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An emotional person’s guide to letting go of regret

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on June 14, 2018January 8, 2019

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the flow of events shape a person’s life. Every choice…

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Empathy and the workplace

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on May 3, 2018May 2, 2018

I think this is the first time I’m covering another more serious topic so close…

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An emotional person’s stages of dealing with losing friends

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on April 19, 2018April 25, 2018

A few years ago, I had a mass purge of people in my life who…

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All in due time – for impatient people unsatisfied with life

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on March 15, 2018August 2, 2018

How impatient am I? I’m so impatient that I get road rage walking behind people…

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Just introverted extrovert things

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on February 8, 2018February 7, 2018

Officially, my personality type via this scarily accurate quiz is ENFP. So technically, I’m an extrovert by…

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Winter activities – in other words, getting myself resocialized

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on February 1, 2018January 23, 2018

After getting out of retail hell (I was working 6 days a week last holiday),…

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“You’re not like others” – okay, but what does that mean?

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on January 18, 2018March 22, 2021

This isn’t my usual post, but it’s something that’s been on my mind and I…

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Career tips from some fashion pros and how they’re actually relevant

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on December 28, 2017April 8, 2018

Hi everyone! For those of you who noticed, I’ve been MIA for two weeks, but…

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Organized chaos- how I personalize my room

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on December 7, 2017December 6, 2017

I remember when my family first moved in, my bedroom felt so desolate. Our house…

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Career hunt of a 20-something, aka. let’s have another life talk

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on November 30, 2017November 29, 2017

There’s a quote I live by that goes like “you are here because of choices…

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Oh hey, I guess I’m an entrepreneur now!

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on November 2, 2017April 8, 2018

Entrepreneurship is such a broad term. It seems like when people think “entrepreneurship”, they think…

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Two things I’d tell my nineteen year old self

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on October 26, 2017December 11, 2017

In an ideal world, I’d be immortalized at nineteen (I’m turning nineteen for the fourth…

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Three life lessons from three sassy and successful women

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on August 10, 2017October 10, 2017

Over the past weeks, Onah and I have been talking about starting a new category.…

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