Friday, May 3, 2013

Tionna Smalls Lands MTV Show Based On Her Book!

We all know the feisty Tionna Smalls as the matchmaker who tried to help Chilli find a man on her 2010 reality show What Chilli Wants. Did you girls know that her career started with a self-published book? Of course you didn't. You're welcome. :)
Tionna published her first book titled Girl, Get Your Mind Right! in 2007 which landed her jobs with Gawker and Radar Online as a relationship expert columnist. This helped build buzz and sales for Girl, Get Your Mind Right! and caught the attention of execs at VH1.
Fast forward to today and Miss Smalls has become an official boss chick and mogul. Not only has her publishing company, Talk Dat Ish Books, signed book deals with Neffe Pugh (Keyshia Cole's sister) and Tashera Simmons (DMX's ex-wife) but she has her own jewelry boutique and brand new show on MTV named after the book that started it all.
Girl, Get Your Mind Right the TV show premiers on MTV on May 20th at 6pm. It will be a daily, half hour show that pinpoints women's dating flaws and helps them fix them. Tionna Smalls has made history, too. Her show is the very first show in MTV history to show daily and is produced by and starring a black woman.
I love Tionna Smalls. She is one of the women entrepreneurs I look to as an inspiration. I'm am so happy for her and proud of the big moves she's making. I will be tuned in on the 20th for this one. Will you? Check out the trailer:


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