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Attitude Intervention: Lacey Leone McLaughlin Is Coaching Hollywood's Head Honchos to Behave Better. But Are They Listening?
Opening statements begin today for the rape and sexual assault trial of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
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Business
Let’s Use COVID’s Lessons To End HIV
After what we’ve witnessed this past year, it’s hard to not see HIV’s persistence in the U.S. as a failure of will. COVID-19 showed that our healthcare system can rapidly re-organize to create drive-through testing centers in sports stadiums, a warp-speed vaccine effort, and public education efforts that had everyone talking about antibodies, antigens and viral load as easily as they’d once chatted about the weather. We can certainly exert the much less disruptive effort required to end HIV, and
Frontier
Please Don’t Forget About India
Our lives, which slowed down for so long, seem to be quickly speeding up again. While everyone else is moving more quickly, I feel myself moving more slowly. A very heavy weighted blanket of deep sadness and anger envelopes me. Because while everyone else is moving quickly, I can’t forget about India.
Career
12 Steps Executives Can Take To Hold Toxicity at Bay and Put Good Karma Into the Universe
TL;DR: Pandemic stress-related toxic communication can creep into your customer communication. Don’t let it! Set the example, nip toxicity in the bud, protect your team from incoming, build in rest, celebrate the good stuff, and codify that positive voice in your company styleguide.
Business
Lessons learned – COVID-19 and the Barriers to Success for Girls in 2021
Over the past decade, we have made great strides in advancing gender equity for girls globally. But amid this progress, COVID-19’s devastating impact over the last year has revealed an earth-shattering truth: This pandemic has set girls back. As we navigate the new frontier that is 2021, it is up to all of us to ensure that our girls are not forgotten.
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Could Our Cells Hold the Key to Killing COVID-19?
While vaccines are gradually rolling out across the nation, scientists are continuing to research the body’s immune response in an effort to give all of us the best possible information and support. And it appears that our very own cells, when properly boosted, may hold the key to fighting and ultimately killing COVID-19. Many other prominent health and science news outlets, including CNN Health, The Scientist, and Medical News Today, made similar declarations. After analyzing the latest researc
Business
Will Covid Kill the Bra?
Are you wearing a bra? I mean the kind with the metal fasteners that Mark Twain invented. You read that right. The strap with hooks that has been digging into our backs for the last century was invented by Twain, aka Samuel Clemens,
Business
How Our Experience Guided Us In the Midst of a Pandemic
We couldn’t have imagined when we first met as executive producers in unscripted television just how extraordinary our meeting would become. But after five years of working together, one of us on the network side and the other...
Culture
A Movement of Music: How Music Can Change the World
Think about your favorite piece of music—mine is my mum and my’s favorite song “Wagon Wheel." Think about what happens to you when it is played. You feel good, you want to dance, sing out!
Futures
How Increased Audio Streaming is Forcing Innovation in the Digital Audio Space
My name is Audra Gold, and I am the CEO and co-founder of the ground-breaking online audio streaming platform, Vurbl. I started to build websites in college, where I became obsessed with the Internet. After college, I began my career as a product manager at a Silicon-Valley-based digital media company and have been hooked on startups ever since. I took my first Head of Product job for a startup about 12 years ago and have gone on to build products for seed stage companies through Series A, B, an
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7 Must-have Tips to Keep You Healthy and Fit for the Unpredictable COVID Future
With a lack of certainty surrounding the future, being and feeling healthy may help bring the security that you need during these unpredictable times. When it comes to your health, there is a direct relationship between nutrition and physical activity that play an enormous part in physical, mental, and social well-being. As COVID-19 continues to impact almost every aspect of our lives, the uncertainty of the future may seem looming. Sometimes improvisation is necessary, and understanding how to
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The Impact of Food and Fitness on Fertility: Discussion With Dr. Geraldine Ekpo
The topic of fertility is particularly relevant for current times when we are all trying to find our way in the midst of a pandemic and develop life plans within great uncertaintyIn a previous post I shared how I started my podcast, eat.plank.live in March 2020. In episode 7, I spoke with Dr. Geraldine Ekpo, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist. We spoke about the various forms of fertility treatments and the way fitness and food influence reproductive health. Going into this
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An Inside Look at My Salon's COVID-19 Journey
On March 19th, our state's governor ordered all personal care services to close their doors until further notice. As the owner of a hair salon and extension bar, I feared the thought of closing our doors and losing income but felt it was the right and responsible decision to assist our community in stopping the spread of COVID-19. Never in all my thoughts did I think we would remain closed for three months.
Business
Codeword COVID-19: The New Resource for Domestic Violence Victims
In early March, stay-at-home orders were put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Suddenly people across the world were instructed to quarantine at home. For most people, inside the walls of their home is a place of security and solace. For others, home can be a dangerous place of abuse.In an instant, domestic violence victims around the world became isolated with their abusers causing domestic violence reports to increase by 35% in the United States, according to the World H
Business
Please Don't Let Me Buy Another Dress Again
Last week, I scrolled and clicked. I clicked some more and more. Scrolled, paused to answer a Facetime call from my mom, and then got right back to scrolling. I added a total of seven dresses into my Ann Taylor cart. And then I paused and asked myself the following three key questions...
Business
What It's Like Having Four Generations Shelter In Place Under One Roof
I am a first-generation Mexican-American daughter of immigrants. Both of my parents were born in Mexico and eventually naturalized in Texas. I have been the first to hit many milestones in my family and life. I was the first to go to college, I was the first to go to grad school, I was the first in my family to enter the world of finance, I was even one of the first Latinas in my group at a Wall Street bank.
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This Is My Truth: What You Need To Know About The Fear Around The Coronavirus
Now is actually a very exciting time to be alive. Fear and uncertainty might be taking over our world but I really do believe that underneath it all, this is a time of transformation for our planet.
Career
Coronavirus Forced Me To Shut Down My Restaurant, But I Won't Let That Hold Me Back
On December 11, 2019, I opened my first New York City restaurant, The Banty Rooster, and breathed a huge sigh of relief. The road to opening had been long: I sold my first successful restaurant, Work & Class, in Denver in October 2016 and moved to New York City six months later. I knew virtually no one in the city, but I was determined to take what I'd learned and pursue my biggest dream.
Career
6 Leadership Qualities Displayed by Women World Leaders During COVID-19
In recent weeks we have been seeing a string of articles praising the exemplary ways that women political leaders of various nations throughout the world have been handling the COVID-19 crisis. Some of these articles suggest, overtly or tacitly, that women are simply better leaders, period.
Frontier
I'm Answering The World's Biggest Question: "How To Boost Your Immune System"
I know everyone is wondering right now what we can do to protect our own health and the health of our loved ones.
Money
A Song for the Ages and the Woman Who Wrote It: From the Cold War to COVID-19
I am unabashedly a woman in a man's world. I've never tried to play it like a man. And I've steered clear of being "femme" to get what I want. So maybe, on second thought, what I am is a bohemian, who is comfortable interacting in a man's world. The world I'm referring to is the music business. There have always been a few women who have somehow survived on talent and pluck. Or talent and destiny. To me, talent is a way of thinking, a way of looking at life. A woman needs to find her best talent
Money
What is the Paycheck Protection Program?
Earlier this year, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security (CARES) Act was signed by President Trump in order to provide emergency assistance and healthcare response to individuals, families, and businesses that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Small Business Administration (SBA) was given the funding and authority to modify existing loan programs to assist small businesses nationwide.
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Why I Sailed Myself to New York City to Work in a Hospital at the Epicenter of COVID-19
I had never worked in such a difficult environment; it was challenging to see a disease destroy patient's bodies and not have legitimate ways of treating them. As a nurse, I so deeply desire to help people and see them to recovery, something that has hardly been happening in the face of COVID-19.
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The Healing Power Of Complaining: How To Complain Effectively
I've been talking about trauma and loss for a long time, so I want to talk about complaining. We are experiencing a loss of freedom, lack of connection and increased fear of economic fallout during this pandemic. We are not used to this kind of prevalent, lengthy. and collective grief in the air.