step-uncle, a professional musician, was his inspiration in the early stages, which further developed his passion.
Magic happened when he got together with his childhood friend 24Demar and started working on music. In fact, on the very first day they created their first song. Leaving his hometown and venturing into the world of music without much support, would turn out to be the best decision the artist could have made for himself.
Over the course of years, 24Kay has made a strong impact with his music. In all, he has released 14 EPs, which are thoroughly enjoyable for listeners. Songs like Poet Knows It, Da Galxy, A Different Step; some of his new releases have cemented his position as the hip-hop artist to watch out for in the near future.
Undoubtedly, he has proven himself as the shining new star in the music world, and this might just be the beginning for 24Kay. American music distribution company UnitedMasters has joined forces with the artist to distribute his music on various platforms. Today, his songs are available on Spotify, Google Play, YouTube Music and more.
Talking about his song ‘Something you smoke to’, 24Kay recently said, “The hook is really catchy and the beat is amazing.” That seems to the trademark of his music, which has won over his fans.
About 24Kay
The hip-hop music artist from Lithonia, Georgia has earned himself a tremendous fan following based on refreshing beats that are redefining the genre.
Businesses are required to file their taxes within 6 months after the end of the fiscal year, and they are also required to pay the taxes within 3 months of the fiscal year’s end.
If a business is not operating anymore, it must be legally dissolved. Otherwise, you are required to continue filing taxes. Businesses listed as “active” must file tax returns regardless of whether the corporation made any money.
Businesses should remove the burden of filing taxes as soon as possible, even though filing taxes can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. On Jan. 1, businesses start to prepare for tax season, which ends on Mar. 15. Businesses are urged to make as much progress as possible to file by the Mar. 15 deadline.
Early filing of business tax returns offers many benefits.
Thoroughness
The last-minute rush may result in a costly error, as well as having to scramble to locate relevant documents, invoices, and receipts before Mar. 14 is also likely to result in an unpleasant surprise. When business tax is handled in advance, owners will have a much better idea of how much a company needs to pay in taxes.
Avoid penalties
It doesn’t matter whether you are having problems paying taxes or if it’s an oversight. The ultimate consequence of failing to file your business tax on time is spending finances on penalties. Not only that, but you will accumulate interest while not filing your return.
Apply for extensions
The business must still file the appropriate paperwork for a payment plan if necessary if it can’t pay the taxes. To make installments on the debt, the company should speak with the IRS about setting up an installment plan.
All sole proprietors must file a Form 4868, while all other businesses must submit a Form 7004. The extension applications do not eliminate/reduce the amount owing to the IRS. However, it can be significant for proprietors who cannot secure the capital needed to operate their business.
Meet ACA deadlines
The recent implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is one of the most crucial reasons to file business tax early. Business owners must be aware of the requirements of the law on health insurance.
The new Affordable Care Act compliance regulation requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to give their employees IRS Form 1095-C, which assumes the role of health insurance W-2. Employers must distribute the 1095-C and the employer transmittal form, which specifies what insurance is to be provided and to whom. You must do this no later than when you distribute traditional W-2 forms.
Strategize
Having a clear idea of all your options while analyzing your data carefully is a valuable opportunity to avoid any potential pitfalls.
Reap the benefits of tax planning
It is more advantageous to file returns early in the calendar year to put in place strategies that will maximize the pros of your tax planning.
Focus on business
Filing early tax returns enables you to scope down on your business’s financial wellness, so you can find ways to reduce costs and stay on top of goals.
Get confident
Business owners who engage in filing early returns gain a better understanding of the dynamism in compliance and better implement strategies for minimizing taxes. Filing early taxes as an element of tax planning can help a business assess its larger situation, such as whether the business needs to adjust its structure (which business owners may find extremely useful). You may also discover untapped and underexploited profit areas, locate new investment options and choose how to structure them.
Peace of mind
You get to make business decisions from a stable, factual base free from unnecessary stress. – Understand exactly your business’s tax liability, eliminating unnecessary stress.
Leverage budget changes
As our agents have an up-to-date understanding of tax regulations, they can take advantage of any applicable budget provisions. This ensures that your business receives the best possible tax result and makes sure it doesn’t lose out on any incentives that may be available.
Getting tax filing wrong is easy, especially with the regulatory framework continually changing. Besides ensuring that your business taxes are filed on time, you can rely on us to help you achieve your income goals and meet your tax obligations. We do that in the most tax-efficient manner at present, without adding unnecessary burdens to your business in the future.
And finally you can really benefit from having an experienced CPA that can do all of that for you in a timely manner with more deductible savings. Feel free to visit our website for more information USA CPA SERVICE
Written by: Michael Green
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PureShowers.co.uk design and develop a brand-new shower filter cartridge which incorporates a unique combination of filter mediums that provide higher levels of shower filtration and better water flow.
London – March 24, 2021 – PureShowers.co.uk are renown for their prowess in shower filters and shower filter technology, so with their latest development they have once again shown their superiority when it comes to providing the highest quality shower filters technology to the consumer market.
Working hand in hand with their suppliers and research and development teams, PureShowers.co.uk have now designed and developed a new type of shower filter cartridge which is exclusive to them and has never been seen before on the market.
After over a decade of working in the shower filter industry, the company have taken their vast knowledge of all of the latest water filter mediums and the highest performing water filter materials and incorporated them all into a single shower filter cartridge.
Ty Lee the founder of PureShowers.co.uk has said, “For this project, what we have done is we’ve taken the best performing shower filter mediums that are included in our large range of shower filter products. Then we have combined them all together to make a cartridge which has a little bit of the best of everything.”
The new filter cartridge combines 9 different levels of filtration in a single cartridge, these filter mediums include:
A micro fine mesh filter which removes free floating material
A steel mesh filter
Calcium Sulphite (CaSO3) filter balls which remove 99% of chlorine within 0.8 seconds.
NSF Certified KDF-55, which removes chlorine, heavy metals, bacteria and reduces scale.
Far-infrared Mineral Ceramic Balls which remove heavy metals and help to make water feel softer by absorbing impurities.
Coconut Active Carbon which efficiently removes impurities from water such as; chlorine, chloramines, scale, THMs, VOCs, chemicals and many other contaminants.
Vitamin C balls which are extremely effective at stopping chlorine, chloramines and also provides additional health benefits to skin and hair.
A Polypropylene Cotton layer which is a tightly wound cotton filter material which is so tightly bound that as water passes through it, it will physically trap and remove foreign particles. Which assists with scale removal.
The new type shower filter cartridges retrofit into PureShowers.co.uk’s range of Slim Line Shower Filters and Compact Shower Filters that the company has been retailing since 2008 – so customers can simply swap their old cartridges for this new type of cartridge.
They last up to 12 months and can be purchased directly from PureShowers.co.uk on their website.
About the Company:
Established in 2008, PureShowers.co.uk is the premiere shower filter online store in the UK. Specialising exclusively in water filters for the bathroom, they have sold hundreds of thousands of shower and bathroom filters to many thousands of satisfied customers.
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With the growing number of children and adults suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, author and fashion designer Evey Rosenbloom wanted to do something to help. She decided to release an online book at no charge.
The online book has become an important resource to help those that are struggling. The aim of the book is to provide people with hope and given them the tools to strengthen their mental health and overcome obstacles in their life.
Since being launched, the online book has gained a huge amount on exposure, so we decided to learn more about the book and the author, and this is what she had to say.
First of all, can you please introduce yourself?
Hi! My name is Evey Rosenbloom and I’m a proud mommy of two adorable wild little kids, a light-up dress maker, host of the Let Yourself Sparkle Podcast, Author and Happiness Coach. Born and raised in the City of Angels, An Honors graduate of UCLA with a background in Anthropology and Social Work.
I’m obsessed with all things rainbow and sparkly, I love farm life and horses, roller skates, and dancing in the kitchen with my kids.
I wasn’t always happy.
In fact, just a few months ago you would have found me hiding my tears under blankets in the dark, wishing I could have given my kids a happy life. I had crippling anxiety and depression and was having daily Migraines. I could barely see, I was so dizzy, I was leaning on the walls for support. I thought my life was over until I heard my daughters sweet little voice say: Mommy, You Can Choose to Be Happy.
Her words saved my life.
Today you can find me wearing bright rainbow wigs and dancing in my roller skates to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Happiness turned out to be the best medicine for me, and I believe that I needed to experience the pain and suffering of depression, anxiety and debilitating migraines, so that I could discover and share the tools to light people up from the inside- out.
Looking back, I probably should have known that the little girl who was deeply fascinated by her grandfather’s ability to wake up excited, smile and celebrate life, after losing his entire family in the Holocaust…. Was destined to one day chase her curiosity to create a framework that enables people to push themselves from darkness to light.
Right now,… I’m probably eating popcorn or M&M’s in my office surrounded by rainbow spools of thread, dreaming of ways I can help people lower stress, energize happiness, and illuminate their own unique paths to joy.
Wanna know what lights me up? Helping people strengthen their mental health, find ways to let themselves sparkle, and remember how to enjoy their lives… Happiness is a choice I make every day, and I truly hope that the resources I put together- help other people nourish and enrich their bodies and minds in a positive way, because I believe we were all born to be happy.
You have just released your new book ‘Mommy, You Can Choose to Be Happy’, what is the book about?
It’s a step-by-step framework of how anyone can naturally let go of toxicity, overcome anxiety and depression, and learn how to change their thoughts and actions to create lasting fulfilment and a meaningful life. It is for anyone, but I made it so simple that even a burnt-out mom with zero time to herself could to it.
It is a holistic, life changing approach which teaches you how you can train your mind and control how you feel through a series of daily choices and activities. The framework includes methods to overcome your limitations, positive affirmations, mindfulness, song, and dance, and a nutrition outline to help you understand which foods are known to strengthen, nourish and energize your body, and also which foods are commonly known to exacerbate feelings of anxiety and depression.
The book gives tips to improve sleep habits and suggests specific physical activities known to aid in the production of serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin and dopamine- your bodies “feel good” hormones.
In addition, the book helps remind you what you have enjoyed to do throughout your life, and also helps you discover new hobbies that would be fun or enjoyable, so that you can choose to find ways to incorporate those into your current life.
The framework teaches you how to live in the moment, provides you with a gratitude practice and stresses the importance of kindness, inspiring how we can each do our part to add more light in the world.
The book provides all these different scientifically proven methods to strengthen mental health, and while it can seem overwhelming, because there is so much, the good news is that we do not need to do everything in order to improve the way we feel.
While, I will say that the more you do, the better you will feel, (both emotionally and physically), there are so many different paths to happiness, you can just pick the practices and activities that resonate with you from the book, and do those.
Many can be done for 30 seconds to 5 minutes a day to notice an incredible positive change in your life.
It has been reported that due to the COVID19 pandemic the number of adults suffering from stress and mental health issues has increased, do you believe this is the same case for children?
Yes. Both children and adults have reported experiencing an increase in poor mental health outcomes, which is evident use of substances and an increase in suicidal thoughts. Fear for safety and health have dramatically increased, so has financial loss among families, contributing to an increase in emotional distress, and the development of psychiatric disorders. Children pick up on the stress of their caregivers, in addition, they have faced sudden changes to their daily routines and social lives, and many experienced a disruption to their education. Many kids experienced drastic increases in screen time, loss of extracurricular sports teams and lost access to clubs and enrichment programs, there have been restrictions at mental healthcare facilities so many people of all ages had a lapse in getting the support they used to receive. Many children lost access to food, (they consistently received at school), and the need to stay home 24/7 put many at risk for an increase of neglect and abuse.
One of the most concerning facts is that there has been a significant increase in ER visits for self-harm among children. Which is of significant concern because youth who engage in self-harming behaviors are at an increased risk for suicide. These difficult times created feelings of isolation, boredom, sadness, despair, anxiety and stress which can have long term effects on children’s behavior as well as their mental and emotional well-being and physical health.
Stress, anxiety, and depression continue to be a serious problem, do you believe enough is being done to help children and adults?
I know therapists are at full capacity, and they have waiting lists. There are many people who wish they could receive treatment to strengthen their mental health, and there simply are not enough resources to help them.
I also believe so many people are so quick to assume that a pill alone will fix them, and while I absolutely believe that medication is necessary in many cases, I also believe that it is not enough to help someone find joy. Many people report that even after receiving psychiatric treatment, they still do not feel happy, which leads many to give up hope that they ever can find joy. The problem however is that they are often not doing these simple exercises, known to help people break free of whatever it is that might be holding them back from experiencing joy and so many different tools to strengthen their mental health by stimulating the production of serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine and endorphins. The tips I share in the book to help people overcome anxiety and depression and also energize joy, are actually used by some psychiatrists and positive psychologists in the treatment of mental health disorders. However often people have to hit rock bottom to learn these methods, and we hope that they are brought to the right facility and meet with the right treatment team to be given these incredible methods to heal. But so often patients in these facilities are pushed through the system so quickly in understaffed, overwhelmed environments and they are discharged before they’ve really been able to heal.
There was a young girl I met with when I was working as a Treatment Plan Coordinator in a Psychiatric Hospital. This was her 5th suicide attempt. When I went in to meet with her, she was so depressed she wouldn’t even look at me or lift her head off the pillow. I couldn’t even tell if she heard me. She seemed so far gone.
Before I left her room, I asked her to think if she could recall a time that something brought her even an ounce of joy. Later she was found leaping and twirling through the hallways of the hospital. When she was discharged, her family reported that there was a light in her eyes that seemed to have been missing for years. It had been years since she danced. She simply forgot that was something that used to make her feel so alive. The simple act of dancing revived her. Imagine if I did not think to ask her that very simple question?
So often people are so overwhelmed by the stress, anxiety and depression that they can’t even think of anything that they ever enjoyed to do. It seems really simple, but even just helping them remember what it was that they used to enjoy doing can have a tremendously positive impact on their lives.
I want to make sure these methods are shared widely, because they are clinically proven to work and before the Pandemic, it was found that more than half of the adults diagnosed with mental health conditions do not receive treatment. And it’s even worse among youth, 80 percent of children and adolescents get either insufficient treatment or none at all. Since the pandemic began, the rates of people developing mental health conditions has increased and the access to treatment has declined.
A lot of parents of young kids who are suffering from anxiety and depression feel alone, how can your online book help?
It is so easy to feel alone when your child is suffering from anxiety and depression. My book lets them see that how they are feeling is so common, especially at a time when we are surrounded by so much grief and heartbreak and people are isolated from friends, family and their communities. I want people to know that they are not alone and there is hope.
If you want to join my virtual Happiness Course, I would love to offer you more support and guidance on your path to strengthening your mental health. Send me an email Evey@LetYourselfSparkle.com I am happy to help.
And it’s important to seek professional help if needed. These are unprecedented times, and it is totally normal to feel completely overwhelmed. If you know someone who needs help, The National Alliance of Mental Illness is such a good resource.
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What do you hope to achieve from your book?
I wrote this book as a guide for myself, in case I was ever hit with depression or anxiety again and was too distraught to remember how to pull myself out of it. I hope that my words provide hope and a path to heal for anyone who needs it.
You have had your own experience with stress, can you tell me more about that?
After a wildfire swept through my neighborhood, I was overcome with the fear of not being able to protect my kids. I was waking up in the middle of the night to make sure there were no fires nearby. Any time the wind picked up, I panicked. I felt like I was in constant fight AND flight mode. It got so bad that I started to feel shaky and off balance. One day I noticed a numbness in my arms and legs, and I almost collapsed. I started having daily migraines and then the vertigo started. I was going from doctor to doctor, they ran all these tests. I was diagnosed with Vestibular Migraines, and they said there was no cure for the dizziness. I spent my free time googling symptoms that I might be dying because I felt like I had become the shell of the person I used to be. What began with the stress of being unable to protect my kids, morphed into fears that they were about to lose their mother. The stress turned into depression and I hid my tears under blankets in the dark, wishing I could have given my kids a happy life.
Everything changed when my daughter saw me crying and looked at me with her sweet little eyes and said – “Mommy, you can choose to be happy.”
So, an important question, why did you decide to write the book?
I once listened to story a man told, he was on his way to commit suicide, and he had told himself…. if just only one person was kind to him, he would not do it. Even something as simple as a smile would have derailed his plan. But no one even smiled at him. No one even looked at him. The entire bus ride, and his walk-through crowded streets, he felt invisible. He prayed someone would acknowledge him. But no one did. He felt completely alone, like there was no hope, and then he jumped off a bridge. The moment he jumped he knew he’d made a tremendous mistake. Luckily, he didn’t die. Now he goes around sharing his story about how simply looking at someone and acknowledging their existence and giving them a smile, could boost them up emotionally, and SAVE THEIR LIFE.
In the 1700’s, Rabbi Nachman said: “Sometimes, people are terribly distressed but have no one to whom they can unburden themselves. If you come along with a happy face, you cheer them and give them new life.
I wrote this because I understand how alone and distraught so many people feel right now, and I want them to know that there is hope and that they can heal, and how simple and profound certain acts like smiling can be to light up not only themselves (through biochemical feedback), but also the people around them.
I believe a little bit of light can brighten up the darkness, and since there is so much darkness these days, I want to provide people with the tools to let some light seep through the cracks.
After I realized that happiness was simply a choice that anyone could make, I felt morally obligated to share these tips with anyone who could strengthen their emotional well-being. Even if I can help save one person, that’s why I’m doing this.
Some people believe they cannot beat depression and stress, what would you say to those people?
A lot of people will say- they cannot be happy because of a diagnosis, or their genes, or their financial situation, or because of terrible circumstances in their lives. It’s so easy to believe that your happiness is influenced by the cards you’ve been dealt. Or that since your pill didn’t make you happy, there is no hope. OR maybe you feel like being happy is selfish, or childish, or there’s a level of guilt involved, because so many people around you are suffering or didn’t’ make it, or maybe someone seemed to try to take that feeling of joy from you, so it feels wrong. I want to acknowledge that I understand how difficult it is for people to even want to find joy.
After surviving Aushwitz, Viktor Frankl said: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” He also said that “those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
My grandfather, Jay Shalmoni, who also was an Aushwitz survivor, (and lost his entire family), said “You could be very sad and cry everyday OR you could look back on the beautiful things when you had them and not think of the dark days. You have to go on and the future is what counts….You have to look to the future EVERY DAY. Don’t think back to the bad, sad things. Every time I walk up the steps, I look at my mother’s picture, I look at my brothers’ picture and so it is a reminder, but I can go up and smile at my mother’s picture and my brothers’ picture OR I can cry. So, it is up to me.”
It is up to you.
The truth is that we all are capable of feeling joy, and it starts with a choice. In order to change the way you feel, you have to first decide WHY you want to make the change.
For me, when I was in the depths of my depression, and my daughter told me I could choose to be happy, I absolutely did not believe her. But then I realized that I needed to do whatever I could in my power to be happy for my kids because I felt they deserved a happy mom, and once I found my reason, the actions I share in the book followed.
“I’ve met people who were terminally ill, or survivors of natural disasters and genocides – who had lost everything, who were choosing to be happy. Their decisions to shift their mindset, enriched their lives in such positive ways.
One of the most meaningful moments in my career as a fashion designer, was when I got an email from a father of a bride, asking me if I could add lights to his daughter’s wedding dress which was less than a month away. I quickly replied, does your daughter know you’re asking me to do this? And is this OK with her?
He explained to me that their whole family survived 9/11, if their subway wasn’t late, they would have been in the elevator heading to the top of the World Trade Center. When the first plane hit, they were in the middle of the park a couple blocks from ground zero. When the tower collapsed, they lost each other in a cloud of smoke and debris. They remember people jumping into the sea and running around with their faces completely covered with anything they could find.
He explained, they finally found each other, and since then have learned to just treasure and enjoy every moment of life. “She is really easy going, enjoys life and doesn’t take any of this too seriously!”
The next day, he dropped off his daughter’s dress, and I illuminated it with hundreds of hand stitched tiny bulbs. I cried when they sent me a picture of her smiling so beautifully in her sparkle covered glowing wedding dress as fireworks lit up the sky around her on the 4th of July.
I decided to give the book away for FREE because I do not want lack of resources to prevent someone from accessing their own joy.
To anyone who believes they cannot beat depression and stress, I tell them, they absolutely CAN if they want to. But they have to want to, and that is up to them.
You say that you help people to change their thoughts, can you explain more about that?
We can train ourselves to think differently. The words we are surrounded by often influence our thoughts and minds. Even on a subconscious level. Disconnecting, or at least cutting back from stressful content is often beneficial because too much bad news, upsetting books and movies can negatively impact the way you feel. Try to listen to uplifting happy songs, inspiring podcasts, read stories about personal growth to try to keep your thoughts more positive.
Studies have shown that positive affirmations, and other practices such as mindfulness and meditation can actually re-wire and restructure the brain. It sounds impossible, but this is scientifically confirmed with fMRI or EEG technology.
The simple practices I provide in the book are proving to have incredible neurological benefits that can actually be seen and measured changing the shape and size of parts of the brain know for relieving a level of anxiety and depression, improving attention, concentration, and overall psychological well-being.
You say that you can choose to be happy, for someone suffering from stress and depression, that could seem like a mission impossible, do you really believe that you can choose to be happy?
It absolutely sounds impossible especially for someone suffering from stress and depression. But I wholeheartedly believe that there are a series of choices we can all make every single day that can lead us to eliminate harmful habits and behaviors and replace those with practices and activities known to nourish and enrich our body and mind that can make us feel profoundly better emotionally and physically.
And finally, what does the future hold for you?
When we focus our attention on the future, we start to worry because we do not know what to expect.
While I often find myself worried about circumstances outside of my control, or dreaming of moving my family to a farm, I’ve learned that it is so important to focus on the present and let go of any fears and expectations to prevent spiraling back into feelings of fear and disappointment.
So, while I can’t tell you what tomorrow holds, I can tell you that today, right now, I am choosing to be happy.
Mrs. Rosenbloom’s book, Mommy, You Can Choose to Be Happy, can be found online, at no cost, at www.YouCanChooseToBeHappy.com
Author Evey Rosenbloom is making the book available at no cost to help those who are suffering
LOS ANGELES – Mar 17, 2021 – Published Author and Fashion Designer Evey Rosenbloom announced that she released an online book, Mommy, You Can Choose to Be Happy, to help the growing number of children and adults suffering from anxiety and depression. She wants to make sure people know that they are not alone and that there is hope, and is therefore providing the resources to strengthen mental health, easily accessible and at no cost.
This step-by-step framework revealshow anyone can find joy in dark times. The approach is so simple that even a burnt-out mom, with zero time to herself can use the tools provided in the book to minimize stress, fear and anxiety and learn to enjoy life.
Through her own experience, Rosenbloom struggled through strenuous times to finally overcome immobilizing stress, fear and heartbreak.
According to Rosenbloom, “After a wildfire swept through my neighborhood, the stress of feeling unable to protect my kids, destroyed me — physically and mentally. I hid my tears under blankets in the dark, wishing I could have given my kids a happy life. Then, everything changed. I heard my daughter’s sweet little voice say: ‘Mommy, you can choose to be happy.’ I wondered, ‘Is it that simple?’”
Rosenbloom started researching happiness, and found we don’t have to allow circumstances to dictate how we feel, but can choose to find joy inside our own hearts and minds. She courageously picked herself up, laced up her roller skates, wore rainbow wigs, singing karaoke with her children, painted the walls and danced around with kazoos. She realized she would no longer let fear keep her from celebrating life, as she discovered and explored the tools to naturally choose joy. She enthusiastically explained, we can choose to “get up, put one foot in front of the other and chase our dreams because we were born to be happy.”
“My decision to choose happiness, saved my life and I felt compelled to share my story because there are so many people who are suffering right now. I know it feels wrong to strive for joy, in dark times, but we need to, if not for ourselves, then for those who need us. Happiness has been found to improve heart health, strengthen your immune system and help you combat stress. We all can do our part to light up the darkness, and it’s incredible how a little smile can change everything.”
Rosenbloom has worked with the most vulnerable populations at their most painful times in Psychiatric Hospitals, Group Homes for At-Risk Youth and Homeless Shelters, and today she works as a Happiness Coach, offering fun virtual courses and customized treatment plans to help people illuminate their unique paths from darkness to light.
“I’ve met people who were terminally ill, or survivors of natural disasters and genocide who were choosing to be happy. Their decisions to shift their mindset, enriched their lives in such positive ways. I decided to give the book away for FREE because I do not want lack of resources to prevent someone from accessing their own joy.
I help people change their thoughts and adopt healthy practices which actually rewire the brain, and naturally increase the production of serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins to get people enjoying their lives.”
Mrs. Rosenbloom’s book, Mommy, You Can Choose to Be Happy, can be found online, at no cost, at www.YouCanChooseToBeHappy.com
And all her other resources to strengthen mental health for both children and adults are available for purchase through the site as well.
She has also posted a video, https://vimeo.com/524125432, to share her story and give viewers and readers hope and inspiration to discover their unique paths to joy.
As a fashion designer, Evey has been lighting people up, on stages of music festivals & around the world from London to Finland, & across the US.
“When I pushed myself out of depression, a light bulb went off. I’d always loved to make light-up (fiber optic and electrical) dresses for people because I loved to see people shine, & I felt lighting people up, was what I was put here on this planet to do. Perhaps I needed to experience the pain and suffering of depression and anxiety so that I could discover and share the tools to light people up from the inside- out, so that they could sparkle with joy.”
About Evey Rosenbloom
Evey Rosenbloom is a Author, Happiness Coach, Light-Up Dress Designer and Host of “The Let Yourself Sparkle” podcast.
Media Inquiries: For more information or to schedule an interview with Evey, please contact Evey@LetYourselfSparkle.com or find Evey on Social Media @EveyRosenbloom
