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

Success

The crowd cheered wildly as a giant red heart covered in glitter and gold moved confidently across The Masked Singer stage. She decided to focus on shoplifting—one of her most painful behaviors—knowing that if she didn’t, she would likely end up in jail, becoming a statistic instead of a success story.

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

Success

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

Success

Perhaps you’re tired of waiting the 20 seconds or so it takes your shower water to heat up. Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions. You can bounce ideas off each other.”

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Ann Hiatt on What It Takes to Be an Executive Assistant

Go Burrows

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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Navigating the IRS’ Interactive Tax Assistant

BMT Office Administration

So I was confident last weekend as I set about preparing our taxes. Once I got the hang of loading the tax-prep software onto my almost-brand-new Windows 10 laptop and ran through sometimes deliberately vague set-up questions, I discovered several blatant errors. Probably, but I’m not owning up to it yet.

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Is it Possible to be an Outgoing/Extraverted Introvert?

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Shyness is usually related to confidence.   At the time, I thought I had made up the terminology.    I ended up with a balanced score, otherwise known as an E/I or Extroverted Introvert. However, when I started my business back in 2002, I quickly learned that. necessarily the same thing. 

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

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As the legend of Wall Drug’s beginning goes, the first customers had already stopped into the store before Ted returned from putting up those signs. Speculation of another impending recession battered the confidence of small-business owners, as indicated by monthly surveys conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business.