Brutta Figura e Bella Figura Posted on December 13, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmvpx1kIEBQ Please tell me you’ve stayed up all night thinking of that one sentence you shouldn’t have said at a dinner five years ago, because I know I have. Way too often. From wearing the ‘wrong’ shoes to picking a major not suited for us,
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Understanding Your Mental Health
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Good Advice Cupcake (@thegoodadvicecupcake) Have you ever stayed up until ungodly hours of night because your brain was being mean to you? Gotten super lethargic for no apparent reason? Or struggled to get out of bed or even shower and felt like something was horribly
Continue reading78inc. (Part 3): Advice
The advice we are often told about rising in the digital industry is to build a profile, grow your network, and to jump at every opportunity. Which is great advice, but also a little redundant. What do you do if you don’t by chance run into a good connection, or don’t naturally have the skills
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Nowadays, starting up a business or campaign can be as easy as creating a business page on Instagram and growing from there. But to create a sustainable business, more people have to be involved and growth is inevitable. Hearing more from both Reena and Aashiq, here’s how they handle networking, finding clients, and dealing with
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In a generation where the ‘grind mentality’ is commonplace, people are scared that they wasted their lives before they’ve even begun. Career changes feel like setbacks, day-to-day obstacles feel like climbing Mt. Everest, and dragging through the days feels hopeless sometimes. I’m guilty of feeling all these things, and I know too many people can
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When we’re young, we all dream about growing up. We wear our dad’s button-ups, and our mum’s heels, even though both are bigger than our entire being. But we play, and we dream about what it would be like to fit in either one, have our own house, and become a doctor, or ballerina, or
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Before you read on, I want to ask you: How many languages do you know? Mukadderat. Sortable. Tu’burni. Jabali. Mellifluous. Sombremesa. Every one of these words (phonetically spelt) come from a different language. Each one has a meaning so specific it cannot be translated accurately. Mukadderat (Turkish): the fate/fatality of divine timing. Sortable (French): someone
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“Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.” – Katie Kaevinsky Home by Sarah Fouad (Medium: acrylic – Instagram: @s_fouads.art) I am a Third Culture Kid, meaning I was raised in
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This is the sign you’ve been waiting for. That thing you wanted to say? SAY IT! That thing you were too scared to do? DO IT! Or, you know, maybe don’t. ‘Cause COVID is a thing. We’ve all been at that crossroads to make a choice at some point or other; from something as seemingly
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