AlisaWade Designer Spotlight Jennifer Diaz
The Color Box The Face Has It Face Atelier Foundation Angels of the Community My Brother’s Keeper Youth Services
BEHIND THE LENS PHOTOGRAPHER | Ron Mayes
FeaturedModels EricaHall NicholeDawnn JenniferDiaz ToriaLee
MARCH 2015 Issue
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Queen Size Model Management is a company created to guide aspiring models along the path to becoming successful models. This is not a one day boot camp, nor do we just email models information to follow up with on their own. We are with you step by step until you have all the knowledge you need to follow your dream with confidence. If you really want to be a model and you are willing to invest in yourself, then Queen Size Model Management is willing to invest the time in you. Queen Size Model Management continues to build our network of photographers and designers. With such networks, we are able to offer our models a whole lot more for a whole lot less. It is our goal to ensure that our models are treated fairly and with respect.
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Article Title | By Author M a k i n g Q u e e n Si z e m o v e s
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Note from the Editor
elcome to the March 2015 issue of Queen Size Magazine.
This issue is about loving yourself. I recently read an article about a student that spoke so highly of one of his teachers. He spoke about how this teacher made all of the students feel like they were important; like they mattered. The teacher stood them all up one by one and told them all personally that they mattered. I thought that was an amazing testimony from the child because many of us feel like we don’t’ matter; like our dreams are less important than others. I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you (yes you reading this) that you are beautifully made in our creator’s eyes. You and your dreams matter to me. Don’t ever stop dreaming and don’t ever stop chasing those dreams. Thank you all for your continued support. We have some amazing things in store so be on the lookout for special announcements.
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Take the first step in Faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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M a k i n g Q u e e n Si z e m o v e s
MASTHEAD TAWANA BLASSINGAME CEO/Editor In Chief PHILIPDREW Executive Director ErickJorgensen Creative Director JAMILA JAYCHOYCE Writer Paul J.HeywARd Jr. Photographer Videographer DAWN HALL Model Recruitment Manager jessica starnes Model Recruitment Manager MARIA WILLIAMS Writer Amanda Tucciarone Writer Duane Jones Photographer Doug Swaim Photographer
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Contents Featured Story
20 Love Yourself By Alisa Wade
Health and Fitness
06 Relieving Stress with Yoga By Jessica Starnes
08 To Answer your Question
FeaturedModels
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By Shirley Beale
Business of the Community 12 Angels My Brother’s Keeper Youth Services
By TAWANA BLASSINGAME
THE LENS 16 BEHIND PHOTOGRAPHER | Ron Mayes
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business steps you need 18 Important to take to avoid your business from taking a fall By TAWANA BLASSINGAME
Spotlight 28 Entrepreneur Foundations 4 adVANCEment By TAWANA BLASSINGAME
Beauty&Fashion
Designer Spotlight
32 Jennifer Muojeke Diaz
Sultry Glamazon Closet™
By Jamila Choyce
38 Spring into Spring By Jenn Laws
Color Box 40 The The Face Has It
Face Atelier Foundation By MARIA WILLIAMS
Traces of my pen
41 Be Fearless
By Amanda Tucciarone
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