The Chicago Journal

Your Gateway to the Heartbeat of Chicago

Sharon Champagne Terry: A Real-Life Renaissance Woman Empowering Others to Be Phenomenal Writers

Despite her current success as a screenwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, Sharon Champagne Terry has no plans of slowing down as she focuses on a new venture that opens exciting opportunities for aspiring writers. Through her Champagne Books LLC venture, she is opening her doors for business and personal coaching for new authors who are struggling to find their way in the industry. Committed to helping each of her clients develop a winning mindset that will help them focus on their success goals, Champagne Books is expected to be a catalyst for the change the industry needs today. 

Best known for her otherworldly creativity and extraordinary perspective of life and everything that involves it, Sharon Champagne Terry is bound to make a remarkable impact on the lives of authors who will work closely with her through Champagne Books. As a person who has an exceptional passion for life, beauty, and success, she is one who never backs down from a challenge and will surely not allow any of her clients to backslide from their plans. Through her guidance, she aspires to help her clients deliver a message through creativity and inspiration, while building their own success story at the same time. 

Screenwriting is one of Sharon Champagne Terry’s biggest passions in life. Thriving in this area is second nature to her. She recently completed and penned an urban fiction release of the books The Goddess of Lust, Love and Infatuation Part 1, Blissful Lust Part 2, and anthologies Dark Memories and The Crossover. Her impressive gift in writing garnered her two nominations as Author of the Year in the ROC Awards, Top Female Author of 2019, and the Author Academy Awards. 

Among her current projects include writing a TV pilot project title The Goddess, which will air in fall on MJOWN Network on Roku. 

Apart from being a successful author, she is also an executive producer, actress, and model. She recently played the role of Vanessa in a comedy by Unc Trent titled I’ll Drink to That. She also appeared in the film Living the Dream and the web series In Between Jobs. As a published print and runway model under Hass Entertainment, she has appeared in several high-profile fashion shows throughout her colorful career, including The Night of Elegance and The Summit during New York City’s famous Fashion Week. 

Awe-stricken by her phenomenal achievements in life, various media platforms have done interviews of her, hoping to discover her success secrets and inspire others to pursue their dreams as well. Sharon Champagne Terry has been featured on The DJ Gatsby Show, The Beautiful Butterfly radio program, Vibration Radio, Good Deeds Radio, On the Rise Radio, Highly Unique Radio, Face the Reality Radio, The Authors Show, Big Body Broadcasting, The Situation Room, African Online Broadcasting, WXIR 100.9, HOT914, and TPN Live. She has had the opportunity to share her life story to media personalities Seleah Simone and Nikki Rich. 

Sharon Champagne Terry is also a sought-after and powerful motivation speaker and has stood in front of large audiences, encouraging people how to become the best version of themselves and achieve success. 

Being at the top of the film industry, whether as an actress, screenwriter, or producer, is something that she envisions herself doing in the next couple of years. With her heart set on employing creativity in every aspect of her life, she is bound for nothing else but greatness in the future. 

Learn more about Sharon Champagne Terry by visiting this website. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram for updates on her latest projects. 

Doctor Joseph Jacobs Surviving Cancer and Developing the ASTR

Surviving a life-threatening health issue or a terminal illness like cancer to recover and become committed to helping other people overcome their challenges is indeed an act of selflessness. And in the history of mankind, there have not been many people who feel the genuine need to help others like Doctor Joseph Jacobs has done in the last decade. 

Dr. Joseph Jacobs is a cancer survivor who is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Advanced Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner and Instructor who is the inventor of ASTR. He has also received approval for eight patents, and he teaches and educates doctors worldwide. Dr. Jacobs is a cancer survivor who suffered from chronic migraines, headaches, fatigue, and pain before he invented the ASTR specialty. He holds a doctorate of physical therapy degree from Dominican College in New York and a bachelor’s degree concentrated in hotel and restaurant management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

Dr. Jacobs began researching and developing his new specialty to treat patients’ pain more effectively than methods he had learned in the classroom. Between 2011 to 2021, he actively continued to create the maneuvers, tools, and methodologies that ASTR is composed of, and he continues to refine the elements of ASTR through ongoing, consistent research. Advanced Soft Tissue Release (ASTR) has been registered by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

According to him, “After my second cancer treatment, I used to suffer from chronic migraines, pain and fatigue and I could not find relief that what lead me to research and invent ASTR treatment to overcome my disability and I started to implement the same programs on my patients and noticed similar results.” He recalled that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he realized that there was an urgent need for patients to treat their pain at home. So he created self-treatment programs for patients to relieve their pain at home.

Jacobs attributes his motivation to his desire to help millions of people experience the same pain relief he experienced due to his preview disability after his second cancer treatment.

He designed ASTR when he realized that patients used to go to healthcare providers for treatment. “I created a new category to empower patients to work on their muscle and joint pain using medical tools and follow an online program that includes how to use the tools, exercises, posture, ergonomics, nutrition, behavior modification to relieve their pain at home,” he explained.

In five years, he hopes to have successfully impacted millions of people by helping them relieve their pain, such that when they think of home self-treatment, they think about ASTR. “My vision to have ASTR brand as the gold standard approach for home self-treatment. I created this category—it takes time and a lot of intentional marketing to educate clients about a new category.”

Jacobs is committed to telling his story to a broader audience, hoping that they learn that there is an option to work on their pain at home. The programs are easy to follow; usually, it takes 5 minutes for patients to treat themselves at home per body part per day. The programs work so well for active clients that athletes can release scar tissue, fascia restrictions, and decrease inflammation after their sports activities using ASTR tools to improve their performance.

 Learn more about ASTR Institute here or watch Dr. Jacobs’s Tedx talk.