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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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How Jewel became a mental health advocate She reflects on the fact that when she moved out of her house as a 15-year-old, even if she knew how to find a therapist, she wouldn’t have had the money for one. As a result, terms like “ mental health ,” “advocate” and “trauma” were not a part of her lexicon.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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In 2011, at 69 years old and in curious health, Ebert was being heard, a lot, and it was neither a coincidence nor an act of God. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors.

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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Today, more than four decades after he began teaching people how to achieve personal fulfillment and obtain the lives they seek, the towering 64-year-old native Californian is known the world over for his many practical lessons on achieving personal prosperity, health and wealth. The Holy Grail of Investing book title comes from this notion.

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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

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One night, she spent hours after work navigating different websites trying to find a dance class at the right time, and the idea for ClassPass came to her: one membership that could provide access to an array of fitness studios and gyms so people could easily find ways to improve their health through classes that played to their unique interests.

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Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week

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Ann Landers (1918-2002) US columnist, attrib. Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 09, 2010 A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.&# Sponsors Advertise Here?

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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For others, it might be putting the health of the business first. My best friend and neighbor opened a boutique with me in 2002, and for most of the nine years we owned it, it was fabulous. I knew the business’s books and how much she could afford. You cannot make business decisions based on emotion.”.

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Summit at Sea 2011 – The new trend in business is impact

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Xavier Helgesen is a founder of Better World Books. He and two friends were inspired to do something with all the books left behind at college to collect dust or books tossed by libraries. In other words, books bound for landfills. The company has converted more than 53 million books into over $8.6

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