Denise LeGree is a 58-year-old poll worker in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a suburban county of Atlanta. LeGree worked the historic Georgia runoff elections, setting up voting booths and scanning IDs on Election Day. She says she saw a “steady stream of voters coming in all day,” with what she reports […]
Dr. Joy Henningsen is a diagnostic radiologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Centre and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on December 17 and the second dose on January 7 at the Birmingham VA […]
Chris (not his real name), 41, is a veteran postal worker in Massachusetts who talked to Insider about the extreme delays he’s seeing with the mail since the holidays, which were unusually slow. The delay in packages is just one of the many obstacles the US Postal Service faced in […]
Business Insider spoke with four drivers who work as contracted Amazon delivery drivers about the dangers they face during the winter months, from navigating dark, rural roads and extreme weather conditions to dealing with difficult customers and package thieves. The delivery drivers we spoke to mentioned heightened safety concerns like […]
Nicole Tinson is a social entrepreneur and founder of HBCU 20×20, an organisation that matches Historically Black Colleges and Universities students and graduates with major companies. Tinson says she recently dropped Google as a HBCU 20×20 partner after a Twitter thread alleging racism and discrimination by a former Google recruiter […]
Jean Pierre Barriga, 27, is a DACAmented DE&I professional based in New York City. While sharing the stories of Dreamers is important, Barriga says more attention should be paid to the lesser known DAPA immigration policy, aka the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. Years of lawsuits and injunctions against […]
On Tuesday, American Airlines became the first US airline to fly the Boeing 737 Max for a commercial trip since it was grounded in March 2019. The writer Chris Sloan was on board the three-hour flight from Miami to New York with 95 other people consisting of media members, bloggers, […]
Harrison Monarth is an executive coach and the CEO and founder of Gurumaker, a leadership development service. He says its not uncommon to encounter managers at work who seem disinterested in your career growth or who actively undermine your efforts to get promoted. It’s important to enter these conversations with […]
M13 Ventures cofounder Carter Reum, Shake Shack’s CMO Jay Livingston, and other executives shared with Insider how they have been using Oura, a sleep-tracking ring and app, to alter their sleep schedules and routines. The tech company is backed by Jack Dorsey, Marc Benioff, and other prominent tech leaders and […]
Jenelle Marie Pierce is the creator of The STI Project and an educator and speaker on STIs and sexual health. In January 2020, she decided to begin using TikTok as a platform to promote STI awareness and education, and soon one of her videos sharing her own personal history with […]
New York City is arguably one of the most competitive landscapes for private preschools in the US. With limited class sizes, legacy policies, and religious affiliations, it’s no wonder why every year, parents fight for a singular spot. “In order to get into private school kindergarten in NYC, children must […]
Shannon Hennig is a small business owner and health and wellness marketing expert. Over the summer, she began experiencing serious fatigue, stiffness in her feet and legs, and chest pain and difficulty breathing. She tested negative for COVID-19, and was turned away at the ER after being told she had […]
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this week’s episode of Pitchfork Economics, Hanauer and Goldstein spoke with Fenaba Addo, an associate professor at University […]
Scott Belsky is the chief product officer of Adobe and founder of Behance, Adobe’s social media platform. He’s an early investor and product advisor for top startups including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, and Airtable. As 2020 comes to a close, Belsky predicts eight major trends to emerge in the tech industry […]
Dan Schawbel is a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and host of the “ 5 Questions with Dan Schawbel ” podcast, where he interviews world-class humans by asking them just five questions in under 10 minutes. He recently spoke with Natalie Portman, the Academy Award-winning actress and author of the new […]
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer based in New York where she lives with her husband and two small children. On Christmas in 2017, Petro says she broke down and spent the day hiding in her bedroom after weeks of planning, buying, gift-wrapping, and decorating (all on top of her […]
Dr. Robin Schoenthaler has been a longtime radiation oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She and her two sons recently got together for what they hoped was a quick, science-based “as-safe-as-we-can-make-it” Thanksgiving dinner. A couple of days later, one of her sons tested positive for COVID-19. “Was it worth […]
For nearly 10 years, Bob Twaites has worked as a Santa at community events, upscale malls, and corporate gigs near his hometown outside of Vancouver Island, Canada. Due to rising COVID-19 cases where he lives, the mall he usually works at decided to cancel all Santa events this winter. Now, […]
Terri Betzer, 46, is a UPS delivery driver based in Phoenix, Arizona. She’s been working for UPS for 25 years, and in the past week has been one of many drivers tasked with delivering the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to health centres around the country. As someone who’s worked bringing essential […]
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration authorised emergency use of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontline healthcare workers have been first in line to receive the vaccine, including three doctors who spoke with Business Insider about what it was like to receive the first dose. […]
Moran Cerf, 42, is a professor of neuroscience and business at Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University and is the Alfred P. Sloan professor at the American Film Institute. Every week, he receives questions about the brain, psychology, business, and behaviour via email from people who attend his talks; […]
US government agencies and private organisations have been the targets of a cyberattack that was only just uncovered this month. A group of hackers believed to be associated with the Russian intelligence agency SVR infiltrated a SolarWinds software update earlier this year. This is a huge problem for two major […]
Jessica Milicevic is the owner of Maven Media, a strategic branding and marketing agency in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a mother of four, she says she spent her career job-hopping in search of an employer who would be supportive of her goal to balance her own professional path with raising […]
Carole Zimmer has been a journalist for 30 years and is the host of an award-winning podcast called Now What? which features curated conversations with well-known people, from Jane Fonda and Katie Hill. During the pandemic, those conversations have moved online, leading to intimate chats from famous living rooms all […]
Teresa Thompson works as the onsite events expert at The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, a 5-star resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. She oversees the organisation and execution of the “Christmas at the Princess” celebration that runs every year during the holiday season. This year, the event is running from November 20 through […]
Professional women are facing even more challenges during the pandemic, say well-being experts and authors Liz Koehler and Clare Davenport. At the University of Pennsylvania, they conducted research into the unique macro and micro transitions faced by women in their careers and their impact on overall job satisfaction and quality […]
Dr. Joy Henningsen is a diagnostic radiologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Centre and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. On December 17, she received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine along with other hospital workers at the Birmingham VA Medical Centre. Henningsen says she eagerly […]
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this week’s episode of Pitchfork Economics, Hanauer and Goldstein spoke with Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead writer on business […]
After the FDA approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on December 11, shipments of the vaccine quickly began been rolling out to hospitals across the US. Frontline workers and other healthcare professionals have been among the first scheduled to receive the vaccine – including five who spoke with Business Insider after […]
Elisabeth Cote is a 39-year-old nurse in the progressive care unit at Bayhealth Hospital’s Kent Campus in Kent County, Delaware. She was the first person in the state to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on December 15. Tuesday marked 330 days since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the […]
Sarah Hurst is a 47-year-old freelance journalist based outside of London, where she lives with her mother and 12-year-old daughter. She was in AstraZeneca’s UK trial for the COVID-19 vaccine, and left last week in protest at the company’s announcement that they would work with Russia’s Sputnik vaccine developers. Hurst […]
Nazila Jamshidi is a graduate student at Georgetown University and an alumnus of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) where Dr. Jill Biden has been teaching in 2009. At NOVA, Jamshidi worked with Dr. Biden on women’s empowerment initiatives and says Biden’s title of doctor served as an inspiration to her […]
Jonathan Howard is a neurologist who works at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. During the pandemic, he transitioned to leading a team of healthcare workers tending to COVID-19 patients. Howard says he jumped at the chance to join the AstraZeneca vaccine trial, as he’s had a long-held fascination with […]
As Insider’s research on The Human Impact of Business Transformation found, empowerment and inclusivity are key drivers of a positive corporate culture. Due in part to the social movements of 2020, companies are prioritising diversity and inclusion in the workplace. There is no quick fix, and companies will want to […]
Megan Gottschall, 36, is a senior cannabis trimmer based in Μuncy, Pennsylvania. She leads the cannabis trimming team at the Danville plant of Green Thumb Industries (GTI), a national producer and retailer. Pennsylvania legalised the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of 17 medical conditions in 2016, and has […]
Shanna Goodman is the creator of AMP’D, which helps small businesses build their marketing and brand strategy. Over half of small business don’t have a well-organised marketing plan, Goodman says, which can lead to wasting resources and losing out on valuable customers. To get started, think about your business’s short […]
As offices around the world remain closed this winter due to the pandemic, many end-of-year and holiday parties are being planned virtually. Professional event planners say it’s important to ask and learn how your employees want to celebrate this year – or if they want to have a party at […]
Jolene Cramer is a senior marketing director at Limeade and coauthor of “Take Care“, a book for working parents and their kids about the importance of care in the workplace. After a difficult pregnancy and giving birth to twins, Cramer says she found herself overwhelmed, distracted, and exhausted with the […]
Ryan Pessoa is a 22-year-old professional esports gamer who plays FIFA 21 competitively for Manchester City. He first signed with the team Hashtag United in 2018 after developing his gaming skills during his free time while studying business management at the University of Surrey in England. Since then, Pessoa has […]
Investors, founders, CEOs, and other industry experts sent in over 50 nominations for women who rose above tough economic challenges with their sharp business acumen and tenaciousness. From the cofounders of an online rental service for South Asian fashion to a 15-year-old inventor of teeth cleaning candy popular on Amazon, […]
Lisa Bari is a 39-year-old health IT policy exec based in Baltimore, Maryland who is participating in a late-stage trial of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental coronavirus vaccine. She received the first dose of vaccine or placebo on November 30 and is scheduled to receive the second dose on January 27. […]
Many work-from-homers are missing the alone time that once came with commuting to and from the office each day. Librarian Lucy Ahmed says she’s incorporated an hour-long ‘fake commute’ walk into the end of her day during the pandemic to help transition from work to personal time. Whether a morning […]
Fred Dust was a senior partner and global managing director at international design firm IDEO and is currently the senior design advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation. The following is an excerpt from his new book, “Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Conversation.” In it, he explains why the inexactness […]
Google will lift its post-election political ad ban beginning December 10, one month before two crucial Georgia runoffs that will determine who has control of the Senate. Once lifted, ads can now be purchased across all ad-serving platforms, including Google Ads, DV360, and AdX Authorised Buyer – which previously fell […]
Chris Hingston, 45, is an ICU doctor at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, Wales. On December 8, the father of two was one of the first people in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Doctors, nurses, nursing home workers, and people aged 80 and up in the […]
Angie Banicki is a professional tarot card reader based in Los Angeles. She’s been practicing for 11 years, and has read for celebrities like Nikki Reed and Rachel Zoe as well as companies like Snapchat and Miranda Kerr’s KORA Organics. Banicki charges $US500 for a personal hour-long virtual session, and […]
Most organisations utilise short-term, “just-in-time” strategies, but this method can create problems when business needs or customer demands suddenly shift, like during a pandemic. If companies want to survive post coronavirus, they will need to re-examine their supply chains, develop new risk-mitigation plans, invest in technology, and focus on talent […]
Jan Lehman is an executive coach and the owner of CTC Productivity in St. Paul, Minnesota. After working as a software developer and a home organiser, Lehman realised she had a knack for understanding people’s productivity issues and helping them transform their workflow. She started her coaching business in 2009, […]
Steve Johnson is the president of Berkshire Grey, a company that builds AI-powered robotic systems to help retailers, ecommerce companies, and logistics providers. He says the best way to keep your employees inspired and productive is to be up front about uncertainty and to avoid acting like everything is going […]
In addition to Hsieh’s prominence in the business world, he also was a community builder and visionary outside of work. Weaving together anecdotes and photos from people in Hsieh’s inner circle, writer Aimee Groth paints a picture of an “inquisitive, impactful, loving, kind” leader who was masterful at making connections […]
Goddess Valora(not her real name) is a 33-year-old foot fetish model based in Orlando, Florida. In 2013, after accidentally booking a modelling gig that turned out to be a fetish video shoot, Valora realised she could make a full-time income working in the industry. Over the years, she’s diversified her […]
Apple’s latest operating system, macOS 11 Big Sur, brought back the signature startup chime that signals to a user that the computer is booting up. Tech columnist Jason Aten argues that while this change is simple if not unnecessary for some, it’s actually more important than just a fun addition. […]
Kirk Snyder is a business communication professor at the University of Southern California, author, and Fortune 500 speaker. The following is an excerpt from his book, “Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps to Getting The Perfect Job After College.” In it, he helps college students and recent graduates identify their […]
Scott Galloway is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The following is an excerpt from his new book, “POST CORONA: From Crisis to Opportunity.“ In it, he explains how the pandemic has catalyzed a question American households have been afraid to ask: Is the traditional […]
Tom Sagi is the CEO of Hourly, an insurtech startup that connects the dots between payroll and workers’ compensation insurance. When the pandemic caused the company’s move to a new office to be put on hold, Sagi was sceptical about how his company would run with a fully remote team. […]
Many offices and other commercial spaces have sat empty for the past few months and may continue to do so with a new surge in COVID-19 cases, creating a security risk. Break-ins at businesses across the country increased during the early days of the pandemic, according to law enforcement. Investing […]
Stephanie Roberts is a 36-year-old mixed media artist and business owner based in Lexington, Kentucky. She always enjoyed making art as a creative outlet, and after 10 years working as a pharmacist began selling her pill-inspired artwork – coasters and catchalls featuring real over-the-counter medications in hardened resin – on […]
Ami Neiberger-Miller is a writer, the founder of a PR and design services firm, and an advocate for gold star families. She is the surviving sister of US Army Specialist Christopher Neiberger, who was killed in combat in Iraq in August 2007. After her brother’s death and a separate medical […]
Zack Friedman is the founder and CEO of Make Lemonade, a personal-finance company. The following is an excerpt from his book, “The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything.” In this excerpt, he describes having lunch with Warren Buffett in Omaha and what he learned from […]
Stephanie Taylor is the outreach manager at Covenant House Michigan, a shelter for homeless youth ages 18 to 24 located in Detroit. She spends her days making contact with at-risk youth to offer them food, clothing, and medical attention, and encourages them to come stay at the Covenant House shelter. […]
A-J Aronstein is the dean of Beyond Barnard, a program that provides career and professional advising resources for students and alumnae of Barnard College. As college seniors prepare to graduate into an economic recession brought on by the pandemic, Aronstein says they should rethink their approach to networking and job […]
Dena Roché is a wine consultant and founder of Vin Roché, a private wine services business based in Phoenix, Arizona. After 10 years working as a travel writer, Roché decided to make a career change centered around her love and knowledge of wine and launched Vin Roché. Through partnerships with […]
Yung Wu is an entrepreneur, VC, and the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a startup innovation hub located in Toronto. Amid the pandemic and surge in remote work options, Wu says tech founders and workers should look beyond Silicon Valley to expand their businesses. In Canada, Wu says private and […]
Dr. Syra Madad is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and the senior director of NYC Health + Hospitals System-wide Special Pathogens Program. As businesses around the US enter various phases of reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Madad says it’s critical that employers create a flexible operating plan to adapt to evolving […]
Scott Dust is the chief research officer at Cloverleaf, a technology platform for integrated performance management, and a professor at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As the holiday season begins this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dust says there’s a right and wrong way […]
Phyllis Kramer is a Butterball Turkey Talk-Line expert based in Aurora, Illinois. She’s been working for the Talk-Line during the holidays for 18 years, answering customer questions about how to choose, thaw, prepare, and cook their turkeys. Over the years, Kramer says she’s gotten countless wild calls including customers who’ve […]
Your reputation and relationships with customers and other stakeholders matter for your business’ performance and success just as much as profit and product output do. Problems can come at every turn for companies, so it’s critical to maintain trust, home in on customer sentiment, and manage expectations to avoid a […]
Scott Galloway is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The following is an excerpt from his new book, “POST CORONA: From Crisis to Opportunity.“ In it, he shares why Amazon is uniquely positioned to take on one of the hardest issues to tackle: healthcare. With […]
Charles Koch is chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held American companies, and an influential philanthropist for more than 50 years. Brian Hooks is president of the Charles Koch Foundation, and chairman and CEO of Stand Together. The following is an excerpt from their new […]
Guido Vanham is a virologist, a microbiologist who studies the rapid spreading of viruses, who’s been sending letters to his three children throughout the coronavirus pandemic. The text of his most recent letter is printed below with permission from his son, Peter Vanham. In it, Guido Vanham writes that he’s […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. Although many people are hesitant to discuss money during a job interview, Morin says it’s better to bring up compensation early in the conversation. She suggests offering up the range you would accept, with […]
Gerard Danks is a 45-year-old IKEA worker in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He’s worked for IKEA for over four years and is currently employed as a quality support specialist, doing home deliveries and assembling furniture for customers. During the pandemic, Danks never stopped working, and says he spends six hours on […]
After Meredith Golden launched her business, Spoon Meet Spoon, in 2015, she saw steadily rising interest in her dating app ghostwriting and coaching services. Today, she spends 12 to 14 hours a day helping clients create intriguing profiles on Bumble, Hinge, Match, Coffee Meets Bagel, OK Cupid, and more. Golden […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. The holidays are going to look different for everyone working from home this year, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on holiday cheer. Morin says doing things that stir up nostalgia, […]
The following is an excerpt from the new book, “Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos,” a collection of writings and public statements by Jeff Bezos, with an introduction by journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson. Bezos shares how a customer-first mentality allowed Amazon to flourish and bounce back […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. As millions of kids are studying from home during the pandemic, Morin says it’s critical for parents to help their children stay mentally strong and focus on their psychological well-being. If your child is […]
Marley Mauvais is a 29-year-old fruit influencer and plant-based content creator who lives in New Jersey. In 2019, she started an Instagram account to share her fruit-based recipes with others, and slowly began to make and sell the products and home remedies she used. In September, Marley recorded her first […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. As we approach our first winter in a pandemic, she says it’s more critical than ever to prepare ourselves for the potential onset of seasonal affective disorder – also known as SAD. Morin recommends […]
Mike Hayes, 35, is a DoorDash delivery driver in Oregon. A chef for 17 years, he lost his job during the coronavirus pandemic and began doing deliveries two months ago to make ends meet for his family of four. During busier times, he can make up to $US800 working about […]
Emilia Lahti is an educator, speaker, and author of the upcoming book “Gentle Power: A Revolution in How We Lead, Think, and Succeed.” She writes that gentle power is a skill more leaders should embrace during crises and periods of unrest or economic uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Power […]
The surge of downloads for Apple’s latest version of macOS Big Sur caused an issue with Apple’s servers that triggered a bug in the company’s Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is the service that confirms that a piece of software is legitimate before it’s downloaded – when it stopped working, apps didn’t open. […]
Cybercrime reports have jumped from about 1,000 per day pre-pandemic to almost 4,000 per day, according to the FBI. With more employees working from home, companies are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks, which can be costly for businesses. Companies should invest in cybersecurity tech to protect remote workers, including […]
Hikaru Nakamura is a 32-year-old esports athlete based in Los Angeles, California. He is the first chess player to join the esports team TSM (formerly Team SoloMid). According to Esports Earnings, Nakamura has made over $US281,000 in winnings from online chess tournaments in 2020. At 15, Nakamura became the youngest […]
Carl May is a 38-year-old flight instructor and director of flight operations for All In Aviation in Las Vegas. He’s been teaching and flying planes around the US for 17 years. Despite the ongoing pandemic, business for All In Aviation has boomed this year, and May has nearly doubled his […]
Liza Story is a 36-year-old realtor in Park City, Utah – a 40-minute drive from Salt Lake City – where the real estate market is hot. During the pandemic, she’s noticed a barrage of buyers fleeing California to escape wildfires and city lockdowns; people who can now do their jobs […]
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children in New York City. In 2010, Petro lost her job as an elementary school teacher after months of negative press coverage attacking her for past experiences in the sex industry. Instead of giving into what she […]
Alex Taub, 33, is cofounder and CEO of Upstream, a new professional social networking app and platform. After he and his wife and daughters contracted COVID-19, they decided to swap their two-bedroom apartment in NYC for the extra space, yard, pool, and sunny weather that Miami offered. With his new […]
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this week’s episode of Pitchfork Economics, Goldstein and Hanauer spoke with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy about his […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. Contrary to popular belief, Morin says topics like current events, pandemic problems, and election stress are totally OK to discuss in virtual therapy. According to Verywell Mind, virtual therapy is helping people cope with […]
Jenny Hamilton is a 57-year-old former police officer who now works in location security for the film industry and lives in Atlanta. She’s a participant in the Pfizer vaccine trial, which recently announced that it developed the first effective coronavirus vaccine in record time and just filed for emergency authorization […]
Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author whose TEDx talk “The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong” has over 15 million views. She says that while having a positive outlook on life is generally beneficial, a culture of extreme positivity in the workplace can turn toxic […]
Thomas E. Ricks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review, and a visiting fellow for the history department at Bowdoin College. The following is an excerpt from his book, “First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How […]
Vanessa Martinez is a managing director and partner at The Lerner Group, where she guides families through all aspects of their wealth. The following is an excerpt from her book, “Family Value at Risk: Inclusive Communication To Pass On Your Family’s Wealth And Legacy.” In it, she shares how widowed […]
Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and economist at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The following is an excerpt from his book, “The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19.” In it, he argues that the pandemic was caused by a lack of information […]
34% of employers didn’t have an emergency preparedness plan before the pandemic, a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management reported. Businesses should be ready for any emergency that comes their way if they want to retain top talent and keep everyone productive and well taken care of. […]
Roshonda Payne is a 48-year-old flight attendant based just outside of Los Angeles and works for JSX, a semi-private airline that services cities along the West Coast. Payne, who quit working as a flight attendant after 9/11 and later rejoined the industry, says the most important aspects of the job […]
Darian Dozier is an osteopathic medical student who lives in Houston, Texas and runs the blog Melanated and Meducated, a medical school advice and wellness hub. After graduating college in Oklahoma and unexpectedly losing her job, Dozier decided to move back in with her parents while she prepared for grad […]
Melissa Petro is a freelance writer based in New York where she lives with her husband and two small children. Before the pandemic, she says she often played the role of the “secret parent,” struggling to juggle work and family while sensing pressure from her employers to minimise her time […]
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. He writes that President Donald Trump’s win in Florida – largely driven by the traditionally Democratic Miami-Dade Country – […]
Katie Nave is freelance writer, advocate, and nonprofit communications specialist based in Brooklyn, New York. As a working mum co-parenting her young daughter, she says she struggled with feeling lonely when the city shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To feel more connected and supported as a mum, Nave […]
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