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Shimmer Is an Affordable Coaching System Designed for Adults with ADHD

Success

As a teenager, Christal (Chris) Wang was rebellious but never struggled academically. As long as she received what her mother considered to be good grades, then she wasn’t concerned about the behavioral issues. “What prompted my [ADHD] diagnosis was when I didn’t have that benchmark of grades anymore,” she says. Now, Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Shimmer , a company that offers affordable, culturally-competent, behavioral care for people who have ADHD.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. The author, Catherine Heseltine, is a psychiatric survivor, a mum to three wonderful children and a political activist in London. I want to start my story at the end. It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope.

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How to Make a Successful Career Change

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At age 45, Jean-Pierre Wolff felt married to his job. Ten years prior, he’d co-founded a startup in electrical engineering field services that was later acquired by Emerson Electric. He’d also earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and applied technology and an MBA while working full time. “I was hiding in my studies,” Wolff says. For over 20 years, he’d built a very successful career in business and engineering, but his teenage interest in agriculture, a track he first pursued in college, sti

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How to be a good leader according to USWNT coach Emma Hayes

Work Life

What is leadership? Good question. For some, it involves delving into a lucky bag of inspirational quotes from excellent orators and trying to find a personal fit. For others, it requires the comfort blanket of a plan that worked for someone else in the same field. All leaders scavenge bits and pieces. There’s nothing wrong with that, but for me the essence of leadership is understanding your team and how your organization works.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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This simple 3-step plan will protect your postretirement nest egg

Work Life

Investing postretirement can be much more complex than it was during your career. You’re going from the simple (but not easy) plan of “throw all the money you can into your retirement account” and “invest for the long term” to the much more complicated process called “Um. I think we’re supposed to live on this nest egg somehow?” The reason why postretirement investing can seem like an entirely different game is because your goals are now different.

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Three simple ways to change your life for less than $50

Work Life

I get bored on the regular, often in anticipation of seasonal shifts. While I’m not restless enough to be airlifted out of my life by traveling or desperate enough to cut bangs, I do want to shake things up. Here are three simple ways I change my everyday life for $50 or less. Color People make fun of Ikea’s complicated flat pack instructions, but their textiles are the easiest way to refashion the vibe in your home.

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A psychologist explains how 3 words about Tim Walz from the Trump-Vance campaign influence followers

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Although it is virtually impossible to comment on any political event without polarizing your audience or being seen as ideologically biased , behavioral science and political psychology can offer context through research to understand the strategies used in leadership that aim to influence followers. The degree to which candidates actually follow science-based learnings, or simply their gut feeling, is hard to assess and ultimately depends on not just the candidate, but the specific situation t