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Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives.

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Arielle Chambers Has Been Saying ‘the WNBA Is So Important’

 The sports journalist championed the league and its players well before they started breaking attendance and viewership records. By Katie C. Reilly

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  2. How the Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Gets It DoneAlyssa Nitchun leads the world’s only institution dedicated to LGBTQ+ art.
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  8. How the CEO Of 3.1 Philip Lim Gets It DoneWen Zhou doesn’t believe in working 80 hours a week and is always home for dinner.
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  9. Author R.O. Kwon Stays Up Until Dawn“I have a somewhat metal morning routine.”
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  10. Sohla El-Waylly Is Cooking Through the ChaosThe chef and YouTube star is plugging away at her next cookbook while juggling shoots with a new baby. She wouldn’t want to work any other way.
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  17. Kris Brown Is Working to Curb the U.S. Gun-Violence Epidemic“I don’t want my girls to inherit a country that has gun violence as the No. 1 killer of our kids.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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  20. How the 19th’s Editor-at-Large Gets It DoneErrin Haines doesn’t believe in inbox zero, always hits snooze, and gets by with a little help from her group chat.
    By Brittney Oliver
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