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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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Founded in February 2020 by Monica Fullerton, who herself is a military spouse, Spouse-ly is based in Las Vegas and supports more than 300 vendors (aka families) selling items ranging from apparel to home decor, gifts, arts and crafts, jewelry and more. And thus in 2014, mumi was formed. Photo courtesy of MOTSI.

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Work Sabbaticals: The Latest Nonprofit Retention Strategy

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In December 2019, after years of requesting a sabbatical, my board of directors approved a 12-week paid sabbatical planned for June 2020, after our legislative session concluded. We pushed the sabbatical back two years so that I could steer the organization through the pandemic and be able to travel safely. I also did a lot of nothing.

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How Happy Are You?

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My father, the star of our family, died at the start of 2019. Before 2019 was out, I’d turn 40, Laura and I would each accept unexpected job offers and a publisher would sign me up for a book deal. I got to make up my own schedule and travel on assignments. We had a few last-minute gifts to buy. Laura was pregnant.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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This sounds like the fantasy version of the e-commerce lifestyle that’s sold in Instagram ads, but it was reality for my wife and me when we lived in Mexico in 2019. You want to be able to take time off when you want, travel, spend more time with family or just sleep more. Sales, discount codes and free gifts. That’s admirable.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Leigh Burgess is a creative strategist who uses her gifts to help others. When Caul isn’t working, she enjoys golfing with her husband, Kevin, spending time at their lake house, traveling to Europe, renovating future Airbnb properties and watching her son play basketball. Leigh Burgess. CEO, founder, creative strategist. Dave Conord.

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

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Eventually, she traveled to visit those who wrote to her. years in 2019. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. The average number of daily business emails sent and received per person just keeps growing — from 50 in 2005 to 92 in 2011 to more than 120 by 2019.

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