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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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A viral start for Katie Blomquist In the fall of 2016, when Katie Blomquist worked as a first-grade teacher at a Title I school in South Carolina, a boy in her class asked her for a bike for his birthday. We tend to think about our other basic needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter and medical support.

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The New Secrets of Perfect Sleep

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared sleep deprivation a public health epidemic in 2014, noting that “about 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems.” We need to prioritize sleep as a health imperative,” says Mark Brown, M.D., This article was published in April 2016 and has been updated.

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Millennials Driving Pet Humanization Trend

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The data comes from Mintel's 2016 report on America's Pet Owners. Owners believe emotional health is important, but struggle to understand pet’s needs.   “The clothing is, for them, an opportunity for performance — they put it on their dog or cat, take them for a walk, post a picture on Facebook,” Richter said. “It’s

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. Practicality is kind of her thing.

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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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