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Dreamers: The Making of Not Your Daughter's Jeans
Reader's Digest — By Sarah Saffian From Reader's Digest No matter how much weight she lost or how often she exercised, Lisa Rudes Sandel couldn't flatten her stomach. "I used to joke that I'd always have a pooch." And she was fine with that ... until ...More…
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Dreamers: Hunks of Junk
Reader's Digest — It's the universal cry of parents, generally heard by the second day of college breaks: "Get a job!" Omar Soliman's mother joined the chorus; she was not about to have her son hanging out at the neighborhood pool all summer. "You ...More…
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How Bread Made Her a Millionaire
Reader's Digest — By Margaret Heffernan From Reader's Digest Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like french fries at night. A property developer, she also owned and operated three McDonald's franchises in Illinois, but as a divorced ...More…
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Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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Dreamers: Chipotle Founder Steve Ells
Reader's Digest — As founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Steve Ells has never come across advice he couldn't ignore, conventional wisdom he couldn't flout, a rule he couldn't break. Ells opened his first Chipotle (pronounced chi-'poat-lay) in Denver 15 years ...More…
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Healing the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products
Reader's Digest — Jackie Heinricher's love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a breeze, the bamboos sounded incredibly musical. It was my magic fort area." ...More…
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Dreamers: Scents and Sensibility
Reader's Digest — For Lisa Price, it was a bad time to get sick. Her fledgling skin- and hair-care business, Carol's Daughter, was preparing for a surge in Valentine's Day sales. But instead of ramping up, everything came to a halt while Price was in bed with the . ...More…
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Meet Count Me in Success Story Garnett Newcombe
Reader's Digest — From Count Me In with additional reporting by Erin Semple From Reader's Digest Garnett Newcombe's business went from stuck to generating multi-millions of dollars with a simple shift in mindset-an epiphany about strategy. It was an "aha" ...More…
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Meet Count Me In Success Story Leah Brown
Reader's Digest — For business owner Leah Brown, 45, reaching the million-dollar revenue mark took more than the right tools. It took tenacity. Her company, Aten Solutions, identifies and provides skilled staff to run clinical trials. Aten's biggest challenge in ...More…
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Meet Count Me in Success Story Christine Cunneen
Reader's Digest — Christine Cunneen has experienced both while building her business, HireImage, which provides extensive background checking services for employers. In 2005, Cunneen was making the long commute between her home in Rhode Island and Pompano Beach, ...More…
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Meet Nandini Mukherjee
Reader's Digest — From Count Me In with additional reporting by Erin Semple From Reader's Digest Walk down Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village, and you will come across the delicious smell of soft, doughy bread mixing pleasantly with coriander, onions . ...More…
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Meet Count Me In Success Story Maureen Borzacchiello
Reader's Digest — Maureen Borzacchiello, president of Creative Display Solutions, embodies one of the core virtues of a successful female entrepreneur: She knows how to grow through experience. Specializing in portable and custom modular displays, Creative Display ...More…