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The life-Changing Magic of Speaking Up. (This is my story. What’s yours?)
As a high school student in Palo Alto, California, I was irrepressibly curious and constantly looking for strange and exciting new experiences to try out. And if those “strange and exciting” adventures meant that I could make a little extra money on the side? Even better! That’s how I wound up sitting in a laboratory…
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How to Look Fabulous for Your Photo Shoot: Checklist
Professional models get a lot of criticism and for lazing around and looking gorgeous for a photo shoot. “Oh, gosh, lying around in expensive furs all day long while people drizzle champagne into your mouth and snap your photo! Gimme a break! How is THAT a job?” But… you know what? YOU try it. Holding…
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Too introverted to Appear on TV? Why the Media Craves People Like YOU
If you’re in America, all you have to do is turn-on the TV or turn-up the radio to discover that loud and extroverted personalities usually take the cake—stars like the women of Real Housewives, the big personalities on Queer eye and even Fox Nation talk show host, and self proclaimed “global irritant,” Piers Morgan are…
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Love Beads and Bergamot
My sweetie and I were sitting in a booth at Chevy’s in Richmond, right after visiting Annie’s Annuals to get some of her incredible plants (cappuccino sunflowers, dahlias, violas, hollyhocks). As we sloppily ate the fire-roasted salsa (my fav) I noticed the guy across from me with his amazing array of super colorful bracelets and…
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Snap. Post. Kaching: 4 Ways to Get Engagement and Sales on Instagram
Guest post by Melissa Camilleri As long as you haven’t been living under a rock the past couple years, you’ll know that Instagram should be a key component to your online marketing strategy, especially as a service-based business, where the competition often believes Instagram will not work for them. Newsflash: it can and it will.…
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How An Untortured Artist Gets Unstuck
Guest Post by Kent Youngstrom here are days (like today) when i don’t want to paint. have no desire to paint. would rather sit, sleep, surf, waste away. anything accept paint. guess what i have to do…paint. so i’ll start slow. warm up. stretch. paint something other than what’s due. my mind and body will take…
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