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Career coach and TEDx Talk speaker says to reinvent and believe in yourself
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For the majority of his life, John Tarnoff says he “was all over the place.” Growing up in New York, he thought he wanted to be an architect, a journalist, a lawyer, until one summer he ended up working as a production assistant after his freshman year at Amherst College, and it captured his imagination.… Read more
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The love of nature bringing people together – one national park at a time
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Audrey Peterman grew up on the lush island of Jamaica where she says there was often no choice between outdoors and indoors. She was always at home in wildlife. “We bathed in the river,” she recollects. “We went to the woods to collect firewood. We went to the fields to get green bananas and potatoes.… Read more
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81-year-old pole vaulting champion on winning any challenge
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Flo Meiler may be 81, but she’s still at the top of her games. She actually competed in 18 different sports last month at the World Masters Athletics Championships in France, added three new world records to her 15, including one new American record in the triple jump and one in the heptathlon. “Do you… Read more
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A life dedicated to sharing the importance of our national parks
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Throughout his life, Roberto Moreno has worn many hats from mountain real estate developer to journalist to mountain hotelier. However at 68, his lifelong mission is not even near completion. For more than half a century, he’s been introducing the Latino community to the benefits of the outdoors and to embrace our national parks as… Read more
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East Hampton artist says, “Always have a project you love to do”
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“I used to spend hours on the rocks watching the waves splashing, smelling seaweed, collecting shells…,” Nicole Bigarwrote briefly about her strict childhood in her 2011 book, “Koukoumanias,” whichis a colorful conglomeration of her then 45-year career as an artist. To this day, she loves nothing more than the ocean and creating art. It was… Read more