No less a national treasure than Mr. Fred Rogers once said, “Look for the helpers.” Well, we can all stop looking, because we found her: Dr. Catherine Pearlman is a social worker…
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Health & Wellness, Power FiguresChaise Fitness Founders Used What they Knew to Create a Brand New Workout
Former gold-medalist competitive figure skater Lauren Piskin has trained everyone from the Olympic national team to Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler for Blades of Glory. After opening a Pilates studio in Manhattan,…
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Personal Style, Power FiguresKim France Writes About Style for Those of Us Who’ve Aged Out of the 18-34 Demographic and Lived to Tell
When your personal obsessions and your paid profession overlap, you’ve hit self-actualization bullseye, and that’s what’s so inspiring about Kim France. The founding editor of Lucky magazine (R.I.P.) and the brains behind…
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They say necessity is the mother of all invention, which couldn’t be truer than for Kate Westervelt. The Boston-based founder and CEO of MOMBOX, a postpartum care kit for new moms, had…
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This week marks 12 years of living on and working from the road for travel journalist Karen Catchpole. One of the founders of Sassy and a former editor at Jane, Tell and Shop…
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Gina Hamadey gets the impact of the written word. A former editor, Gina honed her skills at O, The Oprah Magazine, Rachael Ray Every Day and Food & Wine, among others. Last…
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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…