By Gregory Burrus | Posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021
As we run around living life, it's so much fun to encounter folks who have endured life's tough and ongoing situations but they seem to come out the other side of their situations with a positive and encouraging mindset. This ongoing interview series is a celebrity spotlight on local folks who live and work creatively helping others in the JerseyNYC area. Below, Gregory Burrus Productions Interviewer Lynette Sheard has a conversation with NJ Resident CC Minton, who is very positive and creatively living life. Listen and enjoy:
Founder of I Love Beautiful Spaces
CC Minton is the Founder of I Love Beautiful Spaces. She is an award-winning lifestyle advocate, celebrity interviewer, and social-impact-exec-turned-real-estate-pro. This former housewife has secured a portfolio of homes and investment properties, recently purchased land in the hot Southwest Dallas market. and is currently renovating an 1889 historic home.
Past President of Stevenson Moses Boxing for Life
While women in charge in the boxing world is rare, that didn’t stop CC. She is the immediate Past President of the Board at Stevenson Moses Boxing for Life which was founded by the 2016 Olympic Silver Boxing Medalist and now Professional Boxer Shakur Stevenson and the Olympic and NJ Hall of Fame Boxing Coach Wali Moses. At Stevenson and Moses Boxing for Life, President CC Minton provided strategic leadership by working with the Board and Management team to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.
NFL Super Bowl Business Partner
From a business perspective, CC the-homebody-turned-entrepreneur secured a New York/New Jersey NFL Super Bowl XLVIII business connection partner contract to serve nutritional food. With very little expertise in this area, she read the contracts, contacted those in the know and figured out what had to be done. Success awaited her efforts, as the team she pulled together provided a complete set of bits and bits services at the 2014 New York, New Jersey Super Bowl Game. Minton was front and center on Super Bowl Sunday at the private VIP tailgate party prior to the game. Read more: West Orange Resident Scores Super Bowl Deal - TAPinto
Celebrity Interviewer
UP Close with CC Minton with Dean Shot at South Mountain International Blues Festival 2017.
CC is also a celebrity interviewer and loves to interact with people. In her journey to rediscover life, she also has an effect on folks so much so that they actually sing songs in her name. If you are creative, then folks get creative with you, and as interviewer at the South Mountain Blues Festival, you see they sang her name and she held a great interview session with the Dean Shot band.
White House Correspondent
CC Minton has been to the White House where she covered Former First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Kids' State Dinner, and is a recipient of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Leadership Award. Along these lines, CC also served on the Board of Governance, Co-Chaired A Spring Affair House Tour & Boutique, and is a former member of the West Orange Board of Education Wellness Council. She participated as a guest panelist at the Jack and Jill of America Childhood Obesity Forum and hosted a Walk and Talk event with the YMCA, which had a positive impact on the community at large. CC is also an author of a well-received book, Daddy’s Greek Potato Pie, about healthy eating.
Health & Lifestyle Advocate for Harlem World Magazine
A while backm CC joined The Harlem World Magazine team which has over 83,000 weekly readers from around the world. Her creativity and expertise were recognized by Harlem World Magazine Founder and CEO Danny Tisdale when he said,
“CC Minton joins the Harlem World magazine as an expert in philanthropy, events, health and wellness. Her deep knowledge and experience bring a high level of skill and professionalism to Harlem World.”
Tisdale adds,
“Like us, CC believes in Harlem World Magazine as an engine of opportunity for Harlemites, in Harlem and the world, and she will serve as a leader and expert on the Harlem World Magazine team.”
Board Member, The Friends of Thomas Edison National Historical Park
As if all that is not enough, CC’s passion for seeing an opportunity to help and jump right in has come alive as recently was selected to be a board member of The Friends of Thomas Edison National Historical Park. This nonprofit helps raise funds to preserve the legacy and artifacts of the Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Since 2007, they have raised over $15 million in educating and preserving the legacy of Thomas Edison and his innovations. Stay tuned for more coming about this exciting organization.
I Love Beautiful Spaces
As you can see, CC began her journey in the kitchen of her home and created a path that led her to one of the most beautiful homes — The White House, which is undoubtedly a very beautiful space.
She continues her mission to empower people to make lifestyle choices using passion, purpose and real estate. She credits her humanitarian efforts and experiences in the community for defining her purpose in the world.
She has a few no-nonsense, very interesting ways of helping folks succeed and grow in life with real estate, such as:
I Love Beautiful Spaces - The beauty of residential real estate investments and how they appreciate over time. The opportunity to create active and passive income. Reflecting your desires, personality, and style.
A Diamond in the Rough - A signature program, designed for women, that provides a blueprint to assist in defining their real estate investment goals by identifying hidden real estate opportunities, funding them, and turning them into a gem that profits.
The Housewarming Gifting Society - A group of philanthropic donors, within the United States, who make it possible for community members who are recovering from housing insecurity to receive household items, furnishings, and design expertise.
You can learn more about the very creative and entrepreneurial CC Minton by visiting her at www.ccminton.com.
About The Author
Gregory Burrus is a supporter of local businesses, community events, jazz, blues musicians and local art exhibitions. On a regular basis, Gregory promotes/documents and writes about art, music, business, and local community events all around our towns of Essex County, North Jersey and New York City. Greg provides support through videography, photography, social media marketing, writing articles, blogging and photo journalism. Gregory is having fun living life while helping others. Learn more at gregoryburrusproductions.com