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John Furniss Can’t See, But That Doesn’t Stop His Passionate Pursuit of Art and Purpose as The Blind Woodsman

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I had to learn how to be blind,” he says. It wasn’t until 2005, when he was doing a vocational rehab program for the blind in Salt Lake City, that John discovered fine woodworking could be an option. The Blind Woodsman store: Furniss Studios Today, the couple work together to run The Blind Woodsman website and social media accounts. “We

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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Jordan had a social media presence prior to the pandemic, having joined Instagram in September 2018. Further spurred by her own history of severe childhood asthma and allergies, and after learning many baby products contain harmful chemicals, she decided to build a clean and natural products brand. The lesson here?

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How to Build a Foundation of Self-Love with Celebrity Makeup Artist Mally Roncal

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Except, as I would soon learn, you can. Coupled with 24/7 access to filtered highlight reels on social media, the urge to compare yourself to others can be all but consuming. She founded her own company, Mally Beauty, in 2005 and wrote a book titled Love, Lashes and Lipstick: My Secrets for a Gorgeous, Happy Life in 2014.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

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What you’ll learn Discover the fascinating evolution and history of coworking spaces – uncover how this innovative concept has transformed the way professionals work and collaborate. But the official start of the coworking as a movement was in 2005 in San Francisco. And that day was actually kind of interesting.

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Life Missions with LifeHack

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In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. Even before the arrival of social media, we were distracted and pulled in a thousand different directions each day.

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How to survive customer service blunders in the world of social media

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I heard the term “social vampire” in 2005 when it referred to a person who more or less attached them self to someone and piled on attention until they felt that the person they were endowing with excessive flattery liked them in return. photo by: MingleMediaTVNetwork.

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Q&A for Productivityist

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In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. Even before the arrival of social media, we were distracted and pulled in a thousand different directions each day.

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