Tag: Grit

• A Conversation with Denise Burrell, Gifted with Grit

  

  It could have been seen as a defiant statement against resolutions, the kind we rattle off at the stroke of Midnight on Dec. 31 of any year. Instead, Denise Burrell quietly set aside the need for lofty goal setting and decided to learn a new skill instead. She thinks it was cross-stitching. She was in…

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  November 9, 2022

  2022, Artisans, November 2022

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• On your mark, get set, ask smart questions: Leadership advice from Grandpa Don

  

  My parents have passed on my Grandpa Don’s tongue-in-cheek advice about all kinds of things. His homegrown wisdom came from a lifetime of overcoming one thing after another and ended in achieving the kind of playful happiness that drew people to him and his home. words + photographs DR. SARAH THORNTON What mattered to me…

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  October 3, 2022

  Lead Outta Love, October 2022

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