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Work Culture: Should You Ever 'Hug it Out?'
While hugging may not be appropriate in all social or work situations, there's been an increase of hugging in workplaces. MarketWatch's Jacob Passy and Dr. Fran Walfish join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss.
14 min
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Is Pond Scum the New Kale?
The cyanobacteria collected from the surface of freshwater lakes and ponds is turning up in blue drinks, ice cream, lattes and M&Ms, as holistic experts and nutritionists rave about its health benefits. Moneyish's Nicole Lyn Pesce has the latest.
9 min
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Are Millennials Really Ruining Everything?
Millennials have been accused of ruining everything from movies, to focus groups and even churchgoing -- but are they just getting a bad rap? MarketWatch's Kari Paul and Erin Lowry, millennial personal finance expert and author of 'Broke Millennial,' join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss.
13 min
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Why 'Wonder Woman' May Be the Superhero Hollywo...
Can the new "Wonder Woman" movie save Hollywood? Moneyish's Kristiano Ang and MarketWatch's Trey Williams discuss how its expected success could come as a relief amid a disappointingly sluggish start to the summer movie season.
11 min
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'Roseanne' Returns But Do Working Families Look...
With "Roseanne" returning to television for a limited run, MarketWatch's Jacob Passy and Georgetown University's Sherry Linkon discuss how the show became a voice of working-class Americans and whether it still relates to the socioeconomic issues of today.
15 min
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Why Your Work-From-Home Days Might Be Numbered
While one in four Americans works from home regularly, some tech companies are dragging employees back into the office. Moneyish's Nicole Lyn Pesce and career coach Carlota Zimmerman join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss the pros and cons of telecommuting.
11 min
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Adulting: When Did You Finally Grow Up?
With a study finding that most people didn't feel they had officially entered adulthood until the age of 29, MarketWatch's Trey Williams and Maria LaMagna talk the key moments when people leave adolescence behind.
13 min
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Getting Too Many Spam Phone Calls? Here's Why
With 2.5 billion robocalls impacting phone users in April alone, Moneyish's Nicole Lyn Pesce joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to explain the sudden surge in spam calls blowing up our phones.
11 min
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Can Smiling Too Much at Work Hurt Your Career?
Monster.com career expert Vicki Salemi and Moneyish's Nicole Lyn Pesce join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about why wearing a cheerful expression is another double standard that working women face -- even though it often has no impact on job performance.
10 min
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Dove's 'Body Positive' Campaign: More Body-Sham...
Dove's latest "body positive" campaign has created different bottles of body wash designed to emulate various body types -- but some women are accusing it of "body shaming." Advertising creative director Kat Gordon joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss.
10 min
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Are Millennials Losing Their Hair Over Too Much...
With stylists and doctors seeing more people young people worry about thinning hair, New York City stylist Angelo David and Dr. Fran Walfish join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about whether cultural and generational factors are contributing to millennials losing hair over too much stress.
12 min
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Should We Ever Really Retire?
Upon the announcement of Britain's Prince Philip retiring at 95, Alessandra Malito joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss the main considerations we take into account before retirement and the one key question we can all ask ourselves - should we ever really retire?
10 min
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The Latest Status Symbol? Metal Credit Cards
Amid several credit cards debuting metal, high-end cards with almost no writing on their fronts, Bankrate.com's Mark Hamrick joins Catey Hill, Quentin Fottrell and Maria LaMagna to talk how metal credit cards suddenly became the new status symbol.
11 min
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How Gray Suddenly Became the New 'It' Color
As McDonald's becomes the latest brand embracing the color gray, celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch and color expert and consultant Kate Smith join Catey Hill, Quentin Fottrell, and Nicole Pesce with why everything is suddenly going gray.
9 min
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What Every American Worker Can Learn From Trump...
Monster.com's Vicki Salemi and Jacob Passy join MarketWatch's Quentin Fottrell and Alessandra Malito to talk why the first few months on a new job is important, and what the American worker can learn from Trump's first hundred days in office.
16 min
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Can Having a Foreign Accent Help You Get Ahead?
John West of New York Speech Coaching and Moneyish's Kristiano Ang join MarketWatch's Quentin Fottrell and Alessandra Malito to talk about how having a foreign accent can impact success in the workplace and beyond.
15 min
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How Women Can Avoid Getting 'Manterrupted' at W...
According to a new study, female Supreme Court justices are interrupted three times more often than the opposite sex by their male colleagues. Moneyish's Kristiano Ang and communications expert Leslie Shore join Quentin Fottrell and Silvia Ascarelli to talk how women can counter 'manterruption' in the workplace.
9 min
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage Talks Broadw...
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "SWEAT" follows a group of working-class friends during a pivotal time in American History. Playwright Lynn Nottage joins Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero to discuss the inspiration for her work and the honor of being the first woman to receive two Pulitzer prizes for Drama.
17 min
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The Liquidator: From Flipping Pickled Peppers t...
Jeff Schwarz, known as "The Liquidator," joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about his many efforts to buy and sell merchandise -- from coffins to pickled peppers.
12 min
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How Parents Can Help Their Kids by Doing Less
Author Michele Hutchison joins Moneyish's Catey Hill and MarketWatch's Quentin Fottrell to discuss the book, "How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids (and Themselves) by Doing Less," and why less can often be more when it comes to our kids.
10 min
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Got a Job Offer? Here's How Not to Get it Resci...
MarketWatch's Jacob Passy and Lynn Taylor, workplace expert and author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant," join Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to break down the top unexpected ways you can lose a job offer.
17 min
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The Cost of the Perfect 'Promposal'
Nicole Lyn Pesce joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to discuss how teenagers are dropping hundreds of dollars, not on prom night -- but on "the promposal."
7 min
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What a Depression-Era Purse Can Tell Us About W...
MarketWatch's Rachel Beals joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about a recent discovery of a 1930s clutch purse in a Chicago theater, and what its contents can tell us about women in 2017.
10 min
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'Adulting' Classes Teach Millennials How to Gro...
MarketWatch's Nicole Lyn Pesce joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about the budding concept of "adulting schools," which teaches millennial students key life skills.
8 min
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Why Bottled Water Beat Out Soda as America's Pr...
MarketWatch's Emma Court joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk why the consumption of bottled-water increased in the U.S. while carbonated soft drinks fell -- and whether we ultimately need to be consuming either.
12 min