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Giving Back: DKMS Is ‘Deleting’ Blood Cancer, One Donor at a Time

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A 14-year-old Katharina Harf was there in those early days, handing out flyers, appearing on TV shows and doing radio interviews alongside her sister. “It She founded the United States DKMS affiliate alongside her father in 2004, after attending Harvard University and dropping out of Columbia University’s executive program. (“I

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Interview with Kate Smith of Juno VA

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Despite a world pandemic sweeping the world at the time the course started, Kate and the other women in the VA Course all banded together to support each other in learning something new. I have learned the hard way. What types of things have you had to learn to become a VA? What’s the hardest thing about being a VA?

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. But they stay the same, too.

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

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We’d just arrived with the moving trucks at our new home when the first neighbors showed up at the door. I interviewed 300 people to discover the quality of their relationships and here’s what they had to say. What can we learn from this? Call them up and invite them to do something. Can you relate? Relationships matter.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired. But during a September 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Fox told the radio host, “Believe it or not, from a scientific point of view, that’s not significant.” They have learned resiliency ,” Fox says.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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“I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it. I wrote that specifically in my journal, and I just kept looking for when it was going to show up in my life. I’m scared.

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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

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Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria. Maria graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Political Science, won the title of Miss Kentucky and competed in Miss America in 2004.

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