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When Nature Calls, Boston Harbor Now CEO Kathy Abbott Answers

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Created in 2016, Boston Harbor Now is a merger of two nonprofit organizations—Boston Harbor Island Alliance and Boston Harbor Association. She heeded the DPW director’s advice and got a job managing the playground at the Falmouth Recreation Department. A line under her yearbook photo underscored her life goal: to “save a tree.”

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Jamie Fiore Higgins on Workplace Toxicity, Gender Discrimination and Why She Left Wall Street

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Jamie Fiore Higgins worked on Wall Street for nearly 20 years—from 1998 to 2016—and by the end of her career, she’d amassed a small fortune. By 2016, she was making 40 times more than her house cleaner and 10 times more than her doctor. I want my four kids to have their own sense of agency. You are the CEO of your own career.

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Robin Doenicke

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Robin Doenicke , an Australian entrepreneur, coach and martial arts expert co-founded Zensho Agency Inc., After working for four years as an account manager at advertising giant DDB, he moved to Japan in 1996 as a trainee to Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu grandmaster, Dr Masaaki Hatsumi, ultimately earning the top rank of Dai Shihan in martial arts.

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Ep 242: Nicki Cave on Managing a Team of Assistants and Finding Happiness in Your Work

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In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Nicki talks about managing a team of assistants, creating a career development plan, cultivating a team culture, and finding happiness in your role. And then when I was at Morrison, Knutson, I had a placement agency call me in there, like, there’s probably after two years, I was there.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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LaToya Christian Managing Partner and Executive Director of Inclusive Strategy & Innovation, GroupM Christian is the executive director of inclusive strategy and innovation at GroupM in New York City. She started as a social worker who could barely pay her student loans, then became a coach as a side hustle. She is also a Ph.D.

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Case Study: Recruit CRM Is Helping A Legal Recruitment Agency Hire Talent Seamlessly

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Along with her long-term portfolio management skills and her expertise in recruiting legal and compliance professionals across verticals, she has been driving her company towards new heights every single day. Read more: How can you use Recruit CRM as a client management tool?

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. She started everything from scratch.

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