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Impatient de compter un compatriote supplémentaire au Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé a été déçu. L’attaquant français ne s’attendait pas à voir ses dirigeants écarter la piste menant au défenseur central Ibrahima Konaté dont le contrat à Liverpool expire en juin prochain. L’information a surpris. Cette...

Malgré la Ligue des Champions remportée la saison dernière, Luis Enrique n’est pas rassasié. L’entraîneur du Paris Saint-Germain reste déterminé et sent encore une marge de progression pour son effectif. D’où la volonté de ne pas perturber son équilibre pendant les mercatos. Ce n’est pas dans les ha...

Celebrity event planner Ed Perotti told Business Insider about his career trajectory and the trends his clients can't live without.Jaime NeeseEdward Perotti is a celebrity event planner with clients including Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas.He got his start planning events after being laid off — now he refuses jobs he doesn't want to do.He told Business Insider the top trends among A-listers include holograms and hyper-local cuisine.I fell into event planning by accident — tripped and landed in the mud, really.Three decades later, I'm still dusting myself off and loving it.Back then, I was working for one of the early online-publishing companies. When they acquired another firm in Cleveland, they shut down the California division, and I suddenly found myself unemployed, newly married, first child on the way, and panicking.A friend, the director of catering at a hotel, listened to me whine and said, "My catering manager just quit. Come work with me."I laughed. "What do I know about catering?"She said, "I can teach you food. I can't teach you contracts or people."Needing a paycheck, I said yes. Within six months, I learned that brides, their mothers, and chefs were a volatile mix — and that I was not built to referee that trio. But I loved hospitality, so I moved into hotel sales. That job introduced me to professional event planners. I had no idea the industry even existed.From theater kid to event producerI spent my childhood in the theater — acting, stage managing, and building sets. Event planning turned out to be a new version of that: someone gives me a script, I cast it, design the set, direct the lighting, and make sure the audience feels something.That realization changed everything. Once I joined the planning side, my career just exploded.Over time, I've worked with high-profile companies and private clients like Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas.At this stage of my career, I say no more often than I say yes. I choose clients who share my ethics and understand that my job isn't to be a servant but to be of service. You hire me for my expertise and unique perspective. If you're looking for someone to agree with everything, I'm not the right person.My team jokes that I'm the love child of Martha Stewart and Anthony Bourdain: I can make things exquisitely beautiful and on brand — but I'll walk out if a client crosses a line. I have opinions. I'm direct. But that's why people trust me.I run my pricing like a law or architecture firm: you pay for my intellectual property and my team's time. Everything else is a pass-through cost.If we rent furniture or hire a caterer, you'll see the exact costs. I'd rather a client sign vendor contracts directly than suspect hidden profit margins. My reputation is all I have.Could I charge six figures for every event? Sure — and sometimes the numbers get there. But I can't hand someone a million-dollar invoice with a straight face unless the value is real.I also push clients to incorporate community give-backs into their celebrations. If you're spending that much money, something good should ripple out from it.What's in — and what's tiredIf you describe an event you saw on "Page Six," I'll stop you mid-sentence. That was someone else's idea, for someone else's story. Let's find out what moved you and build from there.Please, no more white-marble bars and faux-mid-century "modern" décor. We had a golden opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent how people gather, but most of the industry reverted to the same old formula: long tables, centerpieces, and predictable menus.The trend I love most is local, local, local — sourcing food, wine, and design elements from wherever we're hosting the event. If you're in Montana, give guests trout, not imported fish. If you're in Paris, let them taste real French…

The author is happy being the mother of an only child.Photo credit: Lisette GarciaI love being a mom more than anything, but it's also the hardest job I've ever had. I have one daughter, and I don't want to have another child. People warned me that motherhood "would change everything," and they were right. However, some of the things I was told were different from my experience. After my beautiful daughter turned one, I waited for the feeling that many parents talk about — the feeling of yearning for another baby. The excitement I often heard of when trying for baby #2, along with the fantasy of pushing a double stroller around the neighborhood.But what I felt instead was something different. I felt at peace. I felt complete. I felt like my family of three brought me certainty. I wasn't secretly hoping for another baby to add to our family. I felt done. And for that, I'm not (and never will be) sorry.I love my daughter, but motherhood is also a jobI love being a mom more than anything in the world. I love my daughter so much that it brings tears to my eyes just to think about her. But it's also the hardest job I've ever had — and that's a part of motherhood that's talked about less often when the topic comes up. More often, people talk about the magic of having kids and how it goes by so fast. However, there's also the mental load that crushes you some days. And no matter how much you love your child, you can still crash out from exhaustion and overstimulation.I'm one and done because I know myself and what I can handle. I don't see myself doing multiple rounds of this rodeo. I know what an incredible mother I can be when I'm not stretched past my edge, and I think having another child might do exactly that.As a new mom, I discovered the narrative that "good moms" are supposed to want more — and want to do more. More children, more overstimulation, and more sacrifice. And that's where I draw the line. Personally, I feel like having a second child would be incredibly taxing for my mental health. I'm already stretched thin — I'm a host on the syndicated morning radio show "The Fred Show," the CEO and founder of The Mami Collective, and the primary caregiver (or, depending on who you ask, the default parent) to my 18-month-old daughter.Having another baby would likely push my marriage to the ultimate test. I've also spent 12 years building my career — the one I'm so proud of, that brings me so much joy — and I feel it would make me compromise much of that hard work. So, instead of having another child, I'm choosing myself. And because I'm choosing myself, my daughter has the most fulfilled and happiest version of me.The author feels having just one child gives her more emotional bandwidth.Photo credit: Lisette GarciaI'm making this choice for myself, my husband, and my daughterI'm choosing to do what I can to prevent becoming a mom who is hanging on by a thread. I want to pour everything I can into my daughter and give her the best version of myself, and to do so, I need to have emotional bandwidth. While I'm glad to be a mother, I think being the mother of an only child will allow me to do all these things in the best balance — for my daughter, for my husband, and for myself.I know some people may judge my choice not to have another child, but I don't want to disappear into motherhood. I have an identity outside that part of myself. And I'm not here to fit into anyone's narrative that wants me to lose myself to prove that I love my child.I'm allowed to say that my body has been through enough from my pregnancy. I'm allowed to say that my mental health matters. I'm allowed to love my child with everything I have, while also loving my decision to be "one and done." Because motherhood doesn't come with an award for burnout. My daughter…

Niki Leondakis said yoga was key in her healing process after the loss of her husband and home.Matthew DeFeo for BINiki Leondakis became CEO of CorePower Yoga after losing her husband and home in a 12-month period.She said her decades-long yoga practice helped her heal and the CEO role at CorePower Yoga felt like "a calling."Leondakis told her sister she wanted to lead CorePower Yoga before the brand approached her.Before becoming the CEO of CorePower Yoga, Niki Leondakis led three hotel companies and worked as the CEO of Equinox.Roughly a year into her tenure at Equinox, she stepped down after her home burned down in a wildfire. Then, exactly a year after that, her husband died of a sudden heart attack."I found myself in this 12-month period without a husband, without my career, and without a home," Leondakis told Business Insider.Leondakis, who joined the yoga chain in 2020, said she wouldn't have re-entered the corporate world for just any opportunity. She said becoming the CEO of CorePower Yoga was her "dream job," even before it was offered to her.A core part of her lifePrior to leading CorePower Yoga, which has over 220 studios across the country, Leondakis said she always had a "strong discipline around physical activity." The CEO said she's been practicing yoga for over three decades."I started yoga because I thought it would help my running when I was marathon training," Leondakis said. Eventually, though, she said she found herself doing less running and more yoga.Leondakis became so passionate about the practice that she received her 200-hour yoga certification — not because she wanted to become a teacher, but because she desired a deeper understanding of the history and philosophy behind it.When Leondakis found herself in a turbulent period following the loss of her husband and home, yoga became key to her healing process. Yoga, she said, helped her find gratitude for what she had, rather than focusing on what she lost."The one thing that anchored me, grounded me, and helped me process all my emotion was getting on my yoga mat every single day," Leondakis said.The CEO said she's been practicing with the same yoga teacher for over a decade, and at the time, she was also practicing at CorePower Yoga, near where she lived in San Francisco."It carried me through the most difficult times," Leondakis said.Getting the jobLeondakis had her eyes set on leading CorePower Yoga before she knew there was an opening.After the loss of her husband, the CEO said she was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. When her sister asked her: "If you could lead any company in the country today, what company would it be?" Leondakis said she responded immediately with "CorePower Yoga."Her sister then went on LinkedIn to find out who the current CEO was."I looked at his profile and said, 'Well, he's been there just a couple of years, and this is a great job, based on what he's done in his past. He's not going anywhere,'" Leondakis said. "And I didn't think another thing of it."Sixty days later, in July of 2019, Leondakis said she got a call from a search firm asking if she was interested in the CEO position."I really, truly felt like it was a calling," Leondakis said. "The universe kind of punched me in the stomach a few times. I was struggling with that, but I felt like it was sending a bluebird my way."CorePower Yoga's founder, Trevor Tice, wasn't the company's most recent CEO, but he passed away in 2016 from an accident. Leondakis said she felt a sense of purpose in joining the company and believed she had the skills to help build its brand."The company had its own tragedy, and I just felt like it was a calling for me to come lead this company into its next chapter," Leondakis said.Read the original article on Business Insider