Friday, May 16, 2025
8:00 am – 9:15 am Registration
9:15 am – 10:00 am Opening Remarks / Conference Preview
10:15 am – 12:15 pm Secure Your Destiny With a Healthy Meal Plan – The Mediterranean Diet
What you are eating regularly and how you prepare your meals has an effect on your longevity and quality of life and can determine if you will live out your destiny. You can still turn it around and live longer with a better food selection/preparation plan.
– Speaker – Ms. Laura Leigh Birdwell
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch: Fresh Fruit, Turkey-Spinach Wraps Keto Nibbles
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Strategies for Re-Careering, Education Empowerment, and Starting Your Own Business
Investing in oneself to enrich one’s life and to capture your dreams may require the utilization of strategies to obtain more education empowerment methods to reach your destiny. Details about guidance, business counseling and access to resources to obtain your dream job. – Speakers – Mr. George Kimble, Dr. William Crawford and Chief Alan Rodbell/Ret.
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Making The World a Better Place – Through Volunteerism and Non-Profits
Volunteerism is the act of giving one’s time, energies, talents and abilities to a purpose or organization for the benefit of others. Many non-profit organizations are the “safety nets” for many people to help them survive natural catastrophes, war, homelessness, hunger and other life tragedies and events for short term or long-term. Non-profit organizations are investors in the lives of other human beings. Our presenters share the goodwill that they are providing for several communities.
– Speakers – Mr. James Milstead
6:00 pm Conference Session ends for today
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Jazz Performance – Nazim Rashid & New Renaissance with Terry Yahweh
Free only for Conference registrants;
$20 per person for others
Saturday, May 17, 2025
8:00 am – 9:15 am Registration
9:30 am – 10:00 am Opening Remarks / Conference Preview
10:15 am – 12:15 pm Create a Healthy Lifestyle, with Mr. Universe, Yohnnie Shambourger
Yohnnie Shambourger an accomplished bodybuilder, fitness trainer and businessman who conducts training programs and events to educate the public on the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. He has won numerous bodybuilding competitions including the Mr. Universe title. He received a Bachelor of Science and Masters Degree from Howard University, was appointed to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness for the State of Maryland and uses his extensive knowledge and expertise to help others to achieve their fitness goals. Speaker – Mr. Yohnnie Shambourger
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch: Fresh Fruit, Turkey-Spinach Wraps Keto Nibbles
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Becoming Physically Fit At Any Age, with Ernestine Shepherd
Ms. Ernestine Shepherd began her fitness journey at 56 years old and her competitive bodybuilding pursuits at 70 years of age. It was at that time she asked former Mr. Universe, Mr. Yohnnie Shambourger, the “Legend Maker”, to train her. Seven months later, she won her first bodybuilding competition. Today, at 88, she still works giving fitness classes and travels as a motivational speaker. She will share how her food selection and fitness decisions which has kept her forever young. Speaker – Ms. Ernestine Shepherd
4:15 am – 6:00 pm Fortify Your Health By Growing Your Own Food
This session will show you the very easy steps on how to install your own garden at your home, apartment or in a community garden and will ensure that you are planting and harvesting pesticide free, nutritious and delicious fruits and vegetables. This includes the important step of assembling a soil mixture that will that will aid in the germination of vegetable sees and insure that your transplanted plants with flourish and provide you with plants that will provide you with a harvest that will provide you with extreme nourishment for your body. Speaker – Mr. Terry Yahweh
6:00 pm Conference Sessions ends for today
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Free Opera Performance – Dr. Isola Jones & Accompanist, Mr. Riley McKinch
Free only for Conference registrants;
$20 per person for others