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Ron Finley, the Self-Proclaimed Gangsta Gardener, Found Purpose Fighting Food Poverty in South LA

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As a teenager, Finley’s clothes never fit right, and he could not unsee how fashion specifically was not available in shapes and sizes inclusive of people of color. I wanted my clothes to fit so well they’d levitate,” Finley says. Finley hopes with each workshop the children learn a deeper lesson on how to be more humane.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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She leads workshops for working mom groups and is the author of Doing It All: Stop Over-Functioning and Become the Mom and Person You’re Meant to Be. She believes in the “transformative power” of clothing and also in increasing access to plus-size clothes in an otherwise hard-to-find market (especially if it’s vintage).

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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” Sara Rivers Cofield, an archaeological curator at Maryland’s MAC lab, might have you beat.

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How Ice Cream Gave Hap Cameron Purpose & Inspired Him to Open Happy Cones

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“All I had to my name was a pack of my clothes and my bike,” he remembers. “I I was writing Hap Working the World , about my travels, and making a documentary, Bikes for Africa [about helping implement a self-sustainable bike workshop in rural Namibia], and all I had were memories. “The I had no insurance and no plans.

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Leave Your Laptop Behind!

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What a glorious last couple of days we’ve had… I don’t think I’ve ever gotten my summer clothes out in March before. Last week I also ran two workshops … one for my Business Planning Inner Circle clients, and the other was the School for Online Business Success Get More Clients System workshop.

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How Going Off-site Can Improve Meetings and Training Sessions

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The sharing economy has evolved beyond car rides and used clothing and has arrived at the office building – but what does that mean for your training sessions? This article was provided by Spacebase. Spacebase is Europe’s largest online booking-platform for unique meeting rooms and workshop spaces on a global scale.

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Jonathan Price Financial Expert | What Happened to WeWork?

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Jo Meunier [00:03:09] And in one of your recent articles for Allwork Space, you said that the co working sector has been in continuous long term expansion for more than 40 years and it looks set to continue. But I see this extending into other things. A big demand at the moment if we could satisfy would be laboratories.

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