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Anita Verma-Lallian is the founder of Camelback Productions and a real estate developer and CEO/founder of Arizona Land Consulting. As someone who lives and breathes real estate, film production was ...

Of the dozen startup ideas I have had, some never got off the ground, a few launched and failed, and thankfully, a handful of them succeeded. I ultimately sold two of those companies on NASDAQ. I ...

When I opened my first restaurant in 2005, I thought the hardest part would be the concept: designing the space, crafting the menu, finding a chef. With a Master’s degree in finance and experience ...

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I’m a high school senior who is a first-year Running Start student at Yakima Valley College this year. Most of my senior peers around me have already had a year of navigating college under their belt ...

A year or so ago, I became a full-time mediator. While mediation had been a routine component of my 35-plus years as a trial lawyer, conducting mediations as the mediator is a strikingly different ...