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    What's Your WHY
    Alex Owumi
    • Dec 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    What's Your WHY

    A question that I ask a lot of people is "Why do you do what you do?" Most of the time people get stuck and take some time before answering the question. I jump back in the conversation and ask... "Is it your passion? Is it because of the money? Or do you actually hate it and are just waiting for something better to come along?" Their final response is... "To be honest I just like the money." There's no problem doing things for money. Money is a necessity and I always encoura
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    Know Your Destination
    Alex Owumi
    • Aug 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    Know Your Destination

    Where are you going? Which direction is your career headed in? Is your life and your career thriving? Ask yourself those above questions whenever you think that your current position is your final destination. It's very hard to start a blog or business and think it's going to thrive within 3-6 months (don't play yourself). So what do you do when things don't take off in the time frame that you imagined? Let me know if any of these below ring a bell. 1) GIVE UP. 2) Compare you
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    STAY THE COURSE
    Alex Owumi
    • Jun 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    STAY THE COURSE

    Summer is here and the planned holidays are right around the corner. People are packing their things getting ready to go to Ibiza, Greece, or maybe even Miami. Or maybe you're sitting at home waiting for a music festival to come your way so you and your friends can make a weekend out of it. You've been so focused in the last couple months in all aspects of your life. You've been in the gym working on your physical health. You've been reading self-help books to keep your menta
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    Fail Hard and Fail Fast
    Alex Owumi
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    Fail Hard and Fail Fast

    We all want to be perfect in everything we do. Whether you're an artist who has been trying to sell their work for years or you're a singer who for years has been trying to get a record contract but haven't had any luck. We must know that at some point in your adult life you will fail at something. One of the greatest quotes about failure that I've ever heard is "FAIL HARD AND FAIL FAST" (I would credit the person but my mind is drawing a blank lol). What does that quote mean
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    WHY I WROTE THIS NEW BOOK
    Alex Owumi
    • Oct 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    WHY I WROTE THIS NEW BOOK

    A lot of my readers might be wondering why I wrote this new book. I came up with an idea years ago that I wanted to write a series of books that take place in the city I was raised in. I've lived all over the world and Boston is still the most unique city that I've lived in. The people, sports and culture are just a couple of things that I love about the city. I really wouldn't want to be from anywhere else than this beautiful city. Most writers usually have a protagonist in
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    THE MAN IN FOREST HILLS
    Alex Owumi
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    THE MAN IN FOREST HILLS

    Being a detective in the city of Boston is no easy task, and with the crime rate sky high, law enforcement is the only hope of getting things back in order. One of the best detectives in the state is Thomas Kent, a hard-nosed, by the book type, who doesn’t bend the rules for anyone. With the help of his department, he has taken down some of the biggest criminals in the city, and has also made a lot of enemies as well. For years he has battled with the biggest drug kingpin in
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    Qaddafi's Point Guard
    Alex Owumi
    • Oct 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Qaddafi's Point Guard

    October 1, 2013 was the release date for my first book 'Qaddafi's Point Guard'. It took a lot for me to put my life on display because I'm a very private person. The book has done a lot for my life. It was an opportunity to talk about my experiences in life, but most importantly I got to shine a light on the people that helped me throughout my rough time during the Libyan Civil War. It would've been selfish for me to not talk about those people and how they were courageous en
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    Women Can Drive
    Alex Owumi
    • Sep 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    Women Can Drive

    When I lived in the middle east I noticed something very unusual. I was watching the news and saw that in Saudi Arabia a woman got arrested for driving. I asked one of my teammates who happened to be from that country why are men only allowed to drive and his response was, "Women aren't allowed to drive". So I said, "Why not?" and he looked at me and laughed. This stuck with me for a couple of days and even brought it to the attention of one of my friends back home. So women
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    Why Reading Matters
    Vada Green (Guest Blogger)
    • Sep 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why Reading Matters

    Every month I'm giving an opportunity for an individual to do a guest blog post on my blog. The very first one is from a guest blogger by the name of Vada Green. Vada is a tremendous blogger who lives in England and writes a great blog called Ramblings of a Neurotic Writer . Check out her guest blog post about her reading journey below, and let me know what you think in the comment section. I was home-schooled all through my childhood and my mum taught me Maths, English, Scie
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    Energy
    Alex Owumi
    • Aug 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    Energy

    My favorite piece of reading this summer was a book by Jon Gordon called 'The Energy Bus:10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy'. The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon Gordon infuses this engaging story with keen insights
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    Why Readers Are Important
    Alex Owumi
    • Aug 7, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why Readers Are Important

    As the summer comes to a close I had a good amount of time to travel to a couple of different countries. One of the most important things I did this summer was to focus on reading a lot of other authors work. My personal favorites are John Grisham and Kate Moretti (they both might be tied for first). As fiction writers our minds have to be a bit twisted at times just to think of some of the shit we come up with. I mean a character in my book dies every other chapter (just kid
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    Fan Appreciation
    Alex Owumi
    • Apr 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Fan Appreciation

    It's important for me to take time every month to highlight one of my fans. A lot of authors don't believe in the 'ONE FAN AT A TIME' strategy but to me that's the most important thing for me in being an author. It takes a lot for one of my readers to sit and read a 200 plus page book which I hope they might like. These days people's attention spans are very short. I hear all the time that people don't take the time to read physical books anymore. In the era of fifteen second
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    Appreciation
    Alex Owumi
    • Mar 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Appreciation

    One of the most important things in my life is appreciation. In the dictionary the word appreciation can be described as, recognition and enjoyment of the good qualities of someone or something. To recognize the good qualities in someone is truly an amazing thing. You actually show that person that they are worth your recognition. In today's society of social media we tend to forget about simple things like telling someone thank you for a nice gesture or complimenting our sig
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    Why you should hate FRIDAY'S
    Alex Owumi
    • Jan 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why you should hate FRIDAY'S

    We've all been in this same situation. Sitting at work looking at a clock that says 4:50 pm and packing up our shit ready to hit the nearest happy hour. What that last ten minutes represents is a whole weekend of unmotivated binge drinking caused by what I call THE CUBICLE SYNDROME. Now we all know someone who sits in a cubicle and hates their job and we all know people who sit in the same cubicle and love what they do (HOORAY FOR THEM). But what I've come to realize is that
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    Meet Author Julia Blake
    Alex Owumi
    • Dec 21, 2017
    • 5 min

    Meet Author Julia Blake

    In this first installment of The Book Talk blog I reached out to author Julia Blake to talk about her life as an author and her current projects. Julia was born and raised in the lovely historic market town of Bury St Edmunds, where she still lives with her daughter. She has been writing ever since she was old enough to pick up a pen, writing plays for my friends to act out at break time. She attempted her first novel at age thirteen. Of course, due to her age and lack of exp
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    Meet Hollywood's next big star Tereza Hirsch
    Alex Owumi
    • Dec 14, 2017
    • 3 min

    Meet Hollywood's next big star Tereza Hirsch

    Tereza Hirsch is an award winning Writer, Director, Actress and Production Designer, best known for her political period piece "The Guilt List". She was born in Germany and grew up in the Czech Republic; currently her dreams are starting to come alive as she lives in Los Angeles. With her passion for writing and filmmaking, Tereza focused her career and educational background around this aspect. Before we get into knowing more about Tereza, take a look at the trailer for he
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    Meet Actor/Producer Matthew Bellows
    Alex Owumi
    • Nov 30, 2017
    • 4 min

    Meet Actor/Producer Matthew Bellows

    In this installment of the Movie Talk blog I shed some light on actor and producer Matthew Bellows. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Matthew is a professional actor and performer of the Stage and Screen. Matthew Holds a Masters of Fine Arts in acting from the Prestigious Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate acting program. Matthew currently plays a character named Jax on the tv series Extinct. Extinct just finished its first season and I got a chance to catch up wi
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    Meet Cam Mcharg
    Alex Owumi
    • Nov 23, 2017
    • 7 min

    Meet Cam Mcharg

    Cameron McHarg grew up in the rainy, blue-collar suburbs of the Pacific Northwest. After a brief stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, he went on
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