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Black History Month Interview Series: Kyala Johnson

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Black History Month Interview Series. Kyala also co-leads the Griffith Foods Garden Initiative, where they grow fruit and vegetables to encourage healthy lifestyles for their employees. For the National Black Business Month celebration in August 2020, I had the chance to interview Ms. Let’s get to know Kyala!

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Ep 269: Beth Portesi – Lead Executive Assistant at Fivetran

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Her initial goal was to support a remote lifestyle, a pursuit that rapidly evolved into a remarkable success story. In 2020, Beth founded Next Level VA, a platform born from her desire to mentor aspiring and current executive and virtual assistants.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. The Michael J. Fox Show on NBC represented Fox’s first full-time TV gig since he left Spin City in 2001.

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“Fire and Soul” Podcast Host Michelle Sorro Awakens to Her True Calling

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She has interviewed more than 100 personal development visionaries such as Jack Canfield and Paul Selig to help show her audience how to embark on their own journey of knowing. “I Through The Podcast Accelerator, which has helped launch over 128 podcasts since 2020, she is helping others do the same.

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Leaders: Align Work-Life Promise with Work-Life Reality—Here’s Where to Start

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Start by explaining that you understand the challenges, problems and frustrations as well as the epiphanies and high points that have emerged since 2020. Best of all, those who become hiring managers or take part in interviews will be able to answer questions about culture immediately.

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The Art of Strategic Nothingness

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Total silence can’t be my new lifestyle, of course. I interview people every day, and I spend almost as much time with my laptop as my husband. This article originally appeared in the January/February 2020 issue of SUCCESS magazine. A bigger challenge followed: how to bring zen home. I’m a writer. Plus, I like people.

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