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After spending nearly two decades in prison, a Washington DC man is striving to rebuild his life by marketing and selling a workout machine he…
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Nemuel DePaula has never been afraid of big pivots. The Brazil native immigrated to Boston at age 10, started his own graphic design business, Grita,…
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Tameeka Smith resigned as director of a well-known youth charity in 2019 after realising that being her own boss was more important to her than…
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