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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. But we forget that our social-emotional health is critical to the development of a successful adult.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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Health & Wellness. In February 2016, Graham made history as the first size 14 model to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swim. She’s also an activist and an entrepreneur with her Saysh brand of lifestyle sneakers designed for and by women. Ashley Graham. Supermodel. The Inspiration. Venus and Serena Williams.

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The Importance of Self-Forgiveness

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All it does is deprive you of the ability to learn the valuable lessons your missteps hold for you—lessons you couldn’t have learned otherwise—and to use your cumulative hard-won wisdom to be a greater gift for others. This article was published in July 2016 and has been updated. This is not to say others will forgive what you did.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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The captain didn’t hesitate, despite the small chance she could never fly again if having only one remaining kidney left her too weak to pass stringent pilot health standards. In September 2016, Hampton aimed to wipe out that painful experience by creating the Sit With Us app. There’s really no question.” But she was in luck.

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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). Leigh Burgess is a creative strategist who uses her gifts to help others.

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