Small Business
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Inae Piercy, Innovator, Educator and Businesswoman

PR for People Team
October 16, 2015

Inae Piercy recounts some of her childhood memories of growing up in Seoul, South Korea, as being pretty boisterous, girls and boys running up and down the street, shouting to girls and boys to come out and play. “We played hide and seek ‘til moms calling for their children to come back home to sleep.”

Inae also remembers that, after a full day of school, there were additional preparatory classes until 11pm to get ready for the...

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Entertainment
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Broadway Beat: What in God’s Name Is Happening this Fall Season?

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Oliver Roth
October 16, 2015

“Hamilton,” the new, hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton from “In The Heights” composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, seems to be the only show getting press notice recently. However, the summer mega-hit is about to meet some new neighbors, as nineteen productions have announced opening nights between September and December. To kick off the start of the fall season, I’ve highlighted four productions (one from each category) which I consider "...

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Small Business
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Wali Collins on being an entrepreneur

PR for People Team
October 15, 2015

Live a Regretless Life

Let today be the first day of your regretless life. If the opportunity is there, go for it. Just start with the small things and build up.

Follow Wali on twitter at @ynevano

Wali Collins has recently republished his best-selling The Y’NEVANO Book of Encouragements. Now available in electronic format on  ...

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Food
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Sweet Fluff: Dreamy Delights Cupcakery

PR for People Team
October 15, 2015

In the world of hip confections, cupcakes are the new Krispy Kremes. Everyone from Beverley Hills pastry chef Candace Nelson, who lays claim to having started it all to TV’s “Two Broke Girls” have seized on the craze. None more delightfully than sisters Inezia Lisunov and Veronika Gusakov, founders of Seattle’s Dreamy Delights Cupcakery.

Both learned their craft of cooking and baking at a young...

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Startups
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Entrepreneurs in Japan

Rut Einarsdottir
October 13, 2015

Hisato Hamada

Founder of VIVA Japan, exporter of Wagyu (Japanese beef)

Mr. Hamada is not your “typical Japanese”. After working for only one year in a large corporation in Japan, he decided start his own business, only at the age of 22. He didn’t do it for the sake of money or status, but to make a change. At that time he realized how the Japanese society views people differently depending on company...

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Startups
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Innovation Dojo: From Japan by way of Iceland

Rut Einarsdottir
October 13, 2015

A newly founded student organization focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in the land of the rising sun.

Innovation Dojo is a student organization founded in Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan. It is based on the ideology that everybody can start up their own company, and even initiate social change if they have the right idea, and the passion to bring it to reality.

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Beauty
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Royal Beauty Treatments

PR for People Team
October 13, 2015

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a beauty queen is all about?  Mandy Schendel regularly visits the Paule Attar Salon and Spa in Bellevue to receive the royal beauty treatment.  Her visits start with a Anti-Toxin Body Wrap with Green Coffee* and continue with full makeup and hair styling that was captured here in a deluxe photo shoot by world renown luxury photographer Ilya Moshenskiy. As Miss Washington in the Miss America...

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Beauty
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France by way of Morocco | Paule Attar

PR for People Team
October 13, 2015

“When I was a child growing up in Morocco, we had so many orange trees,” Paule Attar recounts in her gorgeous, husky French accent. “As a kid, I would eat oranges fresh from the tree.. . .Any time you rub the peel over your hand, smell it and it is pure heaven!”

Since 1988, she has been the president and the technical and creative director of the European-style Paule Attar Salon and Spa in Bellevue, Washington. Ms. Attar has also...

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