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It was hard to tell who’d known each other for years and who’d just met that morning — the laughter started even before the food arrived.It was a sunny Wednesday afternoon in September, and I was joining a group of 50 retirees for lunch in Malaysia. They’d been brought together by an expat community that began with one man’s efforts to connect people across the country.The lively crowd of 60-somethings came from all corners of the globe, including Australia, the US, and the UK, and they had each, in their own way, started over here, in the coastal state of…

Chad Tredway charted a fast path into upper management at JPMorgan Chase, rising from an associate during the Financial Crisis to a senior position overseeing the bank’s $20 billion lending business with some of the largest commercial real estate landlords and developers. Business Insider featured Tredway in its first Rising Stars of Wall Street list in 2017.Then in 2021, he left to launch his own real state company, called Trio Investment Group. The company focused on sale-leaseback transactions where it purchased property assets from owners who occupied their spaces — such as manufacturers — and then leased it back to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gigi Principe, 26, who has been working for Same Ole Line Dudes, a line-sitting company, since 2023 and is now a manager. Business Insider has verified her employment. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Life after graduating college in 2019 meant bouncing from job to job, burning myself out at each one. Getting furloughed during the pandemic didn’t help, but I eventually started working odd gigs again and auditioning for acting roles. There were times when I would struggle financially, then do okay, then struggle, then do okay. It was a…

I fell into event planning by accident — tripped and landed in the mud, really.Three decades later, I’m still dusting myself off and loving it.Back then, I was working for one of the early online-publishing companies. When they acquired another firm in Cleveland, they shut down the California division, and I suddenly found myself unemployed, newly married, first child on the way, and panicking.A friend, the director of catering at a hotel, listened to me whine and said, “My catering manager just quit. Come work with me.”I laughed. “What do I know about catering?”She said, “I can teach you food.…

Before becoming the CEO of CorePower Yoga, Niki Leondakis led three hotel companies and worked as the CEO of Equinox.Roughly a year into her tenure at Equinox, she stepped down after her home burned down in a wildfire. Then, exactly a year after that, her husband died of a sudden heart attack.”I found myself in this 12-month period without a husband, without my career, and without a home,” Leondakis told Business Insider.Leondakis, who joined the yoga chain in 2020, said she wouldn’t have re-entered the corporate world for just any opportunity. She said becoming the CEO of CorePower Yoga was…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joe Lamy, a 77-year-old in Seattle who started groups at his local senior center to combat loneliness and now helps more groups develop across the country. It’s been edited for length and clarity.During our first small group meet-up at my local senior center, I remember asking everyone if they felt like they had anyone to talk to. When only half of the attendees raised their hands, it just broke my heart. I knew we needed to do more to foster social interactions.I was inspired to start organizing meetups at my local…

Adding someone to your professional network is as easy as clicking a button. But how many of those people get lost in the abyss of LinkedIn connections or in endless feeds of content?Goodword, a new professional networking startup, says it can help people maintain those relationships using AI.”We’re more digitally connected than ever before, but we still have the same constraints of the human brain,” Goodword CEO Caroline Dell told Business Insider.Goodword is leveraging AI to build tools that encourage closer connections, including a search function, reminders for follow-up conversations, and a method of making introductions. The startup describes its…

2025-11-29T10:48:05.543Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Chapter 11 protections allow companies to reorganize debts in order to become profitable again. Companies like Hooters, Marvel, Converse, and GM have used the process to come back stronger. Here are 10 household name brands that have bounced back after filing for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy often marks the end of…

American shoppers are delivering a record-breaking Black Friday, with online spending already reaching $8.6 billion by early evening and projections suggesting the final tally could exceed initial forecasts, according to data from Adobe Analytics.Black Friday online spending through 6:30 p.m. ET represents 9.4% growth compared to last year, slightly outpacing Adobe’s earlier forecast of 8.3% growth for the day.Adobe now expects consumers will spend between $11.7 billion and $11.9 billion by the time Black Friday concludes, up from its earlier projection of $11.7 billion. This would set a new single-day record for online shopping. Adobe also found that more buyers…

Amazon workers in more than 30 countries launched coordinated strikes and protests on Black Friday, kicking off the sixth annual “Make Amazon Pay” campaign with what organizers say is the movement’s largest mobilization to date.The wave of walkouts, rallies, and demonstrations runs through December 1, spanning warehouses, data centers, offices, and public spaces worldwide. UNI Global Union, which represents millions of service sector workers worldwide, and Progressive International, a global network of labor and activist organizations, are organizing the protests.Organizers say the actions reflect mounting frustration over everything from heat-related warehouse injuries and aggressive productivity pressure to Amazon’s booming AI…