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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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It has also sparked collaborations with celebrities and popular fashion and lifestyle brands including Alice + Olivia, LoveShackFancy, Dogwood Hill and Draper James, the clothing line founded by Reese Witherspoon. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” How did you look for potential manufacturers?

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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

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If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. T his article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. The pushback was all around.

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The Problem With the ‘New Year, New You’ Mindset

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I Don’t Subscribe to ‘New Year, New You’ Although the holidays are a time of joy and gratitude, we often fill the last days of the year with forward thinking, our faces to the horizon, looking for ways to make the following year even better. This article was published in January 2017 and has been updated.

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Use This Writing Exercise to Uncover Your Ideal Self

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I resisted the urge to uproot myself after 10 months in a new country to take a working holiday visa on the other side of the world. This article was published in June 2017 and has been updated. After that, I recognized when I was motivated by fear of staying in the same place or doing the same thing.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Every single employee, whether you’re an intern, part-time, holiday help or C-level, should have the same level of love and respect and care,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016. Today, her company is valued at over $1 billion, but the culture is still based on what they call “the sister rule.” How you treat people is what you get back.”

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party. The plan was to fly to Miami, rent a car, and drive to Key West. Things weren’t looking good.

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