get smart!

I love sharing things that inspire me, and I have been incredibly inspired lately by this woman on youtube, Shira. Her channel name is SugarFreeTV, and although she’s listed as a comedian, I found her when I was looking through makeup videos…I actually want to try her afro technique, though that would require me to figure out some sort of wardrobe choices to complement the ‘fro…

Anyways, after watching one video I was so intrigued by her that I had to watch every video on her channel…she’s funny,  randomly bursts into song, and is incredibly intelligent. She often shouts at her viewers to “get smart,” “google it” and I love her turn of phrase about how things “give [her] life.” Which is true, because those things we love truly make us feel alive and connected.

I can’t recall if I have mentioned her in my blogski before, but I felt that she deserved a post all of her own—especially because I have felt so inspired by her latest series where she recommends books that changed her life.

It wasn’t necessarily the book itself that was so inspiring (though I have made an effort to obtain it and read it), but her breakdown of how that book changed her life, and what the gist of the book was about…basically that we eat shit all the time, and think nothing of it because we are conditioned by society to do so. She asks us why certain people deserve fame and happiness and fulfilment more than we do…and she’s right they don’t, but we need to constantly be on guard to remember that we are just as worthy. Such a hard task!

Here is the series, so you can see just how charismatic Shira is, and really, I adore the message in these videos.

So that is a taste of her style of videos, but her other videos are definitely worth checking out, and I hope you do…All of them are really about embracing who you are, empowerment, and of course makeup/fashion/skincare/etc.

I find that even though I am some random white woman in Canada her story really speaks to me about my own path in life, and she’s someone that I think deserves some more love for what she does. I was so bummed that I found out about her losing her whole makeup collection after I had already given the majority of mine away. She so deserved it, and I would have loved to help her out…

So I couldn’t help her out then, but I will help her out in my little way by blogging about her…and possibly, in a way,  help you out by giving you the gift of Shira!