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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

Ebert’s prolific online journaling—at times so poignant and poetic you wondered why he spent decades reviewing movies —was called one of the year’s best blogs by Time magazine in 2010. In 2011, at 69 years old and in curious health, Ebert was being heard, a lot, and it was neither a coincidence nor an act of God. Yet, Ebert was happy.

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How Maya Penn Became One of the Most Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs of Gen Z

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At age 11, she appeared in a 2011 Forbes article about grade-school entrepreneurs—the first of many interviews she’d give. In 2011 she also launched a nonprofit, Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet, through which she began donating 10–20% of her Maya’s Ideas profits to charities and environmental organizations. “I

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Interviewing founders while still raising funds, Pitts says, has given the partners “a unique sense of empathy because we know what it’s like to want to do something and not have the money to do it.… In 2011, while living in South Florida, Dickson got the idea for Flat Out of Heels during an event she was attending.

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Trends 2011 Social Shopping Leads the Way

Make or Break Moments

look forward to the each new Entrepreneur Magazine edition when it hits my mail box and this month is no exception. The trends for 2011 have been selected and social shopping comes right after Baby Boomers and Travel. Why would a blog about building customer relationships care about social shopping? It is the word SOCIAL [.].

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AZVAs the Podcast Episode 9: What 2010 tells us about 2011

Loosely Speaking

Interviewee: Jane Bristol , most recently the economic development director with a 21 year tenure in Prescott, Arizona, the 4th best place to retire according to Money Magazine and 64th on Forbes.com’s list of “best small places for business and careers.&#. and features an interview with Jane Bristol. Special Bonus Episode!

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As One Writer Grapples with Her Disability, She Rediscovers Passion, Peace and Contentment

Success

In an interview with NPR, poet Gregory Orr once said: “When I write… I process experience. This article originally appeared in the May/June 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. It meant my parenting looked different and that a lot of the hobbies I’d once enjoyed were no longer accessible to me. Photos courtesy of Angie Ebba.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

Success

On a sunny March day in his hometown of Chicago, Chance the Rapper makes his way to The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center for our interview and his SUCCESS photo shoot. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B. Photos by Nick Onken.

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