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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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If there’s one thing no one can take from you, it is your education and experience. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. Look how popular Mexican food, Asian food, Italian food restaurants are. My goal is to build a national chain,” Morales says.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Formula information and testing data are transparent and accessible, and its scientific board includes researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project. The company passes along information about programs and resources, eliminating barriers to the knowledge vacation rental owners need.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts. The lesson here?

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How To Design Impactful Offices? Prioritize ESG Goals

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Over the past two years, we’ve worked with more than 30 manufacturers to ensure their websites and product catalogs have the information required to help designers make informed decisions. Tracking the sustainability and wellness of building materials is impossible without input from vendors.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

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Upon being told the restaurant didn’t offer such a meal, she explained that her husband was in stage four cancer and had lost his appetite—except that he now craved a meatball sandwich. But after watching the video, they [asked] for more information and often [changed] their minds.”.

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7 Classy Ways to Handle Employee Resignations

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In the age of social media, employees quitting may also cause concern regarding how much company information, or misinformation, might be spread as a result of a disgruntled exiting employee. Therefore, we do use that as a motivating factor if teachers are looking for work in other environments such as retail, warehouse, restaurants, etc.,”

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Through her work, Arrington is breaking cycles of incarceration and creating pathways to college education and careers for historically underserved communities. She’s also involved in educating the next generation of women entering the medical field through her role as the CEO and founder of Women STEM Mentorship. Marie Feagins, Ed.D.

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