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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 trillion.”

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How to Forgive

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For example, a 2019 study published in Psychology & Health found that forgiving others aided in achieving better sleep, which, in turn, has the potential to improve health. . In one of his books on the subject, Forgiveness is a Choice , Enright breaks down forgiveness into five steps: Admit you’ve been treated unfairly.

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How to Find Your Money ‘Why’

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In her book Loaded , behavioral economist Sarah Newcomb writes about these values in terms of “needs” and explains that the infamous “latte factor” can in fact be scratching the need for “social connection.” Or, if that’s too much, imagine the speech a colleague might give upon your retirement. Choose your identity.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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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. Now, Akpan makes it a point to ask people if they have a Roth individual retirement account. At one point, she realized it was time to sell the house.

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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. She is the co-owner of PrintMag.com and the author of seven books.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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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. Now, Akpan makes it a point to ask people if they have a Roth individual retirement account. At one point, she realized it was time to sell the house.

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The constant craving to put numbers on working relationships

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In his sardonic 1957 book Parkinson’s Law he sets out advice on what time to arrive at a cocktail party (not aged so well), how to select job applicants, the best age at which to retire, and something he calls injellitance, defined as the disastrous rise to authority of individuals with an unusually high mix of incompetence and jealousy.