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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , children with disabilities under 3 may receive early intervention services. From ages 3 to 21, children can receive special education services through their local public schools. So, the duo founded nonPareil Institute, a post-secondary training institute, in 2008.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

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Upon being told the restaurant didn’t offer such a meal, she explained that her husband was in stage four cancer and had lost his appetite—except that he now craved a meatball sandwich. When major chains including Walgreens, CVS and Walmart took notice, he signed on with a venture capital firm to expand the company in 2008.

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Book Review: The New Geography of Jobs

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It also means cities with highly educated workforces and innovative companies (think San Francisco, Austin, Boston, New York, etc.)   This thesis is similar to Richard Florida's views, which are covered in his 2008 bestseller Who's Your City. .  This means geography determines economic vitality.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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By any definition he’d reached undeniable success in music by 2008, and he seemed to have a reasonable blueprint to sustain it. You’re going to see restaurants, clothing, new products and more music.”. He doesn’t waste time trying to educate Gen Z followers on his past. Eventually Jay-Z relented. And it was taken away from them.

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

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by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 20, 2008 I always enjoy the opportunity to meet entrepreneurs out in the field, during speaking engagements, trade-shows and other events. But then my business education does not limit me to just ticking boxes on a form (-forgive me for this little side dig, but it had to be done!). — ST.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

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An ethnobotanical garden thriving with native plants and a biodiverse arroyo garden supply produce to the hotel’s restaurants (Botánica, CENTRO Café and KAHAL). Another plan in the pipeline is to further employees’ education by offering courses that develop skills in computer science and HVAC technologies, for example.