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New 5+5! Founder + creativity cosigner Sonja Rasula razzle dazzles us.

It takes a village to build a space that sincerely supports local business and cultivates creative thinking. Sonja Rasula is the mayor of that village. In 2008, the former tv design personality went out on a personal and professional limb to launch Unique Markets, a large scale pop-up marketpla...

5+5: Lexi Mainland. Award-Winning Editor. Brooklyn Denizen. Connoisseur of Cozy.

Is "bestie aspiration” a thing? Because that’s pretty much how we’d describe our feels for award-winning editor and Brooklyn cool mom, Lexi Mainland. As managing editor of Cup of Jo, one of the most passionately buzzed about women’s lifestyle sites (and prime lunchtime reading material for team...

5+5: Eliza Blank. Plant Purveyor. NYC Biz Boss. Flower Fiend.

We’ve got a soft spot for female CEOs running cool NYC companies—call it a “like attracts like” sorta thing—and a growing affection for today's contributor Eliza Blank. Founder of The SIll, Blank is the quintessential small-biz superhero, re-defining plant retail one potted perennial at a time....

5+5: The Co-Founding Women of Winnie. Tech Trailblazers. Godsend for Great Parents.

Today’s very special tag team 5+5 doubles as a high-priority heads up for all you child-rearers out there. It comes courtesy of longtime friends of 20x200, Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall — the badass entrepreneurs and incredible moms behind a visionary new tech startup tailored to the modern p...

5+5: Sarah Lacy. Punter of Patriarchy. Truth Teller. Chairman Mom.

Today’s 5+5 guest is the inimitable Sarah Lacy, a globetrotting, dragon-slaying, movement-leading, truth-telling journalist, feminist and mother-of-the-year. (Every year, really.) It’s kind of hard to fathom a single endeavor ever embodying all her ambitions, but her latest venture, Chairman M...

5+5: Samantha Irby. Best-Listed Essayist. Sass Savant. Reluctant Cat Lady.

Before reading Samantha Irby’s answers to our Q+A, we knew only that we all wanted desperately to hang out with her (editor’s note: this feeling has since reached exceedingly uncool heights). The ingenious essayist penned one of our favorite reads of 2017, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, and...

Write on! An Arty Q+A with Bestselling Author Brit Bennett

It’s with enormous pleasure (and a l’il uber fan over-enthusiasm) that we introduce today’s 5+5 interviewee: up-and-coming author, activist and brilliant essayist Brit Bennett. Bennett’s debut novel, The Mothers has stirred readers around the world with its richly wrought characters and enthral...

5+5: Jennifer Pahlka. Changemaker. Gov't Go Getter. Art Lover.

Jennifer Pahlka is busy sticking it to the status quo. The Code for America founder and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama administration is dead set on making the government work for the people through improved digitally-agile services. Our own Jen Bekman describes Pahlka...