This Month in Heart and Soul
Sensation Jill Scott Discusses Life on the Doorstep of Motherhood; 150
Tips, Lessons and Insights on Living a Healthier Life While Creating an
Eco-friendly World; a Look at Pain and Treatment; Finding Work Abroad
and a View into the Obama Health Plan
Baltimore, MD - Heart & Soul
magazine, the nation’s leading source of health and fitness information
for African-American women, goes “green” with an April/May issue
brimming with information designed to help readers lead a happier,
healthier and more environmentally friendly life. From recycling, to
conserving energy to identifying businesses with a commitment to a
greener world, Heart & Soul’s spring issue offers 150 tips to enhance mind, body and ecology.
Also,
singer, actress and cover girl Jill Scott discusses her life’s latest
challenges, including shooting the second season of her HBO series in
the Motherland, finding a new love and preparing for her greatest role
yet-motherhood.
Other features highlighted in the current book focus on such vital topics as getting
a grip on pain and treatment; a daughter’s take on coping with her
mother’s Alzheimer’s; how to land that dream job abroad; the real deal
on controlling cholesterol and a timely, up-to-date look at President Obama’s health care plan. Heart & Soul also
continues celebrating its 15th anniversary with the next in a series of
top 15 lists, this time giving nods to the nation’s most eco-friendly
companies.
Now on newsstands, the April/May issue also
provides a hefty serving of expert-driven insight on health, fitness,
nutrition, fiscal management and overall positive living, further
underscoring Heart & Soul’s role as the “healthy, wealthy and wise” choice for black women.
“We
all need to be conscious of the effect we’re having on the environment
so we can leave a better planet for our children,” says Heart & Soul’s
Executive Editor Kendra Lee. “That’s why it was so important to us that
we provide actionable tips for our readers to go green in their
personal lives. And as always, we’ve packed this issue full of the
kinds of stories people have come to expect: ones that help women find
the health and wellness information vital to living their best lives
ever!”
Heart & Soul’s Eco-Savvy Sister Features:
“The Green Road - 4 Steps to a Sustainable Lifestyle” by M.C. Tapera
(p. 36). Working to preserve the planet is a process that begins and
ends with personal responsibility. This piece takes readers through
four basic steps geared to help them review their own behavior and make
better, more eco-friendly choices in their day-to-day lives.
“Easy Green Wedding - 8 Ways to Have Eco-conscious Nuptials” by Claire Sulmers
(p. 38). Getting married should be one of life’s most memorable
experiences. And it can be even better when plans are made with an eye
on environmentally helpful practices. Writer Claire Sulmers reviews
eight simple ways to ensure that the lucky couple’s life gets off to a
great, green start.
“Top 15 Green Businesses” by Debora L. Shelton (p. 40). In honor of its 15th anniversary, Heart & Soul
continues its series of top 15 lists by enumerating the nation’s
leading green businesses. With Whole Foods anchoring the top of the
list, there are some easy calls, but be prepared for a few surprises.
“15 Ways to Go Green While You Go Lean” by Nichele Hoskins
(p. 42). Staying fit and trim is the foundation of a healthy, strong
personal life. But incorporating green practices into your workout
ensures that your exercising helps others as well. Trading plastic for
reusable water bottles, picking up trash on your next power walk or
washing your workout gear in cold water are but a few of the ways to go
green and lean.
Other Features in the Current Issue Include:
“The Golden Life of Jill Scott” by Sherri McGee McCovey
(p. 34). We’ve been on our long walk with Jill Scott for just shy of a
decade now, and the journey only gets better and better. Writer Sherri
McGee McCovey shares the multi-talented performer’s latest joys,
including her hit HBO series, connecting with a new love and the thrill
of preparing for the birth of her first child.
“Feel No Pain” by Tamara Y. Jefferies
(p. 44). Few things in life confound and confront so many people as
does pain. And while universally experienced, it is not nearly as
widely understood, even by the experts. “Feel No Pain” looks at the
issue from a number of angles and encourages readers to try a variety
of approaches to bring their pain to an end.
“For Mom” by Renee D. Turner
(p. 46). With Mother’s Day around the corner, Renee D. Turner shares a
timely and intimate view into her journey handling her mother’s descent
in Alzheimer’s disease. She shows, through personal example, that
while the illness is devastating, you can still find love, some joy and
lots of understanding on the other side.
“Far From Home” by Afi Scruggs
(p. 48). With the U.S. economy taking it on the chin almost daily, a
viable option may be to look for employment overseas. This piece looks
at four spot-on steps to help prepare you to a land a career abroad.
“Cholesterol Tool Kit” by Kennedy Spencer
(p. 50). Bad cholesterol. Good cholesterol. LDL. HDL. How much of
each do you have? For African-American women (and anyone else for that
matter), understanding the role this waxy, fat-like substance plays in
the body’s ability to function properly-as well as lower the risk of
heart disease-can be life saving. Writer Kennedy Spencer breaks down
the ins and outs of cholesterol, including whether or not medication is
the best way for you.
“Will the Obama Plan Be a Better Deal?” by Sheree Crute
(p. 52). Quality, affordable health care remains one of the black
community’s most daunting challenges. For African-American woman
between the ages of 19 and 55, finding a plan is not only harder than
it is for men, it is also more expensive and often not comprehensive.
President Obama made this issue a campaign cornerstone and has set out
to make good on his word. This article details what his plan is all
about and what everyday Americans can and should expect from it.
Other highlights include:
·
Natural Wonders: From antioxidant-rich berries to oils and spices and
beyond, here’s a guide to nature’s own ingredients for a more beautiful
you.
· Soul singer Ledisi shares insights on how she keeps her looks as silky smooth as her Grammy-nominated voice.
·
Stick and Move: Boxer Yolanda Ezell takes readers inside the ring with
tips on how to incorporate boxing techniques into a championship
workout.
· BJ Reed discusses how a commitment to fitness helped her cope with a difficult breakup, as well as eliminate joint pain.
· Singer-songwriter Maiysha details how she’s developed a successful, nurturing relationship-with food.
· Living Green! Nine simple, green-friendly tips to observe in your home every day.
· Writer Jessie States goes green in the fullest sense with an eco-conscious journey to the forests of Brazil.
· Beware of Your Plate: Know what allergies lurk in your food before it’s too late.
For additional information or to set up an interview with anyone at Heart & Soul, please email Chris@OneDG.com, or call 213/840-8740.
Next in Heart & Soul Magazine
In the February -March 2009 issue of Heart & Soul
You’ll love the love stories in our February/March issue. We’ve got
love-at-first-sight love, love-the-second-time-around love, love across
the ages, love on the job and even presidential love. Also learn the
moves to the best total-body workout and the steps to take to protect
your identity. Find out common myths about depression and the good news
about heart disease. Get back on track financially and getaway to a
romantic inn…all in the February/March issue of Heart & Soul, on
newsstands now!
Heart & Soul Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Heart & Soul magazine is celebrating its 15th anniversary! As a gift to our readers, you can sign up for a 2-year subscription for $15. See how you can take part in this on-going celebration of health, wealth and wellness!!
a.) Get your very own subscription!
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Go to www.heartandsoul.com and enter this special promotions code: HS15. Happy reading!!!
Writers Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in writing for HEART & SOUL, the total life empowerment magazine for today’s African-American woman.
We feature articles that help our readers live a healthy, wealthy and wise lifestyle. We look for articles on health and fitness, wealth building and knowledge and wisdom building.
Word length is given upon assignment. Please send a query letter rather than submitting a completed manuscript, and understand that we will contact you if your query is selected. If we think your subject is of interest to our readers but you are a writer new to HEART & SOUL, you may be asked to submit the completed manuscript on speculation. Payment will be made if the article is accepted.
Give us a clear outline of your story; one page is sufficient. It would also help to include a brief biography that describes your writing experience, and some clips. If you would like to submit more than one idea, write a separate query for each topic. Check our masthead in the current issue for the names of the appropriate editors. All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced. (We suggest that you keep a copy of your original manuscript.) We cannot be responsible for unsolicited material. Be sure to include your name, address and daytime phone number, and include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Allow six to eight weeks for review.
Our address:
Heart & Soul Enterprises, LLC
2514 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore , MD 21218
Attn: Editorial Dept.
Send queries to:editor@heartandsoul.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
Online Social Networking Internship
Heart and Soul Magazine is the pre-eminent health and fitness magazine for today’s African-American woman. The publication has a bi-monthly circulation of 300,000 and a readership of more than 1.5 million. As part of our growth initiatives, we seek to increase our presence online, so that we may expand our current readership base.
Heart and Soul Magazine seeks talented college students to participate in our Fall 2008 Internship Program as an Online Social Network Intern. Our Fall 2008 Internship Program begins on September 10, 2008 and continues through December 7, 2008.
Responsibilities
Managing our social network profiles on Facebook and MySpace
Building friends lists and interacting with users on various social networks
Creating and disseminating e-newsletters and e-promotional blasts
Developing podcasting
Acting as the liaison between our brand and the social network communities and
Posting news stories and adding relevant tags to maximize searchability and engage discussion amidst online community.
Qualifications
Interested students are expected to have demonstrated an interest in media, specifically print, Internet and/or magazine publishing, and have a current grade point average of 2.5 or better. Interested students must also be a self starter with strong follow-through ability; heavy Internet user with detailed knowledge of social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and others; excellent communications skills - both written and verbal; good Microsoft Office and Microsoft Vista skills; and be an innovative and creative thinker. In addition, applicants must have excellent spelling, proofreading, and communication skills, be detail oriented, well organized, and possess the ability to take initiative and work independently.
Compensation
This is an unpaid internship requiring 15 - 20 hours of work per week. We will assist those students seeking course credit for this internship.
Application Procedure
Interested students should forward their resumes, cover letters and writing samples. Completed applications should be mailed to:
Riza J. Redd
Assistant to the Publisher
Heart and Soul Magazine
2514 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
rredd@heartandsoul.com
Incomplete applications will not be considered for the internship program. Please visit our website at www.heartandsoul.com. Heart and Soul does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, age or handicap.
Heart and Soul Internships
Publishing Internship
Heart and Soul Magazine is the pre-eminent health and fitness magazine for today’s African-American woman. The publication has a bi-monthly circulation of 300,000 and a readership of more than 1.5 million.
Heart and Soul Magazine seeks talented college students to participate in our Fall 2008 Internship Program. Interns have the opportunity to learn the many different facets of magazine publishing, including production, sales, marketing, public relations, event and database development, accounting and business planning. Our Fall 2008 Internship Program begins on September 10, 2008 and continues through December 7, 2008.
Responsibilities
Assisting with administrative duties
Filling requests for sales and editorial staff
Creating and executing communications and marketing strategies
Researching and coordinating mailings
Arranging PR activities and
Coordinating special events.
Qualifications
Interested students are expected to have demonstrated an interest in media, specifically print and/or magazine publishing, and have a current grade point average of 2.5 or better. The ideal internship candidate must be a team player, able to prioritize a heavy workload, have ability to multi-task, and have a strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Windows Vista. In addition, applicants must have excellent spelling, proofreading, and communication skills, be detail oriented, well organized, and the possess ability to take initiative and work independently.
Compensation
This is an unpaid internship requiring 15 - 20 hours of work per week. We will assist those students seeking course credit for this internship.
Application Procedure
Interested students should forward their resumes, cover letters and writing samples. Completed applications should be mailed to:
Riza J. Redd
Assistant to the Publisher
Heart and Soul Magazine
2514 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
rredd@heartandsoul.com
Incomplete applications will not be considered for the internship program. Please visit our website at www.heartandsoul.com. Heart and Soul does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, age or handicap.
Bio: Edwin V. Avent
Edwin V. Avent,
President/CEO/Publisher
Edwin
V. Avent is the President, CEO and Publisher of Heart & Soul
Magazine the nation’s leading health, fitness and life solutions
magazine targeting African-American Women. In this capacity Mr. Avent
is responsible for all day-to-day activities associated with running
the
magazine including advertising sales,marketing, promotions,
editorial, design, circulation and newsstand sales. A driven, motivated
and visionary entrepreneur, Mr. Avent has over 20 years of experience
in magazine publishing, advertising, marketing and sales. He also has
over 12 years of health related marketing experience.
Immediately
prior to acquiring Heart & Soul, Mr. Avent served as Co-owner,
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Twenty First
Century Group (TFCG), a Baltimore, MD based advertising, public
relations and strategic planning firm. He directed all day-to-day
management, account services and new business development efforts.
Prior
to joining TFCG, Mr. Avent founded and served as President/CEO of U.S.
Prevention Marketing Group (USPMG) producers of the first brand of
condoms targeting African Americans called Umoja Sasa condoms.
Established in 1991, Mr. Avent was the driving force behind USPMG’s
success in launching national HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns and
realizing their health education and prevention marketing mission.
His
magazine publishing career began at Cornell University in 1981 when he
founded and served as publisher and sales manager of Equity Magazine, a
campus based magazine for Cornell’s minority student population. He
followed that experience by helping to launch The Ithaca Times Weekly
Newsmagazine where he served as the Advertising Sales Manager. In 1985
he joined Career Communications Group, Inc., publishers of U.S. Black
Engineer Magazine and Hispanic Engineer Magazine. There he held various
positions of increasing responsibilities including advertising account
executive, marketing director and director of sales and promotions.
Mr.
Avent is an active participant in the Baltimore community; co-founder
and board member of Black Professional Men, Inc.; he has also served on
the board of directors of Associated Black Charities, Inc. He is a
graduate of The Leadership Program and has been recognized by the
Baltimore Business Journal as one of its “40 under 40″ future business
leaders. He holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Policy Analysis and
Management from Cornell University. Mr. Avent is married to his wife,
Tracey, has a son named Austin and they reside in Hanover, Md.
Bio: Yanick Rice Lamb
Yanick Rice Lamb
Editorial Director, Heart & Soul
Award-winning
journalist and author Yanick Rice Lamb returns to the helm of Heart
& Soul as editorial director. Her editorial vision led to the
health and fitness publication becoming one of the largest and most
successful magazines targeted to African Americans.
She experienced similar results as founding editor of BET Weekend ,
helping it become the second-largest publication targeted to African
Americans with a circulation that grew from 800,000 to 1.3 million in
three short years.
Yanick
has kept her fingers on the pulse of young men and women as a lecturer
and News-Editorial Sequence Coordinator in the Department of Journalism
at Howard University in Washington . She has also served as a magazine
publishing consultant, an editor-at-large at Essence and a contributing
editor for Emerge .
Previously,
Yanick worked for The New York Times Company for 10 years, most
recently as a senior editor at Child magazine. At The New York Times,
she worked in various roles, including assistant style editor, deputy
home and living editor, assistant editor of the Connecticut Weekly ,
and metropolitan copy editor. She was also a copy editor at The Atlanta
Constitution and a reporter at The Toledo Blade . Yanick and her staffs
have won numerous editorial and design awards, including a Folio:
Editorial Excellence Award and a McDonald’s Black History Maker of
Today Award in Journalism.
Yanick,
who served twice as president of the New York Association of Black
Journalists, is the co-author of Born to Win: The Authorized Biography
of Althea Gibson . She also wrote the text for The Spirit of African
Design and was a contributor to Health & Healing for
African-Americans, Sisterfriend Soul Journeys and Aunties .
A
graduate of Ohio State University , she will also receive a master’s in
business administration from Howard University during this academic
year. She is married and has one son.
