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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with James McQuillan, a telecoms consultant who appeared on the UK version of The Apprentice in 2009. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A few years after I appeared on “The Apprentice” in 2009, I was in a procurement meeting.…

As millennials, my husband and I have long been aware that our likelihood of home ownership was abysmal. After all, the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis was still fresh in our memories as we began designing our future. So, in 2009, when we got the opportunity to have our own home…

At 19, I had the shocking discovery that not only did I have a different name when I was born, but that I was adopted from Colombia.When I was adopted, my birth name was immediately changed, and after years of fighting tooth and nail to fit in with my family,…