Poorva Misra-Miller

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If You Want to Be Successful, Stop Caring About What Other People Think

In Brussels’ Musee des Beaux Arts, hangs a painting titled – Landscape and the Fall of Icarus, commonly thought to be the work of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting boasts a tranquil scene of peasant life – a farmer tilling the land, a shepherd with his sheep, a calm, …

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Beauty Is In the Journey — Sara Shah is Disrupting Skincare for Women of Color

If there is one thing Sara Shah understands, it’s that the path to great skin is not a race. It’s a marathon. A journey. The founder and CEO of Journ is disrupting skincare for women of color. The brand’s ethos is rooted in embracing every woman’s unique beauty journey, and breaking down silos between skincare …

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When Women Push for Peace, the World Can Change

Wazhma Frogh is a women’s rights advocate and peace-builder. She co-founded the Women and Peace Studies Organization in Afghanistan — one of the few civil society organizations working for local peace building with community peace-builders. Wazhma is the 2009 recipient of the International Women of Courage Award — presented to her by then Secretary of …

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