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Nov 21, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Emily Rich
When it comes to accessibility and affordability of mental healthcare services, we’ve come a long way, but we still have so far to go. Cancer patients deserve better. When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I was flooded with information. I was handed a piece of paper by my surgeon that listed about a dozen clinicians that I needed to meet with over the next few weeks just to start my cancer journey. And not a single one of them was a mental health professional.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Emily Rich
The healthcare system makes my head spin sometimes. Here I was – 35 years old and 38 weeks pregnant in January of 2022. Waiting to see my oncologist atMSK for my yearly cancer check-up (because PSA: your friends with cancer are never ‘done with cancer’). As I sat in the waiting room with Ian by my side and our first baby in my belly, something strange came over me – a sense of two completely different parts of my identity colliding…no, wrestling…with each other.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Emily Rich
On April 12, 2019, an incredible team of surgeons at Columbia University led by this hero of mine, Dr. Roshni Rao, removed a malignant tumor from my right breast. And every April 12th since, I celebrate by taking a walk. Sounds boring, I know. But here’s why:Read moreEntering the cancer world is scary and it takes a lot away from you but that tumor was one thing I was happy to part with. Surgery was my first giant leap into treatment, so this was a big day.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
community.thriveglobal.com | Emily Rich
I was 32 years old when I was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. Exactly half the age my paternal aunt was when she was diagnosed with the same cancer. My fiance and I had just moved to New York from Los Angeles only weeks prior. Read moreThe boxes weren’t fully unpacked in our new apartment when one night, while laying in bed, I felt a lump. A few weeks (and many doctor appointments, scans and tests) later, I heard the words, “you have cancer”.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
utilitydive.com | Emily Rich
In the US, residential electricity customers outnumber business customers by nearly 7:1. However businesses, including small-to-medium businesses (SMB) and commercial & industrial (C&I), will continue to have an outsized impact on progress towards our clean energy future due to their massive grid impact.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Thibault la Droitte |Fi Case |Alistair Vince |Emily Rich
Can established brands still be challengers? Or is this easy to say but hard to do within big organisations with lots of red tape? Covid-19 had a number of businesses acting like start-ups, but many have since largely returned to their old ways. Did many, or any, maintain a challenger mindset? Or learn anything insightful from how they operated during early pandemic years? Are any still acting agile as a result? If so, how? Our network replied…The biggest challenge for large organisations is inertia.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Svilena Keane |Dani Valkova |Ashley Bolser |Emily Rich
On 29 July, Elliott Starr and Beatriz Zambrano announced the launch of ‘Alan Watts – The Awakening’, a passion project reviving the British philosopher Alan Watts using AI. In an interview with MediaCat’s Content and Social Media Editor, Svilena Keane, Elliott discussed the inspiration behind the project and walked us through its development. Hi, I’m Elliott. I’m a Creative Director working at Impero in London. Prior to this, I worked at a few different agencies.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Chris Alderman |Matt Garbutt |Emily Rich |Kyle Johnson
You.com, Andi AIandPerplexity AIare just a handful of companies, alongside the larger players including Bing and Google, that have been mooted around the SEO industry as those capable of changing the way information is found and consumed online. Granted, their existence (the lesser known at least) has remained very much in the periphery of those operating, or with an avid interest in, the SEO and search industry.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Jenni Romaniuk |Emily Rich |Chris Jefford |Mike Chivers
Dear Marketers,It’s because I care about you, that I have to let you know that you aren’t making very good media choices right now. I understand, its challenging with so many platforms and changing algorithms that you naturally want to experiment and experience the thrill of a new media format. I get it, I do. But you keep making the same mistakes over and over again, blowing the budget, chasing the next ‘media’ high.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Duncan Bell |Emily Rich |Tiffany Horan |Adele Walton
In Scott Galloway’s most recent No Mercy/No Malice blog he talks about the threats to Hollywood, and towards the end he mentions the threat of AI. ‘Bangkok-based directors aren’t the only ones coming for Hollywood jobs — so is AI. The industry is a cornucopia of AI use cases. You could spend $80,000 on a good sound designer, or you could spend $1,000 for an annual subscription to an AI tool that does slightly inferior work. Slightly.
