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Nobody Likes Dealing with Death—Until They Attend One of Amy Pickard’s Humorous ‘Good To Go!’ Parties

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This includes responsibilities such as cleaning their house and sorting their belongings, making funeral arrangements, settling their finances and closing their estate. In 2014, she created a long list of questions related to when someone dies. She refers to this task as legacy organizing. “I And it’s landing.”

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

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When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I A written business plan is crucial to clarify your plans and your finances, Marshall says.

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Patrice Washington Is Redefining Wealth By Scaling Joy

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“I went in excited and, as I was listening to the opportunity, it didn’t sound like it had anything to do with personal finance education, which is what I really felt led and called to do,” Washington says. In the back of her mind, Washington was also mulling over a call she received just moments before arriving at Harvey’s office.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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LTK is a combination of Venz Box’s companies rewardStyle and LiketoKnowIt, the name of both her website—launched in 2014—and an app launched in 2017. In 2014, as a student pursuing a master’s degree, her class was given an assignment to create a project lasting 100 days. In 2021, the companies combined under the umbrella of LTK.

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A Talented Woman Crafting Careers for Women

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Villa, who is a second-generation Chinese American, has helmed Rare Global since she founded the company in 2014, creating a company that is run by women for women, with a focus on clients from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. So that was the first time I started learning licensing deals, license deals for movies.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). And some organizations are looking to help change that. million workers and generating revenue of $1.9

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Meet Our Finalists Yasmine Arrington Founder, Executive Director, ScholarCHIPS, Inc.

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