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Soul Pitt Media staff would like to congratulate Ron Fisher on his 1st Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Vann award tonight for his Johnstown Spotlight Series featured in Soul Pitt Quarterly!!!
Awesome job Ron, we love you!

By Ron Fisher

Most of us start the New Year with some sort of resolution, however, as time passes those resolutions go right out the window. Johnstown native Joe Greenwood is here to remind us that one particular resolution is a must and should absolutely be carried on throughout the year. That vital resolution is the goal for a healthier lifestyle. Joe is a former Greater Johnstown High School standout athlete who has never given up his healthy regime. Greenwood believes that health is wealth and he has made it his mission to help people not only get into shape, but stay in shape as well.  Continue reading →

By Christiana Dillard

“It’s always about being better.”  Darrell Warden, hiring manager for Team Warden & Team Tri-state Group (a part of The Miles Group Insurance Agency) is the embodiment of his own statement. The agency has personnel in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and even Delaware; and their motto, “One Vision,” exemplifies their commitment to “being better.”  And each day Warden personally strives to be the best.

Warden had his beginnings in Rankin, a low-income borough in the Greater Pittsburgh area. However, he refused to allow the town’s bleak environment to bring him down. He attended Full Sail University in Florida and went on to become a music executive at Bad Boy Records with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Warden was at Bad Boy for ten years before moving back to Pittsburgh to work in the mortgage loan department at PNC Bank. When he was laid off from PNC, he found out that some of his old acquaintances were forming their own insurance group, headed by Troy Miles and hopped on board. For his role as a founding member of The Miles Group, Warden became a hiring manager for his own team within the agency and hasn’t looked back since. Continue reading →

By James Boggus

Networking opportunities do not always happen in hotel ballrooms complete with nametags.  As an entrepreneur, you never know when you may meet someone at a restaurant, a ball game, or even at the gym, who may be valuable to you professionally.  When this happens, let it happen.  Always, have your business cards on hand or an electronic equivalent.  Be prepared at all times to build authentic rapport.

Remember, networking is not always a sales pitch.  Here are a few tips on how to build and keep the conversation moving forward.   Continue reading →

By Ron Fisher

The streets of downtown Johnstown were once known as the bustling streets of the city with its many storefronts and steady flow of traffic.

These days, things appear a little differently as you walk through the city’s downtown area, but Dr. George Pueblitz and former Pennsylvania Golden Gloves State Champion Andres Taylor believe that things are about to change in downtown Johnstown.

“We want to bring traffic to the downtown businesses,” Taylor said. “This is going to be a great thing, for not just us, but the entire downtown.” Continue reading →

Hitting the streets later this week, our Soul Pitt Quarterly 2015 winter edition honors Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a symbolic all black and white cover design and special articles to help continue the conversation about race, equality and justice in America.  Along with our feature “3 Women on a Mission for Human Rights, Arts and Technology” and stories on Activist Nazura, Genealogical research, Ma’at Construction Group, commentary on why Black lives matter and more, this is sure to be a collectors’ edition and one to uplift and inspire the entire community!

Our little SOUL Pitt SOULjahs will be hitting the streets passing out the NEW SPQ Summer issue featuring Pittsburgh’s own Tamara Tunie on the cover (yep she’s from Homestead) – be on the look out for these 4 little SOULjahs!

112 full color pages of Pittsburgh Soul, Community Stories, Soulful People, Soulful Places & More!  Thanks for your support and please continue to support our advertisers that support SP — They make it possible for us to do this. 🙂

“We at Soul Pitt Media are proud to present our Spring Edition to our readers and advertisers in the Tri-State Area. This must read edition is packed full of great stories and advertising.  I  dedicate this edition to the memory of my late father Mr. Roosevelt Dawson who taught me that nothing can beat hard work and dedication.”

— Craig Dawson, VP Sales and Marketing | Soul Pitt Media

CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS

Pittsburgh native and Actor Lamman Rucker was in Pittsburgh on March 20th to keynote Duquesne University’s Unity Banquet.  Afterwards, Soul Pitt’s Terina Hicks  put him down with a copy of Soul Pitt Quarterly.

BRRRR…it’s COLD, But Soul Pitt Quarterly’s new Winter 2014 Edition is HOT and full of awesome articles to make you feel
all WARM and fuzzy inside 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Soul Pitt Quarterly (SPQ), Western PA’s only free magazine that features stories and information pertaining to the urban community, is proud to announce its latest issue featuring Grammy-nominated R&B singer and Pittsburgh native Shanice Wilson on the cover.  This fall issue, at 108 full color pages, hits the streets today (Friday, Oct 17th) and is packed full of timely information on health issues as well.  With Highmark as its main sponsor, and other top advertisers such as Gateway Health Plan and Allegheny Health Network, it’s no surprise that the fall edition focuses on various diseases that impact the Black community such as breast cancer, diabetes, and health care provider concerns that are currently in the media.  CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!