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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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Jordan had a social media presence prior to the pandemic, having joined Instagram in September 2018. In 2008, pregnant actress Jessica Alba was washing new baby clothes with a detergent her mother recommended and broke out in hives. Alba launched The Honest Company at age 29. Leslie Jordan: Repurposing Your Gifts.

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The Evolution of Bertony Faustin, Oregon’s First Black Winemaker

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His voice unfurls the way a cigar does—first with a larger-than-life expansiveness, filling the room and then dissolving into the fibers of your clothes such that the memory of its presence sticks with you long after you leave. It’s not difficult to understand why.

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They’re Back: Boomerang Employees on the Rise for Good or Bad

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For Chad Stripling, director of data science for the interaction innovation team at 84.51° , a data science and analytics firm and media company in Cincinnati, Ohio, four years was long enough to be away from his former employer. He left the company in 2018, then returned in 2022. “I What causes boomerang employees?

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Slim & Husky’s Uses Their Artisan Pizza as a Means for Social Change and Community Empowerment

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Slim & Husky’s origin story Gray recalls the time the friends started their first business together—The Green Truck Moving & Storage Company—in 2010. “We Since 2018, they’ve offered $1,000 PREAM scholarships to S+H employees who are graduating seniors carrying a 2.5 It was, of course, far from it. GPA or higher.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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An e-commerce brand that ships instruments directly to your door, Orangewood Guitars was founded in 2018 by two brothers, Eddie and Sooj Park, based on their childhood love of the guitar after immigrating to the U.S. Courtesy of Orangewood Guitars. Orangewood Guitars. Number of employees: 20 Based in: Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Nuzzie.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation. In 2007 SUCCESS was acquired by VideoPlus (eventually renamed SUCCESS Partners), an educational and marketing tools company based in Dallas.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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You see for yourself new styles of clothing, where young professionals are shopping, which brands are popular in different places. That led to finding a towing company, which collected our battered vehicle and brought it to a shop for repair. and which American exports might be the next big thing somewhere else.

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