Shannon Smith is a full-time affiliate marketer who teaches others how to make money online. When the pandemic hit, I lost my waitressing and personal training jobs. I took the loss as a sign to build the online fitness business I had always dreamed of. I sold 90-day fitness programs that included custom workout and … Read more
Kate Winslet is an actress and singer from England. She has won several awards, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award. She has won three of the four most important awards in American entertainment. Heavenly Creatures was Winslet’s first movie role. She was so good at acting … Read more
Before I became a millionaire at age 28, I told myself that I would either make it or be a complete failure by the time I turned 30. I worked hard because I was afraid of not having a job, savings, investments, or a way to retire early. There is no “magic formula” for getting … Read more
Some of the most powerful and successful people in history have become who they are because of the hard things they have gone through in life. John Paul DeJoria is no different. The self-made billionaire entrepreneur is best known as the co-founder of the world-famous hair care company John Paul Mitchell Systems and, later, the … Read more
Sometimes how good you look can stop you from getting ahead in your career. Jennifer Lawrence learned that when she got a part in Winter’s Bone because of her good eyes. But that didn’t stop her from going after the movie producers and trying to convince them that she was the best person for the … Read more
Childhood and Early Career: Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. The actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand are her parents. After she graduated from Beverly Hills High School, she went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. By the time she was 14, she had quit her acting classes. When … Read more
It’s not unusual for people to change career paths. Even the most successful people have managed to take on different roles when they were still young. Gal Gadot is one of those people. Initially wanting to become a choreographer, Gadot is now one of the biggest names in Hollywood and the face of one of … Read more
Mark Meyer, who is 32 years old, poses with one of the things he found in an abandoned storage load he bought from a local storage company.After an hour of digging through a stranger’s abandoned boxes, 32-year-old Mark Meyer is growing worried. The $225 he paid a local storage company for a truckload of someone … Read more
Benyamin Ahmed is not like most kids his age. He likes to swim, do taekwondo, and learn how to code when he’s not in school. Ahmed started programming when he was 5 years old. He had seen his father, Imran, work as a web developer, so he knew what to do. He started with HTML … Read more
College enrollment in the United States is now down 6.5% compared with 2019—the most significant two-year drop we’ve seen in the last 50 years, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. A growing number of students are opting out of bachelor’s degree programs due to rising costs and the coronavirus … Read more