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While her first book was focused on no-nonsense relationship advice, this time the author applies that delivery to every aspect of life. Ahead of the release of Love’s second book, out today, Marie Claire chatted with the comedian and co-host of the number-one I’ve always tried to use my platform as a way to help and encourage people; this book is really helping me reach that goal. not friends with the group of girls who don’t want you around or when a guy doesn’t want to be with you

At 21, she joined Edmonds Music Publishing—“I was basically a song plugger,” a person who pitches songwriters’ work to artists, she says—and shortly after, she placed a client’s song on NSYNC’s final album. Justice says the film industry’s #MeToo movement is progressing more quickly than music’s because “there are different companies behind record deals, publishing deals, radio, and live entertainment. Since that leap seven years ago, Since Caron Veazey began working with Pharrell, he has been nominated for 21 Grammys Pharrell has racked up 21 Grammy nominations, including wins for Producer of the Year and Record of the Year in 2014. The success has affirmed Veazey’s place as a heavy hitter in the industry; along with 20 of her peers (including Justice, Stiklorius, and Taylor), she cosigned the letter this past winter demanding the resignation of Grammys head Neil Portnow after he suggested women need to

Some of the best-known practitioners don’t even count recycling as zero waste because it’s not always clear where those plastics are going (and the countries we used to send our plastics to, like China and Malaysia, are increasingly turning them away). And some of the stars of the movement—like Lauren Singer, of the Instagram account @trashisfortossers, and Bea Johnson, the author of Zero Waste Home—have garnered hundreds of thousands of social-media followers, all seeking to learn from their chic, clean, environmentally friendly lifestyle. and it doesn’t help that just 100 companies, all of them in fossil fuels, account for 71 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions—but the more I learn about zero waste, the more it makes sense. Sure, some of these influencers’ lifestyles seem unattainable, but it’s a bit insulting to assume that the hundreds of thousands of women watching them won’t recognize the benefits of reducing waste just because they can’t fit their yearly trash into a jar.

"You're taught you should take good care of your money and make smart decisions, but we all get tired of being so practical and adult all the time," says credit-card expert Beverly Harzog, author of Confessions of a Credit Junkie. Maria Stephens, a 27-year-old software engineer making six figures in Atlanta, racked up $11,000 in debt over years of charging meals out with friends and buying things like the $600 designer laptop bag that cost almost as much as her new computer. This theory resonates for 37-year-old Alia Akkam, a New York–based writer who spent five years diligently paying off a credit-card debt of $15,000. Even if you pay your credit-card bills on time and make at least the minimum payments, Kaplan says, running up a large balance relative to your credit limit can make it more difficult—and costly—to get a mortgage or car loan.