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Rebecca Minkoff’s Latest Trend? Empowering Female Founders in the Fashion Industry and Beyond

You don’t have to be a fashionista to know who Rebecca Minkoff is. The fashion designer, renowned for her edgy, feminine and flirty handbag and apparel brand, which skyrocketed to global recognition after her first capsule collection in 2001. In 2018, Rebecca focused her efforts on an inspiring new project in collaboration with the Women’s March, RM Superwomen—a platform that worked to encourage women around the world to be brave and courageous. Later that year, she launched the Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by women that supports other female-owned businesses. Perhaps Rebecca should be a guest on her own podcast, because she is seriously a superwoman in our eyes.

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This natural “birth control” is an option we couldn’t even conceive of—but it works

Have you ever forgotten to take your pill and subsequently freaked out? Have you ever thought about your IUD too much and realized you have a foreign object inside of you pumping you with hormones? Have you ever second-guessed using the most common birth control methods because of the short and long-term impacts or side effects? Welp, you’re not the only one. With so much new research being done around women’s healthcare, we, as women, have started to realize that the status quo may just not be good enough for us. We’re asking ourselves: “Is this the best we can do?” And that’s exactly what Elina Berglund, Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist and founder of Natural Cycles, did when looking for a more natural birth control method.

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A True Gem: How Samantha Wills Launched Her Massive Career At 21 Years Old

Samantha Wills launched her own business at just 21 years old. Starting with a few hundred dollars and a big leap of faith, she catapulted to international success and made a name for herself on the global stage. After 15 years (earlier this year), Samantha felt that her jewelry brand had done all that it was set out to do and decided to close her jewelry business to focus on her career as a speaker, writer and creative. While her jewelry business may no longer be operating, there is so much to be learned in her story and her immense success.. How she created success, stuck by it, believed that her path was continuing to evolve, trusting in herself and her intuition and once again reinventing herself.

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Best In Beauty: How This Hair and Makeup Artist Rose to the Top Before 30

Starting with just $200 in her bank account, hair and makeup artist Ali Lomazzo decided that nothing and no one was going to stand in her way of creating a business to call her own. Five years later, the 28-year-old now owns Ali Lomazzo Beauty (the leading bridal hair and makeup company in Rhode Island) and her incredibly talented team of lady employees have played a part in making over 650 brides feel beautiful on their wedding days.

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meet kristen tomlan: new york city’s cookie dō queen

At just 29-years-old, Kristen Tomlan has created a food craze that has sugar coated her wildest dreams, and we’re almost positive you’ve heard of it: DŌ, the raw (but safe-to-eat!) cookie dough brand based in the land of trendy foods, New York City. Although online orders are now shipped by the truckload and lines regularly wrap around the block of her brick-and-mortar store, the cookie didn’t always crumble just right for Tomlan.

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What's It's Like to Be A Woman In A Male-Dominated Industry

Michelle Isaacs has crossed sports, entertainment and publicity at the highest level working in coveted roles at companies such as MSG, GQ and Derek Jeter’s The Players’ Tribune. She has key relationships with major sports stars and celebrities across the sports industry. Being a woman in a male dominated industry, Michelle works tirelessly to continue to leave her mark.

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These Today Show Producers Want to Get Real About How Hard It Is to be A Working Mom

Mary Ann Zoellner and Alicia Ybarbo are Emmy Award-winning NBC Today Show producers as well as New York Times bestselling authors of  the parenting book ‘Sh*tty Mom' and ‘Today's Moms.’ Their honesty and ability to laugh at the moments or days where they've maybe come up short and count the wins when they happen, allow themselves, their families and their legions of fans to stop taking themselves so seriously and start appreciating the moments when life isn’t always perfect.

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