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5 things I learned riding side saddle

5 things I learned riding side saddle

Like my bio says, I never quite grew out of the pony-mad stage. I’ve ridden since I was five and I’ve been riding side saddle for the last…
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Gemma TeedMar 25
5 things I learned from living life as a solo, bus-dwelling, nomadic woman.

5 things I learned from living life as a solo, bus-dwelling, nomadic woman.

I’ve lived in a bus — as a single woman, travelling almost exclusively alone — for over three years. Here are 5 things I’ve learned.
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fee plumleyMar 28
5 Things I’ve Learned Managing A Youth Football Team.

5 Things I’ve Learned Managing A Youth Football Team.

How a rash decision in the pub one lunchtime made me friends, forced me to get fit, made me rage against the FA and means I play a small…
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Jem StoneMar 25
5 Things I Learned from Running Away to Russia

5 Things I Learned from Running Away to Russia

Once, the Soviet Union burned darkly in the subconscious of every American man, woman and child. It was the evil empire, an ever-present…
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Jacob KiernanMar 21
5 things I learned doing an MBA

5 things I learned doing an MBA

I’m writing these reflections as I approach the end of a two-year Executive MBA. In some respects, doing so before I graduate seems…
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George WalkleyMar 18
5 Things I learned Working in Second-Hand Record Shops

5 Things I learned Working in Second-Hand Record Shops

From getting a part-time job emptying bins after school at long defunct Note For Note record shop in Walthamstow, to day-managing one of…
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Martin BelamMar 15
I See Dead People. 5 Things I Learned From Being Bereaved

I See Dead People. 5 Things I Learned From Being Bereaved

Just under ten years ago, my dad was admitted to hospital. He’d been at work and suddenly lost his voice. Then he’d gone home and…
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Alice BellMar 14
5 Things I learned about life and work, working as a teenage radio DJ.

5 Things I learned about life and work, working as a teenage radio DJ.

I’ve just started reading ‘Sick In The Head’ by Hollywood filmmaker Judd Apatow. When he was fifteen Judd began working at his high school…
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IanSandersMar 6
5 Things I Learned Working as a Short-Order Chef

5 Things I Learned Working as a Short-Order Chef

I was once in a workshop for senior managers at a major UK media company. Nobody really wanted to go and the workshop was flat as a pancake…
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Matt LockeMar 4
5 things we learned… from The Story 2016

5 things we learned… from The Story 2016

The Story is a one-day conference about stories and storytelling held at Conway Hall in London each year. Nigel Smith, our Head of Content…
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FutureLearnMar 3
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