A simple Instagram hashtag search for writers led Alexandra Checa to Aalia Lanuis. After Lanius gifted Checa with a copy of her first novel “Tough Love”, a genuine relationship began to form between two women at vastly different stages in their lives. With over two decades of business and speaking experience, Lanius is at an almost polar opposite stage of life than Checa, a woman just two years removed from the campus of California State University-Long Beach. “You’re always skeptical about people and how they can be superficial, but I was so pleased to see what a deep and amazing person Alexandra is,” raved Lanius. ... - READ MORE

August 20th, 2019, Los Angeles - - Aalia Lanius, founder of Unsugarcoated Media, a nonprofit media organization tailored around encouraging and lifting up resilient leaders who have overcome obstacles and struggles and turned them into triumph and success, is receiving worldwide recognition as her second novel, Jugend, has been awarded the 2019 Gold Medal in Global EBook Awards’ Multicultural Literature Fiction category. ... - READ MORE

July 10th, 2019, Los Angeles - - Unsugarcoated Media, a nonprofit media organization tailored around encouraging and lifting up resilient leaders who have overcome obstacles and struggles and turned them into triumph and success, announced today that Michael Uslan, originator and executive producer of all the modern Batman films to date, will serve as the keynote speaker of EmpowerCon 2019. ... - READ MORE