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From The Founder: Gifts & Lessons
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From The Founder: Gifts & Lessons

July was a great month for H3R. We learned and grew so much as a company. The biggest highlight of the month was expanding our team. Starting the company solely as a creative visionary, I was quick to acknowledge the need for an operations team that enjoyed data, HR software, and creating infrastructures to ensure proper workflow.

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Guide Beauty Founder, Terri Bryant
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Guide Beauty Founder, Terri Bryant

GUIDE Beauty was an idea born out of love and challenge. In the prime of my career as a makeup artist and beauty educator, I started to notice stiffness in my shoulder and a loss of dexterity in my hands. There was a growing disconnect between my ability and the brushes, lipsticks and liners in my hand.

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How Audrey Gruss Founded Hope Fragrances To Shine Light On Mental Health

How Audrey Gruss Founded Hope Fragrances To Shine Light On Mental Health

My mother Hope inspired me to start Hope For Depression Research Foundation (HDRF) and to create the Hope Fragrance Collection. She was a very talented and creative woman who had extraordinary life qualities, but in the late 50’s she also had what was then called a “nervous breakdown.”

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Sugared & Bronzed Founder, Courtney Claghorn

Sugared & Bronzed Founder, Courtney Claghorn

SUGARED + BRONZED was started out of my Santa Monica apartment in November 2010 when I was 23 years old. I had a “corporate” job down the street and during the early days of the business, I would spray tan clients during lunch or after work. After a few months of seeing the business grow, I left my job to take clients full time and began to look for our first retail space.

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Social Media Guru & Founder Of Managed By Skye, Skyelar Garcia
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Social Media Guru & Founder Of Managed By Skye, Skyelar Garcia

My business started when I was 20 years old working as a receptionist at a spa and was bored just working 20 hours a week doing the same thing over and over again. What I decided was to approach an Acai Bowl small business across the street and ask if they needed a Social Media Manager. It turns out, THEY DID!

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Organizational Psychology
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Organizational Psychology

Everyone has a selection of brands that they swear by. Yes, some are more loyal customers than others, ranging from those who use a product religiously to those who merely make passing remarks in favor of a particular brand. This phenomenon begs the question: Why do people feel so strongly about certain brands?

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How Jasmine Thomas Shifted Careers, From  The WNBA To Becoming An Entrepreneur
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How Jasmine Thomas Shifted Careers, From The WNBA To Becoming An Entrepreneur

How did your love for basketball begin, and how did you get to where you are today? I started playing basketball when I was 9 years old and fell in love with it right away and fell in love with it about a year later when I started playing more competitively. I loved how the sport challenged me and that it allowed me to travel and make friends.

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Ponytail on a Trail Founder, Bradee Smith
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Ponytail on a Trail Founder, Bradee Smith

How long have you been hiking? Who or what inspired you to hit the trail? I first started hiking about 5 years ago when I relocated from Indiana to Denver, CO. This midwest gal had literally never hiked or camped in her life. I was extremely intimidated by the outdoors culture + lifestyle in Colorado but became immediately drawn towards hiking because it seemed the least intimidated and there was less of a barrier to entry.

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