Veterans are no strangers to crushing entrepreneurship. Stepping out of combat boots and into bootstrapping businesses, vets owned nearly 2 million businesses and employed more than 5 million workers in 2018, according to the US Small Business Administration. Margo Jordan exemplifies this by prioritizing a mission to boost self-esteem among children. She founded Enrichly, a … Read more
Kevin Bacon is opening up about how he and his wife lost “most of our money” in Bernie Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. In an appearance on this week’s episode of Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes’ “Smartless” podcast, the 64-year-old “Footloose” star explained that he and wife Kyra Sedgewick were among Madoff’s 40,000 victims. … Read more
Tom Hanks may just be the most modest man in Hollywood. Despite building a career that spans more than 80 films and six Oscar nominations, the 66-year-old actor commented in a recent interview that only a handful of his movies are “pretty good.” Speaking with People Magazine while promoting his debut novel — a fictional … Read more
In 2017, after I graduated from college, I started working as an engineer at an oil company. I was 23 and making $98,500 a year. At first, I thought I had my dream job. But after seeing senior leaders work 60-hour weeks with routine travel, I realized that it wasn’t the lifestyle I wanted. My … Read more
HBO’s “House of the Dragon” hasn’t aired its second episode yet, but that hasn’t stopped the network from greenlighting it for a second season. The first episode of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series — set 170 years before the events of the original show — set an HBO record for the premiere of a … Read more