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Orion Brown, Creator of BlackTravelBox®, Is Changing Self-Care for Travelers of Color

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She had miscalculated the extent of the humidity, and her tiny travel bottle of conditioner wasn’t cutting it when it came to taming her tresses. This experience, and many others throughout her life’s travels, made her wonder why finding appropriate beauty and self-care products when traveling as a Black woman was so difficult.

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Athlete Diana Flores Empowers Millions of Young Girls Through Flag Football

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Flores is the captain and quarterback of the Mexico National Flag Football team, and the sport’s global ambassador in partnership with the NFL and the International Federation of American Football. I’m blessed that my career allows me to travel the world, but I’m very close with my family and it’s hard to be away from them.

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Mirela Sula Is On a Mission to Empower Women Through the Global Woman Club

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So, in 2015, she founded the Global Woman Summit, an international conference where women can network and empower each other. We had like 50 countries in one room; grateful to see that diversity and [those] amazing, talented women who traveled around the world to come and be together,” Sula recalls.

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2017 Rural and Small Town Trends (and Webinar)

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Tomorrow Becky McCray  is hosting a webinar of 2017 rural and small town trends.  Travel Motivations Favor Rural. International travelers are starting to make rural regions like the Deep South their first destination in the US, skipping traditional big city visits.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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That didn’t work out, but in August 2017, Pitts left Verizon to become Hamilton’s full-time partner. In 2013, Dickson had placed her first smart machine for a beta test in a concourse of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where it would be highly visible to travelers with sore feet.

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Mothers Need Safe Spaces to Breastfeed at Work, and Employers Need to Lead the Charge

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A 2017 study from the International Journal of Women’s Health reported 3 in 4 mothers don’t believe they make enough milk, which can be hard to do if they don’t have sufficient pumping time.

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These Mobile Flower Trucks Make Their Businesses Bloom

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When fellow VW owner Stephanie Newton, who originally founded Posies Flower Truck in 2017 put the namesake 1968 VW single cab truck up for sale, Frank and her husband pounced. When her best friend, Jess Hein, shared her dream and found their 1967 International Harvester (lovingly named Watsonia), Bloom Bar was born.

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