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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

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My lips are cracked and my mouth is dry. I haven’t sanitized my hands yet, so I can’t remove the face mask I’ve had on for two hours. I let the air inside my mask grow staler as I dig for the wrinkled manila envelope in my purse. “Let’s just do it now,” I say to my husband David. We’re standing in the old stairwell of the hospital parking garage. Paint peels from the walls.

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The Anatomy of a Simple, Beautiful TEDx Talk

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It’s always been my goal to give a TED Talk , so when the opportunity arose at TEDx New Bedford , I took it and used what we did at Motivate Design (that is, user experience) to nail my speech. How to give a TEDx talk Without further ado, these are the hacks I used to design my presentation—the anatomy of a simple, beautiful TEDx Talk: 1. Pick the right stage to give your TEDx talk.

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