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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. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget.

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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. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget.

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How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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What I mean is that, with their limited budgets, many startups can’t afford traditional advertising, so they devised a smart, inexpensive way to market their services and find customers: growth hacking. Write a guest blog post for a big audience. This article was published in October 2019 and has been updated.

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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. With an estimated $108 billion annual budget across California schools, Davenport’s work as a steward for public education is significant. Phillips’ passion is inspiring, transforming and growing leaders.

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“EAs Need Better Press.” Agreed. Solving the EA PR Problem Once and For All

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Ask for an annual training budget and make your case for why a particular training program is useful for your role. In May, 2019, her work was profiled in a Forbes (online) cover story. Celebrate the achievements of your peers publicly and privately. Participate in awards in your company and your community. We can rewrite our story.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). Luvvie Ajayi. Writer, speaker, podcast host. Elayna Fernandez.

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