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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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At 29, she was the epitome of the American Dream, having come to the United States from Peru as a child, Morales was a college graduate, a homeowner living in Garfield, New Jersey, who held a sales and development management position at Blinds To Go. Look how popular Mexican food, Asian food, Italian food restaurants are.

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Patrice Washington Is Redefining Wealth By Scaling Joy

Success

Patrice Washington was on food stamps the day she turned down a job offer from Steve Harvey. To be clear, Harvey and his team were like family to Washington, who had worked as Harvey’s intern years earlier while studying at the University of Southern California. And it was gone overnight. I can only go forward.”.

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Ep 243: Nicole Grinnell on Delegation and Unlocking Your Productivity Potential

Go Burrows

Her strong work ethic and her own experience as an executive assistant in the corporate world has formed her into the leader she is today in the staffing and marketing industry. EzCater helps assistants like you and me succeed at work and makes our lives easier.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

Impressed by his work ethic, Derrick Taylor’s UPS co-workers pooled their resources in order to buy the Alabama teen a Jeep Cherokee—and helped restore faith in humanity. Not wanting to burden or rely on others for rides, the teen walked an approximately 10-mile round trip commute to work, in the dark, for more than a year.

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50 Unique Spirit Week Ideas For Work: The Ultimate Guide To Elevate Your Team Bonding

Vantage Circle

Celebrating spirit week and the accompanying fun activities can be a powerful move to re-energize your teams after weeks of hard work. It will set the momentum, rejuvenate and get them ready for the next few weeks of hard work. Team building can improve employee work ethic and innovation at your organization up to 10 times.

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my longtime job doesn’t know I have 9 kids, long walks to the bathroom, and more

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I just wanted my employer to judge me based off of me and my work ethic and what I bring to the company and not my personal life. I work in a very large international corporation, and my role touches pretty much all departments. Discussions about pay increase and title changes to match my functions are in the works.).

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