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Despite ongoing health battles, Connor Turner has been able to start, and grow, his own lawn care company with the help of his father.
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Nothing’s ever been easy for 15-year-old Connor Turner, but that hasn’t stopped him from running his own landscaping company – A Cut Above Lawn Care Service.
The Bennettsville, South Carolina, native was diagnosed with a combination of gastrointestinal motility disorder and acute toxic colitis, with dilatation of the colon, when he was a small child.
“Connor’s journey actually began in 2010 – that’s when he got really sick,” says his mother, Kim Turner. “What Connor has is not curable, but he’s learned how to deal with it and how to live with it.”
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After 13 years, Diaz Group is still growing by emphasizing self-development in all aspects of the business.
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As president of the Chicago-based Diaz Group, Rafael Diaz was looking for a better way to manage his stress. He found meditation and became completely captivated by it. When his team noticed, they were quick to laugh. “It started as a joke,” he says. “They used to make fun of me, especially my family. Back when I started my own self-development deal, I was a high-strung person…I started to get into mediation to learn to control my emotions. When you’re a business owner, you get so many problems in a day. I had to find some way to think clearly.”