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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

Success

“I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. The woman helped her get a job interview at Sears, and during the interview, they asked Milchtein, “What department do you want to work in?” Milchtein replied that she needed a job.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. I personally identify as all three.”

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Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry

Practically Perfect PA

For all of you that could not attend the Assist Conference this year I wanted to share my presentation with you – Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry. It’s not just me saying this either – in a survey conducted back 2013 in by the Office Team in the States. So out of that survey this session was born.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

Success

In 2013, while building his sales career, a friend of Kelly’s introduced him to podcasting. Kelly started his own podcast, The Sales Evangelist , and interviewed fellow sellers about what worked and what didn’t, essentially “evangelizing” about the topic.

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#130: Alissa Stearman (Executive Business Partner at sweetgreen) and Alexa Gundermann (Executive Business Partner at Tack Advisors)

Go Burrows

Alissa Stearman has over a decade of executive support experience leveraging C-level executives across multiple industries. While at Yammer, she grew with the company from 30 employees to over 500 when Microsoft acquired them in 2013. Each review helps me stay motivated to keep the show going! Either way, I’d love to hear from you!

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Forbes and its Freelance Workforce

Small Business Labs

" Based on our interviews and discussions with freelancers who are contributing to Forbes for free, this description is accurate.   It's becoming common across almost all industries.   Business Models Freelance Independent workers industry structure self-employment' So how do the paid freelancers do?

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The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel

Practically Perfect PA

So, at the beginning of this year I asked a few assistants who I think are fantastic to sit on The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel and… Well… Advise me on areas of the blog, the industry and stuff that they think you guys will like to know. Here is just one such interview with ES Magazine.

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