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NISHITA, HOW SHE TURNED IT

“Throughout my life, I have learnt to push myself, move out of my comfort zone and walk that extra mile,” says Nishita Mantry, CEO of My Life Transcript. Nishita has turned the negatives of her life into positives. Coming from a broken home, being obese and a laughing…
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CONFESSIONS OF A SURVIVOR: I FOUND PEACE

He had a very stressful job (a mail carrier) and I understood that. My goal was to make sure dinner was ready for him when he came home and the kids were quiet. He came home extremely irate one evening so I tried to give him the space that he needed….nothing I did was good…
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BOLD AND UNASHAMED

Here, at Strut, we love hearing stories about how women have overcame a moment in life. For the past month, we have focused on women who have been LIVING UNASHAMED despite what they have been through or going through. While seeking women to feature in this campaign we came…
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CONFESSIONS OF A SURVIVOR

Have you ever felt so alone, like no one could help you? Have you ever been in such a difficult situation that you felt as though you may never make it out alive? Well, I have. I should have left him right then and there my pride would NOT let me admit to anyone that I made…
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SMILING DURING MY FIGHT WITH CANCER

Family, Love, Friends, Support, Peace, I could go on for pages on the reasons I have to smile. This is why on April 6, 2016 when I received the news that the lump I found was in fact cancerous I still smiled my brightest smile. Because I knew this wasn’t something that I…
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Life's Lemons

“2014 was embarrassing” as one of my friends put it. I mean flat out embarrassing in every sense of the word. Everything that once made sense, didn’t. Everything I had, I lost. And everything I believed, I questioned. For starters, I started the year laid off…kinda.
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THIS IS WHO I AM... GET OVER IT

As a female from a middle-class area, I’ve never known anyone living in poverty, I’ve never known anyone dealing with dreadful or unthinkable circumstances, I’ve never encountered extreme racism (towards myself or anyone else) and all sexual orientations have been…