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#perrion-winfrey

Curiosity is foundational in the arts, as demonstrated by the Menil Collection's exhibition, which transformed a gallery into an education room through public programs.

Successful founders are comfortable being uncomfortable. Forging a new path as an entrepreneur isn't easy work. There may be times when you're the only person who believes in your idea, or where you're the only person who looks like you do in a meeting room.

Research from the Brand Buildings Group shows that people are 74% more likely to trust someone with an established personal brand.

"I'm not [hiring] anyone in between," he says, noting that he recently spoke with a promising candidate who said she'd not used Claude Code-nor had she built anything with agents. She didn't get the job.

Why do I get to be the runner, and these guys get to be the homeless guys on the corner? Why can't we all be runners? She didn't have an answer. It would've been easy to let that question dissolve with her footsteps. Most people would have. But Mahlum saw something in those men that others had missed.

For years, Lorraine Pater had her eyes on the prize - making partner at KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms. She had interned at the company for two summers in college and joined its ranks of auditors right after graduating. She recalls spending one New Year's Eve doing an inventory audit of diamonds - counting them, measuring them and looking at their color and clarity to ensure they passed inspection.

Oprah Winfrey has spent years turning her private health journey into a public conversation - and, at times, a lucrative business. The billionaire, real-estate mogul, talk-show host, journalist, actor, and producer has just released her 12th book: "Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like To Be Free." The book, which she co-authored with Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, a doctor and professor at Yale's School of Medicine, dives into the role of GLP-1 drugs to facilitate weight loss.

In a recent interview with Interview magazine, Goldberg opened up about her solo life, which she happens to genuinely love. So much, in fact, that she says she plans to stay single because, as she put it, "in the last 25 years, I recognized that not everybody's cut out to be in a relationship." She continued, revealing that she doesn't ever "want to live with anybody," echoing her 2016 statement to The New York Times when she famously said "I don't want somebody in my house!"

In an era obsessed with shortcuts, overnight success, and polished social media profiles, adversity is often treated as something to avoid. Something unfortunate. Something that signals failure. That assumption is completely wrong. Adversity is not a flaw in the entrepreneurial journey; it is, in fact, the training ground, the pressure that sharpens one's judgment, accelerates their adaptability and forges the kind of resilience no accelerator, MBA or funding round can manufacture.

Technophile Anne Goldberg has become accustomed to formatting PowerPoint presentations in her career as a recruiter. As a result, when she found herself between jobs in the fall of 2013, she was happy when a friend paid her a fee to create a slideshow for a relative's 80th birthday party. The guests loved the display and congratulated Golberg, then 61, on her digital prowess, which dates back to being an early adopter of computers in the 1980s. She thought nothing more of it.

Michael Palmer, CEO of McConnell's Fine Ice Creams, didn't plan to take over one of California's most beloved ice cream brands. After years of flying around the country running branding programs for major companies, Palmer was already questioning what the next chapter of his career might look like. Then, out of nowhere, his house burned down in a massive wildfire near Santa Barbara.

A colleague and I launched a new company after our previous employer closed. We divided responsibilities so she handled manufacturing and distribution while I managed digital content and marketing. My side of the business grew steadily. But within six months, her operational area began to falter. I began to step in to keep physical projects moving, and key infrastructure on her side wasn't maintained. Despite having access to shared digital project management tools, she frequently framed it as a communication problem.

The average American is typically pretty content with working a 9-5 job, making a decent salary, and taking the occasional vacation. But to be a successful person and lead a luxurious lifestyle, one multimillionaire founder says it's time to come to terms with the fact that work-life balance doesn't really exist. "If you are leading an extraordinary life to think that extraordinary effort wouldn't be coupled to that somehow is crazy," Emma Grede, founder and CEO of Good American and Skims founding partner, told The Diary of a CEO podcast.