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Darie Nani

Editor-in-ChiefFounder, Sovereign Magazine

Darie Nani

Aiming to inform, educate and sometimes amuse.

Articles by Darie Nani

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A masked physician in a green surgical gown is helped into his gloves by two colleagues beside a monitor and equipment tower in a procedure room
MoneyMembers

Gastroenterologists Now Get the Highest Average Starting Salary

Orthopedic surgeons, who led for four years, dropped to $507,000, while the average signing bonus offered to doctors rose 29% to $49,306.

Golden crusty bread rolls cooling on a wire rack in a bakery.
Food, HealthMembers

Seven Artisan Breads That Do More for Your Health Than a Sliced White Loaf

Most bread in Britain is made in a few hours. These seven loaves take far longer, and your gut, your energy and your fibre intake all benefit.

Halved pomegranates, persimmons, a clay jug and a glass of red wine on a wooden table against dark red drapery.
Food

Happy Table: How to Cook Spanish Comfort Food in November, From Chestnut Fires to Wild Boar Stew

Chestnuts roasting in Galicia, red prawns in Dénia and roots sweetened by the first frost: here is what to buy in November and how to turn it into food that warms a whole table.

Audrey Bakhach, founder and CEO of Custom Digital Solutions, working on a laptop at a patio table in Charleston
Business, Female leadership

How Audrey Bakhach Started a Business While Working Full Time and Grew a National Agency Without Investors

Custom Digital Solutions, the Charleston marketing agency she ran on nights, weekends and lunch breaks until 2023, is a Stevie Awards finalist after growing revenue 49.5% in 2025.

Ask voice in Omphalis answering a spoken question about Emerson's The American Scholar, with numbered sources beside the text
Business

Reading App Omphalis Lets Readers Use AI to Understand a Research Paper by Asking Questions Out Loud

Founder Stanly Thomas, who has more than 20 years of engineering experience, including roles at Microsoft, Oracle and Schneider Electric, designed the voice feature to ground each spoken answer in the reader's selected sources, with the passages it used on screen.

Steve Farrell, co-founder of Humanity's Team
Spirituality, Philanthropic Minds

Steve Farrell Left Silicon Valley for Humanity's Team and Its Case for Interconnectedness

The co-founder of two Inc. 500 technology companies, one of them sold to NEC, has spent 23 years running a nonprofit that earned Charity Navigator's four-star rating in August 2026.

The treatment room at Esthetics By Kyrsta in North Canton, Ohio, with the facial bed, product shelves and equipment trolley
Beauty & Style, Business

Former LA Makeup Artist Kyrsta Morehouse Brings a Non-Surgical Facelift to North Canton

At her one-person studio, Esthetics By Kyrsta, she combines facial cupping, microcurrent and contrast therapy in one treatment, and says 85% of her clients now rebook.

Elizabeth M. Lykins, author and spiritual coach
Spirituality, Books

Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness

An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

Joseph Howse (second from left) on the literary fiction panel at the 2026 Kingsmead Book Fair in Johannesburg with Michiel Heyns, Sven Axelrad and Shakti Pillay
Books, Culture & Society

Joseph Howse's Soviet-Era Novel The Circus and the Atom Wins World Literature and Audiobook Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award

The Nova Scotia author's second book, set in Kiev over the New Year of 1988 into 1989, also took a Distinguished Favorite for its cover, while his debut The Girl in the Water was honoured for its audiobook. The Next Year's Snow series has now sold to more than 80 public library systems in seven countries.

Dr Monica Garg, founder of INEW
Female leadership, Business

Dr Monica Garg's INEW Opens Chapters From Paris to London in a Year of Expansion

The New Delhi entrepreneur behind the Influential Women of the World Awards founded INEW with Aayushi Agarwal as an invitation-only network for women leaders, investors and entrepreneurs. It counts more than 7,000 women across 19 chapters, and its 2026 launch run began at the Ritz on 17 June and reached Mayfair with cocktails and lunch at The Chancery Rosewood on 20 August.

John Bissell, PhD, author of The Power of Negative Thinking: A Practical Guide to the Strength Doubt and Worry Can Give You
Books, Wellbeing

John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland

The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.

Author Paul Rushworth-Brown with his father Jimmy Brown at the Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Books

Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land

Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.

Brandy G. Robinson, founder and CEO of Zebra MedNex
Female leadership, Health

Zebra MedNex Founder Brandy G. Robinson, Who Designed an AI EHR Platform After Her Own Brain Tumor Diagnosis, Joins Marquis Who's Who

The regulatory affairs and compliance professional, lecturer and novelist spent years keeping medical products compliant before a diagnosis of her own turned her into a founder. Her AI-infused EHR platform, a 2026 Edison Award nominee, puts clinical research and drug-safety checks inside the record doctors and patients already use.

Nika Widanage, FCPA, Managing Partner of AIMS Australia Tax Accountants
Money

Nika Widanage on Why Cross-Border Tax Starts Before the Return

Her Melbourne firm, AIMS Australia Tax Accountants, advises expatriates, foreign residents, internationally mobile executives and high-net-worth private clients, whose Australian tax position can be materially affected by dates and decisions long before a return is lodged.

Athletic person performing an intense battle rope exercise in a modern gym setting.
LifestyleMembers

GLP-1 Users Are Spending More on Fitness and Less on Snacks and Restaurants

The gap runs to nearly four to one by one survey's count, but the shift is concentrated among affluent users and may not outlast their prescriptions.

A warm, candlelit setting featuring an astrology natal chart, perfect for divination themes.
Wellbeing, Spirituality

Astrologer Nancy Volante Treats Burnout Through the Nervous System, Not the Calendar

The founder of The Whispering Soul in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a former professional dancer who ran a yoga studio for eight years, has folded 25 years of astrology study into a four-session coaching program that starts with the body.

Elegant Miami luxury villa by the waterfront with a yacht docked nearby, unique architecture and tropical setting.
Real EstateMembers

Buyers Priced Out of Big Cities Are Finding Cheaper New Homes in the South

The cheaper Sun Belt price tag often leans on a temporary mortgage subsidy and carrying costs that never appear on the listing.

Concept render of a foldable iPhone Ultra opened nearly flat, its continuous inner display spanning two panels across a single titanium hinge
Lifestyle

The Foldable iPhone Ultra Could Launch in the US First, Months Ahead of Other Countries

A new report claims the phone will roll out country by country over two or three months, and Apple is building only a fraction of the units it makes of its other iPhones.

Charming rural houses with red roofs nestled in Valencia's misty mountainside landscape.
Real EstateMembers

Home Values Near New Data Centers Are Holding Steady

Homes near a new facility keep far more of their for-sale listings on the market three years on, and the next wave is landing in poorer, more remote communities than the last one did.

Shintarrow Yoshikawa seated by a red door in Budapest, camera in hand
Culture & Society

Japanese Photographer Shintarrow Yoshikawa Brings His Trilogy Into Focus With Reverse Mediator, Where Landscapes Look Back

The third exhibition in a three-year arc at Tokyo's Gallery Walk pairs photographs of Rome, Trieste and the Vatican with narratives that let familiar streets turn strange.

Voyage of the Salamander book cover over Lily Starling series hero artwork
Books

Christian Hurst Wins IPPY Gold as the Lily Starling Series Grows Into a Universe

Since April, Christian Hurst's Lily Starling series has added an IPPY Gold Medal, a Kirkus recommendation and an audiobook, with two more novels on the way.

Dr. Latrece Wright holding her book The Uninvited Pebble
Books, Health

Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble

In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.

Kenneth Bliss, author of Canthany Rising and The Accident
Books

Kenneth Bliss Writes Christian Fantasy Books for the Dungeons and Dragons Generation

The Michigan author maps tabletop RPG mechanics onto Christian theology across two books set in the same universe, targeting a niche that barely registers in search data.

Rhinase X Value Combo Pack nasal spray and gel on a wooden table with eucalyptus leaves
Wellbeing

Family-Owned Company Profounda Health & Beauty Inc. Wins 126 Select Walmart Stores for Drug-Free Treatment

Profounda Health & Beauty, Inc, a pharmaceutical company founded by an industry veteran, will stock its Rhinase X nasal care line in 126 select Walmart stores beginning August 2026.