MP is for Mary-Patton
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The Post-MBA Transition: 6 Things to Look Forward to after Graduation
It crept up on me much faster than I realized, but there they were, all over social media: photos of the graduates of...
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Poem for my Father: Eulogy at my Dad’s Funeral
On Friday January 6th, 2017, my father passed away from a sudden and immediate heart attack at the age of 57. We had...
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The power of community mentorship, and what the heck I was doing in Kenya all summer
through the ALN Mentorship Network. A large part of why I was able to accomplish so much during my summer internship with Stawi...
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5 Lessons for Startups: What I’ve Learned from Entrepreneurship in Africa
**Originally posted on the African Leadership Network blog and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative blog. While some people are nervous about doing business...
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The LeadUp: A Retreat for MBA’s to Reflect and Reconnect
**Originally posted on The Wharton Journal. School goes by in a flash, so classmate Jenna Gebel and I created the LeadUp to...
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The who’s who of health-and-fitness startups: how “fit-tech” is revolutionizing an industry
I hate to admit it, but Americans have a pretty bad reputation of being overweight and lazy. In 2014 over 27% of us...
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8 Skills to Listen and Lead Effectively: Advice from an FBI Hostage Negotiator
We’ve all had to persuade someone to do something. Most of the time we press actions on people and expect them to cooperate...
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Wharton ProductHack 2014: What exactly is “design thinking”?
This past weekend several of Wharton’s tech/design/entrepreneurship clubs organized a day-long design thinking workshop and competitive hackathon, the very first Wharton ProductHack. For...
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Behind Amazon’s Well-Oiled Machine: How the “Everything Store” Ships Everything
At 1.2 million square feet, the Amazon Fulfillment Center (FC) in Middletown, Delaware is the size of 21 football fields and employs roughly...
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The End of Q1 at Wharton: Keeping Perspective and the Unofficial MBA Letter
Last week’s exams marked the end of our first quarter at Wharton, a month and a half that flew by in a flurry...
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Diving with Manta Rays on Lembongan Island, Indonesia
Of all the footage I captured while filming Global Fusion Yoga in Indonesia, my favorite video hands-down was taken while diving with manta...
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20 Reasons You Should Live in Rwanda
After living in Kigali, Rwanda for the past two and a half years, I can’t speak highly enough about the place. The lively...
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“Happy” in Rishikesh, India
For the talent show at the end of our six week yoga teacher training program, my friends and I decided to create a...
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Cat Poop Coffee and Batik in Bali
With my sister Elizabeth in Bali for a short visit, we decided to check out a few of the tourist must-do’s on the...
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Ubud, Bali: A Yogi’s Paradise
On the mystical island of Bali in southern Indonesia is a town shrouded in jungle mist and good karma. You can’t throw a...
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Getting Stuck on the Train to Bangkok
When I was told the train from Surat Thani in southern Thailand to Bangkok could be very delayed, I brushed it off; the...
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What’s a Wat? – Temples and Bophut Beach, Koh Samui
After some yoga in Koh Phangan (no full moon parties, fortunately or unfortunately) and a few days taking advantage of Anneke’s hospitality, it...
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A little bit of Rwanda (and Agama Yoga) in Thailand
Even six time zones away from tiny Rwanda in East Africa, I was able to find a piece of home in Thailand! My...
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Island Hopping to Koh Tao, Thailand
A Thai friend of mine recommended I go to an island called Koh Tao well-known for scuba diving and for being less well-known...
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Punches and Jumpkicks and Jabs, Oh Muay (Thai)!
Once I regained the ability to walk after several Vikasa yoga classes, I decided to catch a Muay Thai boxing match – it...
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My First Stop : Vikasa Yoga on Koh Samui, Thailand
While researching my first location to feature for Global Fusion Yoga, I read a lot about this new style of yoga which only...
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Kickstarter Success: Global Fusion Yoga is a go!
Everyone always says to give your work/studies/personal projects 100% – what about 104%? (My apologies to all you rational mathematics hard-liners out there...
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Wharton Winter Welcome Weekend Part III: The Clubs and Social Scene
One of the most important aspects we learned about that weekend (aside from the academic offerings, of course) was the social scene and...
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My Kickstarter: Global Fusion Yoga
For the last two years I’ve been living and working in Rwanda, East Africa. While there I started teaching yoga and co-founded Yego...
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Wharton Winter Welcome Weekend Part II: The Orientation
The first day of Welcome Weekend was a whirlwind, beginning with coffee at 9am and ending with small group dinners until 10:30pm. After introducing ourselves...
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Wharton Winter Welcome Weekend Part I: The Introduction
This past weekend I went to Philadelphia for the Wharton Winter Welcome Weekend (I partly wondered if they held it in wintertime just...
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What’s in a (blog) name?
Descended from a Southern family with a long history of double names (Annie Lou, Mary Catherine, Anne Heaton, etc.), I was destined to...
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