The friends John Cucci met on his second mountain tend to fall into two camps: martial artists and communications professionals. Most mornings before the pandemic, you could find John plunging his fists through the still-chilly air in Chicago’s North Shore Dojo in a precise sequence, the smacks of his bare feet on the blue mat sounding off the high ceiling; afternoon saw him doing consulting work for major commerce companies in his condo down the block from Wrigley Field. In the evening, he hit the books and talked with his classmates in the Strategic Communication Online Master’s Program, from which he recently graduated. Read Full Story
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