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Career Profile: Amanda Zuckerman, Dormify
When Amanda Zuckerman went shopping with her mother to furnish her freshman year dorm room at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, they went to more than five different stores. Their frustrating shopping experience would inspire Dormify, now a multimillion-dollar company headquartered in Manhattan.
Career Profile: Michelle Kelly, Lilly Pulitzer
"Invest in your network and relationships. A smart person once framed it out very clearly for me – the tools you have are your time, talent and relationships. Invest in building and strengthening all three!"
Career Profile: Kasie Hunt, NBC News and MSNBC
"Never let anyone take you less seriously than they take your male peers. Don’t fail to notice when that happens and don’t fail to do something about it."
December 2018 Checklist
New month, new goals.
Career Profile: Maile Pacheco and Jennifer Musselman, beGlammed
"Careers are a delicate balance of pushing your boundaries and driving toward success and knowing when to take your foot off the gas to recalibrate and ask yourself, 'Am I still enjoying this?' And if not, that's okay. Give yourself permission to grow and do something different."
Career Profile: Brooke Baldwin, CNN
"Be okay with feeling a little uncomfortable. It’s those moments that will really make you who you are – in work and life. And when you’ve found your path…help other women find theirs."
How theSkimm Got 100K People To Commit To Vote In The Midterm Elections
The midterm elections are less than a week away and theSkimm team may be campaigning just as hard as the candidates. The team launched their second nonpartisan "No Excuses" campaign in September to get at least 100,000 people to vote this November.
Career Profile: Yael Cohen Braun, FCancer, Motherlucker, and Bumble
"I think collaboration is at the core of greatness and creativity. Working together, asking for help when you need it and giving help where you can makes not only everyone’s work better, but it also makes the working environment a lot better."
