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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

Success

For others, it might be putting the health of the business first. By then I was insistent that I wanted to run the business alone, and I rented a conference room for a meeting away from our office. 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.

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

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

For those of you who haven’t heard of the Summit Series, allow me to bring you up to speed… What started as a ski trip for nineteen silicon valley entrepreneurs has grown in the past four years to a white house recognized power-conference. During a trip to Argentina, Blake witnessed extreme poverty and health conditions.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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Anyone who has been in therapy at any point during the past century has likely heard that request, now a go-to punch line for an entire industry of mental health. But focusing on why people are miserable—and reliving that misery one 45-minute session at a time—in order to get happy became, well, depressing for many in the mental health field.

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