In life, acceptance has to be given in order for you to move forward

into your destiny. If you do not accept the things that you cannot change, you

will be stuck in that moment. Allowing certain situations to perpetually happen to

you, is no one’s fault but your own. What lessons have we learned? What golden

nuggets are we going to use from this situation to aide us in the next? If truth is to

be told, we will engage this situation again, especially if we do not accept what has

happened. How do we move forward? From experience, moving forward is taking

the time to reflect on the issue of what happened. Whatever lessons have been

learned, write them down. Pinpoint behaviors in you, the individual or the circum-

stances that point out that this is a perpetual situation. Then, instead of nipping it at

the bud…pull that thing from the root! Pull it from the root so that after it has

healed, it will never sprout up again!

On the other hand, there are situations we cannot accept what has been given!

These are those situations, where we just have to knock the walls down and break

forth. These are those situations where we have heard, “You can’t do that”, “That

doesn’t make sense?” or the best one, “Nobody else is doing that, why are you?”

We come from a people who did not accept any and everything.

They were faced with obstacles some of us could never endure! But, they stood

the test of time and weathered the storm in order for us to be where we are today!

Whatever the naysayers or statistics say, we cannot accept anyone else’s view of

our lives but ourselves. We have to dig deep within and listen to that powerful

voice that speaks. GOD has given us the power to be who HE has called us to be.

So, we should not accept anything else but greatness in our lives!

In this issue of IMPACT Magazine, we are highlighting individuals who do not

accept the status quo! On the Cover Page, we take a look back in time when our

ancestors did not sit back and let the media or the people around them to dictate

their everyday lives…they did what they had to do to make change happen! In

addition, we focus on Trevon Molder! I met Trevon at a “Minding Our Business”

entrepreneur session in which I was the speaker for the evening. He was attentive

and all of the participants had drive and initiative! Read his story on who he is and

how he has gotten started. We also show you, Abayonomi of Abayomi Tools!

This gentleman engineered a tool that test the water pressure! In our “Be Inspired”

section, we highlight Kimberly Harris, Owner/CEO of BCM Federal. Kim wrote

her first grant while entering grad school. After writing and being approved for the

$50,000 grant, Kim found the passion for helping others get approval for grants and

scholarships. Her company, BCM, has a 100% approval rating. IMPACT also

highlights, Yolanda Alexander-Smith who is the Owner of the “Thick is the New

Sexy” group. Thick is the New Sexy is an organization dedicated to promoting the

positives of being a plus-size woman. To learn more about these individuals, con-

tinue to read on through these pages!

No matter the situation, test, or storm, we all have to accept or not accept our situa-

tions! If we stride towards getting the job done, sacrifice and servitude…in the

end, the outcome will be what it supposed to be! It is

up to us to choose to accept to stay in or to move

forward in acceptance to get out!

Be A Blessing To Someone Today!

Tunisha C. Brown Editor-In-Chief

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Hello, my name is Trevon

Molder, founder and C.E.O of

Tick’s Toy & Things. I am 15

years old and in the 9th Grade

at Trenton Central High

School West Campus and am

taking honor courses that will

help me with my career choice

of an engineer. Academically,

I hold a GPA of a 4.2. I am a

member of the TCH debate

team and I volunteer in my

community as well. In the

beginning, my company’s

vision was to sell toys that

kids could build themselves,

like an engineer and then the

customer could play with

them. I found out very quickly

that not many kids I knew

agreed with that idea. So the

vision I hold now comes from

when I was younger and was

in a toy store with my Nana

and I realized how expensive

toys were. I wanted to sell

toys to kids that were inexpen-

sive and still fun.

I have been running my

business successfully since

June 2006 when I was only 11

years old this is when I started

in the Spring Minding Our

Business program. This

program teaches children from

the 5th to 8th grade how to start

and run their own businesses.

I quickly got used to speaking

in front of large crowds,

learned that networking is the

key and many other things that

are keys to good business and

the proper education.

The very first year that I was in the program, at age 11, I was the young-

est student at that time to ever place in the top three places in the Annual

Business Plan Competition and I have remained there all four years of

the program. I have met some very important people and have been in-

vited to many events in Trenton and surrounding areas such as; Randal

Pinkett from The Apprentice who actually came to one of the MOB

Spring Market fairs, John E. Harman, President and C.E.O. of

MTAACC, Trenton’s Mayor Douglas Palmer, Tracey Syphax C.E.O. of

Capital City Contracting, Steven Baker form Giant’s football player, and

MOB Board members and more!. Throughout this time I have been in

several news paper articles, local TV and radio shows and an internet

blog radio show twice! When I met Mrs. A’Drienne Dixon and found out

that she was an entrepreneur of a faith based toy company (Train Up A

Child International) she best role model I could have.

To sponsor or to contact Trevon, Blog: Tickstoys.blogspot.com or

Email: GameheadTre@aol.com/tmolder14@gmail.com

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The Abayomi Tester Body is a

universal pressure testing tool.

Inventor, Abayomi, is 37 years

old African who grew up in

Trenton, New Jersey. The

Abayomi company has been

up and running for two years.

He installed his first electrical and plumb-

ing lines when he was ten years old.

Abayomi made an income from contract-

ing and then made the transition to an in-

ventor. He says he is fortunate to have

been on all sides. It has been five years all

together since his envisioned the dream of

obtaining a patent from the United States

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Although it was not an easy expedition,

Abayomi says it was worth it. He was met

with a lot of resistance from people that

did not want him to unify pressure testers,

but nevertheless he weathered the storm

and came out on top.

Abayomi had to learn a lot of things to

enable him to obtain his patent. He tried

filing for a patent from the United States

Patent and Trademark Office on his own,

but he experienced numerous problems

from the USPTO. He took it with a grain

of salt, because he knew anything worth

having, is worth fighting for, working for

or having patience for.

A long time mentor, Teddy Ganges asked

Abayomi to solve a problem of extremely

low water pressure at one of their rental

properties. He started working diligently in

pursuit of a remedy to solve the issue of

extremely low water pressure. The

pressure testing tools that were on the

market gave him limited capability to find-

ing out the problem. At the current time

there were only two water pressure testing

tools on the market, which were of no help

to him. He knew there had to be a better

way. He needed to find out what was the

water pressure all over the house, at

various locations. That is where he created

the tool called the Abayomi Tester Body

(ATB). The Abayomi Tester Body gave

him the features he lacked in the other two

testers, which were readily assessable,

soldering free and durable. Teddy's advice

to Abayomi was to take the invention

home, so that no one would get the oppor-

tunity to steal his idea. Teddy made sure

that Abayomi contacted the patent office

so he could follow the appropriate chan-

nels to attain a patent. With the aid of

friends, desire and dedication to see the

patent go through, the Abayomi Tester

Body was born.

To find out more information on the tester,

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How to Get Started Have you ever wondered how to get started with begin with adding

raw foods to your everyday lifestyle? Here are some pointers if you

are interested in beginning your raw foods regimen. Remember

that your choices are abundant on this new regimen. You can eat a

lot or a little. It works for everyone! And, I mean everyone! You

can do this a variety of ways. These steps alone will get you eating

about 50% Raw foods and well on your way to superior health.

Here's One Way to Do It Adding Raw foods to your everyday lifestyle:

1. Start your day with 16 oz of pure water and a squeeze of fresh

lemon juice. Then have a powerful, nutrient-packed green juice, or

smoothie made with greens such as kale and fruit such as apples. Begin lunches and dinners with a salad and some fresh homemade

Raw dressing, maybe dress the salad up with avocado or soaked

nuts/seeds. Another option is to have Raw soup as a starter before

your meal.

If you snack, eat fresh fruit or raw vegetable sticks, and/or

drink fresh, powerful nutrient-packed green juices as be-

tween meal snacks instead of other snacks. Drink pure water

between meals.

Reducing or eliminating unhealthy foods from your diet:

1. Start by reducing or eliminating junk food, packaged snacks,

fried foods, caffeine, alcohol, white sugar, and white flour. Here is

the first step: Go through your cabinets and just throw them away.

Don't say, "I'll just eat these but not replace them," actually toss

them out. Ceremoniously, if you like. Your life is about to change.

2. Then reduce or eliminate animal products, especially red meat

and pasteurized dairy products.

Then reduce or eliminate cooked starches, especially wheat.

Another Way to Do It

(This is the way that I found worked best for me.)

Start out by picking just one day a week to eat 100% Raw. You'll see

how easy it is and how amazing you feel that you'll be excited to do

that more than one day a week, maybe two to three days.

After that, you start increasing to one week straight, then two weeks,

then up to a month (leaving a little wiggle room here and there, for

times you just "can't" do it, perhaps due to social situations). Just find

what works for you. The reason this plan worked better for me, as

opposed to the method described above for gradually adding Raw

food into each day's diet, was that I was finding it too hard to give up

the addictive cooked food. I found that, if I had even just a little bit of

cooked food in the course of a day, it was a slippery slope — it made

me want to eat more and more cooked food, despite knowing how

unhealthy it was.

I worked much better for me to completely eliminate all cooked food

for just one day, initially. My ultimate goal was to eat 100% Raw

most of the time, with an occasional cooked meal. To do that, I had to

have days that were solid Raw. I noticed that it was during the 100%

Raw days that I felt the best and I soon became addicted to that high

energy, waking up without headaches, feeling so great that I couldn't

stop smiling. Over time, quickly at that, I became close to 100%

(reserving a couple of percentage points for times when the situation

still required some flexibility).

Finally, whichever way you choose that I just discussed, you'll ulti-

mately (hopefully) start living a predominantly Raw lifestyle that will

knock your socks off. It's important that you learn how to make foods

and meals that replace your current diet and learn how to make Raw

food prep EASY! Saturate yourself with this knowledge — it's a life-

style more than a diet — and it will become second nature. You'll be

SO HAPPY you did! Everything in your life will improve! The

words "fitness" and "health" will take on whole new meanings be-

cause you'll experience them in ALL areas of your life. You'll be

physically fit, emotionally fit, and mentally fit. I promise!