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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Not only does the “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host help give mom-and-pop restaurants a huge boost through his show, but Fieri also gives back in other ways, whether that’s feeding thousands of Californians who lost their homes during wildfires or raising nearly $25 million for restaurant workers during the pandemic.

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Why You Should Keep a Journal

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I wrote ideas on restaurant placemats, long sheets, narrow sheets, little sheets and pieces of paper thrown in a drawer. This article was published in May 2016 and has been updated. When you come across something important, write it down and leave it as a legacy. And the best way to organize all those ideas was to keep a journal.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff. The experiment was working!

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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At 17, he moved to Denver and worked odd jobs, including at restaurants, gas stations and retail stores. In 2016, Berk got a call to audition for Queer Eye and decided to take a chance on expanding his brand awareness. At age 15, feeling unwelcome in his hometown as a gay teen, he left his parents’ Missouri home.

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

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There’s also something particularly poignant about sitting down to a table set for one in an unfamiliar restaurant amid the sound of strange accents and clinking glasses. Rather than remain grounded while her hubbie trots the globe, the couple have devised a lifestyle where Deborah goes too.

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What It’s Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

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That happened when I wasn’t distracted , when I left my smartphone at home, turned off the TV, stopped turning around to see who was walking through the door of the restaurant. This article was published in May 2016 and has been updated. I came up with a list of other elements that led to full task engagement.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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The lodge has a restaurant with a nice outside patio overlooking a river. There’s a restaurant near my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, that scrolls trivia questions on a few television screens all day. Anyone in the restaurant can play, simply by downloading an app. He paused for a second when talking about the water.

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