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Essays, interviews, and investigations about nonlinear lives. Career changes. Starting over. Different ways to work and earn. Moving. Building businesses. Changing your mind. Plus the money, timing, skills, tradeoffs, and weird middle behind all of it.

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Jordana Rachelle smiling softly, seated with her arms wrapped around her knees against a white wall, wearing a black top and black-and-white patterned pants

What Happens Between Leaving Your Job and Your Business Actually Paying the Bills?

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A smiling Black woman in a burgundy silk shirt and gold hoops sits at a cafe table with a planner, a latte, a closed laptop and her phone face down

How to Make Money Without Social Media (And Where the Customers Come From)

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Basic gift wrapping supplies on a cream tablecloth, including a roll of burgundy wrapping paper, a tape dispenser, olive curly ribbon, kraft gift tags and scissors, next to a neatly wrapped box

Who’s Paying $190 an Hour for Gift Wrapping? (And Could You Start Before Christmas?)

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The Archive

Violetta Pleshakova in a cafe

Manifestation Not Working? When You Start Blaming Yourself

Megan Czarnyszka against a gold geometric backdrop

You’ve Done a Little Bit of Everything. Now What?

Ariana Sutton smiles at the camera while holding a white coffee cup, wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat and patterned dress in a warmly lit cafe

How Do You Make Money Living Abroad Without a Full-Time Remote Job?

Founder of Sparkle & Associates

How Do You Change Careers When You Don’t Even Know What Your Skills Are Called?

Monique Brewster in yoga pose

What Does It Actually Take to Build a Business Around the Life You Want?

Cindy Gordon smiling in black glasses, seated backward on a chair against a deep red wall

What Happens When You Outgrow a Successful Business?

Brandy Savage smiling in a black sleeveless top in a softly lit living room

What Moving Back Home at 42 Made Possible

Ashley Langham seated in a cream armchair in a camel blazer, chin resting on her hand

How Do You Start Over When You Don’t Know What You Want to Do Next?

Woman in a blue bucket hat looking out at rows of ancient stone columns on a hillside

Maybe She’s Gone

Close-up of a woman with her eyes closed and small dried flowers tucked into her curly hair

I Didn’t Want to Settle Down. I Wanted a Home Base.

Woman sitting on a white sofa with a notebook, looking out the window of a city apartment

I’d Rather Change My Mind Than Waste My Time

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