Posts by Ashia R. Sims

Well I’m going to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon and comment on the recent situation with Chris Brown. I was actually watching the interview that sparked all of the controversy and I could tell he was upset after wards by the way he performed. It made for a great, high energy performance but I wasn’t entirely surprised when I heard what happened after the performance. I also watched his “explanation” on 106 and Park a day or so later. As I watched the fallout from his latest outburst, I couldn’t help but wonder where his mother was or some type of older mentor like person. While some people may consider Chris Brown a man, he still has a lot of growing to do. Yes the thing with Rhianna happened two years (or so) ago, but it...

Recently, I was discussing Lil Wayne with a couple of people and I said that I didn’t care for him much as a rapper. I was asked why and I replied that his rhymes struck me as infinitely stupid. One of the people I was talking to quoted a Lil Wayne lyric to me and asked me if it was dope. I said no. Then the other person said I wouldn’t understand why Lil Wayne was dope because I’m not a hip hop head. This statement annoyed me for several reasons. One reason was because it represents the kind of hip hop elitism that I’ve encountered time and time again as I’ve worked in various aspects of entertainment industry. However, this annoyance was short lived because it is what it is from that perspective. Every type of music has it’s...

Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed your entry into 2011. I had a very laid back evening with friends drinking wine and watching the various New Year’s Eve shows in television. It was lovely! I wanted to take a moment and share something with you that I learned by way of the infinite wisdom of Naomi Dunford of Ittybiz. I receive her email newsletter and she occasionally sends out assignments. One of the more recent ones caused me to really think about my entrepreneurial/professional aspirations. She told us to think of the top 5 moments in 2010 and then consider what common thread existed in them. I wrote mine down and discovered that the common thread in my top 5 moments of 2010 was this: I was instrumental in helping to create something. This was a major...

Recently, I went to an event where there were vendor tables set up. As I browsed the different vendors, I picked up some of their cards. When I looked at the different cards, I noticed a trend. Many people have multiple services that they provide and they listed all of them on their business cards in a similar format. The cards would look like this: Sally Simmons Author|Model|Song writer|Producer|Personal Chef 555-0989 Now, many people who are entrepreneurs are becoming aware of the importance of diversifying your assets and not focusing solely on one field. Plus, many creative entrepreneurs typically have several things they enjoy doing. That’s wonderful. However, I think it takes away from a person’s professionalism if they list multiple things on...

I haven’t written in this blog in over a year. In that time, things have definitely changed for me. I am no longer actively pursuing a career as a public relations consultant full time. I did some soul searching and realized that writing and production (TV/Film/Multimedia) was more where my passions were. So in the last year, I made a much more concerted effort to focus on my writing career and production career. I also decided to write more blog posts about my professional development journey. The decision to make this change wasn’t easy. Although I didn’t truly enjoy what I was doing and it wasn’t really advancing my career, I had been doing it since 2003 and I didn’t want all of that hard work to go to waste. However, the hard work...