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The Chronology of a#GIRLBOSSI’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good,and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather bethan me.—Wreck-It Ralph
1984: I’m born in San Diego on Good Friday, which was also 4/20.Before you think this is some kind of omen, let me assure you that theonly thing I smoke is my competition.1989: I smear poop on the wall in kindergarten; perhaps my first trueartistic expression.1993: My fourth-grade teacher thinks something could be wrong with me.The list includes ADD and Tourette’s syndrome.1994: My dad takes me to Wal-Mart, where I ask a sales associate if theyhave “the Ren and Stimpy dolls that flatulate.” This is evidence that Ipossess both a large vocabulary and a slightly twisted sense of humor.1997: I fall in love with my first article of vintage clothing: a persimmonredpair of disco pants. I secretly change into them in the bathroom of theroller rink.1999: I land my first job, at a Subway. I get OCD on the BLT.2000: I hate high school, and am sent to a psychiatrist who diagnosesme with depression and ADD. I try the white pills. I try the blue pills. Idecide that if this is what it’s going to take to like high school, forget it. Ithrow the pills away and decide to homeschool.2001: My parents get divorced. I’m okay with it and take the opportunityto move out and be on my own. I choose an apartment in downtownSacramento with a bunch of dude musicians. My room is a closet underthe stairs, and my rent is $60 a month.2002: I hitchhike up and down the West Coast, finally landing in thePacific Northwest. I pursue a life of dumpster diving (do not knock a freebagel until you’ve tried one) and petty thievery.2002: I sell my first thing online. It’s a stolen book.2003: I am detained for shoplifting. I quit cold turkey.2005: I leave my boyfriend in Portland and move to San Francisco,where I am fired from a high-end shoe store.2006: I get a hernia, which means I need to get a job to get health
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Chutes and Ladders experience with
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the jail bars, high school was a wa
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demonstrate airbrush makeup on a fa
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4Shoplifting (andHitchhiking) Saved
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said before, as a teenager, I thoug
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Sun’s Out, Thumbs OutBut if these
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heavy. We ran through the darkness
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No Time for CrimeI think we are wel
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Five minutes later I walked back in
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wasn’t necessarily the case. Livi
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Alexi Wasse
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“When you treat yourpossesions as
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I never set out to be rich. I had n
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Like my A-cup bra did for me, it is
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I come from a long line of hustlers
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saving money than it is to actually
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possible will make everything a who
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6Hocus-pocus: The Powerof Magical T
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going to lie: There were times when
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day, as I tap out a few strokes on
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Turns out he had a point.Flash back
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7I Am the AntifashionWhy fit in whe
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that I naturally spent a ton of tim
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They say my songs are much too slow
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I’ve played with a lot of differe
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Had I tried to fit in, Nasty Gal wo
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Norma Kamal
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8On Hiring, StayingEmployed, and Fi
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On HiringI was always able to get a
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they think Nasty Gal could be doing
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A #GIRLBOSS knows that she may not
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But Not Too RealI’ve interviewed
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As a #GIRLBOSS is ambitious by natu
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there are a lot of young people, th
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The Firing LineThere is no way arou
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lies with the greater business, whi
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couple on your friend list whom you
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special stuff. When you’re collab
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I never started a business. I start
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clothes.
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anywhere: I Googled it. There is a
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The Nasty Gal PhilosophyBusinesses
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“We’re going to do one hundred
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that with a ten-foot pole.Even if y
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Jenné Lomb
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10Creativity in EverythingEvery chi
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ever for photography.
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Mother Maria was a badass.The Russi
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Find Your FrameworkApplying to SFAI
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interesting. I saw that when the sh
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Leandra Med
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Own Your Style Like You Own Your Us
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bought them.A staple look from my b
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if the answer was no, we just didn
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Christina and I started buying new
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Own Your StyleThe last thing I’d
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Ashley Glor
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believed that I could do it, and pe
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W hat are the chances?That’s a go
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ever have imagined. Life stops for
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