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Florida musician jazzes up parking lot for shoppers

Here at Daymaker, we are obsessed with finding and sharing stories about people spreading kindness and love and making the world a better place. That’s why we wanted to share this one from Action News Jax about Oladepo Ogomodede, a musician in Riverview, Florida who spends his weekends playing music for shoppers in the Lake St. Charles Shopping Plaza.

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Anonymous Donor Buys Every Toy at Goodwill, Gives Them to Children For Free

The best holiday traditions are the ones that give back—like this anonymous family who, for the last 10 years, has bought out the children’s section at Goodwill so each child in the store can take home a gift for free. We love this story from GoodNewsNetwork about how this has become a Christmas tradition for one family in Fort Collins.

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More Than Just A Service

One of the best parts of daymaking is that it can be so easy. We truly believe—because we’ve experienced it firsthand—that the smallest gestures have the power to set off a ripple effect that changes the world. Sometimes, though, daymaking

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Embracing Your Happy Self

Helping clients grow their hair out long while maintaining a healthy shine is a pretty typical job for many stylists. But usually, those clients are female. Rae Knudson, senior stylist, has a 64-year-old client who has been coming to see

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It Takes a Village

When Anna Larkin’s endometrioses forced her to endure six surgeries in two years, she had to stop working for almost 12 months. Larkin, a master esthetician at Juut’s Wayzata location, worked at Juut for five years before she left for

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Daymaking on a Dreary Seattle Night

Thanks to Steven from Seattle for sending in your Daymaker Story! If you have a Daymaker story to share, please click here! Check out Steven’s touching Daymaker story below. ‘Steven in Seattle here – Trying my best to live the

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Failures of Kindness

George Saunders gave the graduation speech at Syracuse University this year, and the New York Times recently published it. The most important piece of advice he gave to graduates might surprise you. He said, “Now, one useful thing you can

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Daymaker Dairy Queen

Earlier this week, Juut Salonspa Studio Stylist and Daymaker, Kelly Ernest, shared a story of how a simple act of kindness started a ripple effect. “A couple days ago I went to the Dairy Queen Drive-Thru after an exhausting day.

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