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"For me, it meant as much to be with my kids when they were growing up as it does for me to be with Howard now that they’re grown. Every experience we had with our kids was a rare and rich learning experience. To me, the difference between success and failure for children has a lot to do with the extent of their exposure to things that are different, to things that they wouldn’t normally be accustomed to. So many children are limited by their environment and for us, it was worth it for us to invest in time away that allowed us to stay in hotels, that allowed us to go to the Smithsonian Institute and other places that provided teachable moments with our children. It was difficult when we had to get up in the mornings and get three little babies ready to go and take them to daycare and three different schools when they got older. We were clerk of the course on the swim team and then we had to go to the tennis matches. But you know what? It’s those exposures that made our childrens’ lives very rich and created moments they will never forget."

"I want them to be confident that our program is delivering the results they want."

"I can collect ideas, bundle them, summarize them and pass them on at the right time."

"You can’t go too far in one direction without balancing it on the other side. I might work until 10 o’clock at night all week long but when it’s a holiday we relax or we may decide we want to take off and spend a week or a weekend somewhere. Just as hard as you work you must relax and play and take time for yourself and your family. We had to balance what we did at home with work, a very active spiritual life and a very involved community life. I was on several boards. In fact I chaired the board of directors of Girls, Inc. for about 10 years while my kids were growing up. I’ve been very active in my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. Now, while my kids were really young I did take some time off. I embargoed work with the sorority because it can be so intense. You cannot be a bench-warmer if you are a good committed person because somehow people find you and want you to chair something (LOL)."

"We had a very strong extended family to help us raise our children. I had a pretty intense corporate job and I was traveling all over the world when I worked for Holiday Inn. Howard’s job was anchored here. Plus, my mother and his mother lived here. In addition to that, when we had an opportunity to get together we took the kids with us and the grandmothers. We literally made it a family affair. It was a beautiful thing. Even for those who are married and don’t have strong extended family sometimes your friends don’t mind keeping the kids so you can have some me time."

"I used to run so much stuff. When I was in corporate I ran a department. When I’m at church I tend to be a leader. What I recognize is that men have this thing called EGO and they need to feel that they are not only desirable but they’re needed. I think the extent to which women are strategic and smart and savvy in how we make him feel those things is really important. So many times we feel we have to tell men how things are going to be done. Well that might be fine if it’s not someone that you intend to build a life with because if you really love somebody then you understand and get into their head and give them what they need to keep them strong and to pump their ego and to make sure they feel valued. Everybody has a desire to feel valued."

"Always let your man think an idea or a decision is his, but you know it was really yours (LOL)! Always make the man feel like he is the man. Some young women don’t understand the value of that. What I have come to realize is if you want something, plant a seed, pepper it with comments and let it grow. Then one day he’ll come to you with an idea that you knew was yours all along. Just say great idea! Where’d you get that from! If you’re smart, wise and mature you’ll understand. (LOL) That works in business too."

"I was often gone, but Howard never gave me any reason to doubt his loyalty and his commitment to me. I guess I would have been a little more scrutinizing and less secure in my position if he had. The foundation of any strong relationship, especially a marriage, is trust. The moment that trust is shaken by an indiscretion it would be very difficult to rebuild that trust again. I don’t have time to run a man down and try to figure out who he’s talking to. I’ve got too much to do."

"Howard and I have had issues where we disagreed but we never thought about one of us leaving. We’ve never even talked about that. I’m in this for life."

"All relationships require compromise. Howard is a traditional male and he very much believes I need to cook and I need to do this and that. Well, I also believe that if you get home first you need to start dinner and you need to put the dishes in the dishwasher (LOL)! Sometimes women have to work on molding that. Household duties have to be a shared responsibility in a busy household, but I make sure our home is the way he likes it. Howard doesn’t ask for much. He’s pretty easy. He likes a clean, organized house. He likes for me to be available to do things with him when it’s important to him. He would like for me to spend less time working and more time relaxing but it’s really hard for me to do that in the middle of so much stuff that I have on my plate. He loves to travel, and I love to travel. Howard is spontaneous so sometimes I try to surprise him with spontaneity and that works for us. It’s all about how you view it and when you realize that the end result is respect, admiration, love, a long term commitment and affection and all of those things that are wonderful about relationships---you don’t mind the compromise."

"Howard is a good husband and father. Around Thanksgiving, I mentioned that we had never been to Paris and suggested we go for New Year’s Eve. I don’t think I was even all that serious, but Howard got to work planning the trip and that’s where we brought our New Year’s in together. That was done out of love and I know it. I’m very blessed."

"We make the trends of the shop visible and want to inspire."

"It’s new and exciting, it’s the natural advancement of my previous job."

"It is particularly exciting to see results directly and to be able to react more quickly to topics."

"I work with both the editorial team on topics on the page and for the newsletters as well as with the styling team on the looks, which can be seen on the page."

"Creating a lifelong love of learning was Mason’s goal. If children developed an early hunger for ideas, she reasoned, it would sustain them through life. Mason’s philosophy was that in addition to the proper nutrients needed to thrive, children require ideas to chew on, to properly grow. And the source of these ideas, she reasoned, was not typical textbooks. Rather than suggesting that these ideas originate in the mind of the teacher, administrator, or even the parent, Mason believed that the best resource for these ideas were books of “literary quality” or great books."

"I had to do two internships and I remember applying to a student internship at InStyle, because I have known them from the US. At that time InStyle was still relatively new and unknown."

"I ended up doing both internships in the fashion department which clearly shows how comfortable I felt in that sphere."

"I realized that I really wanted to work in this field after finishing my course."

"I also realized quickly that writing would not be an option for me and that I would much rather create concepts for fashion and flat lay pages."

"I slowly but continuously followed my passion and my own path from a fashion assistant to a junior editor, then into an editor role and ultimately as to become the fashion director."

"After 14 amazing years, I changed in 2016 to Stylebob.com as their Editorial Director, building the whole editorial team from scratch."

"It has always been about bringing outstanding clothes to women."

"The subject of sustainability was for me, like for many others, not really present at that time."

"The wearness wants to provide a smart shopping alternative."

"You can shop fair, transparent fashion with a clean conscience without cutting back on style and quality."

"We all love fashion."

"As long standing fashion editors, we all witnessed how the fashion industry has changed over the last few years."

"The industry has been becoming faster and more and more ephemeral."

"Collections change more often than ever and the worldwide textile consumption has doubled since 2000."

"More and more clothes go straight from the shelves into the wardrobe and straight from the shelves to the landfill."

"Fashion has no meaning anymore. It has become a disposable good."

"There are many different experiences that inform how I function in the company today."

"I grow up with a big Italian Irish family had the greatest impact."

"I spent a lot of time around my extended family and they taught me so much about the tendencies and perspectives of The Silent Generation."

"I used to sit in her office listening to her coach salespeople on how to build their businesses, and that exposure laid the foundation for my own career in sales."

"I founded JDSG in February of 2020."

"I had no idea that occupancy challenges would be top of mind for everyone in senior living almost 30 to 60 days later."

"Resolving occupancy challenges was my mission before the pandemic, but aligned nicely with the needs that everyone was experiencing."

"I believed I could improve sales performance while also teaching organizations to value the prospective family experience."

"I’m drawn to coaching because I have so much primary experience selling in the field, and I understand the pressures sales directors face daily."

"I’ve worked with adult children and prospective residents, and until you sit in front of families and understand what reservations, needs and concerns they have, a strategy will not be effective."

"Training is essentially the introduction of new or updated content."

"It can get people motivated and create a foundation for learning new skills."

"Coaching focuses on sales execution it’s the implementation of those skills that impacts results."

"My work is more analytical and, of course, there are some technical details that I have not used before in my work."

"In the editorial team, there is the graphic, photo and text editing."

"I now work more spontaneously on topics, which is a great advantage."

"Detention centres are either former Category B prisons, or built to the same spec. Many who have been in prison before say that the centres are worse. The men I visit are three to a room with an open toilet. There is a lot of noise and aggression. I think the place dehumanises everyone.”"

"Many people are scared to talk openly, but we can be independent listeners who are not part of the system, not trying to seek the truth of their story or question their motivations, or their past. We’re just taking what they say at face value.”"