Today in Global Small Business: A Global Fashion Brand Pairs Sustainability and Growth

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• A global fashion brand pairs sustainability and growth.
• Steve Jobs said your overall happiness in life really comes down to asking 4 simple questions.
• How a global hospitality brand is making it personal.
• Quote of the week: “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.” ― Steve Jobs
• Companies that change the game can change the world.
• 5 tips to become a social global entrepreneur.

Use Feedback to Drive You Further

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Co-founder, Screwball Whiskey, Brittany Merrill Peng says, “Each person faces unique challenges as an entrepreneur. I have heard comments that could have gotten me down, but instead I try to use them to drive me further,” said Merrill Yeng. “I may not be able to change the world but hopefully I can change the minds of some of the people I interact with."

Female alumni, such as Merrill Yeng, have used their time at UC San Diego to inform their careers, start their own businesses and chart their own paths to success. 

Find Someone to Help You Paddle

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"If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle." -- William H. McRaven

Do Your Part to Change the World

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Search, find your cause, change the world -- those are the words of Barton Brooks, founder of Global Colors, working to create self-sustaining grassroots projects for the common good of each community it serves.

Global Colors came after he took a trip to a small village in Cambodia. He says he was so moved by the people and their struggles that he decided to form his own organization to help get aid to people in need. To fund the first Global Colors projects, Barton sold his only asset at the time—a Shelby Cobra replica he built by hand. "It turned into education for kids and sustaining life for some widows in Kenya, so it's kind of hard to miss it that much," he says.

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