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Designer Michael Costello Aims to Empower Women Through Fashion

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To avoid distractions, I… usually put on some music and put my phone on silent. The item of clothing I can’t live without is… a black, well-fitting blazer. I never leave home without… my phone. This article originally appeared in the Sept/Oct 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.

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2 Important Rules for Attracting Wealthy Clients

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But it wasn’t the new clothes he bought that impressed his client; in fact the client was so jet-lagged that she slept most of the time in between property viewings. You’re never going to impress Daymond John with your clothes. He’s spent more money on his clothes than you’ve ever spent on anything in your life.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

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Was it actually a phone notification plugged into a loudspeaker? Khaled was about 16 and DJing a party in Orlando, Florida where he spent his formative years, when his phone rang. It was from the phone line inside his little makeshift studio in his parents’ house. They sold clothes out of the trunk of their car.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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I was on the phone with the printer and I said, ‘You know what, it’s made by a Black woman; I should put that on the shirt.’ ”. 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. It sucked and nobody bought it.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., That person is not going to pick up the phone and make that call because they’ve already defeated themselves in their belief system,” Kelly says. selling peanuts, or having a little restaurant,” he says.

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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). the editor nearly spat into the phone. I walked in with two bags of clothes and an open mind, ready for new ideas. Learn the what…?”

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

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It’s the clothes we wear, the phones we talk on, the lights we see with and the cars we drive. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. The picture was of a plywood chair designed in 1954 by Charles and Ray Eames, a couple synonymous with 20th-century industrial design.

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