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Uncorking the Dream: Founding Ampersand Estates in Australia’s Wine Country

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Carving her niche At 23, Bell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, where she learned about vodka production from her host family, who distilled it from potatoes. After expanding to offices in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand, as well as Cape Town, South Africa, they sold the firm in 2019. It has to be profitable.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4

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A Deep Dive Into the Positive and Negative Impacts of Gossip

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Is 2023 the year you’ve vowed to elevate your workplace etiquette? It’s also the amount of time the typical person spends per day gossiping in a 16-hour day, according to a May 2019 study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Fifty-two minutes equates to about two Emily in Paris episodes.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. She recently won the 2023 Waterfront Award for Science and Technology and was recognized as one of White Page International’s Top 100 Asian Women Power Leaders. Framework is your map to the “bold” life.

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Business finance: The ultimate guide for non-finance people

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In particular, traditional business financing options like bank loans have been declining since 2020 — where they fell 6% from 2019 (43% to 37%, respectively). In fact, ROBS is currently the most popular form of business financing in 2023. Primarily, if your business venture fails, you’ll lose your entire retirement fund/401k.

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