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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. His estimated earnings in 2017 were $33 million.) That’s usually a record label expense. As that following grew, so did Chance’s fame.

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The Secret to Smart Negotiations Is Simply Empathy

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So, Dennett explains, we set up a situation where learning is equivalent to losing. When we’re stuck in bargaining mode, we’re always calculating costs and benefits in the short term. Something that’s cheap for you might be expensive for them, and vice versa. This article was published in May 2017 and has been updated.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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The SUCCESS Interview: Puneet Nanda on Disrupting Industries and Making Wellness Products Accessible for All

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We sat down with Nanda to learn how he identifies fields that are ripe for disruption and continues innovating with empathy. I started learning yoga, meditating and kind of improving on my own personal health and goals. in 2017. … This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. 1 aromatherapy brand in the U.S.

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10 Obstacles Every Startup Must Overcome to Be Successful

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Failure is so common, in fact, that many entrepreneurs have taken to penning failure post-mortems to determine where things went wrong, in the hopes that others will learn from their mistakes. If you want to avoid being made into sushi, you need to learn to thrive when facing direct or indirect competition.

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Choosing Administrative Training That’s Right for You

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As 2016 comes to an end, I hope you are working on your goals for your 2017 development. The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. What are the learning objectives of the webinar?