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No Shortcuts
by, Jenna Goodman
June 16, 2015

“There’s a long history, of women especially, saying ‘Well, I just got lucky.’ I didn’t just get lucky. I worked my f***ing a** off. And then I got lucky. And if I hadn’t worked my a** off, I wouldn’t have gotten lucky. You have to do the work. You always have to do the work.”  –Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things Simply… [Read More]

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