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Two Entrepreneurs Share Advice on Leaving a Corporate Role and Becoming Self-Employed

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Communications professional Levinson spent her early career at various companies and agencies. In 2019 she had a child, which changed her perspective. “I During the pandemic, Levinson’s agency went through a restructuring, and her role was eliminated. I hired an accounting firm to handle my books and finances.

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There’s a Reason Your Free Time Is So Draining

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She might even dive into that pile of books she has been wanting to read. According to a 2019 study published in Applied Research in Quality of Life , the benefits of exercise for middle-aged adults differ based not only on type of exercise, but on gender as well. You’ll be glad you did.

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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. Her forthcoming book, which is all about how to apply the framework to your own life, will be distributed by Simon & Schuster in fall 2024. Framework is your map to the “bold” life.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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in 1995 to 27% in 2019.” To date, Harjo has authored nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise , several plays and children’s books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. She also hosts the Pretty Big Deal podcast and published her book A New Model in 2017. The Inspiration.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

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My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. At first, I worried that it was exactly the wrong time to publish a book on the four-day week. Working hours, innovation and the pandemic. Some local governments have implemented a four-day week, or they’re contemplating it.

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Some questions about AI, a world drowning in content and the human centipede of creativity

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You’ll find them on social media and they’ll have written a book about it by May to sit on the shelf alongside the one about hybrid working and The Great Resignation. This is a unique moment in time where we do have agency in how it shapes society” she said. And it goes both ways: the technology shapes us and we shape it.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

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Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into nine languages to date. His book is called The Business Romantic. And as I was trying to form a community around the book after its release, I, I had this intention of hosting the most romantic business conference ever.

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