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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They are what’s known as “liveaboards,” a breed of digital nomad on the water, with Sophie managing their digital brand, Ryan & Sophie Sailing , while Ryan works as a business development consultant. Ellison and Darsy purchased Polar Seal in March 2016, but they didn’t hit the waters full time until June 2018.

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When Nature Calls, Boston Harbor Now CEO Kathy Abbott Answers

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A line under her yearbook photo underscored her life goal: to “save a tree.” 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.

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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Having a plan to exit helps manage risk by reducing exposure to potential downsides if conditions change and is especially important for startups or high-risk investments that face higher levels of uncertainty.” If the goal is to get acquired by a venture capital, intellectual property, personnel and other assets might be more valuable.

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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.

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Real World Advice for Reaching Your Goals [free webinar]

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Are you struggling with reaching your goal? Or are you one of the 16% of assistants who don’t have a goal for themselves at all? We’re here to help you achieve your goals with this real-world advice on goal setting and goal getting with administrative expert, Joan Burge. Life happened. It’s February.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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He eventually began working as the design manager at Restoration Hardware, a position he later lost over a technicality, which wasn’t the last time he’d be fired from a job—far from it. But his goal was never to be a retailer—it was to build his brand and put his name in the same high-end locations as brands that had been there for decades.

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Brian Kennedy and Seth Alvo are Influencer Titans of the New Mountain Biking YouTube Frontier

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Up until 2016, it wouldn’t have taken much for Brian Kennedy to have committed himself to a life of climbing the corporate ladder. He was in his mid-30s, and an achievable path into a management role would’ve been a welcome portal into a comfortable future. He says he “would’ve been a dedicated soldier.”.

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