If You Have to Cry, Stay Inside and Smile for the Camera

Louis Bedigian — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:29:24 +0000

In her famous book, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside, Kelly Cutrone attempts to teach her readers how to be strong in tough situations.

On News Corp.'s (NASDAQ: NWS) new reality show, Does Someone Have to Go?, participants are taught similar lessons -- with tears and heated arguments sprinkled in between.

"It was a lot of drama, it was a lot of crying, but we work better together now," Farren Mataele, CEO of DFX Sports and Fitness, told Benzinga. "Sometimes you have to go through a really hard time with everybody to really pull through as a family and work better together. Everybody's slate got clean of, maybe, all the evil eye looks or calling people names. It's all out in the open now so everybody knows about it, there's no more secretive stuff."

When asked how her employees behaved after the show was taped (DFX appears on Does Someone Have to Go? Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. EDT on Fox), Mataele said that her employees wanted to take a day off.

"It was a really stressful weekend -- a lot of hours, not much sleep," she said. "Come Monday morning, everyone was kind of awkward. They didn't know how to act. That was a given."

It took about a week ...

Jamen Shively's American Dream is to Create the Starbucks of Marijuana

Tim Parker — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:46:33 +0000

It’s the American dream, right?

Start your own company, be your own boss, make millions, and find yourself as the interview of choice on every financial news network. One ex-Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) employee is following his dream - but wait until you hear it!

Cannibis, “mary jane”, magic smoke, cannabis; yes, Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, wants to get into the business of pot. His dream? To become the leading distributor of recreational and medical cannabis worldwide. He wants to be the Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) of marijuana.

He’s currently looking for $10 million in seed money to fund his company, Diego Pellicer, after his hemp-producing great grandfather.

He even has a heavy hitter behind him. At a news conference in Seattle, Shively announced his plans with Vicente Fox next to him. Don’t know the name? He’s the former president of Mexico. He was there ...

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If You Have to Cry, Stay Inside and Smile for the Camera

Jamen Shively's American Dream is to Create the Starbucks of Marijuana