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Hooray for startup awareness media! I can't find any streaming episodes of this, BUT in the meantime feel free to binge on CareerFuel's Small Business Success Stories on our YouTube */shameless plug*

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Is this my best work? Was Miley Cyrus born to go sans clothing on a wrecking ball? If you ask me, I’d have to honestly say, not so much. But my point is you need to be ready for greatness in whatever you do, especially in things that go out into the world such as resumes, online portfolios and blog posts.

-G Peters, from our CFBlog about colonoscopies.

No, seriously (kind of)

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Baby Boomer, Echo Boomer

Our guest blogger Shannon Alexander is back with another snarky look at millennial culture, this time focusing on the baby boomers who raised us. Take a peek:

My mother, Shannon’s Mom, is a self-effacing bibliophile with an anarchist streak. My mother has always worked for non-profits and State departments in the areas of entitlements, domestic violence, traumatic brain injuries and health disparities.

My father, Shannon’s Dad, is a charming people person with an eclectic employment background ranging from non-profit work to super for-profit work via the insurance industry.

This Week’s Question: How did you feel about having to help support me as an adult?

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CFBlog: "Change of Plans: My New Job Search is Going Startup"

G. Peters pens yet another great and hilarious guest blog about how you can quickly find employment...kind of:

No longer will I be known as a lonely seeker of employment — I’m going startup. That’s right, I’m getting in with the cool kids, finding me a catchy company name — probably one that is in need of some additional vowels — and getting on the startup bus. Rolling Stones fans, you can start me up.

What was once the realm of my personal notes and musings — a.k.a. Xogdog’s Blog — could now be Xogdog’s Power Garden. What do we make? Who cares, as long as it’s SEO friendly, has Twitter and Facebook potential, and it gets me invited to all those cool meet-ups and power breakfasts that all the hip and trendy startup wizards are going to.

I think this dude I went to high school with got arrested for having a Power Garden, but good luck to you, Mr. Peters!

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Small Business Success Story: Pride Products

This is the newest installment in our "Small Business Success Story" series, which follows entrepreneurs Wendy Ferber and Andrew Nadel as they explain how their business in the promotional products industry works and how they've managed to become one of the biggest players in this "cottage industry".

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It is not someone else’s responsibility to get you a job.

Akilah Charlemagne, a former HR manager and current Director of Volunteer Services at a hospital in Atlanta.

That's the bumper from this week's blog, so read it to see the obstacles Akilah had to overcome getting a job in a new city with a new network, and then get inspired.

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Small Business Success Story: Mycoterra Farms

For this video we followed Julia Coffey, a mycologist (mushroom expert!) who moved to rural Massachusetts and was unable to find a job. Instead, she started Mycoterra Farms, a mushroom farm that now supplies to restaurants and farmers markets all over Mass!

If you've got a small business success story you want to share, give us an ask! We'd love to talk to you.

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Episode 3 of our Startup Revealed series is here!

As you may or may not know, Startup Revealed is currently following Lori Cheek, CEO and founder of Cheek'd, which is like business cards for dating. Seriously. It's pretty cool. Watch the video as Lori takes her idea to the masses!

Read the full blog here, and catch up on the Startup Revealed series here.