Science has proved that clutter in our physical world can lead to all sorts of ailments from procrastination and general dissatisfaction to increased anxiety and elevated stress hormones. Awareness of these side effects is helping us realize that the places we inhabit have become overrun with stuff—and that […]
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De-Stress At Your Desk With These 5 Subtle Yoga Moves
Plenty of things can kill you, but one of the sneakiest and deadliest causes is something that most of us do for hours every day. Here are five subtle yoga moves you can do at your desk (without anyone looking at you like you’ve lost […]
From The Bedroom To The Boardroom, How Lunya, A Sleepwear Company, Is Empowering Women
Meet the woman behind the luxury sleepwear brand, Lunya. She’s empowering women in the bedroom and the boardroom.
Can Technology Help (or Hurt) Your Meditation Practice?
With thousands of high-tech devices and apps flooding the meditation market today, find out whether using technology to find your zen can help or hurt your quest for inner peace.
Where Periods Are Stigmatized, This Tampon Startup Seeks To Improve Health And Empower Girls
Meet Molly Hayward, the female founder behind Cora, a period supply company that’s putting women and girls first and simultaneously doing good for the world.
How to Practice Self-Care At Work (Without Drawing Attention to It)
Self-care has moved from taboo and self-indulgent to necessary for success in our fast-paced, hard-driving world because it’s become central to our creativity, our passion, and our sanity. Here are five subtle ways to practice it without drawing attention to yourself.
This Startup Harnesses Wearable Technology to Fight Addiction
Lumme Labs is using wearable technology to help people break addiction, lose weight, and improve their lives.
Behind The Nonprofit That Coaches At-Risk Students And Heals Trauma — One Text At A Time
Ashley Edwards knew as a teenager that she wanted to make an impact on the world. The 27-year-old started doing social justice work at the age of 14 and was fully steeped in it by the time she reached college. And after Edwards met Alina […]
Creating an App to Connect with Adventure Seekers
Connor Woolpert has found a way to do what every person consumed by wanderlust dreams — finding a way to make a living traveling. The explorer bug bit Woolpert, now 23, early. From a young age, he traveled with his father — hiking, surfing and camping all […]
What Color Is A Woman’s Voice? Finding A Visual Language For The Hearing Disabled
Ali Mohamed is a modern Renaissance man. At age 22 he is the founder of VOUND Technologies, a company developing prototypes that could help people with speech and hearing disorders experience sound in a unique way. The technology translates sounds into vibrations, colors and images […]
Building A Team That Could Change The World
As a cofounder of Kinetic Batteries and Solvus Global, perhaps Aaron Birt’s greatest strength is building the right team to affect global change. Together with his partners, the companies are developing processes that help make everything from recycling scrap to manufacturing batteries more efficient and […]
Jeremy Blum: A “Mad Scientist” With A Vision For The Tools Of The Future
Jeremy Blum, 28, self-described “mad scientist” and perennial inventor, is a leading light in the electrical engineering, robotics, and systems architecture fields. He served as a technical lead for the Google Glass project and he’s currently Head of Electrical Engineering at Shaper, a San-Francisco startup […]
