Rachel Bertsche’s calling card as a writer is throwing herself into uncomfortable situations to find the lesson so that we don’t have to. That’s what she does in The Experimentalist, her monthly Chicago…
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Inner Beauty, Pop Culture, Power Figures, RelationshipsAuthor Virginia Sole-Smith Debunks Some of the Most Harmful Food Myths
Virginia Sole-Smith wrote the just-released book The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America and co-hosts the new podcast Comfort Food, about the joys and meltdowns of feeding a family. Trained as…
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Pop Culture, Power Figures, RelationshipsMeredith Bodgas Helps Make the World a Fairer Place for Working Mothers
Meredith Bodgas has built her career on walking women through every major life stage and milestone. She’s been an editor at some of the most prestigious websites and magazines like The Knot,…
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Some creative types seem to have more hours in the day than the rest of us. Like Beyoncé. And Oprah. And April Rueb and Samantha Zabell. In their previous digital publishing gigs,…
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When she was 6, Karolina Dehnhard came to the United States from Poland with her mother, a suitcase, two hundred dollars and an American Dream. From an early age, she learned that…
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Health & Wellness, Power FiguresAuthor Suzan Colón is About to Change Everything You Thought You Knew About Yoga
If you’re one of those people who’s ever said, “I can’t meditate! I can’t clear my mind! I don’t have time for that!” hear Suzan Colón out. In her new book, Yoga…
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Inner Beauty, Personal Style, Power FiguresBoudoir Photographer Cate Scaglione Wants You to Know You’re Already Perfect
Cate Scaglione has seen it all. As the owner of Life As Fine Art Studio in Red Bank, NJ, she’s photographed women in their 20s and in their 70s, fiancées and divorcées, every…
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Pop Culture, Power Figures, RelationshipsAnnie Dean and Anna Auerbach, Co-Founders of Werk, Have Had Enough with Business as Usual
Annie Dean (above left) and Anna Auerbach (above right) were strangers living on opposite coasts when they quit their high-powered careers to change the world together. Connected by a mutual friend over…
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It’s 2018, the era of the Women’s March and the #MeToo movement, yet no woman has ever been elected U.S. president, 20 percent of Congress is female and 6 percent of Fortune…
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Inner Beauty, Personal Style, Power Figures, RelationshipsJessica Matlin and Jennifer Goldstein See Beauty Everywhere in their Podcast for Women, Fat Mascara
By day, Jessica Matlin (top right) is the health and beauty director at Teen Vogue, and Jennifer Goldstein (top left) is the executive beauty and health editor at Marie Claire. Not glam enough for you yet?…
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Personal Style, Power Figures, The Mind Behind the DesignDora Lau, Founder of Curvy Couture, on What Women Really Want
Sometimes, fate meanders, bringing us baby step by baby step to places in life we never could’ve predicted. Sometimes, it’s a straight shot. Looking at Dora Lau’s success, you can almost see…
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Nitika Chopra has empathy like some of us have parking tickets or high heels—in spades. First, she’s a global citizen. Born in Ohio, she moved to Cairo, then Singapore, back to Ohio, on…