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Three decades after the Fugees, @wyclef still blends genres and proves that the people who keep asking questions are the ones who stay in the room.
Meet the cover star of our Nov/Dec music issue:
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Rachel Platten played late-night gigs and cover-band shows for years before "Fight Song" took off when she was 33. Later, through postpartum depression and anxiety, songwriting became her medicine.
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"You have a lot of rights, particularly if they want to work with you," employment lawyer Jamie Wright tells freelancers. Here are 5 things every freelance contract should include, starting with getting it in writing.
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NAYA founder Hady Kfoury recharges with tennis, skiing and time with his family. Petra Smith triages effort against value. Five founders share how they protect their energy before burnout hits.
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Rory and AJ Vaden lost their 8-figure business overnight after AJ spoke up at work and was fired. New house, new baby, a noncompete. They started over, and it became Brand Builders Group.
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Friday the 13th says expect the worst. World Kindness Day says otherwise. Psychologists found we consistently underestimate how much our small kind gestures mean to people.
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Kristine Arakelyan, a single mother of an autistic son, was Ardook's first hire. The Armenian social enterprise lets caregiving mothers work from home on their own hours. She's now a manager, training new hires.
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The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show drew 10.3 million viewers in 2011, hit record-low ratings by 2018 and was pulled in 2019. The comeback started with a public line to fans: "We've read the comments and heard you."
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Yale's Marc Brackett has helped bring emotional intelligence skills to more than 5 million kids in 5,000-plus schools. One step in his RULER method most adults skip: naming a feeling precisely.
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New at No. 1 on our November marketing list: Loop by Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan, plus Malcolm Gladwell, Robyn Davis' Exhibit Smarter and Steven Mark Kahan's Creating Urgency.
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Nina Magon owned a lingerie store in Houston and hated the retail hours. Watching a designer remake her shop showed her a new career. Today her clients are millionaires and billionaires.
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Debbie Gibson was 18 when "Lost in Your Eyes" hit No. 1. Four decades later, she starts with laps at the community pool and a 9 a.m. "world domination" call. Her view: the second act is yours to write.
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A consultant told Matthew Ferry the meeting went perfectly, and the client still went with someone else. Ferry asked what they found when they searched him first: no real website, no point of view and one testimonial from 2019.
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John Delony spent 20 years helping college students face to face and never wanted to live on the internet. His call-in show now has more than 1.4 million YouTube subscribers. His advice is decidedly offline: put down the phone and call someone.
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Since 2005, the Range of Motion Project has delivered more than 6,000 prosthetic limbs to amputees in Latin America. Executive director Jonathan Naber says mobility means freedom: to work, to play with your kids, to take control of what comes next.
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Anthony Mazzocchi has never met anyone who says music doesn't matter. Schools still struggle to fund it. He runs the only public K-12 school in the U.S. built around daily music lessons.
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Happy Veterans Day. Former Air Force officer Sam Eckholm promised himself at 18 that he'd tell service members' stories honestly. His YouTube series Access Granted does just that. Thank you to every veteran who served.
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The 50/30/20 budget assumed housing wouldn't swallow your paycheck. In 2026, it often does. Our 63 personal finance rules update the old advice, starting with a 60/30/10 split when needs run past half your income.
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In 2024, Kristin Carver Smith's PR agency was landing national headlines for clients while she worked until 9 p.m., barely slept and privately suspected PTSD. Then she broke down. What came next changed how she leads, and the business kept going.
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Adam Grant's Vibe is new on our November personal development list. Angela Duckworth's Situated climbs a spot, and Bil Cornelius' Pray Big, Listen Bigger joins the list.
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Former dancer Megan Roup launched The Sculpt Society in 2017, and a quarter million people have used it since. She gets up at 5:30 a.m. and admits it's hard every day. Her schedule runs on committing to less so she can show up more.
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