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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 an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted.

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When It Come to Employee Mental Health, These 10 Companies Are Setting the Example

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The Wait Until 8th movement is all about community,” says founder Brooke Shannon in a 2019 interview with Institute for Family Studies. “We Impact In an article on Ringcentral’s blog, Becky Hensley, a RingCentral employee, shared how the company’s open conversations among employees help her feel comfortable to be who she is.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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The co-founder and CEO of SparkToro , who previously co-founded Moz, gives consultants an edge over agencies and full-time employees in a recent blog post. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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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 an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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While there, she started a blog, which grew into a column for the New York Times , and led to long-distance friendships with readers engaged in their own battles with loss, illness and loneliness. years in 2019. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. How did we get there?

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