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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

Success

18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. women’s team has been far more successful on the international stage than the men’s team,” according to ESPN.

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

Success

Marble Hill School for International Studies, in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, has a 96% nonwhite and overwhelmingly first-generation-immigrant student body of about 450, speaking more than 35 languages. This article originally appeared in the January/February 2023 Issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

Already an internationally-ranked swimmer in her native South Africa by the age of 14, du Toit seemed to be a rising star in international athletics. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated. ‘Be everything you want to be’. Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring.

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How Two Decades of Film Remakes Have Impacted Creativity in Cinema

Success

Alex Stevens, host of the weekly SUCCESS Movie Rewind podcast, points to Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man as a starting point. In contrast, small and mid-sized, character-driven and international movies with more narrative nuance and less action might play just as well on a small screen.

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The Common Mistakes Futurists Make

Small Business Labs

Key quote: While most of us are in roles where we are focused on exploiting the current business model, nowadays, everyone’s job, regardless of level, is to be somewhat of a futurist who is able to foresee where the business is going and internalize the change by creating and executing their individual plans. And is some ways it is.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

Success

In 2002, Kendra Scott designed her first jewelry collection with just $500 in the spare bedroom of her home. Every single employee, whether you’re an intern, part-time, holiday help or C-level, should have the same level of love and respect and care,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

Success

Nine months after calling off her wedding, she was managing a remote hospital in Darfur, Sudan, that served internally displaced Sudanese refugees. Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. This article originally appeared in the January 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.

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