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Growth Through Emotional Intimacy

May 13, 2024

Most of us think of intimacy as the kind of thing that happens behind closed doors, some physical act that lays us bare and exposes everything we have to someone else. Take that to the emotional s...

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Red Ladies 2024: Jane Hughes

March 14, 2024

As the Director of Community Relations for Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center and Alexandria Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, family, community and service are all incredibly im...

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VIP Alexandria Magazine Announces Alexandria's Most Inspiring Women of 2024

March 14, 2024

Congratulations to the Alexandria's Most Inspiring Women of 2024 (lovingly referred to as THE RED LADIES). Each year, 12-15 local women are nominated and selected for this honor based on their rec...

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Meet VIP Alexandria Magazine's New Editor: Liesel Schmidt

March 14, 2024

Six years ago when Kellie told me that she was leaving the magazine we’d both been working for to start one of her own, I all but begged her to take me with her. And while the “taking” didn’t invol...

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Unwined: Château Coupe Roses Orience

March 14, 2024

Kermit Lynch, writing in his classic “Adventures on the Wine Route,” describes the Languedoc as “…a land of enormous possibility. These are wines that grab you by the nose and force you to pay atte...

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Red Ladies 2024: Danielle Anderson

March 14, 2024

The restaurant business is not an industry for the faint of heart, and as the director of operations and managing partner for her family’s business, HomeGrown Restaurant Group, Danielle Anderson pr...

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Red Ladies 2024: Miss District of Columbia, Jude Maboné, Living with Heart Disease

March 14, 2024

Story by Liesel Schmidt | Portrait by Jonathan Thorpe Jude Maboné is a serious lover of the law with a fun side hustle—and one incredibly important mission. She thrives professionally at her day-t...

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Red Ladies 2024: Sarah Mason

March 14, 2024

Story by Liesel Schmidt | Portrait by Jonathan Thorpe Sarah Mason is living proof that dreams can come true. Built on dedication, determination and 20 years in the salon industry, she opened Sarah...

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