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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

Success

Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo.

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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Maria Smith worked as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, and now she helps leaders, employees, and organizations understand the science and benefits of goal-setting. Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. After I moved to Edinburgh in 2004, I’ve worked in a series of roles which have all involved executive support at senior level. To never doubt my ability and stay focused on my goals. It is brilliant!

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

Loosely Speaking

I left the corporate world late 1993 and began my homebased secretarial business in March 1994 with the goal of just taking in typing and being home for my 5 daughters. My aunt had recently died and I had a small inheritance that we were going to invest in finding another line of work for my husband (Chef/Restaurant Mgr.). Loose Ends.

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