Dawgelene is a creative lifestyle strategist that loves people, places animals and living a reinvented life. After losing her husband to brain cancer in 2012, she is more focused now than ever before on creating and living the life you love. She has been speaking, mentoring and working to improve the lives of others through her own life experiences of pain and over coming through her written, verbal and photographic motivation for over 20 years. She loves being a professor, blogging, photographic art, rescuing animals and being a voice for positive change. She has published several books; written for several publications and has a blog "Royal Snippets," that focuses on all things related to life, love, grief and living your purpose. She has written and photographed for Rolling Out Magazine, Examiner, Huffington Post, ChicagoNow, Six Brown Chicks, Essence.com, Jet Magazine, OWN Network and many others. Oh...she loves her grand daughter Kennedi and being a military mom! #MilitaryFamily