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

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And the magazine is making that even more official with its new Emerging Entrepreneurs awards , which will shine a light on the next wave of entrepreneurs and recognize the achievements of up-and-comers. “We In our society, we’re taught so often to never quit and never give up. Those are things you can never learn in a book.

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

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And the powerful questions she learned to ask, as well as the tools she developed because of them, would provide a framework for the advocacy and education she would do outside her music. Watching them show up for themselves,” she says, “watching them show up for their own lives, is constantly awe-inspiring.”

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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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Robbins recalls growing up with nothing and scraping pennies together to buy his first suit. “My A UPS employee who never earned more than $14,000 in a year, Johnson was eventually worth a staggering $70 million. He’s not afraid to be honest and stresses that it’s the only way to push through setbacks and learn from your mistakes.

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Rockbridge Guitars’ Co-founder Makes Instruments for A-List Musicians—And Kids, Too

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At the same time, Calhoun was learning woodworking, and in high school, as an independent study, he chose mandolin building. I was finishing these mandolins, but I didn’t really play mandolin,” says Calhoun, who grew up playing rock ‘n’ roll and later bluegrass music. Then, in 2002, it actually happened. “He

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired. That led to an investigation in 2002 as to whether some environmental factor played a role. They have learned not to count on everything being the same and to react to subtle changes. I just rested.

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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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. They couldn’t see the potential. “It

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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. After three years working with Jeff, on projects ranging from hiring helicopters, to writing TED talks, to helping with massive product launches, she took the lessons she’d learned at Amazon to a Ph.D.

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