First time on this love + lifestyle blog? Welcome to the party…

Hello Rockstars!

Every hour is happy hour when you’re loving life.

I’m Abiola Abrams, the Lifestyle Passionista and this lifestyle blog is The Passionista Playbook.

What is this blog about? Passionate Living, of course. This is a movement about living with passion. This is the home of “Kiss & Tell TV,” the web TV docu-talk show that I host a co-produce. I have been keeping it scandalous on my own popular web series since 2008.

So what else can you find here?

This addictive blog features articles, videos, tutorials, diaries and advice about all things passion: love, sex, dating, cooking, entertaining, inspiration and celebrity interviews with a healthy dose of juicy self-love.

So glad that you’ve joined me! I’m the Curator of the Goddess Experience, the Lifestyle Passionista and the Head Bombshell in Charge.

I’m an Expert in PASSION — Author, Love & Lifestyle Journalist and Media Personality for TV, radio and the web — bringing the FUN, SCANDAL & INSPIRATION to covering PASSION. Our themes? This addictive blog and companion video episodes are OBSESSED with love, sex, relationship and dating PLUS lifestyle– fashion orgasms, bombshell food, recipes and cooking, travel lust and celebrity interviews.

Quickie Bio: (As See on TV) In the early ’00s I was an entertainment correspondent for HBO & NBC shows, then my starter marriage crashed & burned (thankfully) I wrote my first novel Dare about sleeping with a broken heart, directed an AVN award-winning feminist erotica film named Afrodite Superstar, hosted a BET Best Short Films show for 2 years. Then VH1 called and I did the “reality” show Tough Love. They branded me “Miss Picky” and everything I learned was the OPPOSITE of the “reality” lesson- YAY! I am STILL picky because we ALL should be selective- men and women. Oh and you can also find my writing in bestselling anthologies like Behind the Bedroom Door and Dirty Words: An Encyclopedia of Sex. PLUS I’m an MTV “MADE” Teen Dating Empowerment Coach.

Spotted: Giving my Lifestyle Passionista opinions in publications from Essence Magazine to The New York Times. One of Paper Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People,” One of Clutch Magazine’s “10 Black Women Teaching Us About Sex.” LA Webfest Award-Winner.

This is not your Mama’s Lifestyle Blog.

This is about daring be imperfectly you in a world that says you should be cookie cutter. The Goddess Lifestyle is about living big and bold and coloring outside of the lines. Messy is more fun.

People will always have opinions about who you should be. As long as the loudest voice is yours, you are on your way. Turn on your mental strobe lights and let the party begin.