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BRATTLEBORO >> Ask Barbi and Paul Schulick how to build an upstanding Vermont business and they rewind back four decades to their yearning to sit down.
"We met as meditation teachers," she recalls. "That's what we thought we were going to do for a living."
But as they focused on calming the mind, they thought about caring for the body. Trying and failing to make and market herbal extracts in their garage, they moved on to found a $100 million vitamin and supplement company -- New Chapter -- that multinational-mega-manufacturer Procter & Gamble bought in 2012.
Fast work? The Schulicks instead credit their success to the time they took to stop and think, they explained at the start of the sixth annual Slow Living Summit, running Thursday through Saturday at downtown's River Garden and nearby Marlboro College Graduate Center.
Some 150...