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Chris Guillebeau wanted to build an online community and through that find a way to support himself. For 279 days he worked day and night. On the 279th day his earnings were $50,000 a year. Things have grown tremendously since then. This week he launched his newest book, The [...]
Peggy began to understand the power of eBay when she sold an African fertility statue for $125 that she received for free at a white elephant work Christmas party. It drove her passion to see how cheap she could buy things and how much she could sell them for. She has had some unbelievable sales.
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In 1996 Pamela Slim busted out of what she refers to as ‘the corporate prison’. For the last 16 years she has helped nurture the entrepreneurial spirits of others so they can do the same. Here is a bit of her story.
In talking to people who have either left or lost their job, they very [...]
Benay Wettle worked in IT. She didn’t realize how miserable her job was until she was on a family vacation in Greece and started to hear horribly she spoke about it. When she got home to Australia she started to search for other options. She happened across life coaching. It intrigued her. After a 3-day [...]
At the age of 14 Lucia De Giovanni’s parents did something that would forever change the course of her life – they bought her a camera. Lucia spent almost two decades studying the camera, learning from her mentor David Burnett and working as a photojournalist. Then, thinking she needed traditional stability, security and to own [...]
Courtney Carver was an Ad Sales Director for a group of luxury magazines. She was in debt, she worked all the time and she was stressed out. Then, in 2006, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and was forced to look at her life habits. She started by changing her diet and ended by quitting [...]
Erin was a young and beautiful student at a university in Saskatchewan. She had a job, a boyfriend, best friends and a daily crystal meth habit. A blessing in disguise started to wean her off her chemical addictions and yoga teacher trainings put a final stop to all of it.
Here is a bit of [...]
After months of traveling Karen and Steve decided they wanted to settle in Australia for a bit. After traveling throughout Southeast Asia the cost of living in Australia was shocking. Determined to make it work, they started doing a little research. Through the help of a few websites they figured out how to live in [...]
On New Year’s Eve 2008, Cathy lost her job. For a year she floated a bit aimlessly, questioning herself, the absurd jobs she was considering and what she really wanted to do. The idea of going to an [...]
After 5 years of marriage, 32-year-old Scott* was not in love with his wife and wanted a divorce. To complicate matters he and his wife had a young son. In hopes of doing what was best for their son and themselves, they decided the divorce process [...]
Eloise Nelson has a PhD in Holistic Nutrition. Her certifications, years of experience and specialties related to health, fitness, lifestyle and nutrition are practically endless. When a family member was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Eloise changed her diet to almost 100% raw and live foods. The results? She looks 25 years younger than she is [...]
Paula was diagnosed with lupus in 2006. During subsequent blood work, a nurse mistakenly ordered her blood to be tested for heavy metals. The results showed she had excessively high levels of mercury and lead in her blood. Paula refused surgery and chemotherapy and spent a year looking for a doctor who would address her [...]
At the age of 28 Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn had what they always wanted — six figure jobs, oversized houses, high priced cars, closets of clothes. The only thing missing? Happiness. If ‘stuff’, they decided, was not helping them find happiness, perhaps not having ‘stuff’ was how they would find it. They decided [...]
In 2007 the City of San Francisco banned the plastic bag — so did the entire African Country of Rwanda. At the time of the plastic bag ban Rwanda did not have a domestic manufacturer of a reusable option, but the Rwandan government and people viewed [...]
Mike Lieberman lived in New York. His organic apples were from Chile. While at the store one day it dawned on him that organic food transported 5000 miles, although perhaps better for his health in the short term, was an environmental catastrophe in the long run. Suddenly, Mike’s tiny New York City fire escape became [...]
Last August Brock Coffman lost his job. Tired of the corporate world Brock decided to exit the rat race and recreate the pretzels he had enjoyed in Bavaria — in Denver. He began perfecting recipes in September. In December his pretzels were in his first Denver area brewery. Here is a bit of his story.
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Emily Utter was instrumental in getting the City of San Francisco to ban plastic bags. Now she works on staff with Bag It The Movie to help other cities and towns do the same. In spite of the plastic and chemical industries millions of dollars and best efforts, Emily and [...]
A light bulb built in 2012 will last for 1000 hours. A light bulb built in the 1890s has been on in a Livermore California Fire Station for over 970,000 hours (and is still going).
Here is a bit of its story as told by Dick Jones retired engineer and member of the Livermore Centennial [...]
After three years of trying to get pregnant, Chris and Kerri were expecting twins. The twins, born 12 weeks early, would remain in the hospital for almost three months. When they finally came home, it made the most sense for Chris to stay at home with them and for Kerri to go back to work. [...]
Cookie will tell you that all children have psychic abilities until about the age of 7 and then they ‘close’. The difference between Cookie and the vast majority of us is she never ‘closed’. She now uses this ability to provide guidance to others and to communicate with the other side.
Here is a bit [...]
Scott Witsoe was unexpectedly laid off from his job. Faced with the idea of looking for a new one or seeing what he could do with his passion for brewing beer, he chose the latter. Almost a year to the day later he has a nanobrewery up and running, a tap room for customers, beer [...]
Meagan is an attorney, turned stay at home mom with two daughters, 3 and 1. She read a piece I recently wrote with another mother and emailed me to talk about her perspectives on pregnancy [...]
Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia is one of my favorite places in the world. 75 square miles of 100+ carved stone ruins dating back to the 9th century in various states of repair. If you find yourself in Southeast Asia we highly suggest a week long pass and bicycles because this place is enormous [...]
At 31, doctors told Joy Hawk she was infertile. Determined to be a mom, Joy went through a two year in vitro fertilization (IVF) process which allowed her to give birth to her daughter, a small baby girl very near failure to thrive. After doctors discounted Joy’s questions about the possibility of her daughter’s health [...]
Dr. Marcus Eriksen will quickly tell you the island of plastic in Pacific, the size of Texas, is a story created by the media. Then he will tell you – the problem is actually much worse.
Eriksen studies and leads expeditions through the plastic pollution in our oceans. Eriksen, so [...]
Bangkok Thailand has some of the absolute best food in the world. Not only is it the best – it is made on the streets and it costs but a few dollars. If you should ever find yourself in Bangkok, or anywhere in Thailand for that matter, do yourself a favor and dont be scared [...]
Isaac Hinds has been in the fitness industry for over 12 years. He started as a fitness and body building participant and fan. He evolved his passion into building websites for athletes and then into body building and fitness photography. In 2004 he started hardbody.com. A year and a half ago he [...]
A year and a half ago Kate* gave birth to her daughter. She will not hesitate to tell you she hated being pregnant. She also doesn’t hesitate to tell you what so few will, the enormous frustrations, guilt and changes required to be the mom she wants to be.
Here is a bit [...]
In the tiny, communist, underdeveloped country of Laos, along a stretch of The Nam Song River is a place of almost unimaginable fun. How can we put it? It’s a gigantic adult playground with free shots of whiskey, tolerated drug use, no rules, no police, huge dangerous toys at the bars and some of the [...]
In 1998 Kristen was 27 years old. She was a triathlete, a mountain biker, a skier and a surgical scrub tech. She was visiting her parents when an emergency trip to the hospital ended with a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. For over five years she attempted to cope with the intermittent and debilitating symptoms (exacerbations) [...]
With so many different religions claiming India as their homeland - there is always something being celebrated somewhere in India. We stumbled upon a particularly friendly group of Krishnas in New Delhi celebrating what we thought they said was Friendship Day. It was a mid-day street parade thru hopelessly crowded streets. Music, dancing, flower showers, face paint, it [...]
Maria Ross was 35. Her life was insanely busy. Unknown to her there was a small bulge in a blood vessel, known as an aneurysm growing in her brain. On August 4th, 2008 it ruptured. Here is a bit of her story.
Where were you when your aneurysm ruptured?
The month prior to it happening [...]
Jeff Klein moved to Detroit 15 years ago. He moved there for music. He quickly found himself immersed in Detroit’s agriculture and landscape scene. A decade and a half later he is a voice and leader within this community. In April, he will be opening Detroit’s first and only farm, garden and landscape supply facility [...]
Do you have the arguably idiotic and highly improbable dream of hugging a tiger? I do and come to find out, The Tiger Kingdom in northern Thailand makes tiger hugs happen. It’s awesome! Their job is to take care of tigers and they take their jobs seriously. The intoxicating beauty and allure of these majestic [...]
Lane knew her whole life she would be a mom. At 22 years old Lane divorced her husband. Six months later she came out. Nine years later she and her wife Melissa are raising their one and a half year old daughter. Here is a bit of her story.
What were your general concerns of [...]
Road Trip! As It Is takes you through Southeast Asia the way Southeast Asians do it … on a moped. So buckle up (figuratively), strap on your helmet (optional) & forget everything you learned in drivers training. There are no rules, signals, stop lights, speed limits, max cap or police out here.
Top 10 Photos: Driving [...]
It’s the annual Melbourne Cup Horse Races. Think Kentucky Derby but way bigger. So big in fact the Aussies have made it a public holiday. As it turned out the actual horse racing seemed to be of little consequence – it’s time to get dressed up and get hammered. An adult prom under the guise of [...]
Kristen was born an artist and educated a marketer. When her son was born she wanted out of the corporate 9 to 5.
After trying different things, she decided to start a business selling her art. The first four months sales were bleak. Then she got the idea to make handcrafted signs. Two months later [...]
Anushka and Eric got married in May 2010. Their honeymoon? A one year trip around the world with eight of these 12 months spent traveling 23 countries in Africa. In eight months they would travel through the majority of the West, East and Southern African countries. Their favorite places may surprise you. Here is a [...]
Some people wait for the rain, pray for the rain or dance for the rain — the people of Vang Vieng, Laos shoot big ass homemade rockets at the sky for it. And what goes best with shooting massive homemade rockets at the sky to onset the rainy season? Drinking and dancing of course.
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