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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

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We tend to think about our other basic needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter and medical support. Going Places is growing each year and is projected to have at least two more companies funding entire schools with bikes in 2024. But we forget that our social-emotional health is critical to the development of a successful adult.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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Leslie Jordan: Repurposing Your Gifts. It’s also a great example of how someone can take their gifts— in Jordan’s case, stage presence, comedic timing and storytelling—and repurpose them, like he did from on-screen to online. Alba launched The Honest Company at age 29. Here’s how you can find success in changing it up now.

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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia Talks About the Art of Making Accommodations

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“One of the things I love so much about Airbnb is economically empowering people and how much that can do for people in their lives,” says Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, regarding the company’s customers. You know, there was nothing fancy or special about our lifestyle. As it turns out, his childhood was fairly simple. “It

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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. Photo courtesy of Nuzzie. Number of employees: 5 Based in: Boston.

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Be Happy In the Skin You’re In with Zakia Blain

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Blain spoke with In the Details host Karen Allen about being in the business of selling confidence, managing insecurity and using the gift of perspective to move forward. She doesn’t only sell clothes, but also confidence. The company instead focused on its leggings, which had seen modest sales before the pandemic.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. She had talked to Page Six saying we were the best gift of Christmas. She agreed.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: How to Move from Temporary Work to a.

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One night I started re-dressing all the mannequins in clothes I liked better. When I was in high school, I was just bored and wanted to keep busy, but it seems that my strategy was one that experts recommend: work hard, look for problems to solve and show how you contribute to the companys success.

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