The Juice: January 2013

Many are called, but few are chosen! I am one of the few who have been chosen to lead and carry out the vision that God has given me. I received a phone call from the Marketing Director at Newton High, Quinita Morrow. The school is located in Covington, GA which is about a 45 minute drive outside of Atlanta going south. She said a student of hers learned about the suicide of a 15 year old girl named Amanda Todd. This young girl took her own life because she couldn't handle or didn't know how to handle being bullied. Quinita asked me to help her coordinate some kind of awareness event about this situation. After the call, I did my homework and after learning more about Amanda Todd, I was so compelled to help. Amanda is one of many cases about young children and teens committing suicide in relation to being bullied. A vision comes from a specific burden you have. Once the burden came over my heart to help, God gave me the vision. He showed me exactly what to do... You the many relationships I have, I started an anti-bullying initiative called "Stop Your Bullying."

About the "Stop Your Bullying" Initiative..

“Stop Your Bullying” is an anti-bullying initiative, a pledge rally campaign, created to raise the awareness of students in schools of the causes and effects of bullying their peers. It shines a light on the severity of teens committing suicide because of physical and cyber bullying. “Stop Your Bullying” partners with high profile community leaders, music business professionals, activists, actors, artists, athletes and entertainers who have a platform that would aide in encouraging students between the ages of 13 to 21 to make a free pledge to stop bullying.

Shout out to my team: Marketing Director of NHS, Quinita Morrow; formerly of Heavy and the Boyz, DJ Eddie F; Executive Editor of Kontrol Magazine, Levar Kemp; Director of SESAC, Peniece Le Gall and our Publicity Coordinator, Simone Slaugher!.. Huge THANK YOU to our sponsors, J.Couture Productions, Kontrol Mag, Kontrol Girl Mag, TrakMeet Initiatives and SESAC!

Our first anti-bullying rally was at Newton High on November 30, 2012! We successfully commanded the attention of 2700 high school students in one gymnasium. There were artist performances from Alix Lapri, Torion, D.Woods and a surprise guest performance from Jacob Latimore. Our guest speakers were a Newton County Sheriff and key note speaker, Sam Collier of "No Losing."

This Friday, January 25, 2013 we are having our second "Stop Your Bullying" anti-bullying rally at Newton High with performances by TK n Cash, Micah Kiyo, Alix Lapri, and Key Swag 3000. Our guest speakers are Peniece Le Gall, Director of SESAC, Minister Micahel Owens of Creflo Dollar's World Changers Church International, and key note certified anti-bullying motivational speaker, Kenneth Perkins. We also have a surprise guest artist that will be announced the day of the event!

To learn more about "Stop Your Bullying," please visit us at www.stopyourbullying.com. You can find all of our social media handles there! TEXT 'STOPYOURBULLYING' TO 84576 TO RECEIVE UPDATES ON WHERE WE'LL BE NEXT!

-J.Couture

#StopYourBullying

Here's a look into my trip to D.C. to partake in the patriotic festivities of the 57th Presidential Inauguration! My weekend was filled with sightseeing, visiting museums, and I hit like one party.. wasn't really in the partying mood, but for the most part I had fun!