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It is regular Monday morning and I am scrolling through my list of friends wondering if there’s anyone I can call up to meet

It’s 2016 and I’m working at RiseUp Summit heading the Content department (which largely consists of speaker acquisition). My then co-worker—now best friend—and I

I once wrote a love letter to New York. I know, it’s cheating, but it came from a really honest place. In the letter

What happens when you fail? In college I did really badly on a midterm. I was so embarrassed because it was a subject I

I still remember it clearly, that time in my life where I was driven by anger. I remember the fiery feeling of something sloshing

You’re on a plane moving to a new country. The plane lands and you exit into the cool fresh air. You take a deep

Working Women

Safe Spaces

Dear Cairo

Failure

Anger

Starting

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