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Attract, Engage, Inspire: Coach Jenna Armato on how to keep your support system strong

Attract, Engage, Inspire: Coach Jenna Armato on how to keep your support system strong

After spending 20 years working in advertising and marketing, Jenna Armato became a coach, speaker and trainer. Jenna shared with us tips for staying motivated a few weeks ago. Now, she returns with easy, actionable steps for building a support network (and why that’s crucial!), improving your communication skills and maintaining (or rediscovering) your passion. Positive change doesn’t have to be hard—it just has to be initiated. Lauren Jonik: You recently took the professional leap of leaving a corporate job…

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Growing up at the Mall

Growing up at the Mall

by Trish Cantillon “What do they want? Why do they come here?” Fran asks Stephen on the roof of the Monroeville Mall in George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. “Some kind of instinct. Memory. What they used to do.This was an important place in their lives,” he answers. His 1978 film depicts zombie teenagers invading the local mall. Almost forty years later, it seems as though the roles have been reversed. The malls are now the zombies—half dead shells…

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Put Another Book on the Shelf: Five Aussie Writers You Should Know

Put Another Book on the Shelf: Five Aussie Writers You Should Know

by Marissa Price We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. – Indigenous Australian Proverb. Australian literature is as varied as the country itself. Australia is a melting pot of cultures and backgrounds that lends itself to great storytelling. The traditional custodians of the land, the many Australian indigenous tribes, passed down their stories through cave carvings…

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Good Taste and Bad Food: In Search of Comfort in the 1980s

Good Taste and Bad Food: In Search of Comfort in the 1980s

by Leslie Pietrzyk While I was coming of age in the 80s, Tab was comfort food. The pink can of diet soda was practically an accessory for the girls on my Midwestern university campus. Even if you weren’t in a sorority, you wanted to give the impression that you could be, that you were the one who sniffed, no thanks, not them. It was comforting that one pink can allowed a girl like me to appear to fit in. I…

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