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

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It has also sparked collaborations with celebrities and popular fashion and lifestyle brands including Alice + Olivia, LoveShackFancy, Dogwood Hill and Draper James, the clothing line founded by Reese Witherspoon. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Nicky was there when her mom opened them.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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I don’t need anything fancy, but I do need adaptability—something suited for home and the coffee shop, lunches and interviews, school registration and playgrounds. When picking my official automated outfit, I realized an unsettling truth: I wear a lot of the same clothes anyway. My outfit also needed to be temperature-appropriate. (I

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). After I interviewed Britney Spears over email—a story that made the cover—I was done. Home was also where the heart was.

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

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Yes, external stuff can help, from clothes to voice to smiles and hand gestures. For weeks, Kelleher failed to compose a persuasive note requesting an interview. At last, “I stopped trying to see my own needs, which were to get an interview with her, and just went with extreme empathy,” she says. But it’s no good by itself.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

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You’ll outgrow it like your baby clothes, and then you have a choice to either try to contort yourself back into it or to leave.” In a Harvard Business Review interview , Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer defines mindfulness as “the process of actively noticing new things. When you do that, it puts you in the present.

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Suz Amaro is the creator of the Vivesmart, a philosophy and ecosystem that accompanies more than 300 business owners to build a more productive and happy lifestyle. His Get Attitude podcast won a Communicator Award for Diversity & Inclusion for his 8:46 Interviews Stories of Black America. Kim Anthony. Dany Garcia. Entrepreneur.

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

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Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, January 19, 2010 How to Move from Temporary Work to a Full-Time Gig When I was in high school I landed my first holiday job working at a small J.C.

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