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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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

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She equips leaders, employees and organizations to clearly define goals and create a roadmap to achieving them, which allows for better alignment with corporate culture, leading to increased productivity and profitability. Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I

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Please Mind Your Manners

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Networking and other live business meetings often take place in local restaurants. Let’s face it: organizers love to schedule these at restaurants who have space and are willing to host meetings at no charge or with no minimum purchase. Get Loosely Speaking Products. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004.

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

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“You had to start with the most important things because you’d inevitably hear a knock in the background, and the production assistant would say, ‘We need you on the set.'” She also was often tasked with booking restaurant reservations, a duty much more nuanced than it sounds.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

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Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. After I moved to Edinburgh in 2004, I’ve worked in a series of roles which have all involved executive support at senior level. It is brilliant!

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Arizona Virtual Assistants Retreat

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Get Loosely Speaking Products. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Event Schedule Friday, August 28 ( Friday events are open only to those who are registered guests at the Embassy Suites Biltmore, site of most of the retreat events ) 3:00 pm Hotel check in time for those staying for the weekend. Loose Ends.

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