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

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Leslie Jordan: Repurposing Your Gifts. Alba launched The Honest Company at age 29.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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Her mom invested her retirement money in the company, and Bell used her tax refunds to buy her own printers. She and her mom hustled at events all over selling the clothing items and eventually made it into Essence magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide for a line of infant bodysuits. From there, the endeavor took off.

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Webiste Critique Special Report: Kidorable

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Speaking of covering everything head to toe… today is a special report website critique for Kidorable, an acclaimed kids’ clothing and accessories company dressing little kids up right. “Where fun and functional come together,&# or, “Clothes that reflect the spirit of childhood – fun!&#

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. The saying goes that people join companies, but they leave managers.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Going back to school was the best gift I could give myself. Looking at the impressive list of people who have commented here, imagine putting them all together as a company: I bet they would wipe the floor with a company made of of people who only had job specific skills, and no cross-disciplinary experience and perspective!

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

Here’s your retirement cheque, go build your house, put in a pool, and stay with your girlfriend for the rest of your life,&# then I would probably kill myself. I mean, look at how many bricks and mortar companies are “off-shoring&# workers to save a buck and pass the savings on to customers or shareholders. 6 weeks 2 days.

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