Red & Black Bios / CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tina Pennington, aka Red
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Red (aka, Tina Pennington) and Black (aka, Mandy Williams)
Red and Black are sisters. Both born in New York, raised in the same house by the same parents – that is where the similarities end.
After getting a degree in Theater Arts from Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Red moved back in with her parents until she married an outgoing Englishman and followed his career around the globe. Her prior “career” had been full time mom, but her husband getting fired was the catalyst which forced her to face reality and take control of her life. Red, who likes to refer to herself as a “mere mortal”, initially thought she was stupid because she was 40+ years old and had managed to avoid learning many important “life lessons,” but she soon realized she had merely been sheltered. Although she considers herself, first and foremost, a “warm and fuzzy” mom, Red is also an author, columnist, public speaker and teacher.
Black, on the other hand, is all business. Black has an Economics degree from Wilkes College (now Wilkes University) in Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in International Finance from New York University and London Business School. She retired from the oil & gas industry by the time she was 40 and when boredom sank in started racing cars – first Porsches, then Ferraris – and along the way raised over $1 million dollars for Make-A-Wish. When her sister’s husband got fired, she turned her sisters “crisis” into a book, a brand and a business venture. Besides being the first woman to race the road course at Indianapolis, Black is an entrepreneur, publisher, author, columnist, public speaker and teacher.
The book Red and Black co-authored, ‘What I Learned About Life When My Husband Got Fired!, was launched by Neiman Marcus, but soon became the basis of a “Personal Finance Life 101” program the sisters developed and taught at KIPP Houston High School, and which has been approved by the (Texas) State Board of Education as a personal financial literacy textbook. However, nothing prepared Red and Black for the most recent “detour” … their book was piloted as a book study program by the chaplain at Stringfellow Unit, a men’s prison in Rosharon, TX (just south of Houston) and is now being introduced at other units throughout the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system.
To learn more about Red & Black, go to www.redandblackbooks.com.
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