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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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—her mother Laura Hendricks, cancer survivor and nonprofit co-founder of Luminaries Photo courtesy of Laura Hendricks Hendricks survived acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer. She made a case for girls’ education and off-grid architecture and was selected as the winner in the sustainability category.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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Hotelier and author Orison Swett Marden sat in a small bedroom on Bowdoin Street in Boston churning out the very first issue of SUCCESS Magazine. From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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After earning a degree in computer science, she worked in industries as wide-ranging as education, patent and trade, workforce development, and vacuum cleaner sales. It came in the form of a T-shirt line which got off on the completely wrong foot but led to her first major success. “It Instead she started to look for her next venture.

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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

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Even though this finally gave them a stable home, different forms of abuse persisted. All the while, despite her circumstances, Shante stayed focused on her education and work. This article originally appeared in the November/December 2021 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. She moved in with him, only to experience domestic violence.

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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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Without the creative motivation he received from his Brookwood teachers, he never would have attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he encountered even more inspiration from a simple source—this time in the form of a photograph he found in one of his design textbooks. Photo courtesy of Samara.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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In honor of the 125th anniversary of SUCCESS , we’re extending the spotlight beyond the household names to the everyday leaders who reflect the true value of our magazine: impacting others in a positive way. The University of Attitude, founded by Glenn Bill, is the world’s #1 source for attitude education, development and engagement.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it. Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes.

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