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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. I told the manufacturer owners. The Oprah factor Spanx reached its $1 billion valuation in 2012 without spending a penny on advertising. I told the patent attorneys.

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Why Russia is recruiting African women to make attack drones

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In interviews with the Associated Press , some of the women said they were misled that it would be a work-study program, describing long hours under constant surveillance, broken promises about wages and areas of study, and working with caustic chemicals that left their skin pockmarked and itching.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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Not working with a manufacturer halfway around the globe to prototype and build brand new products. When you get niche, it’s easier to partner with affiliates, influencers and advertisers. You need to actually get out there and hear people, whether through interviews or surveys or combing through product reviews or forums. “It

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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As a conscious marketer, she infuses data and creativity into areas of strategy and innovation to drive representation and social impact within advertising. As the visionary founder of Digital Culture Group, she leads a forward-thinking digital marketing and advertising technology company deeply committed to inclusivity and diversity.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. Because I was witnessing so much disease mongering—the creation and manufacturing of these broad new definitions of disease—and because I was talking to critics within the medical establishment as well, I started to write for the British Medical Journal. What was that about? Absolutely.

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Mortification Week: the copied texts, the unamused clients, and more

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Thankfully this happened at the very end of the interview (or the interviewers decided that my awkwardness would be a great time to end the interview). “First job interview ever, as a page in the children’s room of my local public library, with two librarians who had known me since I was a toddler. Misanthropy.