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New Year, New You Webinar: Expert Tips to Become Your Best Self

With 2020 officially behind us, we are excited to properly kick off 2021 by exploring innovative ways to become our best selves in the New Year. Join Make It Better Media for our first virtual event of the year: Expert Tips to Become Your Best Self, with Laura Sage Co-Founder and CEO of the Chill […]

by Better Staff
January 12, 2021

Getting Back To Work? How Older Workers Can Find Jobs in the New Year

As part of our “You Said It” Op-Ed series, we invite contributors to submit their opinion pieces. Have a submission? Contact us here. If you are older and have experienced job loss, now is perhaps the time to search for a new job. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has nearly doubled the national unemployment rate to […]

by By Helen LaVan, PhD, LPC
January 12, 2021
Libby McCarten Andrews

@Properties Severs Ties With Chicago Agent Who Said She 'Stormed The Capitol'

It’s common knowledge that what you share openly on social media may have repercussions in your professional life. And many who participated in Wednesdays’s riots at the Capitol are learning this the hard way. This includes former Chicago @Properties agent Libby McCarten Andrews, who shared photos from her travels to Washington D.C., that included posts […]

by Better Staff
January 8, 2021
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The Best Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Activewear Brands to Keep You Moving in 2021

As we head into 2021, many people are adding climate resolutions to their list along with the usual health and wellness resolutions—so why not combine the two? With endless options to work out at home now, including through local businesses, there’s no excuse not to take care of your body during our continued isolation this […]

by Macaire Douglas
January 5, 2021

The Best Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Activewear Brands to Keep You Moving in 2021

As we head into 2021, many people are adding climate resolutions to their list along with the usual health and wellness resolutions—so why not combine the two? With endless options to work out at home now, including through local businesses, there’s no excuse not to take care of your body during our continued isolation this […]

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by Macaire Douglas
January 5, 2021

4 West Coast Destination Spas Offering Relaxation, Wellness and Covid-19 Precautions

Please note that this article was written and posted before California’s recent Covid-19 restrictions prohibited any nonessential travel. Check for updates on Covid-19 regulations as well as with local authorities in the areas you might travel to before making any future plans. so consider this a guide for future trips. All of these destination spas […]

by Jeanne Cooper
January 5, 2021
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Family Philanthropy: Expert Financial Tips to Help You Align Your Money with Mission in 2021

As we turn our backs on what will be remembered as one of the most trying years in our collective memory, many are reflecting on all the need that arose in 2020 and giving thought to how to align money with mission, maximize impact, and establish or refine a family philanthropy strategy for the new […]

by Brooke Geiger McDonald
January 2, 2021
Family philanthropy

Family Philanthropy: Expert Financial Tips to Help You Align Your Money with Mission in 2021

As we turn our backs on what will be remembered as one of the most trying years in our collective memory, many are reflecting on all the need that arose in 2020 and giving thought to how to align money with mission, maximize impact, and establish or refine a family philanthropy strategy for the new […]

by Brooke Geiger McDonald
January 2, 2021

Be Kind to Your Mind: 10 Groups and Individuals That Tear Down Mental Health Stigmas

Covid-19 is taking a toll. Across the country, the strain of almost a year in a pandemic has manifested financially, physically and, for so many, psychologically. There was a time, not long ago, when it was taboo to bring up mental health struggles. Individuals and families concealed their confusion, loneliness and terror in the face […]

by Kirsten Jones Neff
December 23, 2020

Be Kind to Your Mind: 10 Groups and Individuals That Tear Down Mental Health Stigmas

Covid-19 is taking a toll. Across the country, the strain of almost a year in a pandemic has manifested financially, physically and, for so many, psychologically. There was a time, not long ago, when it was taboo to bring up mental health struggles. Individuals and families concealed their confusion, loneliness and terror in the face […]

by Kirsten Jones Neff
December 23, 2020
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