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I found home in a person before I found it in a place. In January 2017, I met my now-husband — a 6-foot-3 Indo-Fijian man with kind eyes and a deep, soothing voice — on Bumble in Canada.At the time, I was a New Yorker living in Toronto temporarily. I had a couple of childhood friends in the city, and I was bouncing between Airbnbs, treating Toronto as a short-term reset to help me heal during a tough time.I wasn’t looking for forever on the apps: just casual connections, maybe even a fling.In New York City, I had always felt…

When Matt Navarro started college, he had his mind set on teaching history and coaching sports.Roughly 28 years later, he’s leading drinkware giant Stanley 1913, part of PMI WW Brands, LLC.Navarro told Business Insider that he realized teaching wasn’t the right fit, though he kept his passion for coaching and still coaches his son’s high school football team.After college, Navarro launched his career in sports management before climbing the ranks to his current position, where he’s served as global brand president for the past two years.Today, Navarro oversees around 1,500 employees at the brand, which is best known for its…

New York just got goopier.Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Kitchen is built for a Los Angeles crowd. It is health-pilled, vegetable-forward, and full of avocado. Indeed, the shop opened nine locations in LA and four more in the Bay Area, ripe for biohacking tech bros.In April, Goop Kitchen officially hopped coasts. The brand opened a ghost kitchen in Midtown Manhattan, ready for pickup and takeout.It’s a big bet for Paltrow, whose business has faltered from its late 2010s peak. Goop underwent multiple rounds of layoffs, executive turnover, and business shutdowns. The brand began as a hub for articles about trendy health solutions;…

Family medicine physician was the best-paying job in seven states last year.Business Insider previously ranked the highest-paying jobs in the US using May 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, we wanted to see what pays the best on average by state and in Washington, DC.To do so, we only looked at occupations with both specific employment and average annual wage estimates. We ranked those with at least 1,000 employees to determine the best-paying position for each area. We excluded catchall job titles, such as a grouping for physicians not listed separately.You can hover over the map below…

Armed with fuzzy towels and gobs of sunscreen, Americans flocked to pools and beaches on Memorial Day to kick off the unofficial start of summer.However, there may be fewer lifeguards perched atop their towers this year as the US tightens its immigration process and bilateral relations shift.”Our number of BridgeUSA lifeguards is down this year,” Mike Collins, director of International Aquatics at Continental Pools, told Business Insider. “Specifically, many students from Turkey could not participate because they were unable to secure embassy appointments.”He added, “This is disappointing for us given our long history with Turkish participants, and for the students…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kendall McGill, a 32-year-old project manager based in Baltimore. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’d been working as a project manager at a retail pharmacy company for a while, but a few months ago, I started looking for something new. I hated my role, and it felt like it hated me.I started searching internally and externally for a new job, and I ended up landing an internal transfer for a different project manager position. It was a lateral move, but I got a 5% pay increase.I’ve been using a job…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ryan Saltzman, vice president of Banner Wholesale Grocers. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I was a junior in college, I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted to do for a career. Then, my dad called.I’d grow up watching my dad and grandfather work hard at Banner Wholesale Groceries, the company that my great-grandfather founded. That day on the phone, my dad explained that he had recently bought out my cousins’ share of the business. Banner was doing well, but not phenomenal, and my dad wanted…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Victoria Lee Jones. It has been edited for length and clarity.As my son Connor was getting ready to turn 2, I knew I wanted to redesign his room to teach him independence. As a single mom who also runs a business, it has always been a priority for me that he learns to do things on his own, no matter his age.As he started to outgrow his crib, I spent about six months considering how to design a room that would be functional, beautiful, and give him the independence I’d prioritized.He’d…

Last year, I moved from England to New York. I’d spent most of my life living in London, and then two years exploring Europe on a sailboat.After years in a similarly large city and lots of research on what to expect from my move across the pond, I thought I’d be well prepared — and, if not, I figured that my time at sea might give me the skills to handle the unexpected.Despite all my preparation, though, I was still caught off guard by a few surprises.Starting over in a new country was more exhausting than I’d expected The process…

Choosing a city to live in is a personal decision, but in an increasingly expensive housing market, affordability is more important than ever.”Every year we ask consumers what they’re looking for in a place to live, and this year consumers overwhelmingly cited that they were looking for value and affordability,” US News & World Report consumer lending analyst Erika Giovanetti told Business Insider. “They even said that they’re looking for affordability over quality of life and desirability.”US News & World Report analyzed more than 850 US cities and ranked them based on four key indexes: value, quality of life, desirability,…