NIKIVA DIONNE

I'm checking this one off of my vision board guys!!   Issa Rae Productions presents A buddy stoner comedy starring Brittany Perry Russell and NIKIVA DIONNE! Issa Rae and Deniese Davis are premiering THREE PILOTS at Urban World film festival starting this week and I'm honored and BLESSED to be apart of one of them.  Check out the Official Trailer for 'So Jaded' below! I'll save all of my mushy commentary and all of my appreciation for when I can blog the actual full episode a little later this month. In the mean time, I hope you guys enjoy the trailer, comment, share, RT, Re-post, get everyone you know to watch it and let's start the SO JADED convo!! BTS interrogation scene Cast Premiere for So Jaded w/ co stars Not many people get excited about using NEW TALENT in their projects. Everyone has to start somewhere and I will NEVER forget Issa Rae, Deniese Davis, Syreeta Singleton & Daven Baptiste for  being apart...

Hey Guys,  Check out my latest commercial to start airing!  This spot was shot just shy of a year ago and I just got my hands on it. It's only airing in states where Bright House services (southern states) let me know if you catch it on the air.  I remember every aspect of this job from each audition to the moment I wrapped. It cast from one of my favorite commercial casting offices and EVERYONE from the ad agency was stellar. One of the Execs even ran to catch me as I filled out paper work to see if I wanted to keep my wardrobe.  Really pleased with this spot. I learned so much from this shoot.  Humbled and truly Blessed to have the opportunity. This is another one of God's little reminders along this journey to keep me steadfast and unwavering.  "Don't allow the visuals to override the vision" Thanks for reading friends! Kiva

I'm laughing because the title is undoubtedly your first reaction each time, lol. To any of my readers who are not in the entertainment business here is a quick crash course. You are placed on Avails by your Agent. They call and check your availability dates for a project you've previously auditioned for. It's like after your second interview, they give you the courtesy call to say you're still being considered and they have narrowed their candidates down to maybe you and one or two other people. Now here is the thing, I went the first two years of my career thinking if I'm placed on avails, I'm booking this job. Until one day I started getting RELEASED from AVAILS. Now the first 3 times I was released happened within 2 weeks of each other and had me balled up in a fetal position lol. Well, I was just released again. I'm not going to type it in caps anymore, I won't give it that much power,lol. Instead I'll say, it's apart of this busine...

Hey guys, It's been awhile since I've shared a great photo shoot experience with you guys. So here goes! I needed head shots, again! lol it's never ending! My Print Agent sent me a photog referral w/ an amazing deal.  I met with my other agents and we all agreed I should knock out these two mandatory looks so I did, with  Photog TRAVIS TANNER   Photog Info: Very professional communication prior to shoot, thorough and time efficient. When I arrived he sat w/ me and went over my agent notes, the looks & what I favored that he has done in the past. Next thing I know, the shoot was over! lol I think it was a little over an hour for two looks, I received the link of images within a couple days and my agents loved the new shots. I did however decide to use a favorite photographer of mine to do the editing. If you look at majority of my other shots, I'm not a fan of the 'perfect people' looking head shots. It's just too much pressure walkin...

We all remember and have mocked that line from the 90’s Sprite commercial. I used wiki how for the term ‘Self Motivated’ and I found the most amazing step by step HOW TO BE SELF MOTIVATED TOOLS. As I skimmed each tool I was able to recognize   a few things. 1.      How valuable the information is 2.      That I personally am not the consumer, as I tend to be a consistently self motivated person 3.      How little value I personally put on things that come naturally to me 4.      How people become successful through maximizing their strengths to aid the opportunities of others. Perspective: Self help books are the world’s best selling genre. You ever had someone close to you tell you, how great a book is and how you must read it. Then when you sit to read it your thinking ‘Uhm , this is pretty practical’. Your closeness to someone has little to do w/ whether or not ...

If you know me, you know I’m a really big vision boarder. I update my vision board all year as I achieve the goals. Well this past couple weeks I kept getting agitated because I realized I wasn’t accomplishing the goals on my vision board. So much so that several times per day I was stopping & saying ‘NO what can I be doing to accomplish this stuff’. Well you know the bible verse that says   2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:2-3 Well I had the ‘write the vision’ part down but I clearly had set my own ‘time’ on it. You see at the end of each year If I hadn’t achieved something and I trust that it was God’s vision I'd simply carry it over to the next year vision board. Sometimes things fall off. Ot...

The past few weeks I’ve been obsessed w/ the song SMILE by Tasha Cobbs but it wasn’t until this moment that I realized why God has placed this song in my spirit. In living and simply speaking to others about life & relationship I realize how threatened we are by the potential of being hurt. At the first sign of ‘potential hurt’ we go into ‘protect me’ mode. You know God just cant trust us w/ too much information because we assume the responsibility of protecting what HE gave us. So we FIGHT! We fight in relationship because we want to hold on, We fight in our careers because success isn’t an option it’s His promise. I’m laughing as I’m typing because I can’t believe how much HE set me free in this moment. I want my career to succeed. God you called me to do this, so I can’t NOT succeed. SO I FIGHT. I want my relationship to succeed, God you told me this was my helpmate, so when an old proclivity threatens it, or when he makes a selfish decision, or when I feel...