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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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It has also sparked collaborations with celebrities and popular fashion and lifestyle brands including Alice + Olivia, LoveShackFancy, Dogwood Hill and Draper James, the clothing line founded by Reese Witherspoon. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” How did you look for potential manufacturers?

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Celebrated annually on September 25, it is the first-ever global holiday day dedicated to activating ideas, goals and dreams. Dany Garcia is the chairwoman of The Garcia Companies, a global holding company, the owner of the XFL, the founder of GSTQ, a new clothing line and community and the co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions.

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