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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

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We were still not making any money. Nobody was making a salary. We were, Andy, was funding everything.

I just weren't thinking that I think we need to shut it down. I said it's...

We had run through our 401k money and you know all of our savings at that point.

We still weren't seeing, you know, a progression that was going to pay us a salary in the next year and the near future.

So we thought, all right, we had a good run at it. We think we've had it.

From NPR, it's how I built this. The show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross and I today show how a Midwestern kid named Kate Brosnahan took a role of Burlap,

sewed it into handbags and launched a iconic brand called Kate Spade.

The person behind the brand, you know, as Kate Spade, grew up as Kate Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri.

And she always loved fashion, but she never planned to work in fashion. In fact, she wanted to be a journalist.

So in the early 1980s, she went off to study journalism at Arizona State University.

And that was where Kate met her future husband, Andy Spade.

We worked together at a clothing store and I was on the women's side. He was on the men's side and one day his car broke down.

And he asked me for a ride home. Then we really started off as really great friends.

And the car continued to break down. So I think it nurtured our relationship along.

And the rest of the story, well, 30 plus years later, they're still together.

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