547:"Two New Jersey women — Montclair-natives Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith — and Canadian-born Hinda Miller in the summer of 1977 stumbled upon an idea that would help revolutionize women’s involvement in sports.... Lindahl’s childhood friend, Polly Smith, with whom she had attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, happened to be staying with Lindahl that summer while, Smith, who was a costume designer, worked at the Champlain Shakespeare Festival."
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Compression Comfort Bra. Along with the creation of the Compression Comfort Bra, Lindahl also worked to educate people about truncal lymphedema, which many women with breast cancer suffer from, and Dr. Bell has continued teaching the public about this issue, and is now a world renowned public speaker on the topic.
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Lindahl created The Women and Epilepsy Health Initiative, which has given opportunities for researchers to study the gender differences in epilepsy. For all her work to help the cause, the Epilepsy Foundation gave Lindahl a National Personal Achievement
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She served as a
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Lindahl was in the middle of graduate school, which she put on hold, when she came up with the idea for the jockbra. Lisa called her sister
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Lindahl has also put her education and practice to good use by teaching a Women's Small
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a business memoir about women in business dealing with success, power issues and personal growth. Her previous book, titled
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costume designer Polly Smith's exploration for a better alternative, Victoria suggested that what they needed was a
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Unleash the Girls: The Untold Story of the
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Minding Your Business: A Guide Book for Women Entrepreneurs
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