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Doing Things You've Never Done Before
by Adra L Young
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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     You'll never know until you try it is a statement that we are all familar with. More Importantly, it truly hits home with me. For the past five years, I had this idea to put on monologue show on was to spread a message to women everywhere about how we should build each other up versus tearing each other down.

In my mind for days and years I could actually see this show taking place, but I was simply too afraid to take the risk. I even had a cover page with the title that remained in micro soft files. In November of 2009, after leaving the Black Women’s Business Network Exchange created by author Tara Michener, I could not take it any longer. I had to give birth to this dream. After sharing the information with literary artist, and my business partner Tracie Christian we agreed to make it happen.

In January of 2010, we auditioned our beautiful cast. Without the help of these Detroit born actresses, Crystal Brock, Mahulie Christmas, LaSonya Jones Lamine, and Juanita Philliphs, Our show titled, “From the Outside Looking In” would have not been possible. On March 27th 2010, not only did Ms. Christian and I pull this event off, the event was sold out.

More importantly, we accomplished our mission at raising revenues to support the Day House Shelter in Detroit, and UNA Young Professional’s association for the Detroit Chapter. Now that the show is over with, I’m asking myself, “Adra what the hell took so long and what were you afraid of?” As of right now, due to the success ratings of the monologue show and still floating on cloud nine from Saturday, I still don’t have the answer.






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