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

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The crowd cheered wildly as a giant red heart covered in glitter and gold moved confidently across The Masked Singer stage. Peers can teach one another in a safe environment by our trained guides, and so it’s kind of really picking up this space that exists between meditation and therapy, or along with them. They’ve been studied.

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

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Despite any obstacles students face, since its creation in 2002, the school has enjoyed impressive outcomes, boasting a college readiness score 27% higher than the city’s in 2019. She’s got the organization, planning and confidence of a 40-year-old chief operating officer.”

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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By Dyson’s side since they met at art school was Deirdre, an illustrator and graphic designer by training (she now custom-designs carpets ). Dyson was confident the money would come from selling the company’s own well-engineered products—from the iconic vacuums and bladeless fans to the newer Corrale™ straightener and Hot+Cool purifier.

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Ann Hiatt on What It Takes to Be an Executive Assistant

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In 2002, Ann Hiatt was fresh out of college, starting her first post-university job supporting Jeff Bezos’ at Amazon in Seattle. Amazon was made up of less than 1000 employees in 2002, compared with today’s 1.3 This position, one she would hold for the next three years, would change the trajectory of her whole life.

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5 Tips For Incorporating Exercise Into Your Life

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And I ran the Chicago marathon back in 2002. I think a lot of my self-esteem and self-confidence is due to exercising. Don’t go on a crash diet or train for a marathon right away. With the exception of a few breaks when I was only running, I have been weightlifting consistently since I was 15 years old.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. In his book Learned Optimism , Seligman makes the case that even if we were born a glass-half-empty kind of person, we can train ourselves to see the proverbial glass as half full—or at least, less empty than it was before! Working It Out. Acting the Part. Feeling tired?

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