You Found a Rabbit Hole

“We’re a group of storytellers but we use a meditation headband or smart watch, allowing you to power these virtual worlds with your feelings,” says Sarah Hill, co-founder of Healium. She is not a character in a sci-fi film. In fact, if you live in Missouri, you may recognize her from somewhere pretty quotidian: the […]

This article is a collaboration between Alice and our friends at ConsumersAdvocate.org: There are plenty of reasons to join the military. If you joined up on the young side, it probably funded your education. It helped you to see the world. But one thing that the research team at ConsumersAdvocate.org discovered is that vets and […]

“Asking for help, and perseverance, and surrounding myself with a positive community was the formula for success.”

Want to be a luminary in your field? Who doesn’t? The key might be self-funding. Cate Luzio spent 23 years toiling in corporate America. She made a name for herself at major institutions including Bank of America, JP Morgan, and HSBC. And she knew how hard it would be to get a small business loan. […]

The word “sonder” is only seven years old, coined by John Koenig in his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. But it’s a term that Meha Agrawal says represents a profound experience that we all share. Sonder is the realization that every passing stranger has a complex life of their own, despite your own lack […]

“Balancing caregiving and work is hard any way you slice it,” says Felicia Kashevaroff. That’s why she and her best friend of more than 35 years, co-founder Aileen Kelly, recently launched their first mobile app, Tend. Their company, Persistiny, seeks to publish digital media and mobile apps that support women by tracking, valuing, sharing, and […]