Kim Lachance Shandrow is the former West Coast editor at Entrepreneur.com. Previously, she was a commerce columnist at Los Angeles CityBeat, a news producer at MSNBC and KNBC in Los Angeles and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Government Technology magazine, LA Yoga magazine, the Lowell Sun newspaper, HealthCentral.com, PsychCentral.com and the former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Coop. Follow her on Twitter at @Lashandrow. You can also follow her on Facebook here.
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Public Speaking
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Stress
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Marketing Mistakes
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Motivation
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Steve Jobs
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Parenting
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Shark Tank
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Elon Musk
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Technology
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Future of Entrepreneurship
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Elon Musk
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elontesla@yahoo.com, really? As if the real-life Iron Man would use a lame email address like that. Or would he?