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From a young age, KENDRA THORNTON was taught to love travel. Her parents, who owned a leisure travel agency they founded in 1972—Royal Travel & Tours—took her all around the world with them. This appreciation for other cultures followed her well into college, where she received a BA in English and French in 1996 from

SALLY LOU LOVEMAN knew what she wanted to do at age 14 when she went to a taping of The Mike Douglas Show with her mother. “I saw a woman on the set with a clipboard and discovered my career in television,” she says. Her career ladder eventually led to her position as Audience Producer

ANNE MALONE, Founding Advisor with Engel & Völkers luxury real estate, has had a variety of professions in her life, from oil exploration and water resource management, to owner of an upscale catering company and real estate developer. “While these careers may appear disparate, I feel the scientific curiosity, the management of my own business,

BRITTANY RISTUCCI WARNER’s interest in health care began when her grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. “I would frequently visit him in the hospital and I will never forget his nurse, Hazel,” Warner says. “She made him smile and laugh on his worst days, bringing such positivity to a fatal diagnosis.” That’s why Warner volunteered at

EMILY HIKADE’s aha moment came as she was heading to a small island in the Indian Ocean in 2014 when the plane she was on lost control. “As it started careening toward the ocean, all I could think about were the three little boys at home that were going to grow up without their mom,”